Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined The Today Show to show the year’s hottest new toys and games. 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.


DESPICABLE ME 4 ULTIMATE FART BLASTER

This blaster comes loaded with two bottles of “fart formula.” Kids can blast banana- or fart-scented rings up to 6 feet away.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 6

HYDRAULIC BOXING BOTS

Kids can build two boxing robots that use hydraulic power to move with complex shoulder gestures, jabs, and uppercuts. The fighter who knocks back the opposing robot's head scores a point on the included scoreboard.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.95
  • Age:
  • 8+

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NHL RUSH INDOOR HOVER HOCKEY TABLE

This air hockey table is the ultimate rivalry two-player game, perfect for some family-friendly competition. Includes hockey pucks and paddles as well as autheitc arcade gameplay, stadium sounds, and automatic scoring. The goal of air hockey is to use the pushers to smash the pucks into your opponent's goal—while also defending your own “net.” First…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $124.99
  • Age:
  • 2+

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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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