Where to get 2015's top Christmas toys cheapest

The countdown to Christmas is well and truly on so here's where to buy this year's most-wanted toys for less.

Each Christmas there are several must-have toys that children up and down the land are after. And retailers often compete on price in a bid to get people through their doors and spending more.

We've pulled together a list of the top toys and where you can find them cheapest right now.

Interactive Tracy Island

RRP: £80 | Cheapest deal: £72.30
Thunderbirds will never stop being cool. This latest version of Tracy Island comes with over 50 actions, lights and sounds, but also features a hefty price tag of £80 RRP. Amazon is selling it for £72.30, which is a saving of nearly 10% but it is still quite expensive.

The Thunderbird vehicles aren’t included. If you’re handy with crafts, you could try making a papier mâché Tracy Island à la Blue Peter.

It's great fun, and uses junk you probably have lying around the house anyway.You can then perhaps get your kids the vehicles as their present – without which the island would seem a bit dull anyway. The ‘super set’ of all four Thunderbirds costs under £30 on Amazon.

Skate and Sing Elsa

RRP: £40 | Cheapest deal: £39.99
If, and only if, you can bear listening to the song Let It Go after the countless times your kids have watched Frozen, then the Skate and Sing Elsa doll may be the one for you.

It is controlled by remote control, and will glide and spin around the room, belting out the hit song. Its RRP is £40, and retailers don’t seem to want to budge on this point.

Argos is selling it for £39.99.

i-Que Intelligent Robot Action Figure

RRP: £65 | Cheapest deal: £59.95
This robot can hold a conversation, crack jokes, and answer questions about “pretty much anything” (so says the sales blurb).

It’s hard to find a good discount, but Amazon have shaved just over a fiver off the RRP, for a sale price of £59.95.

Clever Keet

RRP: £59.99 | Cheapest deal: £59.99
If your child is begging you for a pet, but you don’t fancy cleaning up after one, they might settle for Clever Keet. A robotic bird, he will respond to voices and answer questions, as well as singing and dancing.

We can’t find anything significantly better than the RRP, but this toy doesn’t come out until October 10, so you might find better deals when it is released. Amazon has pre-orders up for £59.99 with free delivery.

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Peppa Pig Princess Plush Toy

RRP: £19.99 | Cheapest deal: £19.99
Another singing toy, this Peppa Pig Once Upon A Time Princess Rose Plush Toy (to give its catchy full name) retails for about £20 and no one seems willing to duck under that price point – at least for the moment.

Tesco is selling it for £19.99 with free click and collect pickup, or a £3 standard delivery charge.

Kinetic Sand

RRP: £21.80 | Cheapest deal: £14.59
This stuff is pretty cool. The sand is mixed with binding polymers, which allows you to shape it into interesting sculptures, and it will then retain that shape. It’s also, er, gluten-free. But I can’t imagine that it tastes that great.

Amazon is selling a playset with sand and moulds for £14.59, which comes with a pound of sand (around 450g) but if you prefer, you can get a kilo of the stuff (without moulds) for £12.78 at D&G Educational or five kilograms for £30. This might be preferable, as reviewers on Amazon have commented that the playset doesn’t come with an awful lot of sand.

3D Magic Maker

RRP: £39.99 | Cheapest deal: £38.95
Fill up the moulds and stencils with ‘magic’ gel, and place it into the kit to transform them into 3D models. The kit comes with an ‘under the sea’ themed set of moulds and stencils.

On Amazon, you can get it for slightly less than the RRP at £38.92. The gel refills cost nearly £14 for three small tubes, so this gift may end up fairly expensive in the long run.

My Friend Freddy

RRP: £39.99 | Cheapest deal: £34.99
Freddy can be hooked up to an accompanying app for iOS or Android devices, where information about the child and their family can be entered – so the bear ‘magically’ knows all about your child when they receive him.

He does educational activities that encourage letter, number and colour recognition. When not connected to a device, he’ll talk when cuddled and played with. TheToyShop.com is selling Freddy for £34.99, so you save a fiver.

Shopkins ‘Scoops’ Ice Cream Shop Playset

RRP: £19.99 | Cheapest deal: £19.99
Shopkins are collectible figures, and this playset lets the kids play with them in a new environment – namely, an ice cream truck.

We can’t find it for any less than the RRP. If you know where to get it for less, leave a comment at the bottom of the page.

LeapPad Platinum

RRP: £99.99 | Cheapest deal: £79.99

The LeadPad Platinum is a seven-inch Wi-Fi learning tablet which comes with a learning library and over one thousand educational resources such as games, books, videos and music. It also boasts a kid-safe web browser and enhanced parental controls.

Amazon and Smyth’s Toys are both selling it for £79.99 with free shipping, down 20 pounds on the RRP.

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