For the final entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide we bring you five stocking stuffer ideas. These are gifts that cost ten bucks or less.

With the Gift Guide extended by a week, the loss of a close friend and a pending train trip, we really came down to the wire, but I think it’s a pretty damned good batch of pop culture gift ideas at a variety of price points.

I’d say many of my readers agree, and you seem to have brought some new friends along. Readership of PopCult in November was up almost 500% from the previous month, and compared to last year’s Gift Guide, we have more than three times as many unique views.

Tomorrow you will find The Master List in The PopCulteer, and then the blog will be on autopilot for a few days.

Let’s get to stuffing those stockings…

Kellogg’s Stranger Things Demogorgon Crunch Cereal

Under five bucks at most grocers

Okay, you got a Stranger Things fan who has a stocking big enough to fit a box of cereal?  This is the gift for you to give them.

It’s a cereal based on the hit Netflix series, which just began its final season, and I will be posting a detailed review of the cereal sometime after I get back from Chicago.

Aparently people like it when I write about candy cereals.

From what I hear, this is basically Maple-flavored Eggo Waffle cereal, with added marshmallows that are supposed to look like stuff from the show.

I guess it stays crunchy, even in the Upside Down.

We found it at Walmart.

DC Compact Editions

by DC comics

Available at many booksellers and comic book shops for $9.99 or less.

DC compact Editions are exactly what the title implies, compact-sized (smaller than a regular comic book, dimension-wise) but thick collections of some of DC’s best-selling comics. Some of these are over 300 pages and many of them are primo stuff.  I mean, there are xamples of of some of the finest comic books ever published in this line.

Some, I don’t care for, but there’s a great variety. These have been coming out since last year, and they’re a terrific bargain, especially for people who have eyes better equipped for reading smaller print.

You can find some all-time classics like Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier, Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta (the great comic book, not the lousy movie), Mark Waid and Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come and Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All Star Superman.

There are nearly forty titles from which to choose, and you can tailor your pick to the person on your shopping list.

It’s a great way to introduce a new comics reader to some of the all-time great DC classics.

MGA Mini Verse Real Brands

Under ten bucks at most retailers who carry toys

I have written extensively about Zuru Toys’ Mini Brands in the past, but now their main competitor has really upped the game and come out with their own line of brand-name miniatures that have a level of detail that’s mind-blowing.

I’m talking about a miniature box of ice cream bars that can be opened, with individual ice cream bars inside, which are each individually wrapped. It’s both crazed and brilliant!

Seriously these minis can be opened and you can pour out tiny (not edible) peanuts, crackers and potato chips.

Here’s what they say about them…

New minis have entered the Miniverse! Collect all your favorite foods from all your favorite brands!

Scoop out Breyers® “Ice Cream” from the tub, unwrap your mini Pop-Tart®, and scrape out Smucker’s® Strawberry Jam straight out the jar! Each mini has hyper realistic features!

50+ Minis: There are 50+ minis to collect in this series!

Collect across iconic brands such as Babybel®, HORMEL® SPAM®, PLANTERS®, Pringles®, Hostess®, and more!

These are selling like crazy, but if you have a fan of minatures on your shopping list, this is the best stocking fodder you can find.

Hot Wheels

Around a dollar (or just a bit more post-tarrifs), sold almost everywhere.

Everybody loves Hot Wheels. They’ve been around almost sixty years, and multiple generations have grown up collecting them without ever growing out of collecting them.

And they are cheap. Even costing under a dollar-thirty, the level of clever design and imagination behind these cars are incredible.

Artists use them for inspiration. Kids roll them all over the place.  Men and Women pick them up just because they look cool and cost a buck or so.

And you can fill a stocking with them, and unless your giftee is a soulless toy-hating monster, their face will light up with happiness.

And seriously, some of these are really, really cool.

Lights of Broadway Show Cards

Five dollars per pack

Available from Lights of Broadway (or at two cool stores in NYC).

Our final pick this year in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a returning favorite.

I first told you about Lights of Broadway Show Cards several years ago in The PopCult Gift Guide, and I even wrote about them for Non Sport Update, but we’re going to remind you of that gift idea today because they have just released a new series of cards and they have several exciting projects on tap, plus there is no better stocking stuffer for the fan of the theatre on your shopping list than these little gems.

The Lights of Broadway Show Cards feature the artwork of Broadway’s reigning caricaturist, Squiggs, and present the stars, theaters and shows of The Great White Way in trading card form. This is the absolutely perfect gift for the theatre fanatic on your holiday shopping list.

The Lights of Broadway Show Cards celebrate Broadway theatre. The stories and the storytellers, the art and the artisans, those who make it all possible and the community embracing it. Shows, actors, directors, writers, designers, and all else in the spotlight or behind the scenes who keep the theatrical world spinning.

Over at The Lights of Broadway website, you’ll find special deals where you can get packs of their latest edition, with dozens of new faces showing up in the series for the first time. You’ll also find deals on binders and starter kits (which include an illustrated binder and several packs of cards).

Single packs are only five dollars, and you can be a little more generious and get your giftee multiple packs. They’ll fit in a stocking, trust me.

And with your stockings full stocked, we bid our goodbyes to The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide. Come back tomorrow for The Master List.