Zhu Zhu Animals: Hamsters to Help you save Christmas?
Nov. 20, 2009 — “Zhu Zhu Pets are just about everywhere!” — or so goes their catchy jingle. Arrive Christmas early morning, stores throughout the nation hope that will be true.
Zhu Zhu Pets, the cuddly, on-the-go hamsters who squeak, roll, even push their own autos, are on their way to getting the holiday break season’s “have to-have” toy.
Stores like Ken Levinsohn, owner of the Learning Express toy retailer in Scarsdale, N.Y., hope they’ll be the hamsters that conserve Xmas.
“Based mostly on the demand, it is going to be warm,” Levinsohn stated.
The difficulties is for Levinsohn is that he has none to market. Pursuing in the footsteps of need to-haves of seasons previous — the Furby, Tickle-me Elmo, Cabbage Patch dolls, Beanie Babies — offer seems to improve quick just when desire is significant, and Zhu Zhu Pets are flying off store cabinets.
“It is really easier