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1. A Moose Match Mayhem card game (from the makers of Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza), where players must collect three bear, moose, or squirrel cards without drawing the dreaded yeti or avalanche. There's up to 10 minutes of playtime for the kiddos per game!
2. A dreadfully delightful Wednesday Addams doll (complete with Thing!) for the goth kid or Jenna Ortega fan in your life. Queue up The Cramps and reenact all those "Goo Goo Muck"-alicious dance moves.
3. A Stamp To Reveal set, which is kind of like paint-by-numbers, except there's no paint — just a stamper and cartridges filled with up to 1,800 dots. Kids can make some mess-free art of a frog, panda, or bunny (who's also a DJ).
4. A Razor A+ scooter because every kid needs a set of wheels, especially ones integrated with multicolor LED lights!
5. A brighter-than-ever Lite Brite Super-Bright HD Pokémon packed with 1,000 mini pegs to create six templates from Pikachus to Poké Balls. There are even four different light modes — steady, bounce, flash, and clockwise.
6. An indoor hover soccer set to help the youngins with their footy footwork by playing keep-away with friends and family. Works on almost all surfaces (including carpet), so kids won't have to go outside and get messy to be like Messi.
7. A Bitzee Disney interactive digital toy kids can actually touch and feel, as 30 different characters respond to swipes, tilts, shakes, and pets. It's taking the concept of the Tamagotchi to the next level!
8. A nearly 2-foot long Godzilla RC with a light-up spine that blasts "heat-ray breath" via water vapor. This killer kaiju can move forward, left, and right while its enormous tail can whip whatever's left in the back!
9. A personalized jewelry-making set to create up to 30 different bead-based accessories. There's just so much flair here for any kid to explore their own unique style.
10. An easy-to-store Little Tikes trampoline because sometimes kids just need to get the "zoomies" out, especially when going outdoors isn't an option. Let them "bounce it out" in the safety of your home!
11. A Stratego Classic board game with a new twist: female soldiers who just so happened to play an important role in the Napoleonic army. Also, new "Battle Cards" allow players to "gain special powers and place unexpected traps." Boom!
12. A 70-piece Educational Insights Build-A-Bot Workshop for burgeoning engineers and robot enthusiasts who can create and construct hundreds of combinations with the included kid-friendly tools.
13. A 25-pack of jumbo sidewalk chalk with a case and holder (so messy chalk doesn't get all over tiny hands) because nothing says time-consuming activity like creatively (and harmlessly) defacing neighborhood sidewalks and driveways with colorful doodles and graffiti.
14. A Nex Playground Active Play video game system that uses an AI-powered camera and motion learning system instead of sensors or wearables to sense natural hand gestures and movements. This is out-of-the-box fun right here, and easy for everyone to join in and play together.
15. A creepy, crawly, remote-controlled Hex Bots Wallcrawler Gecko with glowing LED eyes and a green silicone tail and limbs that'll scurry up, down, and all over the walls (and floors, too). It's perfect for pranks, too, because the remote works from up to 25 feet away!
16. A Goliath Moo Moo Achoo game because who wouldn't have an utterly fun time collecting all the cards before a bovine sneezes bubbles everywhere?
17. A pop-up LED light-up play tent that encourages kids to take off to new areas of imaginative and independent play (or just take a nap inside).
18. A Zombie Burrito party game where "survivors" battle "zombies" by collecting matching cards and (eventually) pelting their opponents with squishy burritos. It's food-fighting fun for kids and adults!
19. A Mega Cyborg Hand science kit that actually grips and can be built righty, lefty, or "center" for a claw-like appendage. Perfect for reenacting Avengers: Endgame moments!
20. A Kanoodle Ultimate Champion game, which is an updated version of the classic and now has 500 2D and 3D puzzles *and* a timer. It's also a great screen-free option for keeping the kiddos occupied in the waiting room at the doctor's office.
21. A Lego City Interstellar Spaceship, because according to a recent global study, "86% of kids are interested in finding new planets, stars, and galaxies." So Gen Alpha can continue building its galactic curiosity by building with bricks for years to come.
22. A classic Bop It! game where the objective is to, well, bop it, but also twist it or pull it, depending on what the game commands (at three different volume settings).
23. A Rubik's Cube Spider-Man Cuber, which puts a new "twists" on an old favorite. Once they've solved your cube, it then becomes the head to attach to the toy's body for display. Talk about a time occupier. Plus, it's Spidey!
24. A fairly affordable Sky Viper Nova Light Show Drone that lights up the night with 25+ light patterns and performs one-touch stunts like flips and barrel rolls. It also includes an extra set of four replacement propellers just in case they get dinged up.
25. A "Let's Hit Each Other With Fake Swords" party game, which bills itself as the "world’s first sword-fighting card game!" (You had us at sword fight!) Race to collect matching cards while resolving disputes through (you guessed it) foam sword fights.
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