Tell us your must-have Christmas toy horror stories - for a chance to win Toy Story toys and the new Toy Story 3 Blu-ray Triple Play (contains Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital Copy)

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Hello. Toy Story 3 is out on Blu-ray & DVD on November 22nd and the people behind the hit movie would like to know if you've ever had trouble getting hold of the must-have Christmas toy of the moment.

Did you spend all day tramping from high-street store to high-street store, only to find it sold out everywhere? Or did you have to bare your elbows and fight your way to the top of a very long queue? Or maybe you trawled the net and ended up buying it at ten times the price? Or perhaps (sympathy emoticon), you pulled out all the stops to get it and then found your mother/auntie/long-lost cousin had already bought it (cheaper, natch) to give to your DC herself? So tell!

Everyone who posts their "must-have toy horror story" on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a fab Toy Story 3 goodie bag, including a signed Woody and a signed Buzz and a Blu-ray Triple Play (contains Toy Story 3 on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital Copy)

Thanks and good luck, MNHQ

Please note: ideas suggested on this thread may well be published elsewhere on Mumsnet

When we were little, my Mum was desperately trying to get a Fisher Price kitchen for me and my sister and was ringing round the shops on a daily basis. Had basically given up on getting one, then rang Argos who had one left and agreed to reserve it for her if she came down in the next half an hour.

She leapt on the bus and ran down there, managed to get it just before the shop closed and was extremely pleased with herself. Until she realised she was in town with no car, a hefty box and taxis weren't an option in those days cos we were skint.

So, she manages to bump the thing he length of the town, just makes it to the (very full) bus and asked the bus driver if she could get on with it, who replies 'Love, if you can get it on, I'm not gonna argue'

So she has a fight with it, everyone on the bus gawping at the mad woman trying to get a massive box onto a rammed bus. Eventually manages to hulk it on.

She got a spontaneous round of applause from the rest of the bus

Shameful behaviour from my younger self but don't judge me for it...!

The year was 1998...Also known as 'Furby-Gate'.

For Xmas my younger (by four years) sister received one of these coveted things and was delighted.

As the older, more sensible sibling who was now at high school my dear Mother had assumed that I didn't want one when she was battling in the department stores to get one.

So in true 'jilted first child' fashion I was DEVASTATED.

So much so that my poor mum braved the sales to get me a furby of my own which I proceeded to play with for precisely 20 minutes and then forget all about.

It was possibly the worst toy ever. When the batteries ran down it sounded positively evil and I couldn't bear to have it's beady little eyes watching me.

To make matters worse, the roads were very icey and when she came back to the house with her emergency furby, her car slid right into the fence and tore both our own and our neighbours to the ground.

Sorry mum!!

I havent had the pleasure of searching for a much wanted present for ds yet as he is only 3 but expect I will have to in the near future :)

However I remember me and my sister both wanting a furby when they were huge :) we would not give up and my mum searched everywhere with the help of my grandma while we were in school to no such luck :( In the end she resorted to ringing my Great Aunt in Canada and begging her to search for one over there. We did recieve one on Christmas morning and when we were older were told of the ordeal my mum went to finding one and having it sent over.

I did like the furby for all of a month but The things a mum will do for her children :) Luckily I still have my furby at my mums house just to remind me what my mum did to get it for me :)

On a strange furby note. I bought myself the gremlins 'gizmo' furby a few years ago and had it in my kitchen.

We moved recently and when unpacking found a black and brown one in the same box, we have no idea where it came from.

Spent 2 months (honest!!) online, entering competitions, traipsing round argos, annoying my sister and nagging her, she lives in next county.
All to get DH a Nintendo Wii.
Which he played with for 3 weeks, and when I got him the Wii sports resort last year, he played with it for...go on guess....... 3 weeks!

Bloody men.

Pah!