![]() I had one of those, as did most girls my age. "What about BARBIEDOLL?", you might well ask. ![]() I might be closer to four now than I was then, but that's another story.) TICKLEMEELMO (because I'm not four - or wasn't at the time. Exceptions:ĬOZYCOUPE (not even sure I've heard of it)ĬHATTYCATHY (because, you know, dolls), and I have owned and/or played with most of these. Gonna ask Santa for much, much better puzzles this week. Gonna go answer the question "Where are the CATS AT?" ( 96D: Took care of a tabby, say). Balked / winced at the -AED ending of SAMBAED, but I guess you gotta spell it that way ( 107A: Performed a Latin ballroom dance). Had "I HOPE" for " I'M DUE" ( 101A: "My luck has to change at some point"). I didn't know what IODATE was, but that's pretty typical for me ( 98A: A halogen-containing salt). COZY COUPE is the biggest theme loser of the day. Anyway, not iconic, bad clue, clue language lifted from wikipedia (so, lazy clue). Also, the phrasing on the clue is bizarre: "Toy that sold more cars. but I have to insist that as far as Iconic Toys go, this one isn't anywhere near the others on the list. ![]() I get that the wikipedia page told you that COZY COUPE outsold Accords and Tauri in the U.S. The biggest "?" of the day by a long shot was COZY COUPE, which I first heard of. If you want to turn the concept of "Toys through the years." into a crossword, you need a hook, an actual *puzzle* concept, something. I love CHRISTMAS! I love toys! I'm sure it's fun to reminisce about toys, but, you know, run a little feature in the Arts section if that's what you want to do. Also, who cares who founded Investor's Business Daily, what even is that? There are really good O'NEILs in the world! Pick one of them! From stem to stern, this puzzle is just a heap of bad decisions. APEDOM? IRENIC? "ETTA KETT"? Then there's awkward stuff like AT STORES (we say "in stores") and AT A RISK (the "A" was giving me fits, ugh). The creaking quaintness of the fill isn't helping. The frame of reference is very old, and not just because the toys are old (though that is a lot of it). This is either the worst kind of cronyism or astonishing editorial malpractice or both. How much do you have to hate Christmas to make let alone publish this? I don't know. Again, I say: this is just a list of popular toys. This puzzle could've run 20 years ago, with almost no changes, and it would've been sub-remarkable then, too. CHRISTMAS? And then on top of all of that, the fill is weak all over the place. "Toy Story" is a wildly inaccurate name, as there are only the faintest hints of "stories" about these toys, in the clues. I am once again stunned with what veteran constructors can get away with. By 1997, its sales of 313,000 units in the US and another 100,000 sold in the United Kingdom in 1997, would have made it the fifth-best-selling car in the US among real vehicles. By 1991, the Cozy Coupe was selling 500,000 units per year, making it the top-selling model in the United States, outselling the 399,000 Accords and 299,000 Taurus vehicles sold that year. ![]() First sold in 1979 as one of the first molded-plastic toy cars sold in the United States, it was called the "world's best-selling car for much of this decade" by The New York Times in 1998, outselling the Honda Accord and Ford Taurus. The Cozy Coupe is a red and yellow toy car manufactured and distributed by Little Tikes, an American manufacturer of children's toys based in Hudson, Ohio.
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