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Cute n' cheap to rule holiday toy shopping: experts

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Posted on 9/28/2010 22:37 EST

Cute rules, especially when it comes to hot toys for the holiday season. Reuters gives us a sneak peek at the toys children may be clamoring for this year. At least most of them are cheap.

"The hottest toy of the 2010 holiday season could be a cheap, small, squishy character packaged in a plastic bubble reminiscent of grocery store toy machines, said toy experts Jim Silver and Christopher Byrne.

"Never underestimate the power of cute," Byrne said, in explaining why he thinks "Squinkies," the $7 collectible capsule toys which double as pencil-toppers, can emulate the success of last year's runaway hit Zhu-Zhu pets..."

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