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Christmas day is a fun moment for kids; they have heard the terrific stories of St. Nicholas and the reindeers and the special day of the 25th of December. Throughout the build up, young ones are on toy websites and in toy catalogues hunting high and low for the most recent action figure for them to place at the top of their Xmas list. At primary school and nursery the number one conversation is what game they will be asking Santa Claus and if he might give them even more video games than their peers. Find the latest board games to keep the kids happy.

Every Xmas the toy market researchers and toy shops start making their forecasts about what video game will show themselves as the number one greatest seller for that year. In past years the British Isles have noticed the Nintendo DS and the Transformers coming in at the top.

One of the predicted best selling games is from the great Ben 10 toy range. Ben 10 is a kids programme from America and is about an American boy called Ben who discovers an astonishingly magical alien wrist watch device that snaps itself onto Ben’s wrist and provides him with eye-opening special powers. With Ben’s extra ordinary powers, Ben helps others when they are in danger as well as get into some fun mischief with Ben’s little cousin Gwen. With the tremendous success of the children’s cartoon, an amazing range of amazing children’s toys have been made, these include figures and tents.

Another popular seller this Xmas time will be board games, one of the most acclaimed being Monopoly. Loosely based on the economic concept of a company owning everything in their market, Monopoly is a brilliant adult and children’s board game that is really popular that over 750 million people have played Monopoly. Right through its spectacular 100 year lifespan, the family friendly board game has seen it move into a website game format, video game format and even an iPhone game.

Whilst predications are important to the market the real actual unit sales will tell us what toy was the greatest seller this Christmas period.