The biggest toy trends for the coming year
Products aim to stimulate imaginations and equip children with the necessary skills to become tomorrow’s leaders
Every year, hundreds of toy manufacturers descend on New York in what is almost always the coldest week of the year, to unveil their latest and greatest offerings. And every year, we brave single-digit temperatures to identify what we believe you’ll be seeing a lot of in the months ahead. So, without further ado, here are the trends we expect to dominate in 2016. Over the next few months, we’ll be doing detailed reviews of many of the products we mention here – and plenty of others.
Sloths and puppies
Animals are always popular. But this year, there’ll be a new species in town: sloths – the slowest mammals on earth – who are memorably and adorably featured in Disney’s Zootopia. The other heroes from Zootopia will probably still be in line when DreamWorks’ Secret Life of Pets, hits theatres later this year, bringing to life a dizzying number of dogs, cats and other hilarious animals.
The underlying skills of science and maths, including coding, are going to be critical to today’s children, who (hopefully) will become tomorrow’s leaders.
