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Shop Exclusive Holiday Toys From Top Brands Early on Walmart

Add these trending items featuring kids’ favorite characters to cart now, and consider your holiday shopping done.

By Helen Nichols
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At Walmart, Christmas has come early: The retailer already has the hottest toys for the 2025 holiday season in stock. There’s Peppa Pig characters in cuddly, oinking doll form; sets of Bluey figurines and all her talking, dancing friends; LEGO kits that let kids re-create scenes from their favorite movies — and that’s just for starters.

Not only can you score these exclusive toys in one place, but you’ll also get the best prices around, so you can make your list, check it twice, and finish your holiday shopping (at least for the little kids) before anyone else has even started. Also, since these toys get snapped up as soon as they hit shelves, many of them won’t be around come fall. Which means you can guarantee the children in your life will get the presents they’re dreaming of — while giving yourself the gift of a relaxed fall and winter.

Keep reading to shop our picks from the hottest brands of the season.

Bluey Neighborhood Friends 8-Pack

Neighborhood Friends 8-Pack

If they’ve seen every Bluey episode, give them the chance to create their own storylines. This set of eight posable characters comes with Bluey, Bingo and all their friends, including two new figurines, Judo and Missy. It’s all a kid needs to live out an episode — but if they already have Bluey playsets, these little action figures will also fit right into those.

Bluey Talking Muffin

Talking Muffin

For a preschool-aged child, this dancing and talking Muffin is a best friend in a box. The toy has nine distinctive phrases and is soft enough to cuddle up with during and after hours of pretend play.

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LEGO Star Wars Death Trooper & Night Trooper Battle Pack

Star Wars Death Trooper & Night Trooper Battle Pack

Turning this 119-piece LEGO into a Star Wars dropship is just the start of the fun. Once it’s done, kids ages 6-plus can stage battles between the two Death Troopers and the pair of Night Troopers that come in the kit, leading them in a fight to the death — until, of course, the battle starts all over again.

LEGO Minecraft the Pickaxe Mine

Minecraft the Pickaxe Mine

Minecraft-obsessed children 8 and up can now play the game offscreen, IRL, thanks to this 530-piece LEGO masterpiece (and more LEGO Minecraft sets available on Walmart). Once they build the massive pickaxe, they can extract ore from a mine, fill a minecart with TNT, and “explode” the rock wall, blasting through to the other side. That’s just one scene from the game they can re-enact again and again. It’s creation, destruction and re-creation in a single toy.

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LEGO Jurassic World Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission Dinosaur

Jurassic World Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission Dinosaur

This is one monster present: An 858-piece LEGO set kids can build into Jurassic World Rebirth’s ultimate dinosaur: the Mosasaurus. After the beast is constructed, they can make its fins and tail move or get it chomping at imaginary prey. The set also comes with reefs, syringes (for collecting dino DNA samples, naturally) and a syringe case so aspiring directors can re-create scenes from the movie.

Peppa Pig Oinks + Snuggles Baby Evie Interactive Baby Doll

Oinks + Snuggles Baby Evie Interactive Baby Doll

Calling all aspiring Mummy Pigs and Daddy Pigs! Here’s your chance to cuddle Peppa’s new sibling, baby Evie: Bounce and rock her, and she giggles and oinks. The only thing more adorable, in fact, will be the child playing with her.

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Peppa Pig Peppa’s Dress-Up Wardrobe Playset

Peppa’s Dress-Up Wardrobe Playset

From now on, Peppa will also answer to “Posh Pig.” That’s because she has a personal stylist: to wit, the thrilled 3-or-older kid you’ve given this dress-up playset. The book-shaped wardrobe case comes with a six-inch Peppa doll and lots of frills for her to try on, from tutus to sun hats to magic wands.

Slime Life Ice Cream Cone DIY Slime Kit

Ice Cream Cone DIY Slime Kit

This slime kit keeps the ice cream party vibes going year ’round. It comes with all the fixings to create an ultra-realistic ice-cream cone that can be smashed and stretched, but unfortunately not licked.

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Slime Life PB&J with Chips DIY Slime Kit

PB&J with Chips DIY Slime Kit

They’ll crave playtime with this mouth-watering, lunch-inspired slime kit that features life-like details such as textured ‘baked’ crusts and glossy ‘syrup’ drizzles.

Slime Life Choco Icing Round & Cream Filled Donuts DIY Slime Kit

Choco Icing Round & Cream Filled Donuts DIY Slime Kit

For a sugar rush without the actual sugar, this slime kit doesn’t disappoint. Kids can glaze, fill, and sprinkle their donuts, and then smash and stretch them for a delectable and tactile play experience.

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Wonder Factory Never Dry Single Sand

Never Dry Single Sand

Stocking stuffers. Party favors. Gifts for the kids whose parents are hosting the neighborhood holiday party (or the little ones coming to yours). These small but mighty wonders are just the thing for all of those situations. The brightly colored, never-dry molding sand comes in a reusable tube with shapes all around it (and more on each end cap), which kids can use to press, roll and shape the sand. It’s an activity any kid would love, in a small package parents can fit into even the tiniest apartment — and at a price point that means you can buy one in a fun color for every kid you know.

Wonder Factory Never Dry Dough & Sand Mega Box Set

Never Dry Dough & Sand Mega Box Set

This large set doesn’t just look impressive — it provides hours of hands-on play for kids who love to create, build and design. It comes with four tubes of molding dough and four of building sand in bright colors — kids can mix them together, roll them out with the tubes or the six connector wheels they come in and press emojis, peace signs and other shapes onto them. All you have to do is admire their creations every now and then.

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Wonder Factory Never Dry Dough and Sand Starter Set

Never Dry Dough and Sand Starter Set

These multitasking sets come with one ball of brightly-colored dough, one ball of mess-free sand, and endless possibilities for play. Kids can stamp shapes into the dough and sand, roll on patterns, or mix them to watch the colors and textures transform right before their eyes.

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