What not to waste your money on for the DC this Christmas-

[Sparklingbrook]

I will start, get the DCs wish lists ready to cross them off-

Elefun. Should be renamed Ele IMO.

Golden Coin Maker. Just don't.

Any more suggestions?

The children in this house love Elefun. We must have one of the few that actually works as it should.

I wouldn't bother with Mega Bloks - skip and go straight to Duplo (suitable from 18 mths). Duplo is brilliant!

Playskool Poppin Elephant.

The balls don't pop as it lets out a very small amount of air, no where near enough to 'pop' balls into the air. Makes an almighty noise while on, which thankfully is only for 60 seconds then you have to start the process all over again.

Such a disappointing toy!

Sparkling. What's that dinosaur thing you linked to called?

Soz, if repeating: haven't read whole thread. Do not buy one of those voice controlled diaries - DD had one for all of an hour. It then didn't recognise her voice and password and the parental override thingy wouldn't work so couldn't get damn thing open. Poor baby saved her own money to get it and everything. (I read the reviews on Amazon and told her not to get it - I even resisted saying told you so - she was 6 or 7 at the time).

It was quite a few years ago Flogging but it was T-Wrecks or something like that.

Can I add paper Jams to the list....got DS a guitar last xmas, we got the Nickelback version and it plays the same song over and over...couldn't work out how to do his own tunes and rarely ever got a different pre programmed song. Volume control was hard to work, the sticker peeled off after a few months.
piece of shite.

Oh Yes violet, Dd3 was unlucky enough to receive one of those. It worked a could of times and that was that.

It has gone to the charity shop

Worked a couple of times

oh no, i have bought the dd's a paper jamz guitar each , luckily they didn't cost me much, dd2 loves music and has a real guitar so thought it would be fun.

Last year i bought them sylvanian famillies and they hardly got played with, little bits everywhere, i know a lot of people rate it but it wasn't for us, i e-bayed it (appart from the house which dd2 uses for her moshi monsters).

Moshi monster bobble bots were crap, the little bots/figures were ok but the play sets were crap, parts made of carboard and very flimsy plastic.

My original mousetrap is ace, sets up well and works!

Styling heads
Aquabeads

Where do I start!
Elefun
Hungry hippo
Gator golf
Moshi monsters
Moon sand/dough
All plastic tv character crap like peppa pig
All other small plastic crap like fairies, trolls
My little pony
Board games that have been changed into princess/character ones annoy me!
Zhu zhu pets
Animals or babies etc that r meant to move speak etc
I can't think what else just now but there plenty more!

Stick with good old proper toys.

I was in Smyths toy shop today. I was very at some of the stuff going in the trollies due to this thread.

Totally agree about moonsand, mousetrap and flitter fairies. This thread is making me laugh out loud! I will kill anyone who buys any of my children yet another cuddly toy. Also agree re bendaroos and zubber.

Oh and just remembered think they are called space monkeys. Horrible little creature things which hatch out in water then get boiled alive when dc leave them on windowsill in sunlight!

Sitting here feeling smug in the knowledge I haven't bought any of these. I stick to wooden toys and they always go down well and are very robust plus they don't make irritating noises that drive you loopy

I will add that I had a furbie when they did the rounds the first time and couldn't get it to stfu.. all night bloody long. Eventually mum just removed the batteries and I think after a while it was binned. Now they're like £30 more with digital eyes and do they link up to ipods or something now too?

Oh yeah and Polly pocket is no longer Polly pocket. On the adverts she seems to have grown by about twelve inches and doubtful she fits in any childs pocket.. ahh how toys change.

Don't know if these have been mentioned,

Bakugan Overpriced cheap tat that will break straight away
Hot Wheels As above

How old are you kids Mousefunk?

I quite like bakugan blue, we haven't had any break yet.

So far..... skalextrix is shit

gator golf shit

Remote helicopter shit shit shit

Any nerf gun that loses bullets all over, shit

V-tech camera has been well loved and well used, 1 year on still uses it.

Loved hungry hippos til lost all balls

loves remote control monster truck but takes loads of batteries, they are bane of my life.

could go on all day...

aquabeads - i can't even get the ruddy gun thing to put the beads in the holes, let alone my DD (6yrs)

How old are your children trixymalixy? My DS age 7 is so clumsy I fear he would break Bakugan very very easily

Toy Story horse on a stand nearly £50 and does absolutely zilch....complete waste of money!!

Pig goes Pop....'pop' never happened and load of rubbish!

Moon sand sweet bakery.....sand gets everywhere

Perfume factory.....doesn't smell nice and is boring!!

Aqua Beads.....too small and fiddly to use and don't stick together!

ELC till....drawer kept sticking

Barbie Puppy Pool

Play doh ice cream factory

Daughter loves squinkies, however, advert on TV was very misleading and made Squinkies set look massive, so much so that when I ordered it from Argos I thought it was going to be struggle getting it into the car. Turned out it was the size of a shoebox.

Got to argue for Hot Wheels - still played with here 3 years on. You need enough of the track to build really long weird tracks down the stairs and into another room (also chuck marbles down it & save buying marble track).

Not so good gifts
Hide & seek Scooby
Nintendo puppy (moved its head following a magnetic bone)