Kids In Maryland Want This Toy For Christmas

Just how does Santa know exactly which toys kids in Maryland want to find under the Christmas tree? Perhaps he powers up the computer at the North Pole and consults Google. That could explain how he knows American kids are just wild about Power Wheels, the riding toy from Fisher-Price that allows kids to rev around their yards and parks like aspiring Nascar drivers.

But that’s not the case in Maryland, where an analysis of Google searches by Review.org, an internet company that reviews all kinds of home devices and products. Kids in our state are asking for Fortnite action figures in their letters to Santa.

The wildly popular online game was created by Potomac native Tim Sweeney, 48, who attended the University of Maryland and reportedly developed Fortnite in his parents' basement.

According to Review.org, Maryland kids were not alone; Fortnite action figures by McFarlane Toys were popular in several states: Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Power Wheels were the favorites in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. The review site said the common thread among those states is the they don’t have a single Disneyland between them.

And in California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Mississippi and Montana, kids want the simple simplicity of spinning a hula hoop, an enduring toy introduced in 1958.

The review site consulted Google Trends to find the most searched-for toys on the site during the holiday season.

— By Patch editor Beth Dalbey

Photo by Renee Schiavone/Patch.