Hatchimals even put a message on their website: “While additional product will hit retail shelves in December, we anticipate this inventory will sell out quickly. This plush electronic puppy walks, wags her tail, sits, tilts her head, and barks when you talk to her. Check your local store for availability.” 
 
 Walmart locations that will receive shipments of Hatchimals: 
 
 Walmart store 2541, 2700 W. State St., Alliance 
 
 Walmart store 2197, 2016 Millennium Blvd., Cortland 
 
 Walmart store 3608, 6067 N. Ridge Road, Madison 
 
 Walmart store 3722, 250 Tallmadge Road, Kent 
 
 Walmart store 3250, 7235 Market Place Dr., Aurora 
 
 Walmart store 2313, 905 Singletary Drive, Streetsboro 
 
 Walmart store 1857, 9303 Mentor Ave., Mentor 
 
 Walmart store 1927, 1860 Macedonia Commons Blvd., Macedonia 
 
 Walmart store 1863, 33752 Vine St., Eastlake 
 
 Walmart store 5082, 8303 W. Ridgewood Dr., Parma 
 
 Walmart store 2361, 4572 Mega St. Nw, North Canton 
 
 Walmart store 1724, 1640 S. Washington St., Millersburg 
 
 Walmart store 2209, 2850 Maple Ave., Zanesville 
 
 Walmart store 2115, 231 Bluebell Drive SW, New Philadelphia 
 
 Walmart store 2199, 50739 Valley Plaza Drive, Saint Clairsville 
 
 Walmart store 2078, 804 Pike St., Marietta 
 
 **More on Hatchimals, here** And for those who can wait, there will be reinforcements in January. They learned that their local Target was supposed to get a small shipment of Hatchimals on Friday, so the women arrived at Target at 4:45 a.m. and waited outside in the 20-degree cold. “I haven’t decided if Mommy gets to be the star or if Santa will be the one who gets to bring it to her,” said Ms. Nigbur, who said she may be more excited about nabbing the product than her daughter will be to receive it.
– The holiday's hottest toy is so hot it sold 400,000 units in just seven weeks, outpacing the infamous Tickle Me Elmo, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. It's so hot moms in Utah braved 20-degree weather to line up outside a Target at 4:45am just in hopes of getting one, according to the New York Times. It's so hot the Christian Science Monitor reports third-party sellers are asking six times the retail the price of $59.99—and getting it. And it's so hot Toys 'R' Us is chartering its own planes to fly it directly from the manufacturer in China. They're called Hatchimals, and Fox 8 describes them as "cuddly creatures that hatch from eggs and learn to walk and talk." "By all analyses, we thought we had enough," James Martin, an executive at Hatchimals maker Spin Master, tells the Times. "We had no idea that it would be this big." Experts say the big selling point for kids is the anticipation that builds during the 30 minutes or so it takes to hatch the creature. "Nobody knows why these things happen," one toy expert says. "They're an act of God." Now parents, retailers, and third-party sellers alike are scrambling to get their hands on more Hatchimals before Christmas. But as the Monitor puts it: "If you're...desperate to find one at a reasonable price in time for Christmas, I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry." It recommends giving your kids a Hatchimal IOU instead. (New Zealand "wins Christmas" with nationwide Secret Santa.)