TO celebrate the town's biggest toy store's 30th birthday, we're giving three lucky youngsters the chance to play with this year's top Christmas toys.
While the Warrington Toys 'R' Us store opened in 1988, many megastores across the country are marking three decades in 2015 selling 3 billion toys to 360 million customers.
Many adults will remember getting excited about the latest 'must-have' Christmas toys of the past whether it was Tamagotchis, Transformers or Thunderbirds which all feature in our 'toy timeline' below.
But now we want to give three youngsters aged seven to 10 from Warrington the chance to get a sneak peak of this year's top toys before Father Christmas loads up his sleigh.
Each winner will also get a £50 Toys 'R' Us voucher to spend in store and will appear in a future edition of the paper as we reveal the most popular presents for 2015.
For full details on how to enter the competition, pick up a copy of next week's Warrington Guardian.
But in the meantime here's a chance to reminisce with some of the best-selling toys from the past 30 years.
How many can you remember?
1985: Transformers
1986: Football stickers
1987: Sylvanian Families
1988: Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
1989: Batman
1990: Heroes in a half shell
1991: Aching thumbs after Gameboys came out
1992: Thunderbirds are go
1993: Were you a Barbie girl?
1994: It's morphin' time
1995: Pogs ensured a much cheaper Christmas
1996: Buzz Lightyear to the rescue
1997: Say 'Eh oh' to the Teletubbies
1998: Furby
1999: Who wants to be a millionaire board game
2000: Teksta
2001: Can he fix it?
2002: Bratz
2003: Beyblade
2004: RoboSap
2005: Tamagotchi returns
2006: Cybermen took over stores
2007: Dancing Iggle Piggle
2008: High School Musical
2009: Go Go Pet Hamsters
2010: Buzz returns
2011: LeapPads leapt off the shelves
2012: Skylander Giants
2013: Furby returns
2014: Do you wanna build a snowman?
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