Lego has been voted Britain’s favourite toy almost 50 years after it first went on sale.

While the coloured bricks were the nation’s most popular toy since 1973 in an Argos survey, it was Scalextric that Britons always wanted but never got.

But Lego’s appeal is timeless, as it also appears in the Argos top 10 toys for 2008 list, along with another classic, the Rubik’s Cube.

But that’s where the nostalgia ends, as most of the other top 10 toys are hi-tech gadgets such as a light and sound watch, and an electronic touch-and-talk reading device.