Just a short post this week to tell you about some great toys for younger children new in stock at Comaco.
First there is the Push along Shape Sorter Bus. This comes with a selection of brightly coloured shapes to sort through the correct holes in the bus.
Also we have Spinning Popping Pals. Just press gently down on the button and watch the colourful balls spin and pop.
Both toys are suitable for children as young as 12 months, and are guaranteed to keep them entertained for hours!
We originally made a You Tube video almost 5 years ago when our own website was launched. Having noticed that this was still showing up on Google we decided it was time for an upgrade. So here it is!
The new vid definitely shows the range of products we currently have in 2014. Give it a watch and let us know what you think!
The video was created using Windows Movie Maker and it is basically made up of product images from our website plus captions and a few extra graphics. It was interesting to compare the content between the old and new videos. Although some generic categories had not changed – Toy Guns, Knights, Cowboys, Army etc – almost all the individual products had. Perhaps not surprising after 5 years! Completely new however were most of the branded products so far discussed in this blog – Nerf, Megabloks, Hello Kitty, Monster High and Papo Figures.
We are quite pleased with the background music was downloaded from a royalty free site. There are also a few bonus sound effects for those who watch it through right to the end!
Mar sin leibh an-dràsda
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We’ve told you previously about our fantastic Papo Knights and Dinosaurs at Comaco Toys, However we also have some fabulously detailed Wild Animal Figures.
Individual animals include White Crocodiles, Tigers with cubs, Brown Bears, Grizzly Bears, Polar Bears, Kudus, Galapagos Tortoises, Buffalo, Reindeer and Kudu. And all that doesn’t even cover the Sea Life!
However we also have several Wild Animal Gift Boxes available, each with 3 or 4 figures. Check them out:
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Firstly many thanks to everyone who took advantage of our Easter promo last weekend at Comaco Toys. If you were a first time customer we hope to see you again very soon.
This week’s blog however is slightly different. We are always looking at ways to improve the services we offer as an online toy shop and we would value your feedback or suggestions on our website and the range of products available.
Please check out our shop at www.comacotoysdirect.com, if you are not already familiar with it, and have a browse. Then let us know what you think! This could be with regard to product range, pricing, shipping options, payment processing, site layout… anything, so long as it is constructive!
You can do this by filling out the contact form below or by going direct to our website Contact Us page. We look forward to hearing from you!
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A big new order from high quality figure designer Papo has now arrived in stock at Comaco, and I must say it looks great. Our last blog post was on the Dinosaurs, so this time were going to concentrate on Knights in armour from the Medieval Era Range.
We have five different boxed gift sets available. Each contains two knights on horseback with a variety of different weapons and designs:
In addition to these great sets we also have a couple of fantastic accessories:
The Catapault / Arrow launcher really fires (safe) balls and arrows. Meanwhile the large, heavy duty Playmat comes in its own carry case and measures 95 x 133 cm. It weighs in at nearly 1.5 kg!
These are superb quality toys which give many many hours of play – why not start your collection today! Check out all our Papo Knight Figures.
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I’ve recently been rewatching “Planet Dinosaur”, the TV series from a few years back narrated by John Hurt. This included lots of new weird and wonderful dinos you may not have heard of before, including the fearsome Spinosaurus – a predator bigger than T-Rex that hunted like a crocodile.
This is has somewhat inspired our new order of superbly detailed Dinosaur figures from Papo. As well as spinosaurus we have dimetrodon, t-rex, archaeopteryx, brachiosaurus, stegosaurus, allosaurus, plesiosaurus (which some believe is real name of our local celebrity Nessie), parasaurolophus and pachyrhinosaurus amongst others. New stock should be in next week. Makes me wish I was about 35 years younger!
UPDATE: All Papo Dinosaur Figures are now in stock and available to buy. Check them out here.
OCT 2014: See our New Papo Dinosaur Post
Spinosaurus
Parasaurolophus
Brachiosaurus
Stegosaurus
Allosaurus
Pachyrhinosaurus
Plesiosaurus
T Rex
Dimetrodon
Archaeopteryx
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UPDATE August 2014: Just to let you know about a couple of great new Mega Bloks Call of Duty and Halo Sets at Comaco Toys.
Having spent many happy hours playing COD Zombie games myself, I was particularly pleased to get these Zombie Tranzit Farm Boxes. Each contains a massive 415 pieces including pose-able micro figures and is recommended for age 12 plus.
Equally exciting are these fantastic Light Armor Firebase Sets. 512 pieces are included here with micro figures including Capt. Alex Mason.
And finally for Halo fans we have zombies as well; the Halo Last Man Standing Pack from the Ultimate Collector’s series. Packs include one Spartan security in blue armour, plus 4 infected zombie Spartans.
ORIGINAL POST (March 2014):
Just a short post this week to introduce our Megabloks Call of Duty Construction Sets which are now in stock at Comaco. Each set contains between 60 and 150 pieces and includes super micro action figures with authentic accessories.
Also from Megabloks, we have Halo Series 7 Blind Bags. Why not get collecting?
Call Of Duty Seal Team
Call of Duty Mountain Recon
Call of Duty Drone Attack
Call of Duty Desert Troopers
Call Of Duty Alpine Rangers
Halo Blind Bags Series 7
Ok I admit it. This blog was basically started as I was told that we needed it for SEO reasons. The fact that I’m posting this on the blog proves how few potential customers for Comaco that I actually expect to read this.
The problem we have this is a small business and we do not have vast amounts of money to invest in building our online profile. I recently met some very nice SEO people who quoted me a small fortune to pimp things up on the web. I’m sure they could have achieved some positive results but the total cost would probably have ended up rivalling our annual budget for new stock.
Consequently I am stuck again with trying to make sense of webmaster double speak and doing what I can on my own. For example here is part of a comment someone has just sent regarding an earlier blog post
I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in your SEO optimization. On-Page SEO means more now than ever since the new Google update: Panda. No longer are backlinks and simply pinging or sending out a RSS feed the key to getting Google PageRank or Alexa Rankings, You now NEED On-Page SEO. So what is good On-Page SEO?First your keyword must appear in the title.Then it must appear in the URL.You have to optimize your keyword and make sure that it has a nice keyword density of 3-5% in your article with relevant LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing). Then you should spread all H1,H2,H3 tags in your article…
I’m sure this will mean something to many potential readers, but personally it makes me want to throw my hands up in horror and go back to quill and ink. Latent Semantic Indexing for goodness sake! Isn’t life just too short? Oh well…
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As you might have gathered from the recent instigation of this blog, we at Comaco have lately been trying to raise the profile of our fine online shop a bit. This seems only sensible as we have lots of new toys coming in at the moment. The website design itself was in need of a bit of a spruce up so we opted to move from our old static banner to a funky rotating one showing a range of our products.
Being something of a traditionalist, I still tend to use Internet Explorer by default and last night the new bannner with changing pictures and captions looked to be working fine in IE. However I later happened to look at it on my phone in Chrome and discovered that the captions were actually showing below the pictures, instead to their right as they should be. This was something of a problem since captions now appeared in the middle of the product listings and this looked very untidy indeed. Back on the PC I confirmed that this was indeed how the site looked in Chrome, and what’s more it was exactly the same in Firefox. For some reason though, the banner showed absolutely perfectly in IE. I don’t have any idea why.
After much messing about this morning looking at code for pictures and text, I finally managed to get the banner looking right on all browsers. I’m hoping it looks pretty good but please feel free to let us know what you think. I’ll just try and remember not to use IE next time I am doing any work on the website!
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