This holiday season, spend more time playing and less time assembling your kids’ toys. Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Marissa DiBartolo stopped by Fox 13 in Seattle to show off some great new toys that are ready to go right out of the box. 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.
RESCUE RUNTS UNICORN (KD KIDS)
- Rescue Runts are adoptable pets that you rescue, groom & love!
- Find the Unicorn Rescue Runt EXCLUSIVELY in-store at Walmart!
- Care for your rescue unicorn to take them from Ragged runt to perfect pet.
- Use the included grooming kit to pick out Fleas, clean their hooves, wipe their tears and brush their fur!
- Clean them up again and again! Unicorn’s messy fur, downturned ears, dirty hooves and bandage can be restored for repeated rescue play.
- Adopt the unicorn and all four Rescue Runts puppies to give them a home to call their own!
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Walmart in-store exclusive
OFF-ROAD ATTAK (MAISTO INTERNATIONAL)
- Hobby styling and performance in a monstrous package!
- Full-color printed, vacuformed truck body.
- Wide, aggressive stance, and beefy, off-road tires, the Off-Road Attak is ready for anything.
- Approximately 14.5-inches long and 14-inches wide!
- Ready to run – batteries are included.
- 2.4 GHz for top performance..
- Up to 4 players can drive at one time and place (with their own vehicles).
- 115 foot (35 meter) control range.
- Pro-style controller with proportionate speed control.
- Rapid electronic battery charger included.
- Steering alignment adjustment.
- Vehicle uses 6.4V Lithium rechargeable battery included.
- Controller uses 2AA batteries included.
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $60
- Available: Amazon, Target, Walmart
FLYING SUSHI KITCHEN (REDWOOD VENTURES)
- Roll into the new Flying Sushi Kitchen action game from RedwoodVentures! Whether you love sushi or not – Flying Sushi Kitchen is sure to cause a ruckus at kitchen tables everywhere.
- Flying Sushi Kitchen puts your competitive skills to the test as you pluck pieces of floating sushi rolls from mid-air, which stream from the bamboo shoots, in a mad dash scramble to fill your sushi order and rack up enough tickets to beat the competition.
- Use the special, kid-friendly chopsticks to fill your order before time runs out. Add a little wasabi and ginger, don’t miss the spicy tuna roll, nab that smoked salmon, and hurry!
- Flying Sushi Kitchen includes bamboo shoots, sushi rolls, and chopsticks for 5 players.
- Batteries not included.
- Ages: 5+
- MSRP: $24.99
- Available: Walmart
SOFT’N SLO SQUISHIES VELVET (ORB)
- Soft’n Slo Squishies Velvet are covered in super duper luxuriously velvety soft layer.
- Squeeze and watch your Soft’n Slo Squishies Velvet slowly rise!
- The Squishies come in six varieties: Bear Cone, MerKitty, Kitty Cone, Teacup Bear, Narwhal, and Cat Donut.
- Ages: 8+
- MSRP: $9.99
- Available: Target
TOILET PAPER BLASTER SKID SHOT 30 (JAKKS PACIFIC)
- Uses real toilet paper.
- Blasts up to 30 feet!
- Easy to use: load the toilet paper; add water, lock & load. Fire!
- Includes a single blaster.
- Ages: 8+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, BuyBuy Baby, GameStop, Target, Walmart
ZINGSPORTZ AIR STORM Z-TEK BOW (ZING)
- The Air Storm Z-Tek Bow is the ultimate “parent-approved” foam bow and arrow combo!
- The Z-Tek Bow features a sleeker shape, storage ammo clips located right on the bow, and lower profile bungee cords that deliver launching distances more than 100 feet.
- Just hook the Zonic screaming whistle arrow into the fast-load loops, then pull back and it’s “Ready, Aim, Fire!”
- Set up some cans for target practice, or shoot against a wall for bounce-back action!
- Zartz Suction-cup Arrows stick to almost anything and each arrow is safe for indoor or outdoor play.
- Each comes with two Zonic screaming whistle arrows and one Zartz Suction Cup Arrow.
- Ages: 14+
- MSRP: $19.99
- Available: Target, Walmart
- Canada: CAD $29.99, Walmart, Toys “R” Us, Mastermind Toys, Indigo
CINCO LINKO (CARDINAL GAMES/BIG POTATO)
- Cinco Linko is a super-simple five-in-a-row tile game that you can clip to your bag and play on the go, no matter where you’re headed.
- With no game board required, any flat surface can be your playing field
- Just choose a color, grab your stack, and take turns laying down tiles side-by-side until someone manages to get five-in-a-row of their color, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
- Run out of tiles? Well, that just means you’ll have to pick up the ones you’ve already placed and reposition them one by one until you manage to sneak your line of five past the other players.
- Cinco Linko comes with 60 tiles (15 pink, 15 yellow, 15 green, 15 orange). The tiles stack easily onto four included racks that clip together to keep the game together on the go.
- Designed for two to four players
- Ages: 8+
- MSRP: $9.99
- Available: Walmart
