hot toys

Christmas is four months away, and already the experts are weighing in on which holiday toys and gadgets will be worth the credit card debt. Online shopping comparison site PriceGrabber is one of the first to release a "top products" list of the items it predicts will be this year's hottest.

Target is the latest retailer to get in on the early sale action, announcing pre-Thanksgiving sales, online deals for Thanksgiving day, an expanded toy selection and additional doorbuster deals for shoppers on Black Friday itself. Beginning Sunday, Nov. 21, Target will begin offering specials on...

Holiday projections are upon us: the talking heads are already making all sorts of predictions about hot toys, hot categories, how much we'll spend and where we'll shop. Will holiday spending be up or down? Will electronics be popular and will retailers keep offering huge deals? We suspect the...

It's not even October yet and it's already beginning to look a lot like Christmas. At least it was this week at the Toys R Us in Times Square when the media gathered to hear about hot toys, consumer spending and the return of FAO Schwarz. FAO Schwarz will be back for the holidays with 10...

UPDATED (12/1) The elusive Zhu Zhu Pets faux hamsters continue to tease those who covet them. They show up at a handful of major retailers and disappear as quickly as they showed up. Most Zhu Zhu hunters didn't even know they were there. Such is the life of the hot toy of the year -- following the...

Forget Halloween. For retailers, the scariest thing lurking around the corner is the specter of a bad holiday shopping season. Perhaps that explains why Toys R' Us is releasing its annual "hot list" of toys before the leaves have even fallen from the trees. It wants parents to take the list, check...