Toy Insider Senior Editor/Toy Book Editor-in-Chief James Zahn joined Good Day Alabama in Birmingham to show off the best gift ideas for everyone on your holiday shopping list, from toddlers to tweens. 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.


PLAYMOBIL 1.2.3. DISNEY: WINNIE AND PIGLET’S TREE HOUSE

Kids can train their fine motor skills by placing figures and objects, turning and moving tree elements and the swing, as well as opening and closing the door and planting flowers in this Winnie the Pooh-inspired building set. Sort the objects into the openings in the tree top and watch them slide back out at…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS.+

RC HOONIGAN 1:16 HOONICORN

Kids can Hoon around the house or driveway with this R/C car, which is modeled after the Hoonicorn. The car can hit up to 6 mph and is perfect for performing stunts.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $27.97
  • Age:
  • 6+

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MEGA POKÉMON CENTER

Create the Pokémon Center with this 648-piece building set, which comes with four buildable Pokémon figures: Pikachu, Chansey, Eevee, and Togepi. Once the set is built, kids can turn a crank to see the characters move.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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BEAST LAB

As kids add ingredients to this experiment-based playset, they'll activate sounds, lights, fizzing bubbles, and mist to unleash one of two beasts. When kids reset the beast or repeat the experiment, the beast can evolve with new ways to play.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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About the author

Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Director of Operations 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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