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Techno Toys must-have this Christmas wish list hot toys as a dream toys 2010 - 2011

The Dream Toys list prediction of Christmas bestsellers, reveals a trend towards Music, Film and TV inspired toys to indulge fame fantasies from the next generation of rockstars and screen heroes.

The Toys and Games Christmas Preview Come shows the Christmas hotlists from boys, girls, pre-school, and hip’n’kool, creative, and games from the UK's leading toy makers.

Dream Toys 2010 Christmas Year (in alphabetical order):

Cheaper toys are Christmas hits 2010. Toymakers have largely played safe with old favourites and TV and movie tie-ins, but have given them a technological or modern twist.

Versions of Lego and Monopoly are on the list, along with Transformers figures and Princess Peppa.


The 2009 list reveals a trend towards nostalgic characters and brands which have been updated with a modern twist. Parents are reverting back to heritage brands which will last longer than the Christmas season.

The first Toy of the Year, announced at the start of 1966, was the James Bond Aston Martin Car, with the geometric drawing toy Spirograph, the Spyring board game and furry egg-shaped Gonks dolls also proving popular. Another popular toy, the "V-room" roar maker fitted to bicycles.

SELECTION OF TOYS OF THE YEAR FROM DECADES PAST

1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s
Action Man (1966)	Plasticraft (1972)	Rubik's Cube (1980)	Nintendo Game Boy (1991)	Beyblades (2002)
Spirograph (1967)	Lego (1974)	Star Wars (1982)	Thunderbirds (1993)	Robosapien (2004)
Sindy (1968)	Peter Powell kites (1976)	Transformers (1984)	Power Rangers (1994)	Igglepiggle (2007)
Hot wheels (1969)	Playpeople (1977)	Sylvanian Families (1987)	Furbys (1997)	Ben 10 (2008/2009)

In 2009, toy cars that perform stunts across tightropes and an action car that shoots powder-filled capsules joins some of the more traditional toys in the top 12.

It marks a slight change from last year when the list included a Star Wars mask and a singing and dancing Elmo from Sesame Street.

Animals, such as hamsters and Peanut My Playful Pup, dominate the top 12 for girls. Dolls, including Barbie and the Sylvanian Families also feature strongly on the girls' Christmas list.

Action toys are common on the list for boys, which features "blasters", tanks and battle packs. The "Screature" toy also appears as the popularity of dinosaurs continues.



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.

Music takes the Girls category by storm this year, with the Bratz™ Girls Really Rock Dolls, High School Musical Sing Together Dolls and the film-inspired Camp Rock Gift Pack making it onto the wish lists of aspiring rock stars.

Another musical hit is sure to be the Barbie Princess Liana Singing Doll, which sings songs from the Barbie and the Diamond Castle movie.

Younger girls will love CHOU CHOU My First Tooth, while animal lovers will be delighted to the I Love Ponies Honey My Baby Pony, or FurReal Biscuit My Loving Pup, Sylvanian Families Old Hollow Oak Treehouse, or the hottest or fittest VIPs from Littlest Pet Shop range on Christmas day.

Here is the Christmas 2008 Year Dream Hot Toys



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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