These Are the Best Selling Toys of 2017

With the holidays coming up, toy and game shopping is about to heat up.

Toy and game retailers start ramping up inventory this time of year to prepare for the seasonal rush. In an industry with an estimated worth $26.5 billion, retailers like Toys "R" Us generate 40% of sales and 70% of operating profit during the key holiday quarter.

In recent years, the industry has attracted competition from the likes of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), the latter of which has diversified into toys and games in order to prop flagging book sales. However, Toys "R" Us' recent bankruptcy indicates that all is not well for brick-and-mortar toy retailers, who may be looking forward to this holiday season even more than American kids.

Source: Fool.com