Your Thoughts: Upcoming Elmo Tickle Hands

muppetfan1999

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This is the website for an upcoming Elmo toy called Elmo's Tickle Hands.

http://Ticklehands.com

How do you think this new toy looks based on the website?
Would you make any changes?
Do you think it will be horrible?
 

Drtooth

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Do we really need more Elmo stuff?
Yes. And here's why...

They made a crap load of money off of the Elmo toys (up until recently, and that was because of the Recession) and it goes back into the show's production. If they have a huge hit toy line, then they won't have to lay off 20% of their workforce, they'll have more investments going into the show, and they won't have to make cheaper, longer segments in CGI...

Now, while Elmo Live SHOULD have been a hit, it was severly affected by the Recession, and they went unsold, and SW actually had to do all of those things I talked about. Cheaper, smaller gloves (while a stupid idea, frankly) seem to be cost effective enough on the part of the toy company (Matel has a history of over charging for tiny little things... go to Target and look at the 8 dollar Toy Story figurines), as well as consumers who are clearly gonna spend nothing on Christmas this year.

Personally, I wanna see GREAT 40th anniversary collectibles, but I doubt we're gonna see anything at all. Outside a couple books and a DVD that is... I sooo wanted a second series of SS Pez dispensers.
 

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Well, this toy could be interpreted as something dirty, like the Potty Time with Elmo book. :stick_out_tongue:
 

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Sighhhhhhh... I could only imagine what could have been had Elmo live been released ONE YEAR Earlier and was a success... we wouldn't have to stoop to using excess Elmo fur and cheap extra tickle mechanisms for a toy. I just wanna see another series of Collect-a-pals.
 
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