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?

Agree on Elefun.

Monkey Dunk too.

Jigsaw puzzle books. Such a PITA to store.

Cheap imitation Lego.

Arty/crafty stuff (have boys who hate that almost as much as me)

Costumes

T-shirts with hilarious slogans

YY to any crafty shit that needs adult help, doesn't get done in this house pfftt

ds main present is a remote controlled tarantular, I'm hoping it's a pile of crap (£20 argos) and will die a quick death!

Remote control cars - eat batteries
Remote control airoplanes - never work properly
Cheap and nasty chocolate - straight into the bin

Peppa pig deluxe house, get the basic one!! so you don't get a stressed toddler sobbing every five seconds because the fecking stairs have fell off.

Thomas trackmaster, they just watch the trains move, pointless. --im selling the fecking lot--

Moon sand, grit fecking everywhere!

Fireman sams station, cheap plastic fell apart every two seconds and the fire engines not included despite it costing fecking £30!!!

Octopod, ds took the noisy and dangly bits off and prefered the individual gup he had with them, the actual pod does FA.

Buckaroo, ours has NEVER worked.

Smart trike, fecking IMPOSSIBLE to steer.

Furbies, I had one the first time round, creepy demanding little bastard.

I hated all remote control anythings until ds was brought the 'my first RC' from toystory £15 one button to change direction, its great bombs about batteries last ages and he and dd love it!

We love the octopod but hate all through poorly made fireman Sam tat!

Elefun amuses babies. But then they try to eat the butterflies.

[bad mother]

olympic ds plays with all the accessories but not the 'building' bit iyswim. So basically I paid £40 for 4 dangly things, a noisy button and some figures.

Remote controlled little buzzy insect things. They scrape all your walls mess up your ceiling lights then divebomb down the back of the TV never to be seen again.

I think to successfully own a RC car you have to have a huge house with wooden floors throughout.

Scalextric. Looks fun. Is v tedious.

Furby

I swear they're not new toys at all. It's just that they were left with warehouses of "old" furbies when people stopped buying them, they then turned feral, mated and voila..."new" Furby!

We love Elefun, but have lost all the blue butterflies.

Fireman Sam stuff is overpriced plastic shite.

Another vote for doggy doo. More like doggy-pumpandpumpandpump-handle-then-get-skewer-and-force-poo-out.

I will probably be cursing the day I bought the Barbie ultimate closet, DD hasn't asked for it specifically but I know she will love it. Thankfully I got it for £15 as there's no way it's worth £30, but then nothing seems to be worth its retail price these days

From DD's 4th birthday I will add Ben and Holly playsets, the Gaston's Cave one broke within a day! And yet for some reason on impulse I got a little Polly Pocket style set for her stocking

Yes I'll agree to the smart trike, what a waste. School runs were really not fun.

any hot wheels set-takes tooooo long to put together and theyre too big so you have to take them apart when theyve finished playing with them
Sally sunflower game-utter shite
any character toys-overpriced,crap plastic
Buckapoo..
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Ben 10 create an alien thingy. The idea is you put the individual limbs, head, body and whatever else into the opposite ends of the machine, snap it together and out comes a fully formed alien, with the option to mix and match pieces for added fun. What you actually get is thousands of teeny tiny bits all over the house and aliens that fall apart at will, especially if you mix and match.
Bah!

Hotwheels. Nightmare. Ds2 begs for them but I learned my lesson with ds1

Pokemon guess who was a complete fucking nightmare that resulted in ds1 crying his little obsessed eyes out last year because it just will not stay put together!

oh and the Ice Cream maker.......uses loads of ice and salt,needs lots of turning by hand to get a teaspoon of runny cream.Complete shite!
...and the popcorn maker-use a saucepan!!!

Baby Chou Chou Magic Pacifier.

The dummy is really hard to put into the doll's mouth and when we finally got it in it broke . Apparently it's a common problem with the toy.

DD has to play with it without the dummy now, which means that she has to guess what the doll wants rather than the dummy telling her. I guess it makes it more realistic though!

colditz it really is crap isn't it? I am still traumatised from trying to construct it. Saw it in TK Maxx and was so excited too.

Geo mag, the silver balls roll everywhere and anything you try and build is floppy and collapses.

Barbies and Polly Pockets. Yuck.

Hot wheels cars are great, the very simple track of my childhood was great.
Best car track we did was with lengths of plastic guttering from the climbing frame and down the garden.

Cheap Mecanno - DS got given several sets when he was 4, the apparent age for it. He couldn't even get the screwdriver into the end of the screws. It took DH and I, 8 beeping hours to put the crane together, and the next day it fell to bits when DS tried to play with it.

ANY character playset - Peppa Pig, Octonauts, Fireman Sam, Ben and Holly etc. The figures are fine on their own but the buildings and vehicles are plasticy shite that doesn't work and falls apart.

Monkey Dunk

Polly pocket sets. The dolls are ok the rest is plastic tat that works nothing like the adverts show.

Play doh sets. The basic dough and cutters are great but the ice cream maker and other sets are impossible for small kids to work by themselves. And they need regular cleaning to get all the dried out bits of play doh out of all the little tiny nooks and crannies

Aquadoodle. What's the point? Water gets everywhere. Needs constantly refilling with water. DD wanted to just LICK THE MAT and laugh What's wrong with crayons and paper?

Jigsaws where you get 2 or more 40 piece jigsaws in one box. So you have to spend 30 mins separating the pieces into individual jigsaws before DC can even start. Also jigsaw books, pieces constantly all over the floor because they fall out and you have to spend ages putting them back

Innotab. Great idea. Battery life is shit. You spend £££ on batteries or spend your life rechanging the bastards. Why not make it with an inbuilt battery that can be recharged with a plug LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE??????????????

Crap character furniture At the end of the day you have to have it in your house. And look at it. Ditto huge hulking plastic monstrosities like play kitchens / shops.

Fijit friend. Just so annoying.