I've got one of those around somewhere. Little people jump out of a buring building, and then fall onto the pavement and die. There are also some firemen, but mostly I make them stand and watch, knowing that they'll be emotionally scarred for the rest of their tiny electronic lives, eventually turning to alcohol and entering a downward spiral that eventually culminates in their own deaths, shiverring under a bridge somewhere with a bottle of kerosene clamped in their frozen hands.
I can really see why it was so popular.