Just flicking through the back pages of the Argos, and the toys kids are getting these days makes my childhood seem like a stationary, dull nightmare.
Mousetrap has been redesigned. looks like there`s a toilet in there.
Monopoly no longer has paper money. now you have a `bank card` with a digital readout of how much cash you have (there`s also a `make-your-own-Opoly, where everything`s blank)
Digital camcorders (Bratz branded) for £60
And a bouncy castle (with air blower thing) for £20???
We were born in the wrong decade, seriously...
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Monopoly no longer has paper money.
Dammit! How the hell are you supposed to steal other people`s dosh when they go to the lav?
On my train journey every day I see trampolines in nearly every back yard!
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Hmmm...for every £20 bouncy castle sold over here there will be a Chinese woman or kid paid a bowl of rice to make it. :( 
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Hmmm...for every £20 bouncy castle sold over here there will be a Chinese woman or kid paid a bowl of rice to make it.
Buy more bouncy castles and feed the world. :¦
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We were born in the wrong decade, seriously...
Nah mate we was born in the right decade! I remember going out and using my imagination and making go-carts and the such. We made our own board games....nothing to worry the major manufacturers but the satisfaction of getting glue , cardboard & pen together and coming up with something that WE made more than compensated for anything that was thrown at us. I think thats the problem with childrens toys these days as they seem to be told what to buy/pester the parent for and have no character to them. I also remember climbing 6ft trees and thinking I conquered it! I look around these days and see no kids playing out in the streets or forming gangsand thinking that they are the kings of that street.
They`re all inside playing Pro Evolution 6 and Halo!! Its tragic.....! :( 
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Hmmm...for every £20 bouncy castle sold over here there will be a Chinese woman or kid paid a bowl of rice to make it. Do you have a problem with cheap electronics too? DVD players and the like?
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Buy more bouncy castles and feed the world. LOL
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Kids today no longer have to have any imagination. The toys make sounds on their own and move on their own.. hell, the toys don`t need the Kids!
I can`t believe some idiot has thought that monopoly doesn`t need hard cash anymore...
Thank GOD I was a child of the 1980s.....
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I can`t believe some idiot has thought that monopoly doesn`t need hard cash anymore...
It`s a fair reflection of the money habits of people today though. I certainly pay for everything on plastic these days - even beer down my local!
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ah well. at least I`ll have my original version...
(here we go with the George Lucas debacle again..)
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