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2015 HOT TOY: Stikbots: Create, Animate, Share!

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By Angie Appoo, Macaroni Kid Snellville & Macaroni Kid Lawrenceville November 20, 2015
Disclosure: I received a Stikbot Kit to share at our sponsored #MKToyTime party and to facilitate this review. All opinions are my own.

One of THE hottest toys this holiday season is Stikbot, which you may have seen advertised on television. If you haven't, your kids have, and it's definitelyy on their wish list. Stikbot from Zing is one of the first social media sharing toys where kids can create their own videos, using the Stikbots as the main characters, and share with friends!

Stikbots are easy-to-pose figures with strong suction cup hands and feet that can stick to almost any flat surface. Everywhere becomes a stage — even a restaurant's table or the doctor's office when you have a long wait! Add a lapdesk, and you can have fun in the car on long (or short) road trips. With the free mobile app, Stikbot Studios (available for android and ios) kids can shoot their own stop-motion movies. The app snaps individual photos and stitches them together into a movie. 

Your budding movie-makers, and directors would love this gift. You can edit, add text and effects and can even add music. You then upload to social media to share with family and friends. 

Retailing about $10, this is a perfect stocking stuffer, or gift for classmates/friends. They make great party favors too - as I'm sure you can have a whole party with kids just making and sharing videos. That will definitely be a unique, affordable, and fun party. The kids loved it at our #MKToyTime party. The only problem was that we only had 2 figures, and they all wanted to make videos at the same time! Forget Minecraft parties, throw a Stikbot party.

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