To ask what toy or item your Dc has wanted that is 'the biggest waste of money /tat'?

[HowCanThisBeRight]

Just wondering as I've just flicked TV on and it's a kids channel. Advertising toys in the breaks and I can't believe how much of it looks shite.
All these 'Suprise' items which you have to collect look crap too.?.

God I sound miserable. I'm not lol.
When my teen was younger he liked Thomas the tank mainly but the track and trains which was good, oh and lego.
. Now sat here with my 7m old wondering if there will be any decent toys in a few years

[EinsteinsArousedSausagesHCB]

This. Teenage mutant ninja turtles secret sewer lair.

DS had an obsession with the imaginext batman range, they were very sturdy, NEVER broke amd nothing to assemble. Then he went and asked Santa for this piece of crap.

£120 for shit plastic and cardboard. Took about 2 fecking hours to assemble, then instantly fell apart. 😱 Went straight in the bin.

[Basecamp65]

Any remote control toy to be honest - espicially a big white coding robot.

Scalextrix - could never control them.

[PutYourShirtOnMartin]

Tracey fucking Island

I waited outside a toys r us for hours to get one

DD played with it for a fucking hour and then it was relegated to the crap pile

I am still twitching after 20+ years

[OutPinked]

LOL dolls. My dd’s are obsessed with them but they’re essentially overpriced kinder eggs without the chocolate.

[BumDisease]

My mum still casts up the expensive, super realistic toy pram that I got one christmas and didn't even look at. She ended up donating it to the nearby nursery.

I my defense I didn't ask for it and had zero interest in playing with baby dolls so I don't know why Santa though I'd like it...

[LaurieMarlow]

grimm's rainbow



I thought that was the holy grail of mumsnet and absolutely essential to spend £60 for open ended play.

[Tinty]

@LaurieMarlow

grimm's rainbow

That's funny, my cousin bought this for her 3 year old. So far she and her husband have put about 20 different pics on FB with it built into different things. She and her husband have built them all. I don't think the 3 year old is allowed near it! He certainly hasn't been in any of the pictures. So maybe it should be marketed as an adult toy.

[OatsBeansBarley]

Hot wheels was such a let down to us all.

[UnlawfulBananaPeeler]

Bloody glimmies 🤦🏻‍♀️

[HomeEdRocks18]

Poopsie slime £9.99 from asda. Daughter (6) loves it and thinks its amazing but it's not value for money at all. The pot is big but the slime it makes is no larger than a shot glass. Wouldn't buy it again for her

[LukeSkywalkerBoots]

Scalextric, faff to set up, the cars keep stopping working and flying off the track, and he played with it twice ever. The cars go round in a circle and after 3 minutes it’s boring.

Various big Imaginext batman houses/ joker funhouse etc. He begs for them and then they just sit collecting dust ignored. Good quality tho.

Big plastic dinosaurs. Basically he goes RARGH with them maybe once every six months and the rest of the time they’re ignored.

[keepingbees]

Another vote for Hatchimals. Once the excitement of it hatching passed it's not been touched and is essentially useless anyway.

Fingerling has been ignored.

Most of these interactive things are a waste of time and just make noises until you switch them off to shove in a toy box.

LOL dolls. My dd's love them and do play with them, but what a bloody rip off they are. £11 for a tiny plastic badly made doll

[Reaa]

Furby
Fur-real pets
Robotic puppy
Hatchimal
Fingerlings
And a few more I can't remember the names of

[Knittedfairies]

Years ago my daughter was desperate to have a My Little Pony castle from Father Christmas, having seen the ads. on tv. I was equally desperate not to buy it; I had better uses for the £30 or so it would cost, so I when we went shopping I pointed out the castle she’d seen and she announced that it was ‘plastic and horrid’ and she didn’t want it any more.

[Terribletwos84]

The toot toot sets to go with the cars! Take ages to set up and you can't take them down after being assembled so they take up ridiculous amounts of room! Ds plays with them maybe once a month and then leaves them switched on. Don't mind the cars too much as they can be chucked in a box

[1stTimeMama]

Toot Toot. Wins hands down, any day, any time in this competition. I've been trying to sell it for 3 years now, and can't shift it. Everyone must've caught on!

[Laureline]

Play Doh.

[Holymolymackerel]

Jelly maker and Mr frosty.

[winewolfhowls]

We had the toot toot train track and it's been much loved, and goes away into a big plastic box easily. Also cleans easily during poo accidents when potty training!

Definitely scalextrix, twas ever so, can remember my brother not bothering with it many years ago and ds hasn't either.

That big mat thing aqua doodle perhaps. Pen too thick to draw much and kids just cover it with water and then forget about it for another year

[nomorepeoplepleasing]

My MIL spend £££££ on a 'designer friends' doll and loads of clothes and accessories for herself DD one Christmas because DD said she liked them when she saw them on an advert. The doll was played with once or twice and, the huge accessories (including what was supposed to be a hair salon chair) took up loads of space and gathered dust and the clothes etc were shoved in a bag of other doll clothes. But they remained with us for years as apparently they were 'too nice' to throw out. Added to that, I can't quite decide whether the doll was supposed to be a baby doll or more like a huge barbie- it's like baby doll dressed in evening wear and jewellery. It really creeps me out.

[Tiredmum100]

Chocolate coin maker. Dc 1 really wanted it. It was rubbish. Didn't work. Threw it out, they're asking for it again. No chance!

[Mrsglitterfairy]

Hatchimal! Great fun helping the egg to hatch,, never played with after that! Bloody £70 for what’s now essentially a soft toy on a shelf

[FarrahMoan]

Furbies and Tracey Island

DS2 11 is currently ignoring a competition sized basketball hoop which we bought him to train with

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

We had badge makers as kids (remember badges?!) They were OK (although they could easily have included hundreds of different little paper circle designs for a couple of pennies more, but instead only put a very few in, and those with pathetic twee slogans on. Think 'Cool Kid!' or 'Here's Trouble!' when what we really would have wanted was something along the lines of 'I Eat Bogies!' or 'Come 'Ere and Get a Punch!'.

The thing was, the big selling point was the 'magic badge-press' - a great big yellow plastic 'arm' that could mysteriously bind your creations together and took up more than 95% of the box. Totally unnecessary and a load of faff when you just needed to lightly press them with your fingers (actually worked better that way); but if they'd just put 8 crummy little circles of paper, 8 over-grown contact lenses and 8 flimsy little red clips into a tiny little box, their USP would have been blown right out of the water and I'm guessing they would have just stayed firmly on the toy shop shelf until the end of time.

[Nanasueathome]

My sisters grandson passing in a Thomas train track and I actually put it all, still boxed, at the end of my drive a couple of weeks later and someone took it (thank god)
It took ages to fit together and was nit sturdy enough for the train to run in the tracks
Then, lol and behold, an aunt bought a similar set for my grandson for last Christmas. I think it’s been out of the box once
Total waste of money and nothing like what they show on TV