Infographic: Top 50 Xmas Toys/Last 100 Years

[LWPD]

A look at some of the best selling Xmas toys of the past 100 years. Imagine being on the ground floor of Crayola Crayons, today they manufacture over 3 billion crayons a year!

"It may seem like only recently that holiday shopping resembles a frothing free-for-all, but for toymakers it's always been a fierce battleground. For the victors the gains are great. After all, the likes of the Slinky, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and Tickle Me Elmo all have a place in the eternal pantheon of the greatest toys ever.

A lot of the toys in the infographic below, created by this British eBay, are probably familiar to you, such as G.I. Joe, Etch a Sketch, the Easy Bake Oven and Star Wars toys. Some are more surprising, such as Dungeons & Dragons (I guess it always felt more niche to me) and the Rubik's Cube. Most interesting, though, is seeing the cascade of gadgets pinned to the dates they became popular."

Courtesy of Cash Generator UK
Infographic: Top 50 Xmas Toys of the Last 100 years

[Bazzy]

Had some of these over the years ? like Monopoly , Scrabble , Play doh , Connect 4 , Lego , Rubik's Cube . Playstation2 , Nintendo Wii & Nintendo DS

[TDalton]

Think they missed two big items.

Cabbage Patch Kids, although that may have been more a one year fad.

Other obvious one to me is Hot Wheels, which was a huge craze in the late 60s and early 70s.

[Avarice]

Also He-Man, Care Bears and GI Joe (the ones we know today) were insanely huge when I was a kid. I'm sure there's more, but felt they missed those.