We used to be kids too, you know. We used to want for things. Before Amazon wish-lists, online ordering and "add to basket" buttons, we used to have the catalogues; big, chunky, glossy bi-annual volumes with a dozen or so pages at the back brimming with toys, games, crafts and novelties. Just for us. Littlewoods, Kays, Grattan, Freemans, Marshall Ward, Great Universal. They were our Internet. That was where we learned to "browse", circling toy after toy with red felt-tip, carefully planning imaginary shopping trips or hoped-for birthdays and Christmas mornings.

Well, we're reclaiming our childhood, like so much silt from the fens. Rising from the wetlands of TV Cream's most-blogged Top 100 Toys list, our Toy Catalogue is the revised, expanded, ever-growing archive of Britain's most-desired childhood playthings. Our aim? To find the best toy ever invented. The one that could guarantee instant classroom popularity on the last day of term. And we need your help.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." - St Paul's Letter to the Corinthians, 13:11.

Yeah, but some of those things were cool, like a complete Matchbox Race & Chase, or a Big Trak with the transport attached. Let's not stick 'em up in the loft just yet, eh?

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