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Digital Archives | Dec 12, 1986 | 2:51

Misleading toy commercials

As presents are opened, parents are met with cries of "but it doesn't look the way it did in the commercial!" Cricket talking doll ad: Playmates Toys. Teddy Ruxpin talking bear ad: Worlds of Wonder.

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