“Tickle Me Elmo is a study in mob mentality,” toy buyer Stephen Sandberg told The Wall Street Journal in 1996. “I couldn’t get my retailers to buy Elmo in October.

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1996: Tickle Me Elmo Two-year-old Nicholas Barrientos of Culver City and his mother, Kristine, check out large Elmos sitting on toy store counter while the clerk rings up their Tickle Me Elmo.

They landed on a less aggressive Tickle Me Elmo to add to Tyco’s line of Sesame Street toys. In October 1996, the toymaker sent 200 Tickle Me Elmo dolls to Rosie O’Donnell’s hit talk show.

“I swear, Magic Mixies is harder to get than a Tickle Me Elmo in the ‘90s,” Baker, 32, lamented to The Post, referencing the vicious 1996 holiday hunt for the then-popular Sesame Street doll.

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According to a Dec. 10, 1996, Star Tribune article, Tickle Me Elmo was released on the toy market back in July 1996 when 400,000 of the toys were shipped to retailers.

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1996: Tickle Me Elmo Two-year-old Nicholas Barrientos of Culver City and his mother, Kristine, check out large Elmos sitting on toy store counter while the clerk rings up their Tickle Me Elmo.