Worst Christmas Toys Ever

[TheShellBeach]

You know, the ones which were advertised throughout December, and your children begged for them, and they were shite despite costing more than your monthly mortgage payment.

Which toys were the most disappointing in your house?

Mr Frosty!

OMG I was literally just about to write Mr. Bloody Frosty!

Never did a toy promise so much and deliver so little.

Stupid dog which you could ‘feed’ and then it would ‘poop’. It also barked etc. I knew it would be a disappointment and my dd would play with it for all of ten minutes, but it was the only time she was absolutely adamant about a toy and properly begged for it. Bought it, £50, she played with it for some of Christmas Day and then completely ignored it - didn’t touch even once more! Come February I asked her if she thought she would play with it anymore and she said ‘No, can we sell it?’. Managed to get £30 for it and she bought something she would actually play with.

Sean the Sheep from Wallace and Gromit was thrown at me by DS when he was a furious toddler.
It clearly didn't live up to his expectations.

I seem to remember a weird head of Darth Vader which one of the DC demanded years ago...............it was creepy and spoke in a strange voice.

Not so much disappointing as dangerous... when my DD1 was small she wanted this flying fairy... it sat on a launcher and you pulled the string and it whizzed into the air.

We renamed it the 'eye-out fairy' after a few near misses

A Pokémon ball that would deduce the Pokémon you were thinking of by asking a series of yes/no questions
Ball: Is your Pokémon an electric type
DC: yes
Ball: can you repeat your answer?
DC: yes
Ball: can you repeat your answer?
DC: yessssssss
Ball: can you repeat your answer?
DC: YESSSS
Ball: Is your Pokémon an electric type?
DC: YYYYYYYYEEESSSSSSSSSS
Ball: I do not understanc
DC: YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Ball: yes

so relaxing to listen to.

I had loads of those when I was a kid 😁 ahh, the injuries!

The Ultimate Fucking Arendelle Castle. Utter Shite, absolutley massive and although it has never been played with DD won't get rid of it so it sits in her room taking up soooo much space

Those Furbies were pretty awful

furreal toys. They might have moved but they weren't cuddly and so had no value as far as DD was concerned.

The chocolate coin maker.
It proved an excellent example of how advertising deceives, and a useful lesson.

Dog toy I bought for my year old Retriever , furry monkey thing with long arms and legs . She loved the toy , played with it all day . Problem being it made monkey noises . Ahhahh type noises , couldn't take it anymore so grabbed it and plunged it into basin of water . Thought that's it ,that'll have fucked up the noise box in it . But no when it dried out it went back to making monkey noises .🙄

Now I'm much more careful what I buy the dogs .😁

Hatchimal. It was played with for 10 mins on Christmas day and never touched again.

Harry Potter Lego castle. The brick shades in the instruction book didn’t match the actual bricks. Took me 3 hours to put it together . And then that was it 🤷‍♀️ Bloody expensive too !

Gotta go flamingo 😑

Sky dancers!!!!

😂😂

I second Furbies. Fuck they were a terrible waste of money. They didn't pick up on our kids' accents and they lost interest trying.

@StillMedusa a sky dancer? I begged my parents for a ‘fashion wheel’ it was basically rubbing a crayon over plastic dresses like a brass rubbing, was really rubbish. I really wanted ‘blush art’ it was make up you did drawings with I never got it but I’d have loved that!

DS had one of those. I ADORED it. I would watch him getting so frustrated and then he would bellow "why won't it listen to me?"

Considering DS listens to no one. Ever. He deserved everything that pokeball didn't give him.

Cupcake decorator. My youngest DD wanted it when she was four and I had everyone looking for it. We eventually found it and it was the biggest load of plastic crap you could imagine 😂

I also YEARNED for a Mr Frosty and bought one for my eldest DS years later. I've never been so disappointed

I read that as funeral toys!!!

Happy Bloody Nappers.