June 15, 200520 yr I am not going to lie. I had a Teddy Ruxpin and about five million tapes and videos to go with it. I used to have nightmares about those villians, mudblubs or something. Anyway, just thought I'd share. Linky Teddy Ruxpin Makes His Return Tue Jun 14, 6:11 PM ET The Care Bears. The Cabbage Patch Kids. Teddy Ruxpin. For children of the '80s, they were toy-store celebrities who forced parents to queue up at dawn or fight for products in aisles across America. Now, BackPack Toys is hoping that Ruxpin, like the Bears and Kids before him, can ride a wave of nostalgia into the toy bins of a new generation. And independent The Ad Store—the shop that caused a stir with its GoDaddy.com Super Bowl spot— is charged with helping him get there. The Ad Store's two-pronged attack will use print ads to lure adults and TV to target children. The agency, which won the business without a review, is still developing creative concepts, said managing partner Tim Arnold. First work is expected to break in August. Ruxpin has enjoyed swift trading on eBay, and 85 percent of adults who owned the toy as kids still recognize the brand, Arnold said. "We are definitely going to target parents who will remember Teddy from their childhoods, as well as grandparents who remember giving Teddy to their children," said Helen Hames, BackPack Toys director of marketing and corporate relations. A budget for the effort has not been determined, Hames said. Ruxpin, which debuted as a Worlds Of Wonder toy in 1985, is due to relaunch in September— most notably in 2,000 Target stores. MP3 cartridges have replaced his original cassette tapes, but Teddy Ruxpin's animatronic eyes and mouth will move in trademark fashion as he narrates a series of stories about the land of Grundo. Arnold said Ruxpin shows the "wonderful other end of the Richter scale" from the controversial SuperBowl spot, which only aired once before being pulled by Fox.
June 15, 200520 yr I need to bone up on my Book of Revelations chronology, but is this supposed to happen before of after the plagues of locusts?
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 11:02 AM) my teddy ruxpin is still in our garage.... with the doors closed and the car on and a hose from the exhaust into the vehicle where Teddy is bound and gagged, I assume?
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 11:06 AM) with the doors closed and the car on and a hose from the exhaust into the vehicle where Teddy is bound and gagged, I assume? no.....he's having a teaparty with the catterpillar thing.
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) no.....he's having a teaparty with the catterpillar thing. Glow Worm.. ??
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 10:00 AM) I need to bone up on my Book of Revelations chronology, but is this supposed to happen before of after the plagues of locusts? I think these things are more of an apocolyptic sign: The evil "Chatty Cathy" doll
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) Glow Worm.. ?? never had a teddy ruxpin but did have a glow worm...
June 15, 200520 yr I had Teddy and Glow Worm. My dad used to refer to him as Teddy Deadbeat when I was a little kid for some reason. Anyone remember the books with the maps inside them? Wizard of Weegie and all that stuff?
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 06:04 PM) I sold Teddy several years back at a yard sale for like 2 bucks. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5587790751&rd=1
June 15, 200520 yr QUOTE(knightni @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 05:22 PM) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5587790751&rd=1 $152?!?!! Holy Crap!
June 15, 200520 yr I wonder what useless additions Teddy Ruxpin will have to appease today's youth. Because I doubt the doll sells on its past reputation.
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