The most desired toys for boys and girls this Christmas, despite globalization, are not the same all over the world. However, they do have a lot in common: Spain, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Germany and Italy, for example, the game console PS5 has emerged victorious, while the PS4 is the favorite gift in Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Montenegro…
xbox SeriesX, Microsoft's console, triumphs, meanwhile, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as in Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and Namibia. Of course, if we go to Africa, the favorite is Barbie : they prefer it in Benin, Togo, Ghana, Angola, Mali, Senegal, Cape Verde … The doll is also the chosen one in P Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia or Nicaragua. And curiously, a game as veteran as the scrabble has huge fans Djibouti and Belgium.
SURPRISING REVELATIONS
They are data extracted from Every Country's Favorite Toy ("The favorite toy of each country"), a map produced by the website specializing in toy reviews TheToyZone. “We created a list of popular toys from categories described by Toy Association and Wikipedia. Then we compare them with popular toys lists, like The 9 Best Construction and Building Blocks for Gifted Kids of 2021 from sites like verywellfamily.com.
“With the list of popular toys in hand, the team in October compiled Google monthly search data for each toy in each country and isolated those with the highest search volume to reveal the most popular in each category.” This is how they explain the methodology of the work from TheToyZone, whose team has found certain keys among that sea of data:
Playmobil: only favorites in Europe
- The PlayStation 4 is the most popular toy in the largest number of countries , thanks in large part to the current lack of availability of the PS5 and its cheaper price.
- Although video consoles dominate most of the world, LEGO and Barbie fly the flag of "traditional" toys , being the most popular in a total of 46 States.
- Five toys proved exceptionally popular in certain corners in the world, such as Hot Wheels (Guatemala), Slime (Bangladesh), Ludo (a kind of parcheesi with many followers in Pakistan), Monopoly (Nigeria) and Nerf (plastic weapons with foam projectiles popular in Norway), being favorites only in those places.
- Lego is the most popular toy in 11 European countries , beating the PS5 (ten countries) and the PS4 (nine). Playmobil also proved to be popular, being the most wanted toy in six European countries. However, he does not appear as a favorite anywhere outside of Europe.
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THE MOST POPULAR TELEVISION, TRADITIONAL AND 90S TOYS IN THE WORLD
Following the same methodology, TheToyZone has also created as many other maps dividing their findings into fun categories. Here we see, for example, the most popular 90s toys in each country this 2021, among those who are not lacking Tamagotchis, Polly Pockets, Game Boys and even Furbies.
In the case of classic toys , as we said, reign barbie and lego, but there is also an interesting mix of slime, Rubik's cubes and yo-yos.
Lastly, the toys based on television characters What did you like the most this year? paw patrol , enormous influence in the United States, and the simpsons , which are successful in countries like Russia and Brazil. In Spain they have been the dolls of the Octonauts the most famous. What will the coming Kings bring us?
