Dream Toys 2012: What the Toy Trade think should be on your Santa’s list!!!

With Hag and Con

Hag and Con with Chase SUNO

The Top 13 for your Xams list!!!

Web Shooting Amazing Spider-Man

Cabbage Patch Kids – JAKKS Pacific, Inc.

Review by Con and Millie

Furby – Hasbro (Review coming soon)

InnoTab 2 – VTech Electronics Europe plc

Jake and the Never Land Pirates Pirate Ship Bucky – Mattel

Review by Con

LeapPad2 – Leapfrog Toys

LEGO Friends: Olivia’s House – LEGO Company Ltd

Review by Caitlin

LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Mines of Moria – LEGO Company Ltd

‘The Mines of Moria’ and ‘Gandalf Arrives’ – Review by Hag CLICK HERE

Mike the Knight’s Deluxe Glendragon Playset – Character Options

Review by Con

Monster High Ghouls Rule Dolls – Mattel

Review by Bethany

My Moshi Home – Vivid Imaginations

Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire – Hasbro

Twister Dance – Hasbro (Review coming soon)

ALSO………WHY ISN’T SKYLANDERS GIANTS INCLUDED IN THE TOP 13?

Skylanders is the greatest evolution in the toy market for decades.

There is an argument that because you need to buy a Console to play with ‘Skylanders’ – its not a toy.

If that’s the case ‘Moshi Monsters’ shouldn’t be there too as thats a product based on an online Kidz community of which you need to buy a PC to play. Kidz want the toys because they come with upgrade codes for their online characters – plus they can further their online play outside the online world with the figures. JUST LIKE SKYLANDERS!!!

This week Santa asked a room of Kidz and Parents “Why is the Toy all boys are asking for ‘Skylanders’?”
Surely he knows what a toy is?

And on the evolution of the ‘TOY’ – ‘Tablets’ like the Kurio. In the words of the Great Woody from Toy Story “You are a toy”.

He also went on to say that a ‘Toy’ is a “Childs play thing”

It doesn’t matter what old fuddy duddy LIKE US think is a toy from our era of play – Kidz say ‘Tablets and ‘Skylanders’ are their toys.

So they must be Toys then?

And…..what is the greatest toy of all time?

A STICK – “A Child’s Play Thing!”