1990s Christmas

Top 10 Christmas toys, 1990

"The toy on the top of many a child's Christmas list is in surprisingly short supply"

"The predator disturbing their dreams is an electronic hedgehog"

"Don't tell the manufacturers that the country is in a recession"

"The teddy is talking to the man on TV and the man on TV is talking back to him"

"I just interviewed Mary, really. She'd just seen umm... Gabriel"

"The toy market has moved on. Sales of train sets have fallen since the model railway heyday of the 60s and 70s"

"A supply crisis which has reached intergalactic proportions"

"Interestingly enough, the people who are using it tend to be men"

"Retailers have begun rationing them - allowing just one Teletubby per person"

"Children love them. Parents hate them. I can't quite see the point of them."

"Parents basically haven't got a chance"

"Nearly 200,000 Britons have come to New York to buy presents, such as this year's must-have toy, the Furby"

"Many people are forsaking the high street and the shopping mall this Christmas"

"The music industry has been proved hopelessly wrong"

Sticky backed plastic and pipe cleaners at the ready