His talking toy bear — who had a cassette player in his back and whose eyes and mouth moved as he read stories — was introduced at Christmas in 1985. It quickly sold out in stores and became a bestselling toy the following year. Everything about Teddy Ruxpin is so '80s, from the cassette tapes and his weirdly subdued outfit to the fact that our parents thought it was totally normal to let an animatronic bear read bedtime stories to us.
