If you don't get "the" toy (or, in this day and age, - "the" gadget), you are destined to be an outcast. Losing his patience, Howard yells at Jamie, after which he feels guilty and depressed after Jamie scolds him for not keeping his promises. They said the script had 36 similarities with Jingle All the Way, including the plot, dialogue and character names. Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else including a mail man to find Turbo Man, and to make it to parade. He improvised the majority of his lines in the film; [13] Schwarzenegger also improvised many of his responses in his conversations with Sinbad's character.

The story replaces the Kids and the Rangers toys with an ultra-cool TurboMan action figure equipped with the shiniest plastic around and five different phrases.Not only that, but most shipments are not arriving on Christmas Eve (notice the setting getting a bit dangerous), therefore increasing the supply-and-demand. Since Howard missed his son karate class, he promises to make up for his mistakes if Jamie wanted an special gift for Christmas. Producer Chris Columbus rewrote the script, adding in elements of satire about the commercialization of Christmas, and the project was picked up by 20th Century Fox. This is a very good comedic family film about a parent trying to get the perfect Christmas gift for his son. Everything in this film, whether unintended or intentional, downplays the meaning of Christmas and all that goes on.

Each TurboMan doll will come in movie-accurate packaging, will have gold chrome paint and will have 9 points of articulation. Jamie answers the phone but keeps reminding him of his promise to be home in time for the annual Holiday Wintertainment Parade.

before the verdict itself was quashed in 2004 after a judge decided the idea was not stolen, as Fox had bought Kornfield's screenplay before he or anybody else at Fox had read Could This Be Christmas? Apparently I watched it when I was little, but I have very little memory of the fact, still though, watching it today, I enjoyed it very much. This was because Ted's reindeer charged at Howard and caused him to set the living room carpet on fire.