On Sunday 30th January 2000, to celebrate the end of the Millenium, the British Association of Toy Retailers (BATR) conducted a poll of the public to help determine what toy would be crowned as the century's favourite.
Barbie, Action Man and even the humble teddy bear were all pipped at the post by Lego at the BATR Toy of the Century awards. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the awards was that not a single computer game or electronic gadget featured among the shortlist.
Ranging from the pre-school favourite, Duplo, to more sophisticated microchip bricks for robots controlled via the Internet, Lego was seen as having made a major contribution to children's play over the last 100 years.
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Monopoly was devised in 1933 by Charles Darrow and was at first rejected by Parker Bros as being too complicated.
The game arrived the UK in 1936, made under licence by Waddingtons and the rest is history! Monopoly is now the best-selling commercial board game - and estimates suggest that over 750 million people have played the game.
The earliest known yo-yo dates to 500 BC but was rediscovered in 1929 by Frank Duncan when he saw Filipinos waiters demonstrating their traditional toy.
Silent film star, Mary Pickford and actor/singer, Bing Crosby were used to promote Duncan's product and the craze very quickly spread all over the world.
In 1999, UK toy retailers sold £30m of yo-yos.
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