Elmo TMX

[PleaseKillMeNow]

Over at Target, in our toy department (which we'd just reset for the upcoming HOLIDAY season), we have part of a aisle dedicated to an upcoming toy - TMX. There's no other info on it, just that it's supposed to be top secret and involves Elmo. As a spot holder, we have several giftcards featuring Elmo that, when pressed, giggles. Hmm.

Upon wikipedializing... I found this:

TMX

The new Elmo doll, announced at the American Toy Fair 2006, is called TMX (meaning Tickle Me (Elmo) Ten or Tickle Me Extreme). The full look of the doll won't be revealed until it gets onto shelves on 19 September 2006. It will require six AA batteries, and cost USD$40. Toy experts say that the delay is unprecedented, with only a few people in the media allowed to preview the product, all signing confidentiality agreements. In a promotional clip, Jim Silver, co-publisher of Toy Wishes magazine says "The first reaction I had was, 'Where are the wires?' Because I didn't think anything like that could move on its own."[5]

Toy analyst Chris Byrne told USA Today, "This is a quantum leap forward, another breakthrough in the preschool plush category." Byrne believes sales will be high, but the reaction won't be as unprecedented. "The culture has moved beyond that, the whole hot-toy phenomenon." He cites the fact there hasn't been such a craze since Furby in 1998.[6] However, some members of the media are expecting a large response.[7]

Toys R Us stores have already began a pre-sale program for the doll, along with elaborate in-store displays with a digital countdown to the doll's launch.

Then, I checked Amazon.

I swear to God I better see some MILFs beat each other this Christmas.

 

[PleaseKillMeNow]

Google image search.

Creepy.

 

[OrochiEddie]

I don't remember any MILFs during my days at Target. Just a bunch of angry bitches.

 

[RAINBOW PONY]

I don't remember any MILFs during my days at Target. Just a bunch of angry bitches.

you kidding? the target here is a MILF goldmine, not to mention all the fine highschool ass that they employ

 

[OrochiEddie]

you kidding? the target here is a MILF goldmine, not to mention all the fine highschool ass that they employ

hmmm
definately not at the target I worked at.

Anyone ever notice how the head of electronics is like 80?

 

[SML]

 

[Lets Gekiga In]

you kidding? the target here is a MILF goldmine, not to mention all the fine highschool ass that they employ

This man speaketh the truth!

Florida rules again!

 

[Decepticreep]

He's Elmo, unless he's got a third eye, he gonna look pretty much like this:

 

[RAINBOW PONY]

This man speaketh the truth!

Florida rules again!

ftw

 

[OrochiEddie]

 

[Gameoz]

I was a store manager (STL) with Target when Furby came out and people were fighting over that thing like crazy. People were making a fortune re selling those things and it seems like about 20-25% of the initial batch of Furbies was defective. I am sure it was not that high but there a ton of defective ones out there.

The point...you really can't predict what the hot toy is going to be. Tickle Me Elmo or Furby, I wouldn't have guessed either one. However, it is just like game systems, if the demand is high and the numbers available are low...people will be fighting over them.

 

[PleaseKillMeNow]

you kidding? the target here is a MILF goldmine, not to mention all the fine highschool ass that they employ

This man is right, so incredibly right.

We have a sheet in the office area where guests' comments about our store are listed and I noticed that one comment was crossed out with a Sharpie. I held it up to the light and read, "Keep the white trash Wal*Mart shoppers out and the hot MILFs in."

 

[jro]

you kidding? the target here is a MILF goldmine, not to mention all the fine highschool ass that they employ

Hard to argue there. When I was about 18 or 20 or so and working in the Target stockroom (best job in the store, IMO), first thing I would do every shift was have a look at which girls were checking or in softlines (to know how much time to dedicate), and then later in the shift, me and the other main stockroom guy would systematically waste 45 minutes or an hour just hitting on the amazing variety of hot 17 to 21-year-olds when we should have been doing autopulls.

I'm surprised none of the head cashiers ever asked us how we managed to get all our work done and still have time to try to pick up girls...