Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined Good Morning Arizona to show off the best toy ideas for shoppers looking to make a big splash 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 gifts of the holiday season, check out our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.


GLOW BUMPER CAR

Tots and preschoolers can spin 360 degrees with joystick controls at a speed of 1 mph. There are three included light modes to glow during the day or night.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $99.00
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS+

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CREATOR 3-IN-1 T. REX

Travel back in time for fun-filled adventures with 3 amazing dinosaur figures. Build a fearsome T. rex with its large teeth and powerful body. For more dinosaur action, you can rebuild the model into a triceratops with its spiked crest and 3 horns, or a pterodactyl with its large wings to soar into the sky.…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 9+

REAL FX DISNEY STITCH

With blinking eyes, a moving mouth, and sensors on his head and face, this Stitch responds to kids’ touch. It has more than 100 action and sound combinations.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ECHOES OF WISDOM

It’s up to Zelda to save Hyrule by solving puzzles and using new magical abilities as strange rifts start appearing throughout the kingdom.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 10+

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BUILD GAME BOX MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION KIT

Build Game Box includes an easy-to-follow path to creation. | Source: Build Game Box

Build Game Box has everything kids need to create their own digital or physical games. | Source: Build Game Box

Build Better Games | Source: Build Game Box

Build Game Box is a monthly subscription game-design-in-a-box kit that includes everything needed to create digital and desktop games. Each monthly kit features core mechanics, print instructions, blank board and box to design, game pieces, brainstorm blind bag, and QR code to digital tools and instruction. Covering a full range of game design topics, each…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59
  • Age:
  • 13+

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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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