Xmas day is an exciting time for kids; they have heard the sensational tales of Mr Claus and the reindeers and the special day of the 25th. Throughout the build up, young ones are on toy sites and in catalogues searching high and low for the very latest and most sought after children’s toy for them to have at the top of their shopping list. At their school and pre school the number one discussion is what toy they will be asking Mr and Mrs Claus and if he will bring them even more games than their friends.
Each Xmas time the action figure and toy market researchers and toy websites start making their guesses about what toy will drive forward as the number one greatest seller for that year. In past times the UK have noticed the Nintendo Wii and the Transformers coming in at the top. The perfect gift for young girls has got to be Dolls.
One of the popular games is from the eye-opening Ben 10 toy range. Ben 10 is a children’s programme from America and is about an American boy called Ben who finds a fantastically strange alien watch like item that holds itself onto his wrist and delivers him with great extra ordinary powers. With his extra ordinary powers, Ben helps others when they get into trouble as well as create some fun mischief with his crazy cousin Gwen. With the astonishing success of the cartoon, an amazing range of fantastic kids action figures have been made, these include figures and lunch boxes.
Another big seller this Christmas time will be children’s board games, one of the most acclaimed being Monopoly. Based on the economic idea of a company owning everything in their market, Monopoly is a brilliant adult and children’s board game that is tremendously popular that over 750 million people have played the family board game. Throughout its brilliant 100 year lifespan, the family board game has seen it move into an online game, video console format and even an Apple iPhone game.
While forecasting are important to the market the real sales numbers will tell us what childrens toy was the largest seller this Christmas period.

























