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Breakout Christmas Toys - The Eras Tour
Before and After
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This artist, not Mariah Carey, holds the Guinness World Record for best selling Christmas song of all time, with White Christmas

Bing Crosby

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This 90's Christmas Classic starring Tim Allen has sparked two sequels and a TV show

The Santa Claus

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Hoping to lure customers to the Montgomery Ward department store, Robert L. May wrote a 1939 poem about this "most famous reindeer of all"

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

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Tickle Me Elmo - 1.2M Sold

The 90s - 1996

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The foreshadowing spirit from a classic Dickens tale meets a 2000's Rom-Com starring Owen Wilson

Jacob Marley and Me

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Thurl Ravenscroft, voice of Tony the Tiger, also lent his voice to this infamous Christmas song, written for the animated film version of a classic Dr. Suess story

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

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In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Instead of a cash bonus, as he expected, Clark Griswold recieves this

A one year membership to the Jelly of the Month club

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Jamestown, in 1607, was the first place in America where this iconic Christmas beverage is said to have been consumed

Eggnog

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Razor Scooters - 5M Sold

The 00s - 2000

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A 90's Christmas Film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and the fictional media conglomerate from a hit HBO Drama

Jingle All The Waystar Royco

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This 1944 Frank Loesser Classic was redone in 2019 by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson. Their version was less…problematic

Baby It's Cold Outside

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In the film Home Alone, McCauly Culkin's Kevin McCallister asks a clerk this about a toothbrush, before running off with it

Is this toothbrush approved by the ADA?

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Since the 1890's, this organization has solicited donations using a red kettle and bell

The Salvation Army

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Etch-A-Sketch - 600,000 Sold

The 60s - 1960

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A beloved claymation Christmas movie hitches a ride in this Chrysler people-mover

Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Country

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This artist made the original recording of Rocking around the Christmas Tree at the mere age of 13

Brenda Lee

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This British collection of intertwined Christmas vignettes is packed with stars, including Alan Rickman. And no, it's not the one with Bruce Willis

Love Actually

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From 1659 to 1681, Christmas was outlawed in this major Colonial city, carrying a fine of 5 shillings for being caught celebrating.

Boston

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Mr. Potato Head - 1M Sold

The 50s - 1952

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A Christmas film about the proprietor of "That old Building and Loan" and this Monty Python comedy

It's a Wonderful Life of Brian

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Part of a prank played by the crew of Gemini 6 in 1965, this song was the first Christmas carol played in space

Jingle Bells

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Peter Billingsly, most known for his role as Ralphie in A Christmas Story and his cameo in Elf, played a ticket agent in another Christmas movie starring Vince Vaughn

Four Christmases

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The Legend of Santa Claus can be traced back to a Christian monk named St. Nicholas of Myra, born in what is now this Middle Eastern country

Turkey

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Rubik's Cube - 100M in the first four years

The 80s - 1980

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A classic Christmas movie from the Golden Age of Hollywood and this play by Tennessee Williams, which, fittingly, debuted the same year

Miracle on 34th Streetcar Named Desire