Santa and the elves were out of touch and clueless about making and delivering toys during Christmas
I still love the old movie but i have noticed that all the toys that the elves ever made for Chrsistmas were things made out of wood especially wooden statutes of bears and then there's the dolls and bikes they made that fell apart. If they spent the time to do their research of what was going on in the 1980s at the time they could have magically given kids better things like remote control cars and action figures like Barbie and G.I. Joe