Looking to get the year’s hottest toys for the kids on your holiday shopping list? Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Ali Mierzejewski stopped by CBS in Cleveland to show off the hot toys on every kids’ wish list. 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.

PROJEX

ProjeX turns any room into an incredible gaming arcade! Kids can project crisp graphic images onto any blank wall and enjoy real-life gaming, without the limitations of a screen! Features three interchangeable image slides – each with unique sound effects: Blast ducks, targets, or UFOs. Play solo, compete for the highest score, or in "Co-Op"…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • 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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ORB FLOWTONIA

Mold! Stretch! Flow! The play possibilities are endless! It's like magic! ORB Flowtonia “Flows From Solid To Fluid In Seconds'! It's Scented! It Sparkles! It's silky smooth! It's mesmerizing – stretch it and watch its magical strands flow in the most enchanting magical motion. Packaged in a unique, fun, zany, whimsically themed shaped storage container,…

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  • MSRP:
  • $4.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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SCRUFF-A-LUVS REAL RESCUE

These interactive pets arrive as a ball of matted fur, shivering and whimpering. Kids then bathe and groom the pet to reveal a puppy or kitten. Has more than 30 lifelike features, including a heartbeat.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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FISHER-PRICE IMAGINEXT DC SUPER FRIENDS TRANSFORMING BATMOBILE R/C

Kids can use the remote control to drive the vehicle, then turn the Power Pad to watch it transform into battle mode with awesome lights, sound effects, and projectiles. Includes a Batman figure and four projectile disks. Kids can use the remote control to drive the vehicle, then turn the Power Pad to watch it…

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  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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Y’ART

Kids can create textile art with yarn by threading the Y'Art pen and coloring in the numbered areas of the pre-printed canvases. The yarn clings to the Grip-N-Stick Y'Artboard, and kids can easily lift the yarn and reposition it at any time. Kids can create textile art with yarn by threading the Y'Art pen and…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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TOY STORY 4 BUZZ LIGHTYEAR STAR COMMAND CENTER

Play in Launch Mode (upright) or Flight Mode (horizontal) with this command center, featuring working microphones with an intercom, moveable targets, blaster buttons, a joystick with trigger action, sound and light effects, and a converting console panel. Play in Launch Mode (upright) or Flight Mode (horizontal) with this command center, featuring working microphones with an…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $119.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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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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