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IT’S THAT TIME of year again – get ready to light the fire, draw the curtains, and forget about the cold and dark for a few hours: the Late Late Toy Show is coming.
More than 200 performers and demonstrators in this year’s show, the theme of which is to be loosely based on the movie Shrek. A spectacular performance of the hit song from the film will open the show, according to RTÉ.
The show will feature a special toy section to cater for children living in apartments, with Aston and Kayleigh – who featured in the RTÉ documentary Apartment Kids – advising viewers about toys that work in small spaces.
The more sentimental among us will be pleased to hear that some old favourites. like the Cabbage Patch Kids and Furby, are back in vogue. Meanwhile, 007 will features with a special section on gadget toys with RTÉ’s very own James Bond, Anton Giltrap from Co Kildare.
As usual, Irish-made toys of great value will feature toy testers (ranged in age from 4 – 11) will chat to Ryan about the best books around.
The Toy Show team has also put together some supergroups who will be performing well-known hits on the night.
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I love it every year, but we will new watching it alone as the little ones are all grown up now and one is off dancing, one thinks its not cool and the eldest has flown the nest, but they will all return one day when they have kids of there own and I have lots of grandchildren to fill my sofa on that special friday night…….
Every year it has its critics…. Pat Kenny was too boring, Ryan Tubridy is too hyper, bring back Gaybo but every year so many of us watch it and I for one love it. Going to cuddle up on the sofa with the kids like I did with my parents and I know my kids will do the same with their kids. Christmas starts here.
Spot on Tricia ! Gaybo is definitely the man for it
Not interested. Its all about Tubridy. He even trys to outshine the kids instead of giving them their moment in the sun. Its supposed to be about toys and kids, not that overpaid prat.
Hear
Hear
An overpaid, taxpayer paid Prat at that.
He gives me the willies.
I love it! But I miss Mr Frosty. I don’t know what most of these toys are about. I want to see mossy from mullingar giving battleship 9/10 and taking away one point cause “it was good but it wasn’t as good as mr frosty”
I’ll be watching it in Spain
Can’t wait……. for January bah humbug.
Spectacular performance??
Will Tubridy not be presenting it this year??
Now that would be spectacular.
love the toy show but starts at 9.35 ?? my kids usually fall asleep half way tru and miss most of it ..
How do you a ticket for the toy show? I have tried and failed miserably. Is the audience full of RTE ‘stars’ friends and family? I’m sure readers of the Journal.ie would like to know. It’s worth taking a look into. Can the Journal find out just how these prized toy show tickets are shared, after all the licence payer foots part of the bill here.
Just rang RTE’s main switchboard number and was told that you have to apply online for the tickets. However, you do not receive even an automated acknowledgment. I was told the tickets are allocated evenly, which is not true since I know a RTE ‘star’ who obtained 3 tickets for relations for a Late Late Show recently. I’m sure the bulk of this audience tonight is made up if just that, friends & family of the cosy circle within RTE. For what it’s worth, the RTE receptionist was like a rabbit in headlights when I posed the question just how are these toy show tickets allocated. After some flipping and flapping she took my number and told me someone from the Late Late show press office will ring me back.
That’s ireland fir you Declan… The land of back sctratchers.
Declan you have to apply online at the start of every series for tickets. Its then a lottery on which show you get. Obviously the Toy Show is the one everyone wants due to the caliber of prizes given away. I’d imagine there are some tickets given to family and friends but i would doubt the majority are made up of them. Conspiracy de-bunked. (My parents were in audience last year- and applied for tickets normally in September)
Fair point, but I would like to know the following:
Just exactly how are the late late toy show tickets allocated?
You mentioned by way of a lottery, how exactly does that process work?
Has any member of RTE staff received tickets for family & friends for the Late late toy show?
Has any family members kids ever appeared on the late late toy show either as a performer or toy demonstrator?
Is the lottery independently verified by say, KPMG?
Who is it that decides to distribute the ticket lottery. Is it tasked to one or more person/people?
I sense another costly tribunal coming Declan….
Ah look at him there in his Christmas jumper… he’s worth the 600K you pay him… isn’t he? What a wildly talented presenter.
Just wish I did not have to listen/look at Ryan turnip… They should get in a special presenter for that night only cause I would never watch the late late shambles at any other time.
Yawn! Can’t think of anything worse than a load of commercial expensive rubbish being touted by his nibs…
God, that’s awful what I said – he seems like a really nice guy but I don’t enjoy his show…
You take your meds today, pet?
cant wait my boy is nearly 6 and is just at the rite age to enjoy it with me and his dad and little sister popcorn at the ready yeaaaa
wonder if that missing snowman from Wicklow will suddenly re emerge
I am thinking of all the parents who cannot afford to buy these kind of toys for Christmas – Thinking of the real meaning of Christmas and how it’s being reduced to a sickly promotion show. Thinking of children watching and hoping for something that will not fill the void of being seperated from a parent and who basically only crave to be wanted and cherished. Thinking of show masters hopping around like fools as part of the media indoctrination job. No, definately won’t be watching this one- best regards.
Something very celtic tigery about the fact it’s called the toy show rather than the christmas show. Not a great message to kids.
It was always called the toy show
It was The Toy Show in the 70s and 80s when things were as bad, if not worse, than. now. We watched and marvelled without the sense of entitlement that Tiger parents raised their cubs with.
I’m 21 and I’ll be tuning in… Wouldn’t miss it for the world! :)
Over 400,000 unemployed,Ryan Tubridy is not one of them…There is no Santa :-)
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