What is the best selling Christmas toy of all time?
High street retailer and online super store Debenhams, have compiled some research to find the best selling toy of all time. They have undertaken an in depth study into what made the cash registers ring the most, over the last fifty years of festive spending.
While five decades may not exactly be ‘all time’, the research does still provide a fascinating insight into what children over the years requested from Santa and what parents actually bought their demanding little offspring.
Surprisingly some of the vintage toys that made the top ten on Debenhams retro list, also feature on the superstores predicted best sellers for this Christmas, proving that kids haven’t changed that much over the years, despite the perceived corruption of their souls by the evil known as technology.
1. Cabbage Patch Kids - the best selling xmas toy ever: It’s official, the best selling children’s toy of all time is the excruciatingly cute, chubby chopped, Cabbage Patch Kid’s. Currently celebrating their 30th anniversary the ‘kid’s’ were so popular during the Christmas of 1983 that parents literally came to blows trying to secure one of the years ‘must have Christmas toys’.
Thirty years on the dolls are still available to buy today, with the modern reincarnation retaining Cabbage Patch Kids.
all the sickening cuteness of the original, which are now much sought after collectables.
2. Rubiks Cube - Best selling puzzle game: Invented in 1974 by deranged Hungarian professor Erno Rubik, the Rubiks Cube developed an almost cult like following amongst children and adults alike during the sizzling seventies, providing unsurpassed satisfaction when solved and frustration and despair for those who just couldn’t do it.
Over 350 million of the devilishly tricky game cubes are believed to have been sold to 3D combination puzzle fans the world over, cementing its position as the second most popular toy of all time.
The Rubiks Cube can still be bought from retail outlets.
3. Monopoly - Best selling board game: Originally invented as an educational tool to help explain America’s complicated tax system, Monopoly quickly turned into a game of greed, corruption and oppressive capitalism, which penetrated the heart and soul of family life the world over.
The classic board game is now available in a staggering 550 Rubiks Cube.
varieties and counting, the latest Walking Dead version has to be seen to be believed and could well be the craziest interpretation of Monopoly that we have ever played.
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Best selling action figures: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back, well actually they never went away, teenage mutant action figures have been a perennial best seller since their inception in the late 1980’s. The anthropomorphic teenage turtles have captured the imagination of children across the globe and since their original comic book appearance have starred in several movies, video games and their very own TV series, incidentally the action figure toys are also predicted to be a best seller this Christmas, a well deserved position four on the all time top ten list.
5. Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story: It was the Spring of 1996 when British cinema goers first heard the immortal words ‘‘to infinity and beyond’’, spoken by Buzz Lightyear, one of the main characters in the children’s movie Toy Story.