AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

ThinkFun AI shopping shelf share

🧸 Toys · 🇺🇸 US · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#38

Toys · US

#38 #38

Shelf-share

0.3%

of US answers

0.0% 0.3%

Sentiment

100%

positive

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

Who's on the toys shelf

1 LEGO
16.6%
2 Magna-Tiles
15.3%
3 POP MART
8.4%
4 PicassoTiles
3.8%
5 Tonies
3.2%
6 Yoto
3.0%
⋯
38 ThinkFun
0.3%

The shoppers ThinkFun wins

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

Where ThinkFun wins the journey

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

Awareness

—

not surfaced

Research

#21

0.8%

Comparison

—

not surfaced

Validation

#87

0.1%

Purchase

#34

0.5%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.6%
Google AI Mode
0.0%

What AI says about ThinkFun

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

60% budget, 40% mid

“The ThinkFun Roller Coaster Challenge is about $40 and has kids actually construct working roller coasters from challenge cards.”

ChatGPT

“ThinkFun Roller Coaster Challenge <Link url={turn605976product1.product_page.uri} title="Shop at Target"/> 3.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific ThinkFun items the engines put in front of US shoppers.

  • Roller Coaster Challenge 0.1%
  • Zingo! 0.1%
  • ThinkFun Friends: Play Date 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as ThinkFun.

How to read this

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

ThinkFun on other shelves

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