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Techno Toys must-have this Christmas wish list hot toys as a dream toys 2008 - 2009

The christmas wish list reflects the technological advancements used in this year's big and small screen success, with toys inspired by Transformers the Movie, Dr Who, pre-school favourite Roary the Racing Car and game show Golden Balls.

Here is the Christmas 2008 Year Dream Hot Toys (in alphabetical order):



UK are you smarter than a 10 year old is the smash hit game show "Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?" show from New Zealand, giving you the chance to win big money - or face the embarrassment of being beaten by a bunch of 10-year-old school kids.

As a contestants, you're allowed to cheat! You can even take a sneak peek at one of the 10-year-old's answers and decide whether or not you want to use it. You can copy a 10-year-old's answer. And if the 10 year old's answer is wrong, one of the kids could even save kid with a correct answer.

All 10year kids have to do is answer primary school level questions for their chance to win up to $100,000 - and prove they really are smarter than the resident contestant cast of 10-year-olds.

To take part in the "ARE YOU SMARTER" TV or PUB quiz, as you know... Albert Einstein was smarter than a 10 year old. Stephen Hawkin is smarter than a 10 year old. Bart & Homer Simpson certainly isn't, but can the same be said for you or your children, friends and family?

Joining them are toys inspired by hit pre-school programme "In the Night Garden ( Talking Toy, Makka Pakka Bath & Ninky Nonk Train by Hasbro) is a thoroughly modern interpretation of a nursery rhyme characters picture book.


And takes children on an imaginative journeys to meet a host of wonderfully silly characters living together with a happy and caring community. It is both funny and reassuring with a capacity to learn and entertain.




Hasbro brings the popular Transformers license to life with Optimus Prime Voice Changing Helmet and Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee.
In the Gamestop or Games Top Toys for Christmas Party games for Kids Category, the Koo n fit (or Hip n Kool), covering the latest must-haves for most popular toys games for christmas, funky kids games for christmas, is as exciting as ever.

This Christmas party game will be getting off to a flying start as two brands go head to head with the latest indoor flight technology for kids christmas games.

Dragonfly by Character Options will be battling it out with Silverlit's PicooZ R/C Helicopter for a space under the tree.

There's plenty in this category for girls as well, with the Pixel Chix Roomies House (Mattel) and the Girl Tech Video Journal (Radica) both Christmas must-haves for young fashionistas or for christmas trivia games (or adult christmas games).


Spider-Man is back to battle another day with the Spider-Man Ultimate Web Blaster (Hasbro). Ben 10 is a new addition to the boys character crowd, with the Alien Laboratory and a Watch Omnitrix F/X (both Bandai) set to keep mini scientists busy well into the New Year.

Popular Films and TV shows have made their mark on the Toy Retailer Association's (TRA) list, as have hi-tech gadgets and the more traditional board games and dolls.

Hollywood also featured prominently with toy spin-offs from the hit movies "Cars" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" joining such perennial classics as the Trivial Pursuit board game.

Also, a voice-changing Dr Who Cyberman Mask from the BBC's Doctor Who cult TV series and the interactive toy car Fast Talkin' McQueen, inspired by the hit movie Cars, are set be hot favourites with boys this year.

The girls' top 12 list includes a Disney Princess chair, and a new Barbie model which teaches little girls how to dance with interactive wrist and ankle bands which is based on the sixth Barbie movie and will add a new twist to the long-standing favourite doll.

Pre-schoolers will prefer toys inspired by Bob The Builder and Thomas The Tank Engine.

Their top 12 also includes the V Smile Baby game, an interactive toy for children as young as nine months.

For older children, the list includes Hasbro's Trivial Pursuits 90s and the electronic board game of Deal Or No Deal.

The new Tickle Me Elmo toy T.M.X. Elmo from Mattel Inc.'s Fisher-Price Division, which is already proving wildly popular in the United States, was not included in the British "Top Dozen" because it has only just been released. It has been a restricted release.

On show at a London church hall across the hall Thomas the Tank Engine delighted children road-testing the toys by emitting real steam from its funnel while a Johnny Depp look-a-like offered kids a chance to build models of his ship The Black Pearl.

The £2.1 Billion ($3.9 Billion) British market, the world's third largest after the United States and Japan, has grown by six percent this year. But Christmas is, as ever, the make or break season.

Britain's Toy Retailers Association (TRA) chairman Gary Sadler said: "We have about 50 percent of our year's turnover to do in the next 11 weeks. A small change in the run-up to Christmas transforms the year up or down."

"Certainly UK are the biggest toy market in Europe, without doubt the kids are getting more and more sophisticated."

The TRA's independent predictions are based on retailers' opinions, items requested by shoppers and the latest trends in new products.

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