This holiday season, gross is good. Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Marissa DiBartolo stopped by CBS in San Diego to show off some of the greatest gross toys that kids will absolutely love this holiday season. 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.
POOPAROOS SURPRISEROOS TOILET SURPRISE (MATTEL)
- These super cute toilets are full of surprises that make potty play a laughing blast!
- For your first exciting treat, open the toilet seat to see which squishy, cute figure hides inside.
- It could be a purple or blue Bunny, a Panda, a pink Bear, a white Unicorn, a blue or yellow Monster, or a Corgi dog.
- For surprise number two, lift the tank and find three magical paper packs. Put water in the bowl, drop a paper in, stir with the included scoop and see the paper dissolve before your eyes to reveal your pet’s food!
- Scoop it out, feed your Pooparoos figure, sit him on the potty and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze – he’ll poop his food in the toilet!
- Trendy food surprises include cupcakes, hotdogs, macaroons, donuts and colorful piles of poo! the fun never ends because you can eat, squeeze, and go again and again!
- Store your whimsically cute Pooparoos figure in the toilet and its food in the tank until it’s time to poop and play again.
- Ages: 4+
- MSRP: $9.88
- Available: Amazon, Walmart
- Who’s in your Poop Troop?! From giggle-worthy poop monsters to creations like the famous emojis, kids can create a rainbow of their own hilarious Play-Doh characters.
- Use the poo mold, tools, and Play-Doh colors to create your character’s body.
- Grab the eyes, arms, mouths, and other accessories and plug them in different places to make all kinds of silly faces.
- Mix them up for a giggling good time again and again, and don’t forget to clean up after yourself!
- Includes 2 ears, 2 pairs of arms, 4 sets of eyes, 3 noses, hat, poo mold, decorating tool with rail, knife, roller, and 12 cans of Play-Doh Brand Modeling Compound.
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $14.99
- Available: Amazon, Target, Walmart
- No one knows what a fart looks like, but now they will—if they dare to open one of these bombs!
- Stink Bomz are a line of fun, collectible plush characters full of surprises.
- Each character makes three unique sounds and has their own distinct smell!
- Collect all eight characters, and keep an eye out for the two special rare versions.
- A full roll-out of 60 more characters is planned!
- Ages: 6+
- MSRP: $9.99
- Available: Amazon, Walmart, Target, GameStop, Specialty Stores, TOMY.com
WHAT’S THAT SMELL (WOWWEE)
- What’s That Smell? is the hilariously fragrant new guessing game that will throw your sense of smell into overdrive.
- Guess the scents correctly to outrank your competition or suffer the stinky consequences of the Whiff of Shame!
- The game includes 48 Mystery Whiff Cards and four Stank Cards and scent-barrier bags.
- The winner—aka “Nose-it-All”—gets to pick a player of their choice to suffer the Whiff of Shame: Three Big Whiffs of one of the four outrageously stinky Stank Cards including: Extra Old Toe Cheese, Diaper Blowout, Hot Chunky Vomit, or Smothered in B.O.!
- For added fun, capture the loser’s recoiling face in super slow motion using the ReekCam available in the free What’s That Smell app!
- Ages: 14+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Amazon, Target
- Snot It is the gross game of boogey fun! To start, each player puts on a pair of snot glasses with icky sticky snot dripping from them
- When it’s your turn, spin the spinner to find out which color boogers you need to try to pick up from the booger bowl
- Wind up the booger bowl and let it spin—then try to pick up the right boogers using only your sticky snot! You only get to keep your boogers if you pick up exactly what you spun.
- Beware the purple boogers! If someone accidentally picks one up, everyone has to yell “SNOT IT!” as quick as they can. The first player to yell keeps the purple booger, while the last player must return one of their boogers to the bowl
- The first player to collect 10 boogers wins!
- Ages: 6+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Amazon
STICKY THE PLUNGER + STICKY THE POO (HOG WILD)
- Something sticky is about to go down! Introducing Sticky the Plunger, new from Hog Wild!
- This plumber’s helper has a sticky surface and moldable middle that “splats” and sticks to any flat surface – even walls and doors!
- Simply grip the handle, throw and… WHAP! To detach once stuck, pull the plunger stick and you’re ready to throw it again.
- Sold separately, Sticky the Poo is available in three different faces.
- Ages: 4+
- MSRP: $5.99-$7.99
- Available: Amazon, Walmart
