Oct. 3, 2025

This Year's Top Christmas Toys

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The New York Post highlights this year's hot toys, including Hasbro Connect Four Frenzy and American Girl's Truly Me Doll. A new movie, 'A Wisconsin Christmas Pie,' featuring Katie Laki and Ryan Carns, is set to release on October 9th. Rock band Striper is releasing a new Christmas album titled 'The Greatest Gift of All' on November 21st. In the UK, Buckingham Palace will host a Christmas pop-up store offering royal-themed gifts and treats from November 14th through January 5th. Lastly, a woman named Cassie enjoys keeping her Christmas decorations up year-round, celebrating the magic and joy it brings.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news Christmas stories. Let's take a look at what might

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be the hot toys this Christmas. The New York Post

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tells us the best game is Hasbro Connect four Frenzy.

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Not really sure what it is, but it's like Connect

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four on its side. They're also into the American Girl

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Truly Me doll, a little more customizable than in the Passion.

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Can get a doll that looks somewhat similar to you,

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while not fully customizable. There are a variety of dolls

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styles to choose from, with different hairstyles, colors, eye colors,

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skin tones, and outfits. One hundred and thirty five bucks

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on Amazon. Who know Golf, pop Mart, the monsters. These

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are some labooboo things. I'm not messing with that. Do

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you know about these things? The Post reminds us, depending

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on whom you ask, la booboos are either creepy or cute,

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but they're definitely collectible. Here we have the Just Play

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for Real Cocoa, The Tumbling Panda. It's a panda and

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it kind of tumbles.

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That's fun. The Spinmaster, Jurassic World Primal Hatch, that's right,

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dinosaur fans will love hatching their own t rex and

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then training and playing with it to help it grow

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from baby to adult. Do we want an adult dinosaur

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running around the house. I'm not sure that's a good idea.

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This is back the v Tech Turn and Learn driver,

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one of those plastic steering wheels with like blinkers and

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windshield wipers. I had this in like nineteen seventy four.

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This to encourage es pretend play as baby's press buttons,

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turn the steering wheel and are introduced to early learning content.

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I had this or something a lot like it fifty

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years ago. Wow, well, let's do one more. It's the

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Bluey Supermarket. You can play out the fun of grocery

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shopping with Bluey and Bingo. It includes Bluey and Bingo figures,

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plus a kid powered escalator, and you can wonder how

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did everything get so expensive? Here in the supermarket. Cassie

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doesn't care that you're upset that she put her Christmas

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tree up in early September. She says, it's the magic

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for me. This is like a sacred room to me.

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We come in and we watch movie together. It's a

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happy place for us. Who's up to her? She should

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keep Christmas decorations up all year. And in case you're curious,

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they still celebrate Halloween. She says, we do all the pumpkins.

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We're just surrounded by Christmas at the same time, The

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movie previously titled A Cherry Pie Christmas has a new title.

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It is now called A Wisconsin Christmas Pie. That'll be

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out October ninth. You'll find that one on Great American

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Pure Flicks. A Wisconsin Christmas Pie stars Katie Leclerk and

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Ryan Carnes and tells the homespun story of a Chicago

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pastry chef who returns to her small town roots in

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Door County during the holidays and must decide between her

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dream job and her family's struggling orchard business. You know

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how these movies go. There's a rekindled romance. Will they

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get together? Who knows? But it's A Wisconsin Christmas Pie.

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And the guy who wrote this is the guy who

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wrote A Very Vermont Christmas and a Cape cod Christmas.

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So you know it's good. Remember the band Striper. They're

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putting out a Christmas album, this one called the Greatest

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Gift of All. It'll be out November twenty. First, they

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have a new single Winter Wonderland. Streiper's Michael Sweet said,

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We've wanted to record a Christmas album for many years.

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Ever since we released our first single, which was Reason

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for the Season back in nineteen eighty five, the fans

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have been asking for a full length Christmas album. Well,

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the time has finally come. We wanted to make an

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album of five traditional songs and five original songs, to

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put our own spin on our own Christmas album and

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not follow the pack, so to speak. We couldn't be

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more pleased with how it turned out. We recorded Reason

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for the Season in Winter Wonderland and we decided to

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go with Winter Wonderland as the next single, just to

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give you an idea of what it might sound like today.

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In twenty twenty five. The track list The Greatest Gift

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of All, Go Tell It on the Mountain Heaven Came

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on Christmas Day, Little Drummer Boy, Still the Light, Silent

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Night on this Holy Night, Joined to the world, Reason

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for the Season and Winter Wonderland. Over in the UK,

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Buckingham Ballas has added a Christmas pop up store. From

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November fourteenth through January fifth, The Royal Muse will be

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transformed into a festive boutique filled with official Royal gifts,

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decorations and gourmet treats. By the way, if you like

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the Royal Family my company, we do a podcast seven

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days a week. It's called Palace Intrigue. It's all about

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the British Royal so go check that out. It's actually

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our most popular show, Palace Intrigue where you get your shows.

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Run by the Royal Collection Trust. The pop up store

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will showcase a range of items from small batch gin

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distilled with botanical source from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle,

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to kitchenware inspired by the Great Kitchen at Windsor Castle,

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the oldest working kitchen in Britain. The store will be

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free to enter. Proceeds go directly towards conserving the Royal

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Family's vast art collection. And those are your five good

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News Christmas stories for today. You have an awesome day.