Toy Insider Senior Editor Maddie Michalik joined CP24 in Toronto to show off the hot new toys kids will be asking for this summer. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below. To learn more about the season’s best new toys, be sure to check out Toy Insider’s Spring and Summer Toy Guide.  

RYAN’S WORLD WORLD TOUR HOT AIR BALLOON

The Ryan's World World Tour Hot Air Balloon takes kids on a globetrotting adventure. Inside the hot air balloon-shaped case, kids will find 12 of the 80 available country-specific micro figures, a passport book, and a DLC card for the Tag with Ryan app. This product will be available exclusively at Target beginning March 1.…

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  • MSRP:
  • $29.99; $59.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 3+

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BLOCKAROO WINDMILL

Blockaroos were developed by teachers and are the easiest construction toy for preschoolers ever developed! Blockaroo Blocks are a new way to build. These soft foam magnetic blocks click together like magic, rotate 360-degrees, and always attract to each other, creating a multi-sensory experience. They also float which means that this unique construction toy doubles…

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  • MSRP:
  • $49.99; $69.99 CAN
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS.+

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GEOSAFARI JR. KIDSCOPE

Kids can examine 60 images on the 15 included slides with this real, scientific tool that features kid-friendly magnification, a rotating stage, a double-eye viewer, a focus knob, an LED light, and more. Kids can examine 60 images on the 15 included slides with this real, scientific tool that features kid-friendly magnification, a rotating stage,…

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  • MSRP:
  • $36.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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X-SHOT EPIC FAST FILL

  This blaster holds more than 5 cups of water and is nearly 21 inches long. Kids can fill the blaster in 1 second and shoot water up to 34 feet using four different nozzles. This blaster holds more than 5 cups of water and is nearly 21 inches long. Kids can fill the blaster…

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  • MSRP:
  • $14.99; $24.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 3+

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BIRTHDAY CAKE BATTER BUCKET

Birthday cake isn't only for birthdays — it's for playtime! Kids can stretch and squish this birthday-cake inspired compound and decorate it just like the dessert with sprinkle-like mix-ins for colorful and textured fun. Birthday cake isn't only for birthdays — it's for playtime! Kids can stretch and squish this birthday-cake inspired compound and decorate…

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  • MSRP:
  • $9.99; $22.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 4+

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KIDIZOOM CREATOR CAM

This kid-friendly camera features more than 20 animated backgrounds that set the stage for creative videos. It also includes on-screen editing capabilities and comes with a green screen and a tabletop tripod/selfie stick. This kid-friendly camera features more than 20 animated backgrounds that set the stage for creative videos. It also includes on-screen editing capabilities…

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  • MSRP:
  • $59.99; $79.99 CAD
  • 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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