These fantastic crackers were nothing like the feeble Muggle ones the Dursleys usually bought, with their little plastic toys and their flimsy paper hats.
The Black Friday frenzy was still alive and well in some places, like the Toys " R" Us store in New York's Times Square, but there may have been a bit of nostalgia at play.
But he's probably best known now as the namesake of what became a famous American toy brand and that might have never gotten off the ground if a famous American president hadn't decided to stop shaving.