| Legend11 said: Cabbage Patch Kids at the height of their popularity, also Tickle Me Elmo, in 1996 people literally got into fist fights in stores and at least one Wal-Mart clerk "suffered a pulled hamstring, injuries to his back, jaw and knee, a broken rib and a concussion" when a crowd of 300 stampeded into the store looking for them and he was holding one of the last remaining ones. They also went for as much as US$1500 (even though it was a US$28.99 toy). source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_Me_Elmo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_Kids |
I was old enough to remember both of those things and yet I can't remember a single case of people BUYING THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE HARD TO FIND ...
Tickle Me Elmo was so amazingly popular because every parent, aunt, uncle, grandmother and grandfather saw the advertizements and news stories about this toy and said "Little Jimmy/Sally would love that" and rushed out to buy one thinking of having the best christmas gift of the year ...
The Cabbage Patch Kids (like webkins of today) were largely driven by children wanting them. Parents couldn't refuse children who asked for these seemingly inexpensive toys and rushed out to buy them ...
Parents were not BUYING THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE HARD TO FIND ...
Even the Furbies were bought because kids though a trainable toy was a cool idea ...
Children loved the pound puppies and Wrinkles dogs ...
Tamagotchi were bought like crazy because kids wanted virtual pets ...
No one was BUYING THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE HARD TO FIND ...
If there wasn't demand for the Wii as a gaming system why are people why is nearly 1 Million pieces of software being sold worldwide for the Wii every Week? Is The software hard to find?
