Do You Zhu Zhu? Holiday Hamsters

Do you Zhu Zhu? Talk around town is all about those hard-to-find Zhu Zhu toy hamsters. They're among the hottest holiday items for kids and in very short supply, happily for the hype but unhappily for next week's Black Friday shoppers.

Here's a preview on YouTube, showing how the Zhu Zhu race around.

This is a breakout toy that will have parents scurrying around looking from store to store in hot pursuit. "Shop early, would be my advice," Carl Steidtmann, chief economist with Deloitte, told the Journal Sentinel. My advice: Click around, use your mouse to find a hamster.