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London Toy Fair 2015

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Late January brings the start of the Toy Fair season with in short succession, the London Olympia, the Spielwarenmesse in Germany, and the Spring Fair at the Birmingham NEC. Last week it was the Kensington Olympia Toy Fair and I made a literally flying visit from snowy Inverness down to grey and rainy Gatwick to visit the capital for the day.

It was a great chance to catch up with some of our principal suppliers such as HTI, Papo, Padgett Bros and Peterkin. In addition, I was also of course on the lookout for what’s hot in the toy world in 2015, and for what might fit snugly into our rapidly expanding range of products.

Model designer Schleich was one of my first stops. They have a great range of dinosaur figures that will hopefully complement our lines from Papo. In addition there are also new exciting Justice League figures featuring Batman and Superman.

Movie tie-ins are obviously going to be a major factor in 2015. Minions were everywhere, Frozen was ever present, and there were no shortage of Transformers, Super Heroes and Dinos from the new Jurassic Park. Spongebob is also due to make a reappearance and even a certain franchise set in a galaxy far far away is about to prove it isn’t done yet.

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A good hour was spent having a guided tour round the Hasbro, where Transformers, Marvel Jurassic Park were in clearly in evidence. However of particular interest to me were new Nerf ranges. Below can be seen the Nerf N-Strike Modulus ECS-10 Blaster:

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Sadly, since we are not an existing Lego customer, I couldn’t get in to see their stand, but Playmobil had a great display, as did Bandai with their Power Rangers, and Character Options with Doctor Who, Simpsons and Minecraft Toys amongst others.

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There were many others too numerous to mention, including some lovely toy vehicles from Britains and Bruder, and smart toy versions of household appliances and power tools from Casdon and Klein. Finally, after helping myself to Character’s generous array sandwiches and snacks, it was time  to make my way back to Gatwick for the evening flight. One of my final stops was at HGL’s stand, where Megasaurs look likely to roar their way into stock range very soon!

Christmas Toy Gift Ideas at Comaco

The last time I posted about Christmas it was late September and the festive season still seemed a good way off. But how time flies! Two months have whizzed past and we’re now firmly in midst of xmas shopping madness.

Somehow my thoughts of putting up a post in early November seem to have gone out of the window, but I still thought it was worth putting together a few biggish present gift ideas for the big day.

All of the products below, plus many more besides can be found in our new Christmas Toys category on the website. However, be warned things are moving very fast stock-wise. What we have now may well be all gone by next week!

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Black Hawk Die Cast Helicopter: One of four scale model helicopters we have in this range. See also Cars, Trucks and Vehicles and Die Cast Toys.

 

Nerf Elite Thunderbow

Nerf Elite Thunderbow: we also have Nerf Elite Rough Cut, Nerf Blaster Sleeves and Nerf Mobile Mission P.A.K. Plus, our other ranges of Toy Guns are always in demand.

World Peacekeepers Patrol Boat

World Peacekeepers Patrol Boat: our World Peacekeepers range of articulated action figures, vehicles and accessories continues to be popular. See also Army Toys.

 

Barbie Stable Set

Barbie Stable Set: see our Barbie Toys and our full Dolls and Fashion range. 

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Wooden Noah’s Ark: another brand new item. See our range of Toys for Younger Children

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Auto Garage Centre with moving car lift and rotating repair bay

Remember FREE standard UK Shipping with worldwide and expedited options available. Happy shopping!

 

 

Lego Storage Bricks

Need somewhere stylish and convenient to store your Lego pieces? Or just need somewhere to put toys your are permanently tripping over?  Check out these Lego Storage Bricks at Comaco Toys Direct.

They are shaped like bigger versions of the classic Lego brick, with the really big ones having 8 buttons. These measure 50 cm by 25 cm by 18 cm and weigh over 2kg each. They come in a variety of colours with some produced exclusively as a tie-in to this year’s hit Lego Movie.

Check them out now!

Comaco Toys: The Movie

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!

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This is an exciting time for Comaco. Last week yours truly made a trip down the Spring Fair at the NEC in Birmingham to check in with some our existing of suppliers, as well as to connect with some new ones. The first fruits from this venture came yesterday with the arrival of a shipment of brand new products. These include some big brand names which are new to us: Nerf, Call of Duty, Halo, Hello Kitty, Doc McStuffins, Lego and JCB. More of these on the way shortly, as well as a big new order of great Papo animal, dinosaur, pirate and knight figures.

These toys will be available to buy on site very shortly. Here are a few pictures to whet your appetite!

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