A city attraction where people pay to smash things up has revealed which item is the toughest to destroy - and it isn't what you'd expect.

Rage Rooms, in Dereham Road, has been letting people blow off steam through destruction since it opened in 2019.

Ahead of the opening of its bigger and better premises in Sprowston, staff at the firm have revealed a once-popular children's toy is a formidable foe for smasher-uppers.

Norwich Evening News: Furbys were popular with kids in the late 1990sFurbys were popular with kids in the late 1990s (Image: PA Wire)

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Manager Gemma Whiddett said: "We have so many different things to destroy, from televisions to office chairs.

"But by far the hardest items to smash to smithereens are children's toys as they are often made with plastic that is almost unbreakable.

"The toughest object so far has been a Furby toy, which took four men armed with a scaffolding pole ages to get through.

"it looked cute to start with but it was left looking pretty scary by the end."

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Norwich Evening News: Directors of the Rage Rooms, Nigel Spurling, (left), and Leighton Johnson (right) (Image: Newsquest)Directors of the Rage Rooms, Nigel Spurling, (left), and Leighton Johnson (right) (Image: Newsquest) (Image: Newsquest)

Rage Rooms are about to begin a new chapter at the empty Technology House in Roundtree Way in Sprowston, which is set to open on August 1. 

The new site will see the firm expand to a bigger and better space with more rooms and plans for a cafe in the future.

Ms Whiddett added: "We needed more space than what we have here.

"The new site will have multiple rooms for people to smash things up and it will even include a glass smashing alleyway.

"It is very much upgrading and we will gradually build on what we offer as we go through the year."

Norwich Evening News: The planned new home of the Rage Rooms in SprowstonThe planned new home of the Rage Rooms in Sprowston (Image: Google Maps)

All bookings at the current site will be transferred to the new location in Sprowston.

The 'rage room' concept began more than a decade ago in Paris, Texas and it went on to become a popular new attraction in the United States and Canada before the first rage rooms began to spring up in the UK in 2017.