I had this as a child and to be honest its not changed much, so when I seen it in Argos for a bargan price of £9.99, I picked it up for my little cousins fifth birthday, which was approaching.

It comes in sturdy plastic, and is brightly coloured, making it enderaing to children, before even considering the sweets.

It has several compartment and two jar for placing sweets and lollipops in, which come supplied with the toy, and when they run out, you can simply top it up from the local supermarket.

It has a set of working scales, although they are only number and do not way in metric weights, so if the intention was to teach children measurement and weight, it failed. It also has a mini till, which includes play money( agreat aid, for children learning to count).

It may seem a bit ironic, when trying to encourage healthy eating to have toys like this, but I feel that children should be children, and sweets are a big part of childhood. Alternatively though, you could when time to replace finished sweets comes, replace them with sugar free varieties.

My younger cousin spends hours playing with this, and ropes all his visitors into playing sweet shops with him, it has even brought him and his older sister closer together as she also enjoys playing it with him.

The packaging states, that this toy is not suitable for children under 3 years due to the inclusion of small parts.

So all in all, its nice to see a toy still available on the market that hasn't changed much over the years.