Looking for a great birthday gift for a special child in your life? Toy Insider Senior Editor Jackie Cucco stopped by News 12 to show off some great gifts to make the best birthday ever. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best toys of the holiday season, be sure to check our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.

HAIRDORABLES DOLLS SERIES 3

Each doll comes in blind packaging with 11 surprises inside, including a hair tool that kids can use to color, crimp, or curl the doll's hair. Series 3 features new themes and pop-up backgrounds. Each doll comes in blind packaging with 11 surprises inside, including a hair tool that kids can use to color, crimp,…

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  • MSRP:
  • $12.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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POP POPS

Pop Pops Pets and Pop Pops Snotz combine bubble wrap popping, slime, and collectible figures. Kids can pop the slime-filled bubbles to find hidden characters, with 60 to discover and collect in each series. Pop Pops Pets and Pop Pops Snotz combine bubble wrap popping, slime, and collectible figures. Kids can pop the slime-filled bubbles…

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  • MSRP:
  • $7.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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POP POPS SNOTZ SLAMMER HAMMER

Kids can smash Pop Pops bubbles, store Pop Pop Snotz characters in the included compartments, and use the handle like a syringe to suck up and squirt slime with this multi-purpose tool.

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  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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HARRY POTTER INVISIBILITY CLOAK

Budding Wizards and Muggles can appear to disappear. Using the cloak's green screen technology and the free Wow! Stuff app, wearers can recreate the excitement of the invisibility illusion from the Harry Potter films. Budding Wizards and Muggles can appear to disappear. Using the cloak's green screen technology and the free Wow! Stuff app, wearers…

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  • MSRP:
  • $59.99-69.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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VENDEES

Unwrap the dispenser and open the different pull tabs and compartments to unveil six surprises, including stickers and scrunchies. Then, get creative with DIY activities, from creating custom lip balm to painting ceramic figures. Unwrap the dispenser and open the different pull tabs and compartments to unveil six surprises, including stickers and scrunchies. Then, get…

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  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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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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