Looking for the inside scoop on the hottest toys of the holidays? Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht stopped by Fox & Friends to give a sneak peek at this year’s hottest toys. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best toys of the holiday season, be sure to check our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.

HARRY POTTER INVISIBILITY CLOAK

Budding Wizards and Muggles can appear to disappear. Using the cloak's green screen technology and the free Wow! Stuff app, wearers can recreate the excitement of the invisibility illusion from the Harry Potter films. Budding Wizards and Muggles can appear to disappear. Using the cloak's green screen technology and the free Wow! Stuff app, wearers…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99-69.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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CRAZY CART SHIFT

The all new Crazy Cart Shift delivers the intense fun and excitement of driving and drifting to kids as young as six years old! It features a simplified drift system, a smaller and lighter frame, and a speed control switch that lets you decide the maximum speed for your child – 8 mph in the “HIGH”…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $199.99; $289.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 6+

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JUNO MY BABY ELEPHANT

Kids train and play with the animated elephant, which makes more than 150 lifelike movements and sounds. Feed Juno a peanut to see it react, teach it tricks, and play games with the included mouse toy. Kids train and play with the animated elephant, which makes more than 150 lifelike movements and sounds. Feed Juno…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $99.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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MYLA THE MAGICAL UNICORN

This interactive unicorn comes with a wand kids can touch to the butterfly palette to choose a color, then apply it to Myla's eyes, wings, and horn. Plus, sing a duet using the microphone, braid Myla's mane, and more.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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TREASURE X ALIENS 

Embark on an exciting space adventure to rescue your treasure hunter – cutting, digging and dissecting them from one of three different alien bodies – and find out if your package includes the rare prize of a real space gem.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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About the author

Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Business Operations Manager at Adventure Media & Events, where he's worked since 2014. A former editor at Playbill and graduate of SUNY–Purchase, he spends most weekends rooting for the New York Red Bulls pro soccer team and making subway systems out of Brio trains with his little boy Jonah.

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