Toy Insider Senior Editor/Toy Book Editor-in-Chief James Zahn joined Fox 45 in Baltimore to show off the hot toys kids will be asking for 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.


PIÑATA SMASHLINGS PIÑATA BOX

Each of these four collectible piñatas comes complete with a piñata stick, a redeemable QR code that enables exclusive DLC content in Roblox, and two Smashlings, one of which is hidden inside the piñata.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99

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FISHER-PRICE LAUGH & LEARN MIX & LEARN DJ TABLE

This interactive, educational activity table features a piano with three ways to play, plus 12 fine motor activities and three Smart Stages learning levels to keep babies engaged as they grow.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $44.99
  • Age:
  • 9 MOS+

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POKÉMON SCARLET & VIOLET 151 ELITE TRAINER BOX

This expansion features all original 151 Pokémon from the Kanto region, re-imagined in Paldea. Includes nine Scarlet & Violet — 151 booster packs, a Snorlax illustration rare-style promo card, accessories, and a collector's box.

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  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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JURASSIC PARK REAL FX BABY T. REX

Jurassic Park fans can bring this T. rex to life in multiple ways. The movie-scale baby dinosaur features an internal special FX pistol-grip controller mechanism concealed by an authentic Ranger's faux leather handling glove.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79
  • Age:
  • 7+

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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 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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