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The Christmas period is a very exciting time for kids; they have heard the incredible tales of Mr Claus and the reindeers and the special day of the 25th. Throughout the build up, children are on online toy shops and in toy catalogues hunting high and low for the very latest and most sought after game for them to add at the top of their shopping list. At their school and pre school the very hottest discussion is what board game they will be asking Santa and if he can bring them lots more action figures than their school friends. Buy Action Figures and toys – Ben 10, Gormiti, Transformers, Power Rangers and Nerf.

Each and every Xmas time the market researchers and toy shops start making their forecasts about what action figure will be the number one biggest seller for that Xmas. In recent years the UK have noticed the Nintendo Wii and the Tamagotchi coming in at the top.

One of the predicted highest selling video games is from the great Ben 10 range. Ben 10 is a kids cartoon from the US and is about a young boy called Ben who finds a magical alien wrist watch item that holds itself onto his wrist and gives him amazing alien powers. With his special powers, Ben helps others when in trouble as well as get into some fun mischief with his cousin Gwen. With the spectacular success of the cartoon series, a huge range of amazing kids toys have been made, these comprise of figures and computer games.

Another preferred seller this Christmas will be board games, one of the most world famous being Monopoly. Mainly based on the economic concept of a company owning everything in their market, Monopoly is a brilliant family friendly board game that is really popular that over six hundred million individuals have played the board game. Right through its wonderful 100 year lifespan, the adult and children’s board game has seen it move into an online format, games console format and even an Apple iPhone game.

Whilst sales forecasting are vital to the market the real unit sales will tell us what board game was the greatest seller this Christmas time.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 at 5:12 pm and is filed under General.