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12 Days of Hoppers: Day 12!!

Name:  Sandylee

Position:  Receptionist

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  The ULTIMATE Christmas gift I received as a child was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Crime Time Van! I mean this bad boy had the coolest features! It came with an army-like hiding tank covered in turtle shell yet still had a fem touch of April’s reporting vehicle! My favorite part was when the side door shot open my turtle of choice (usually Rafael!) would be sitting on this 'door-seat' feature and slime would shoot out attacking any of Shredders crew standing nearby! I know, so RAD! I always fell short when competing with my cousin, Enrique. That Christmas the lack of ability to win due to the shortage of gadgets was all over and I was ahead of the game!

 

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 11

Name:  Michael

Position:  Accounts Receivable

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  Food! If there was food around, I was always close by. I loved to pretend my mom was running a restaurant and I was her customer. My mom’s an amazing cook so I always got the best food and best service – on the house!

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 10

Name:  Chelsea

Position:  Product Designer

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  My Glow Worm

Favorite childhood toys:  My Glow Worm, and empty boxes. Really anything I could make into a fort or a car or a boat.

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 9

Name:  James

Position:  Art Director

Hometown: Coastal North Carolina & Hudson Valley NY

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  #1 The year I wished for snow on my October birthday and we had a blizzard. #2 Whistle I received in kindergarten (and just threw away last weekend while cleaning out my apartment!)

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 8

Name:  Danielle

Position:  Executive Assistant

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  My favorite gift as a kid was my first Cabbage Patch Doll. When Cabbage Patch Dolls where brand new and were sold out everywhere, my mother was lucky enough to find one last boy with brown curly hair. Unfortunately it had a scratch across one of his brown eyes. My mother was determined to get me a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas and purchased it anyway. On Christmas morning when I excitedly opened my gift, I noticed the scratched eye and asked my mom what happened to it. She answered, “He has a hurt eye which means he needs extra love and attention.” I took that doll with me EVERYWHERE I went! 

 

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 7

Name:  Holly (yes, that's my real name) Holliday

Position:  Marketing Coordinator

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  One of my favorite Christmas memories is the year Santa brought us a trampoline. I remember waking up and being so excited to see it set up in the backyard. My five year old logic was that there was no way my dad could have set it up in the middle of the night so it had to be magic. It had to be Santa! We then spent the morning jumping on the trampoline - you can do that in Arizona. It may not have been a white Christmas but who cares when you have trampoline.

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 6

Name:  Sophia

Position:  Product Safety and Compliance Associate

Hometown:  Teaneck, NJ 

Favorite gift I received as kid?  My Baby Alive

Favorite Toys:  My favorite toys were Baby Alive, Light Brite, Finger Paint, Dress Up, Cabbage Patch Dolls and I was the first kid in my class to have a home computer.

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12 Days of Hoppers: Day 5

Name:  Alison

Position:  Senior Designer

Favorite gift you received a kid?  In elementary school, "Jem and the Holograms" was an obsession. The most important part of Saturday night slumber parties was waking up Sunday morning and catching the latest installment of Jem. Then Christmas morning I got my first pink-haired Jem, with with little red light bulb earrings, and it sealed the deal. By the time I stopped collected them, I think I had about 20+ dolls, even a purple Jem Rolls Royce. Now they live in my attic in all their truly outrageous glamour.

12 Days of Hoppers: Day 4

Name: Nicole

Position:  Sales Assistant

Favorite gift you received as a kid?  My size bride Barbie! It was so awesome and it was just my height! I’ll never forget running into my living room and seeing that Santa got me my very own “My Size bride Barbie”! I thought it was hilarious that my Dad nicknamed it Barbika. She was so awesome and was just my height! I loved that doll until I went through this “hair dresser” staged and I thought I could give her a really cool.