Looking for the holiday season’s hottest new tech toys? Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht stopped by NBC in Chicago to show off some of the best new tech toys that 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.

HEXBUG BATTLEBOTS BUILD YOUR OWN BOT

With the HEXBUG BattleBots Build Your Own Bot, kids can customize the armor and weapons that you use to fight your opponent. They can collect all of the accessory packs to unlock new strategies and choose between flipping, spinning, chopping, and smashing weapons to arm themselves with various pieces of armor. With the HEXBUG BattleBots…

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  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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MIX & MATCH-A-SAURUS

Kids can learn about feelings as Mix & Match-a-Saurus sings and dances to ballet, hip-hop, and marching band music. Kids can insert nine different tiles into its back for different play modes. Kids can learn about feelings as Mix & Match-a-Saurus sings and dances to ballet, hip-hop, and marching band music. Kids can insert nine…

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  • MSRP:
  • $34.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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LASER X MORPH

Kids can use both blasters in a traditional game of Laser X, or they play three built-in games using one of the units as a target and the other as a blaster. The blasters shoot up to 300 feet away. Kids can use both blasters in a traditional game of Laser X, or they play…

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  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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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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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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