The Best-Selling Christmas Toy Every Year: 1960 to 2024!

🎄 Relive the magic of Christmas through the years! 🎁
From timeless classics like the Easy-Bake Oven to modern hits like video game consoles, this video takes you on a nostalgic journey through every best-selling Christmas toy from 1960 to 2024. Discover the toys that defined generations, sparked holiday shopping frenzies, and brought joy to millions of kids (and adults!) over the decades.

🕰 What were the must-have toys of your childhood? 🎅
Drop your favorite Christmas toy in the comments below and let’s celebrate the most iconic gifts of the season!

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00:00 - Intro
01:10 - 1960s
04:10 - 1970s
06:27 - 1980s
08:24 - 1990s
10:27 - 2000s
12:40 - 2010s
14:52 - 2020s

[KayleeCee]

Christmas 2006 I was in a long-term relationship with a guy who had a 7 year old son. The only thing that kid wanted for Christmas was a Wii. His dad and I searched everywhere for one, but it was an absolute holy grail item that year. The resale prices on sites like ebay were just too steep for us. About a week before Christmas my mom just happened to find one at a Walmart like some kind of miracle. She bought it immediately and we sent her the money for it.

The relationship didn't last, but we still keep in touch. He was a good kid and he's grown into a good young man. I'm happy we were able to make that happen for him because that's probably the happiest I've ever seen a kid on Christmas morning. I still have a picture of him smiling from ear to ear with his arms resting on that box.

[jahjoeka]

Im happy kids are still playing with toys. Tablets are fun, but nothing beats toys.

[carson]

It’s interesting to me that something like Lite Brite came out in 1967 yet I remember getting a kit as a kid in the early 2000s. Truly a generational toy

[kathyrussell]

I remember most of those toys, but the challenge of finding Cabbage Patch Kids for my two daughters and a Wii for my two grandsons (brothers) stand out. My grandsons were obsessed with the Wii. I talked to the folks in the electronics section at Target. They tld me they didn't get one every week, but if they did, it would be put out for sale on Sunday morning. I started going to Target first thing on Sunday morning, and after a few weeks I got one. I just smiled when they planned and plotted acquiring their Wii. When they opened it on Christmas morning, they screamed and danced all around the room. I have never made anyone more happy.

[josephward]

My grandmother bought us a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas 1986 and it changed my life. I was so excited that I even brought in a Super Mario Bros 2 instruction book to show-and-tell at school one day.

[maeve]

My daughter got a Barbie in about '98...it was a bendable style that the legs broke off almost immediately...we then called her amputee Barbie, I got her an ambulance, & I was an EMT/ FF, so we played rescue. She became a RN partly due to that doll play...who says Barbie is unrealistic?

[bobbijodubelaar]

Goodness I am realizing how many lines my mom must have stood in and how lucky she was to get me most of the "must have" toys in the 80's.

[chronofantasy]

That's amazing that most of the wanted today from 60s, 70s and 80s, we still played and sometimes wanted those toys in the 90s as well when I was a 90s kid.

[francisbaxter]

It’s funny how some of the toys that were popular in the 60’s were some of my memorable presents in the 80’s, maybe my parents didn’t get those days when they were young and decided they would still make good presents.

[namps]

The slip n slide gift makes sense for the southern hemisphere. Often see pool and outdoor summer toys under the tree every year

[stephaniehillman]

Hi Seth, I was born in 1960, and I think some of the best toys were
Spirograph, Lite brite, Monopoly, when I was 7 I got an easy Bake oven for my Birthday. It really did bake goodies and most of them were good tasting. I liked toys that you could use your imagination, and create your own designs. I also was a Tom Boy and loved Legos too. Lots of fond memories watching thise Toy Commercials.❤❤❤

[LavishPatchKid]

What's crazy is I was born in '77 and I remember most of the 60s toys.
I had no clue they were actually that old.

[elizabethnavarre]

I love the use of Squishmallows in the past tense. My daughter got a Squishmallow backpack for back to school 2024 and this Christmas - three squishmallows (a gingerbread creature, a squid, and a bigfoot) and squishmallow slippers - all from different family members. Squishmallows in the past tense? Maybe in ten years... Honestly, hopefully never. They are so squishy and adorable! I love that they are a simple, child-friendly thing with no batteries or "bells and whistles." Sure, they're collectible, but they are sweet and innocent enough. Let kids be kids with the simple old joys of the classics - a squishmallow or teddy bear; blocks, legos, k'nex, or magnatiles, coloring books or drawing paper and crayons or paints... the stuff that lets them use their imagination! Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I had no idea some of my childhood favorites from the 80's were actually introduced in the 60's (lite-bright, spirograph, mousetrap). Great video and Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

[nickmenn]

95 - 2000 is a crazy run, beanie babies, tickle me elmo, tamagotchi, firby, pokemon, razors scooters and the ps2 .. thats a wild stretch of iconic crazes

[djb]

To think so many of these iconic toy's came out 20+ year's before expected

[cowboydiecastracing]

Wow! Toys in the 80’s and 90’s were so much better than todays toys! Lol

[RaelExplodes]

all of the toys from the 2000s and early 2010s i remember so well, i loved monster high and lalaloopsy

[mazda]

Crazy how many generational toys from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s existed well into the 2000s and beyond.

[earthquake.]

1:20 had an etch a sketch, 1:40 had a slip n slide
2:00 had one
2:26 had a frizzbee
3:08 had battle ship and the lite brite
3:38 still collecting Hot wheels
5:24 the year i came into the world
5:43 I had both stretch Armstrong and a skate board
6:19 my favorite is r2d2
6:35 had a Rubik's cube
7:04 7:07 had both
7:28 had one
9:25 have a lot of beanie babies
10:08 had a furby
11:15 my son was born 11:29 my daughter was
born

[naokoshiuzuke]

As a 2001 baby, im honestly very suprised at how many toys i had from late 70s to 90s on his list!