Toy Insider Senior Editor/Toy Book Editor-in-Chief James Zahn joined Studio 40 on Fox in Sacramento to show off what’s trending in toyland 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.


SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS METALS CITY TRACK SET

Kids can race the included Spidey and Miles Amazing Metals vehicles down the 24-inch dual racetrack and through nine action zones. Along the way, Spidey and His Amazing Friends fans must escape the collapsing bridge, web swing, and more to save the city from the bad guys.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

RAINBOW HIGH COLOR & CREATE

These Rainbow High fashion dolls are dressed entirely in white and feature white hair. Kids can customize each doll using the six included washable markers, re-creating a Rainbow High character or designing their own.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99 EACH
  • Age:
  • 4+

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES MUTANT MAYHEM PIZZA FIRE VAN

This van opens from the front and the back, with room for four Turtles and Splinter (sold separately). Kids can activate the slide-out pizza launcher, which fires up to eight mini pizza pies.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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POKÉMON TCG MY FIRST BATTLE

Young trainers can get the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) experience through fast decks with simplified rules designed for beginners. Kids will learn the difference between active and benched Pokémon, how to attack and evolve, and more.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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SNACKLES SUPER SIZED 14-INCH SNACKLES

Satisfy cuddle cravings with these 14-inch plush. Each comes with an origin story comic to tell kids how their Snackle fell in love with its snack. Ranging in styles from Tabasco to Hershey's, there are 11 Super Sized Snackles to collect.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99 EACH
  • Age:
  • 3+

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ILY DIY 3D STICKER MAKER AND REFILL PACKS

Kids can make their own custom 3D stickers with sprinkles, glitter, and gem mix-ins. Includes one 3D sticker maker, 30 sticker blisters, 30 sticker backgrounds, 30 double-sided sticker adhesives, one sprinkle packet, two glitter packets, and 250 gems.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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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