Bush Twins Xmas gift ideas: FAO Schwarz "Toy Mercedes" ($15K)

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Gift ideas for those in the audience who think the Bush twins are "hot" and/or "innocent." Get out your Platinum cards now.

FAO Schwarz: Pricey toys for rich kids

Revamped toy retailer appeals to rich; for the holidays -- $15,000 toy Mercedes, $30,000 playhouse.



http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/09/news/funny/fao_schwartz/index.htm?cnn=yes

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - For kids whose parents are loaded, baseball mitts or big wheel cars are just so gross. So this holiday season, the children of the well-off will get to play in high style with their $15,000 toy Mercedes or their $12,000 tree house -- all courtesy of the legendary, and formerly bankrupt, toy retailer FAO Schwarz.

Although the retailer's famous stores are now shuttered, a new incarnation of the company is going high-brow with an upcoming catalog aimed at the superrich.

Other items in the catalog, a million copies of which will be shipped this week, include: a $9,000 rocking zebra, "starter jewelry" like a tiny $950 diamond bracelet and La Petite Maison -- a custom-made playhouse that starts at $30,000 but could cost more depending on the recommendations of the "professional children's interior decorator."

"When children are used to living well," the catalog says, "they should play like this."



"First lady Laura Bush listens, Friday, Sept. 10, 2004, as she is introduced by her daughter Jenna during a campaign event at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)"

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1. All well and good,

but Jenna and Barb would be happy with a couple of bottles of cheap hooch and some boy toys to share it with.