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- Feb. 24, 1992: Business Notes:Retailing
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 24, 1992 Holy Alliance
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 43
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- Santa Might Get Sick
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- <p> Don't look to this year's crop of new toys if you're seeking
- some good, clean fun. Virtually every major manufacturer
- showing its wares at last week's 89th Toy Fair in Manhattan was
- accentuating the nauseating.
- </p>
- <p> Hasbro is offering Monster Face, a life-size plastic skull
- that comes complete with "blistering boil," "nose slime drip"
- and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as
- repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to
- gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that
- come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk
- Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company,
- is offering Blurp Balls--hideous softball-size spheres, with
- names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects
- from their mouths when squeezed.
- </p>
- <p> The dolls aren't much better. The big trend is
- potty-training accessories, including Hasbro's Cabbage
- Patch-size toilet with tinkling and flushing sound effects. As
- for action figures, check out Tyco's Incredible Crash Dummies
- with detachable limbs. What better way to teach your child auto
- safety.
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