Toys play an important role in children's lives. Most parents are willing to spend a lot of money to buy new toys to help their child's physical and mental skills. Children also like to ride bicycles, make puzzles or have fun with computer games in their spare time.
NPD.com reports that in the United States, toy purchases in 2016 increased by about five percent to $ 20.4 billion. AOL.com also reports that the Toy Industry Institute said in a study that the average amount of money parents spend on their child in the United States is about $ 6,500. The most popular children's toy in the study was Lego or house building.
The most expensive toy in history is now a dollhouse; But this toy is very different from other dollhouses. Astolat Dollhouse Castle has 29 rooms, a swimming pool and a gym with a special design and architecture.
1- Astolat Dollhouse Castle
$ 8.5 million
Doll Palace
The most expensive toy in the world is this doll palace. The exquisite architecture, creativity, sculpture and delicate engineering of this house has resulted in a staggering price of $ 8.5 billion. It is a seven-story dollhouse with a swimming pool and gym on the ground floor and a kitchen, storage room, several halls, stairs and a music room, a library and several rooms on the upper floors. It took about 13 years to make this toy.
2- Bird Trainer (L'Oiseleur)
$ 6.25 million
Bird Trainer
This doll is about 121 cm and Frenchwoman Christine Bailey worked on it for more than 15,000 hours. The doll is dressed in the style of Renaissance and uses gold and pearls. 2 pairs of singing birds, flute and sword are the doll's accessories. He takes the flute doll to his mouth and plays a song.
3- Madame Alexander Eloise
$ 5 million
Madame Alexander
What would you do if you had $ 5 million? Are you buying a house or a car or starting a new business? Or do you buy Madame Alexander Elliott dolls? The reason why this doll is expensive is that it uses about 9 carats of diamonds and the doll designer has used Swarovski jewelry, Katherine Bowman accessories and Christian Dior clothes.
4- Lamborghini Aventador Model Car
$ 4.6 million
Lamborghini
You can buy a Lamborghini for about $ 380,000; But the toy is priced at $ 4.6 million. This model is one-eighth the size of a real Lamborghini and is made of gold, diamonds and platinum.
5- Shimansky Soccer Ball
$ 2.59 million
Soccer ball
You can not play with this soccer ball because it weighs more than 2,100 kg. The ball was covered with 3,500 diamonds and was made for the 2010 World Cup.
6- Louis Vuitton Teddy Bear
$ 2.1 million
Louis Vuitton Bear
Doll bears are one of the most popular toys for children. The German maker of the teddy bear, Steve, sold it to a Korean at an auction in Monaco in 2000 for about $ 2.1 million. Gold, diamonds, fine fur and sapphire are used for the eyes in this doll. The doll is now housed in the Doll Bear Museum in South Korea.
7- Golden Monopoly
$ 2 million
Monopoly
This game has about 18 carats of gold and is covered with jewelry. Production of the game began in 1988 and lasted a year.
8- The Masterpiece Cube (The Masterpiece Cube Rubik's Cube)
$ 1.5 million
Rubik
This rubik is fully functional and its parts are made of precious stones such as ruby, emerald and pomegranate.
9- Gold Rocking Horse
$ 600,000
Golden Horse
Japanese goldsmith Ginza Tanaka made this horse with 24 carats of gold for the Prince of Japan, Hisahito, in 2016. Beyoncé and Jay-Z later bought the horse for $ 600,000 for their daughter.
10- Stefano Canturi Barbie or Diamond Barbie
$ 302,500
Barbie
Australian designer Stefano Canturi has created the most expensive Barbie in the world. The necklace around this Barbie neck is made of one carat pink diamond and is worth about $ 300,000. The doll was sold at auction in 2010 to help with breast cancer research.
They are really expensive, but I think it's fair.