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Greeson: On hot toys, open enrollment, the soccer squareoff and more

In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, file photo photo a display shows two large Lego toys on a slide near the toy section at a Target store in Bridgewater, N.J. Cozy sweaters and soft pajamas are in for adults. Kids, meanwhile, are asking for board games featuring fake poop and pimples. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, file photo photo a display shows two large Lego toys on a slide near the toy section at a Target store in Bridgewater, N.J. Cozy sweaters and soft pajamas are in for adults. Kids, meanwhile, are asking for board games featuring fake poop and pimples. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, file photo photo a display shows two large Lego toys on a slide near the toy section at a Target store in Bridgewater, N.J. Cozy sweaters and soft pajamas are in for adults. Kids, meanwhile, are asking for board games featuring fake poop and pimples. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

By Jay Greeson 4 min read

photo Jay Greeson

I’m not sure about the best way to introduce this topic other than to just jump in, so here goes.

The hottest Christmas toys this year range from making most of us feel like a kid again to feeling like we are from another planet.

According to Amazon.com, here are five wide-reaching options under the “Top 100 Toys” tab:

* The nostalgic: There are Hot Wheels and Play-Doh options. Somewhere, the 5-year-old in all of us just smiled.

* The nostalgic with the new: There are a lot of Lego options, from old-school to Star Wars to some robot-building and coding version of Legos that seems equal parts Toy Story and Terminator.