Self - Presenter: The very first top ten list of the year's most wanted toys included the hoop, the ball, the piece of wood and the runaway best seller for 700 years the pig's bladder on a stick. In the years after World War Two, rationing lead to a national shortage of pigs bladders. As the shortage bit and the children of Britain turned instead to unexploded bombs as playthings, toy manufacturers were forced to come up with safer alternatives.
