History Toys / Hatchimals

** The first edition's time and egg and hatching times are unnaturally long, taking almost a half hour of caring until they're ready to hatch, and an increasingly long hatch time. To avoid frustration, later editions shorten the times to about 5-10 minutes, while the WOW edition shortens it to 2-3 minutes.

* SimonSaysMinigame: The game "Hatchimal Says", where the owner has to help the Hatchimal correctly follow a sequence of actions as determined by their eye color. Renamed "Musical Moves" for the Fabula Forest variant, and Catch the Wind for the Mystery variant.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Started with the [=CollEGGtibles=] series, where more characters were introduced to be found in the mini eggs.

** The first edition, as well as the "Surprise" variant, had a game called "Psychic Hatchimal" which is like a MagicEightBall type of game. This game was dropped from all future variants.

* LivingMoodRing: The Hatchimals' light up LED eyes change color based on how they're feeling at the moment.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Started with the [=CollEGGtibles=] series, where more characters were introduced to be found in the mini eggs.
* MeatOVision: Tigrette briefly views his teammates as cupcakes when struggling to keep up in ''Draggle Takes the Cake''
* MoodRingEyes: The Hatchimals' light up LED eyes change color based on how they're feeling at the moment.

* OurPixiesAreDifferent: The Hatchimals Pixies are magical creatures that resemble young human girls with translucent bird-like wings and are apparently a recently discovered creatures.

* HumansAreCthulhu: Implied. The main four in Adventures in Hatchtopia initially react to the human-like (albiet not fully human) Pixies with surprise, wonder, shock, and not counting Draggle's reaction even fear. Subverted with the other Hatchies, who, though maybe only because they were immediately given the assurance that the Pixies are friendly, welcome the Pixies with open arms.

* WhaleEgg: Semi-justified because most of the Hatchimals are part bird, as indicated by physical features and their names.

** The Cloud Cove minigame has your Hatchimal bouncing through the clouds, akin to ''DoodleJump''. Failing to land on another cloud has the young Hatchimal presumably fall from sky, or even ''space'', depending on how good you were playing.

* BabysittingEpisode: Episode 12, ''Babysitting [=EGGcitement=]'', has Paroo assigning Team Hatch to watch over the infant Hatchimals after being insulted that babysitting is an easy job.

* [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Ridiculously Cute Critters]]: The series runs on this, with special note that the Hatchimals are young creatures because they hatched from eggs.
* SugarBowl {{Utopia}}: Hatchtopia is presented as such, with problems surmounting to small issues, plenty of food, and lush environments. Heck, it's even implied in the name.
* WhaleEgg: Semi-justified because most of the Hatchimals are part bird, as indicated by physical features and/or their names.

In early 2017, a branch of the franchise called [[Pun Colleggtibles]] was released. They are [[FunSize Funsized]] versions of the existing characters plus many, ''many'' more Hatchimals. Similar to their larger counterpart, these critters do come in eggs, but must be cracked open by hand to reveal who's inside.

* AmbiguousGender: Hatchimals lack any attributes in defining their genders. The Colleggtibles take that a step further with giving ''all'' the critters eyelashes. On the other hand, the Web Series removed the lashes from some of the characters but only in the animation.
* BabysittingEpisode: Episode 12, ''Babysitting EGGcitement'', has Paroo assigning Team Hatch to watch over the infant Hatchimals after being insulted that babysitting is an easy job.
* BeachEpisode: Episode 6, ''Sandcastle EGGventure'', where the Hatchimals have a sandcastle contest while Team Hatch tries to find the egg.

* ContinuityCavalade: The Hatchery Nursery in ''Babysitting EGGcitement'' hosts all the babies Team Hatched helped up to that point.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Started with the Colleggtibles series, where more characters were introduced to be found in the mini eggs.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritters: The series runs on this, with special note that the Hatchimals are young creatures because they hatched from eggs.

* Ambiguous

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Team Hatch has Zebrush and Penguala identifying with female pronouns while Tigrette and Draggle are noted with male pronouns.