The runaway hit toy of the 2009 holiday season is a fuzzy fake hamster. Go figure. Known as Zhu Zhu Pets, the battery-operated creatures, originally priced at $7.99, are so difficult to pin down that ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. NEW YORK > Top awards for Zhu Zhu Pets — The popular Zhu Zhu Pets, manufactured by Clayton-based toymaker Cepia LLC, took top ...

For decades, Russell Hornsby has pitted his small, family-run company against corporate titans such as Hasbro and Mattel, trying to conjure up the magic of the must-have Christmas toy. The basement of ...

You always figured that a rodent who drives his own car would be able to withstand the recession, right? As retailers ramp up for the all-important holiday shopping season, at least the toy stores ...

NEW YORK — When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying “Please! Please! Can we buy them?” Seeing a fully ...

Zhu Zhu Pets™ hit stores this week—our largest shipment of the season’s hottest toy. But shop soon, Zhu Zhus scurry out as fast as they come in. I've called a number of locations and no one, repeat no ...

LOS ANGELES -- Toy safety regulators said Monday that Zhu Zhu Pets -- one of the holiday season's hottest toy crazes -- do not violate federal safety standards after all. A spokesman for the U.S.

You will then be able to snag them Sunday in the stores. The price is $10.99. There's a limit of 2 per customer. There's not a guarantee that every location will get the pets. You'll be able to check ...

If you just can't get enough of Zhu Zhu Pets, the hit toy hamsters for young children, wait til next year. Activision, the company that created the extremely violent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, ...

ST. LOUIS — A consumer group contends one of the holiday season’s must-have toys is unsafe. San Francisco-based GoodGuide named the robotic Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters on Saturday as one of the ...

CPSC investigates after consumer group claims chemical dangers in popular toy. Dec. 7, 2009— -- There will be no recall for the popular Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters following a contested report that the ...

Zhu Zhu Pets — one of the holiday season’s hottest toy crazes — do not violate safety standards, federal toy regulators said Monday after a consumer group raised concerns over the presence of a heavy ...