Pop-Up Pals

Pop-Up Pals are a set of Sesame Street toys made in various forms by Fisher-Price since 1995.

The toys are similar to the Busy Poppin' Pals line made by Playskool, which features characters that pop out of doors when a button is pressed or a switch is pulled. Playskool's line included Sesame versions from 1980 to 2000.

Fisher-Price's first Sesame Pop-Up Pals toy was Talking Pop Up Pals in 1995. This toy has figures of Sesame characters popping up out of doors, surrounded by plastic balls. Each character says a different phrase -- Elmo says "Peekaboo!", Cookie Monster says "Hello!", Big Bird says "Surprise!" and Zoe says "I'm Zoe!"

This was followed in 1999 by Singing Pop-Up Pals. On this toy, pressing a button makes the characters sing -- Oscar the Grouch sings "I Love Trash", Elmo sings "Elmo's Song", Ernie sings "Rubber Duckie", and Cookie Monster sings "C is for Cookie". It was re-released with different colors in 2002. Another version was produced in 2005 with the same characters popping out of a three-dimensional version of the Sesame Street set, and had music.