ELC Happyland The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Set

Just is case it's passed you by, this June the Queen will be celebrating her Diamond Jubilee and to celebrate the Early Learning Centre have released a special edition Happyland set imaginatively titled The Queen's Jubilee Set. At £5 this is one of the cheapest Happyland sets available but it is also one of the hardest to get hold of. My nearest, physical ELC shop has had it in stock several times but sold out within days, while the website has also sold out on more than one occasion. Checking on Ebay, they are available there, but at highly inflated prices of up to £15, which in my opinion is ... more

I was very excited when I saw this Diamond Jubilee figurine set in The Early Learning Centre and had to get it for my little girl. I think The Early Learning Centre are really good at producing very topical toys, of course for them its a great money maker but I think it adds to the spirit of the time and the celebration and is a really nice way of including your kids in this country's history and a great way of teaching them about being patriotic and proud to be British. We purchased a Royal Wedding Happyland set last year and also a Great Britain set for the Olympics and so this Diamond ... more

As the majority of you out there must have noticed, this year was the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and so the shops were quite literally flooded with tacky merchandise for the gullible general public to spend their hard-earned cash on as manufacturers put Union Jacks on everything that moved or could be bought in a bid to make some kind of profit out of these worst of times! Early Learning Centre of course were no exception, releasing this notoriously hard to get hold of limited edition set of Happyland characters to coincide with the big event. Priced at just £5, or upwards to £20-£25 if you tried ... more