We've all seen '90 festive classic Jingle All the Way in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a doting father who vows to get his son the Turbo Man action figure for Christmas - and the chaos that ensues when supplies run short.
While the movie's a work of Hollywood fiction, the premise is very much inspired by the real-life rigmarole that has faced generations of Glasgow parents desperate to secure the must-have toy of the festive season for their weans.
The situation remains bad today but it was even worse back in the days before the internet. Down the decades there have been loads of examples of popular toys that were capable of making or breaking your household's Christmas depending whether or not "Santa" managed to pick up the item in question.
