You may still be having nightmares about assembling toys into the wee hours of Christmas morning a couple of months ago, but banish them from your mind and get ready for the next holiday season.

The successor toy to Mattel's top-selling Tickle Me Elmo is sold out in many stores and online. And consumers are fuming at marketeers who have snapped up the dolls for resale at steep profits on ...

While shopping will look a lot different in 2020, one thing is the same---getting our hands on the hottest toy. Elmo is best known as the beloved Muppet from Sesame Street, and has been around for ...

They usually want the whole works.” The 31 different plastic ... made a comeback. “Tickle Me Elmo is a study in mob mentality,” toy buyer Stephen Sandberg told The Wall Street Journal ...

He is 'Tickle Me Elmo' and is central to a multi-million pound Christmas toy war and the future of the manufacturer Mattel. Ten years ago, the original Elmo - based on a character from Sesame ...

Fisher-Price, a unit of Mattel Inc., has taken the wraps off T.M.X. Elmo. The giggly toy is retailing for about $40 — but is already trading on eBay for in excess of $125. Elmo is predicted to ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Elmo has laughed, danced and sung. Now he's alive, sort of. Mattel Inc. MAT unveiled its latest incarnation of Elmo on Thursday and the interactive plush toy went beyond ...