Popular Christmas Toy “Fart Launcher 3000”

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This holiday season’s shaping up to be a real stinker.

Toy insiders and wincing parents tell The Post that the Buttheads Fart Launcher 3000 — a Nerf gun-like gadget that shoots farts instead of darts — is topping off kids’ wish lists this year.

“This is my worst nightmare,” mom Angie Wong, the 42-year-old founder of the private Facebook group Brooklyn Moms, tells The Post. She recently caved and got the gas-blasting gizmo for her 5-year-old son, Will, and 7-year-old daughter, Maddie. “I can see that thing [being] used on my face one unsuspecting morning.”

According to its product description, the flatulent firearm, developed by WowWee, can spread stench up to 10 feet across a room and is “best used in well-ventilated areas or outdoor

It’s intended for kids ages 5 and up, comes with a cartridge capable of “100-plus” blasts and is “silent but deadly,” allowing users to sneak up on their victims. (If it’s the cheese-cutting noise you seek, WowWee also manufactures Buttheads figurines — popular little dolls whose faces are butts, which make farting noises sans smell.)

The Fart Launcher’s reek, “while incredibly accurate … is organic, plant-based, doesn’t get caught in fabric and dissipates in minutes,” WowWee brand manager Andrew Yanofsky tells The Post.

On Monday, the $20 parental headaches sold out on Walmart.com. Yankofsky declined to share specific numbers, but says sales are also “off to a hot start” on Amazon.com, where it’s currently on sale for $17, and at Target.com.

Obviously, kids love it: Wong’s son, Will, gives it “5 billion thumbs up.” And Marissa DiBartolo, editor-in-chief of the Toy Insider, says she’d expect nothing less from such a putrid plaything.

“Gross toys are super popular with kids, from poop and farts to snotty slime,” she says. Her team at Toy Insider has noticed icky gifts trending “over the last few years,” including last year’s superpopular Poopsie the Unicorn — essentially, a My Little Pony that poos slime.

Potty humor is pretty much a guaranteed hit with kids,” says DiBartolo. Other top toys this season bear that out: There’s Kawaii Slime, a collection of pretty putties and gels that make farting noises when you squish them; Pop Pops Snotz, little pods of slime “boogers” that come with a hammer to smack them with; and the Pooey Puitton, a high-design-inspired, poo-shaped plastic purse.

But even savvy toy expert DiBartolo considers the Fart Launcher in a class of its own.

“Be warned: It genuinely does stink,” she say