by Sabrina Garibian posted in Products & Prizes

So you've been scouring Walmart, Target, Kmart, Amazon, and even ebay for a Hatchimal" The question is simple: WHY""

The Hatchimal craze has me so puzzled. Why are Hatchimals the hot toy for 2016" Hatchimals are basically a talking, moving stuffed animal that comes in a plastic egg. Within an hour of opening the box your egg will hatch, revealing which stuffed animal, or Hatchimal, you've received. I understand how cool it must be at first. Watching your Hatchimal hatch sounds like something any kid would love.
But then what" Then you have a talking, walking stuffed animal. A $60 stuffed animal at that.
Since it isn't too soft and cuddly, it would probably end up with all the other battery-operated toys, in the very bottom of a bin of sad toy leftovers, like the Pie Face game my kids had to have last year or the Slinky that lasted 5 seconds before getting kinks. It seems to me as though many of these hot, sought-after toys end up in the fail pile year after year once the novelty wears off. Tickle Me Elmo was so cool for the first ten minutes, then every mom from here to California wanted to stuff that annoying, singing creature in the trash. I wasn't even a mom yet when it came out and it still managed to annoy me with its giggles. Last year I got sucked into the Pie Face craze when it was the only thing on my 4-year-old's list besides Magna-tiles and Legos. We found one and played it exactly twic...