'The Toy Shop' takes a look at Sky Dancers, one of the most questionable toys of the '90s

Do you remember Sky Dancers?

The elegant, spinning fairies were the toy of the late 1990s, but they were also pretty much tools of war. 

Sky Dancers were released in 1994 by Galoob. They were also featured in an animated show, a children’s book series, and a Game Boy Advance game, but you’d probably best recognize them from a viral video in which a girl using a similar toy called a “Flutterbye Fairy” lost it to a fireplace. 

Drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova also once lovingly referred to the toys as “the gayest thing in the world.” Read more…

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