AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

The Make Station AI shopping shelf share

🧸 Toys · 🇨🇦 CA · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#99

Toys · CA

#35 outside top 40

Shelf-share

0.2%

of CA answers

0.5% 0.2%

Sentiment

100%

positive

No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.

Who's on the toys shelf

1 LEGO
19.0%
2 Magna-Tiles
10.6%
3 POP MART
4.9%
4 Yoto
3.3%
5 Tonies
2.5%
6 Connetix Tiles
2.4%
⋯
99 The Make Station
0.2%

The shoppers The Make Station wins

The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where The Make Station ranks best.

Where The Make Station wins the journey

Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.

Awareness

—

not surfaced

Research

#18

0.8%

Comparison

#20

0.8%

Validation

#116

0.0%

Purchase

—

not surfaced

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.6%
Google AI Mode
0.0%

What AI says about The Make Station

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

100% budget

“[The Make Station Polymer Clay Kit]() - Connetix magnetic tiles — excellent if she likes building; ~$79–145 CAD.”

ChatGPT

“[The Make Station Polymer Clay Kit]() That's exactly the sort of inexpensive-but-interesting gift I'd consider for an 11- or 12-year-old.”

ChatGPT

“(Cubos) - The Make Station — Canadian-made polymer-clay kits, which are a much easier gift to mail than a large wooden toy.”

ChatGPT

“Ages 5–9: DIY polymer-clay kit The Make Station makes DIY polymer-clay character kits in Toronto.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific The Make Station items the engines put in front of CA shoppers.

  • Polymer Clay Kit 0.2%
  • DIY polymer-clay character kit 0.1%
  • creative kits 0.1%
  • Polymer-clay kits 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as The Make Station.

St. Jacobs Toys

Peter's Wooden Toys

Bamboletta

Crokinole Canada

Wuwa Slimes

How to read this

Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as The Make Station, relative to the rest.

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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with The Make Station.