Who Puts Skibidi Toilet in Toy Aisles?

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I’m staring at a giant Furby mascot walking around the halls of NYC’s Javits Center for Toy Fair 2025.  The next minute I’m being accosted by the flatulent sounds of a farting monster plush. There are hundreds of booths vying for my limited attention.

There’s a man on stilts at the Beanie Baby booth and a whistling echoing from the rafters, though I can’t figure out from where. This is the magic of Toy Fair, an annual expo and celebration of what’s next in playing around.

 Some companies use toy shelf staples like superheroes or Disney Channel mascots, while others have learned that today’s kids are focused more on what’s happening online. Moose Toys had a large booth showing off their collabs with the Amazing Digital Circus and MrBeast, who are getting a new line of figures and animated shorts.

Tucked away in the corner of the hall is Bonkers Toys, a brand that’s quickly grown to one of the largest playmakers in the toy space by collaborating with content creators.

Founded in 2015, Bonkers was a small company under everyone’s radar until they had their first massive breakout success making blind boxes with Ryan’s World, the nearly 40 million subscriber toy opening channel. They went from a drop in the bucket of companies selling plush or plastic to one of the largest toy brands on the market. In 2021, the brand alone made $250 million, according to the NY Times. 

According to Dan Meyer, Head of Marketing at Bonkers Toys, other companies failed to capture the audience of influencer fans “because they didn’t tap into the fandom.” That core fan base that watches every video, comments enthusiastically, and describes influencers by their first name is incredibly powerful, turning a brand into a supernova overnight.

Bonkers sells an array of toys, like blind boxes that include a random toy inside, rainbow-colored kitty cat plushes, and R/C controller toilets. Some of their top partners include LankyBox, a 40-million-subscriber variety channel, and Aphmau, a Minecraft creator with 23 million subscribers.

Then, of course, there’s the infamous Skibidi Toilet toys line. Drawn from the 45 million sub-animator DaFuq!?Boom!, Skibidi Toilet has become a minor phenomenon.

How do you turn a toilet-headed mascot into a toy line? By making toys featuring toilets with human heads that fight robots with alien heads. Then, you expand the brand with more traditional action figures and “battle buckets” of mini figures.

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