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!"