Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined KABC in Los Angeles to show off the hot new toys kids will be asking for 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.  

BARBIE FAST CAST CLINIC PLAYSET

This set includes a Barbie doctor doll and four play areas: a medical station, an exam table, an X-ray machine, and a gift shop. Kids can use the cast-making feature and colored dough to make casts for their dolls. This set includes a Barbie doctor doll and four play areas: a medical station, an exam…

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  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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5 SURPRISE MINI BRANDS SERIES 3

The third series of 5 Surprise Mini Brands brings 100 new iconic shopping brands to miniature form. Every aspect of brands like Wholly Guacamole, PEZ, and ICEE Cups is replicated perfectly to scale. The third series of 5 Surprise Mini Brands brings 100 new iconic shopping brands to miniature form. Every aspect of brands like…

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  • MSRP:
  • $6.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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COMPOUND KINGS 5 STACK DONUT

Create custom slime compounds with this five-stack scented slime pack. Includes two colors of slime in different textures, shiny Tinselz, mix-ins, and charms. Create custom slime compounds with this five-stack scented slime pack. Includes two colors of slime in different textures, shiny Tinselz, mix-ins, and charms.

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  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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CANDY CLAW MACHINE

Build a working model of the classic arcade game. Learn how the gears, levers, belt, screws, hydraulics, linkages, cranks, and claws work together to pick up, move, and drop prizes. Includes 10 lollipops and decoys to grab. Build a working model of the classic arcade game. Learn how the gears, levers, belt, screws, hydraulics, linkages,…

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  • MSRP:
  • $39.95; $56 CAD
  • Age:
  • 6+

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CORNER CRUSH

In this game of memory and strategy, players can drop tokens into the rotating tower to score four in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. They can also play around the corners. The game features built-in storage. In this game of memory and strategy, players can drop tokens into the rotating tower to score four…

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  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 7+

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ARTIE MAX

Kids can have an immersive STEM experience as they create a variety of designs by plugging in code for Artie Max to draw with three colored pens. It features secure, private WiFi; a light-up mouth; LED eyes; emotive sounds; and edge detection. Kids can have an immersive STEM experience as they create a variety of…

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  • MSRP:
  • $109.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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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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