Toy Insider Media Correspondent Deborah Stallings Stumm joined KCAL in Los Angeles to show off hot toys for shoppers of every budget. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best gifts of the holiday season, check out our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.


FOODIE MINI BRANDS SERIES 2 CAPSULE BY ZURU

Kids can discover replicas of their favorite fast food brands in miniature versions. There are more than 95 miniatures to collect, including rare gold and ultra-rare frozen moments.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $8.49
  • Age:
  • 3+

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RUBIK’S COACH CUBE

Kids can learn how to solve the classic puzzle with the Rubik's Coach Cube, which comes with an improved solving methodology. Budding cubers will gain confidence and learn by peeling off the numbered stickers for each of the eight steps.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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CRAFT YOUR OWN POMPOM PURSE

This kit includes everything kids need to make their own fluffy, ombre purse. The purse is big enough to hold multiple items and kids can style it cross-body or handheld.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $17.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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TINKERTAR

Created by musicians Brian Calhoun, Dave Matthews, and John Alagia, this one-string melody maker is made of sustainable, responsibly sourced wood. Use the included 15-song songbook and colored and numbered finger positions to learn beginner guitar.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $24.99 EACH
  • Age:
  • 3+

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FURBY

Kids can speak to Furby to activate more than 600 responses in Dance Party, Copy Cat, Tell My Fortune, Let's Chill, and Lightshow modes. Furby comes with clip-on beads and fashion accessories that kids can also wear.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $69.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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AIR TOOBZ

This STEM-based set features a kid-safe turbine that sends foam balls flying through a network of modular tubes and connectors that kids can arrange however they'd like for fun and educational experimentation.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $139.95
  • Age:
  • 3+

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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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