The Context Machine

The Xmas period is a fun time for nursery and school children; they have heard the tremendous stories of Santa Claus and Rudolph and the special day of the 25th. From the build up, British kids are on toy websites and in toy catalogues searching high and low for the very latest and most sought after board game for them to add at the top of their Christmas list. At their local primary school and pre school the number one conversation is what game they will be asking Mr and Mrs Claus and if he might give them even more toys than their friends.

Every Xmas the market research companies and toy stores start making their predictions about what action figure will show themselves as the number one largest seller for that Christmas period. In past times the United Kingdom have noticed the Playstation 2 and the Furbies coming in at the top.

One of the predicted toys is from the incredible Ben 10 range. Ben 10 is a kids cartoon from the United States and is about a young kid called Ben who sees a spectacularly weird alien watch like item that attaches itself onto his wrist and provides him with super extra ordinary powers. With Ben’s special powers, Ben helps others when they are in danger as well as create some fun mischief with Ben’s crazy cousin Gwen. With the brilliant success of the kids cartoon, a great range of brilliant kids action figures have been created, these include figures and dvd games.

Another famous seller this Xmas will be children’s board games, one of the most fashionable being Monopoly. Mainly based on the economic concept of a firm owning everything, Monopoly is a marvellous adult and children’s board game that is tremendously popular that over 750 million users have played the family board game. Right through its excellent 100 year lifespan, Monopoly has seen it move into a website game format, video console format and even an iPhone game.

Whilst biggest selling predictions are informative the real actual unit sales will tell us what board game was the greatest seller this Christmas. The perfect gift for young girls has got to be Dolls.