Top Holiday Toys 2013

With the Black Friday 2013 sales and holiday shopping season quickly approaching, Toys R Us has recently unveiled their "2013 Toys R Us Fabulous 15 Holiday Hot Toy List." The Fabulous 15 is actually part of a larger list of 36 toys overall, with this year's entries ranging from Sofia the First to Elmo to Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Christmas is still more than three months away, but the major retailers already have a pretty good idea what you're going to get your kids this holiday season. Each fall, Toys R Us puts out its "Hot Toys" list, predicting which toys will be, well, hot.

Peter Foley | Bloomberg | Getty Images You haven't even carved the Halloween pumpkin, but the marketing machine for holiday toys is up and running. Wal-Mart and Toys R Us both released their hot-toy lists about a month ago. Have you seen the prices on some of these?

Do you know the difference between Battroborg and Hexburg Nano? How about Doc McStuffins and Flutterbye Fairies? Each year experts at The Toy Insider name the top 20 kids' items for the holiday season. I'm slowly learning what all of these things are, though luckily, I'm still at a point where my baby is perfectly happy with a bowl and a wooden spoon.