In 1990, New York Attorney General Robert Abrams negotiated a settlement with Fisher-Price in which the company agreed to post a more specific choking hazard warning label on the boxes of Little People toys. [27]

Ted Lasso Little People Figure Set Launches Ahead of Season 3". TV Shows . Retrieved September 13, 2022. This large push-along toy train includes three Smart Stages learning levels that introduce the alphabet, counting, colours, shapes, and animal sounds, helping your little one to develop skills whilst having fun. FAMILY ALERT' SAFETY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN SET BY FISHER-PRICE". Buffalo News . Retrieved August 3, 2022. While the product was redesigned in 1991 to become chunkier and therefore harder to for children to swallow, Fisher-Price contended that the redesign was not in response to choking deaths and that the Little People figurine are safe when they are played with by children of the appropriate age. In response to the choking deaths, the company launched the "Family Alert Program" campaign in 1992 to warned parents not to let young children play with Little People playset and other toys that are designed for older children. [29] A Fisher-Price spokesman stated that "the original Little People were designed for children 2 to 6 and met all the safety standards for Fisher-Price, and we've never had a complaint from parents of children in that age range." [30] Gates, Kaitlin (September 21, 2022). "Fisher-Price Made An 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' Little People Set For The Movie's 40th Anniversary". News 5 Cleveland WEWS . Retrieved September 30, 2022.The Big Bounce", "The New Zoo Switcheroo", "Brother Goose", "Lighter Than Air", "Carnival for the Animals" In 2000, the Little People line introduced electronic sounds and movements. The Little People characters were given distinct personalities and voices in a stop motion, animated series with Phil Craig, known for starring in The Time Traveller's Wife, Cinderella Man, and Spider; and Aaron Neville singing the theme song. The series was produced by Denmark-based Egmont Imagination and Canadian Cuppa Coffee Studios between 1999 and 2005. In the mid-1970s, Fisher-Price produced the Sesame Street town, with different Sesame Street stores, a bridge with stop lights and Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, and the first Little People toys modeled after non-celebrities: Loretta Long (Susan), Roscoe Orman (Gordon), and Will Lee ( Mr. Hooper). Soon after, the Little People Discovery Airport, a hospital, and a school would also be released. Little People characters had by then been also produced with plastic products exclusively. One, Two, Three, Draw!", "Big, Bigger, Biggest", "The Musical Mobile", "When Flowers Fly", "Picture Perfect" A Boy and His Frog", "Sonya Lee's Nice Nature", "Sarah Lynn's Sweetest Friend", "Michael's Happy Go Round", "Maggie's Helping Hands"

a b Daniels, Karu F. (September 27, 2021). "The Rolling Stones, Rosa Parks and 'The Golden Girls' are now Fisher-Price Little People collectibles". www.nydailynews.com . Retrieved November 17, 2022. Follow the Bouncing Ball", "Do, Re, Mi Makes Three", "What Goes Up", "Easy as Pie", "Fit for a King" Another early Little People precursor, the #959 "Safety School Bus", was introduced in 1959. [1] [7] The set included a school bus together with six independent figures made out of tall slimmer pegs of cardboard tubes wrapped in lithographs simulating clothes. The toy gained instant popularity and other sets soon came out. "Snorky the Fire Engine" 1960 Little People Play Family [ edit ]

Hi Diddley Hay", "The Grand Sand Castle", "My Mess is Your Mess", "Raising the Roof", "Every Little Voice" Fisher-Price releases RuPaul figurines, honors efforts to 'inspire' ". KTLA. May 12, 2022 . Retrieved September 13, 2022. The Big Bike", "Friends Forever", "Smile, Smiley, Smile!", "Michael's Mystery", "Sarah Lynn's Best Friends" The "Little People" name, registered and trademarked by Mattel and Fisher-Price in 1985, came from Mattel following the lead of consumers who referred to the early Play Family playsets as "those little people". [3]

In 1997, the figures underwent a drastic redesign, from simple lathe-turned shapes to sculpted bodies. Little People became much more detailed and smaller in overall size – in fact, closer in size to the original Little People. For the first time, the Little People figures had arms, hands, more detailed clothing, molded hair, and facial features. The original Little People went through six major styles of body (base) configurations, and even within each major classification there may be one or more minor style variations. By 1961, the figures were produced with wood; plastic was used for their vehicles and buildings. A few years later, the typical smiley face of the traditional Little People introduced in a "straight-body" format. All of the people had a basic cylinder body with the female figures only identifiable by the addition of slanted, oval eyes and eyelashes. By 1965, the Little People consisted of a small cylindrical base and a wider cylinder shape for boys and men and a conical upper shape for the girls. Adult women had a kind of hourglass-shaped upper body. The bottom portions of the bodies were indented slightly (allowing for placement in the corresponding holes in other furniture, cars and other vehicles, in which the figures were able to "sit"). Freile, Victoria E. (September 9, 2022). "Wegmans to host Buffalo Bills Little People launch party". Democrat and Chronicle . Retrieved November 17, 2022. ARTIS, JOANNE BALL. "ATTORNEY BLASTS FISHER-PRICE ON TOY SAFETY". Buffalo News . Retrieved August 3, 2022.Infants can also press the buttons on the top of the engine or push the light-up chimney to play fun songs, sounds and phrases that they’ll love listening to as they push the train along on its journey! Bang, Boom, Bonk", "The String's the Thing", "Come Blow Your Horn", "Sweet Tweet", "Strike Up the Band" All the King's Horses", "Queen for the Day", "Eddie and the Dragon", "Once Upon a Pumpkin", "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" Fallon, Sean (September 23, 2020). "Lord of the Rings Little People Figure Set Launches for Hobbit Day". comicbook.com . Retrieved September 13, 2022. Since 1999, 135 individual episodes and six music videos have been produced for the Little People franchise. They have been collected into around 27 volumes and released for home media on VHS and over 15 DVDs with some being distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment through Artisan Entertainment as part of its Family Home Entertainment sub-label.