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Big Easter Sale Weekend at Comaco Toys

Posted on 14th April 2014 | Leave a comment

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Papo Knight Figures at Comaco Toys Direct

Posted on 8th April 2014 | 4 Comments

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:

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80600  Knights Display Box 80600

39750  Knights Display Box 39750

39751  Knights Display Box 39751

In addition to these great sets we also have a couple of fantastic accessories:

39932  Catapault / Arrow Launcher

60502  Medieval Castle Playmat 

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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Papo Dinosaur Figures at Comaco Toys Direct

Posted on 28th March 2014 | 2 Comments

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

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Brachiosaurus

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Stegosaurus

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Allosaurus

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Pachyrhinosaurus

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Plesiosaurus

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T Rex

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Dimetrodon

http://www.comacodirect.com/Papo-Archaeopteryx-Dinosaur-Figure

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Megabloks Call Of Duty at Comaco Toys Direct

Posted on 15th March 2014 | 1 Comment

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 Seal Team

Call of Duty Mountain Recon

Call of Duty Mountain Recon

Call of Duty Drone Attack

Call of Duty Drone Attack

Call of Duty Desert Troopers

Call of Duty Desert Troopers

Call Of Duty Alpine Rangers

Call Of Duty Alpine Rangers

Halo Blind Bags Series 7

Halo Blind Bags Series 7

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SEO Shenanigans

Posted on 7th March 2014 | Leave a comment

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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Ghoulish Fun with Monster High at Comaco Toys Direct

Posted on 1st March 2014 | 6 Comments

I must admit that Comaco Toys Direct has not generally gone in for more girl orientated toys in the past. As a male and the principal buyer I have tended to purchase things that would have appealed to me when I was younger, and the fact that I have two sons and no daughters has compounded this further. In fact I once had a long conversation with a rep from one of our suppliers who argued that girls’ toys were generally a weakness in the industry as so many buyers were men. I think far too often there is a tendency to assume that anything pink or fluffy will do.

This range of Monster High dolls is a little bit different in that, although they are feminine and fashion conscious, they are far from cute and conventional. We have eight different dolls with distinct horrific but stylish personalities. All are approx 28 cm high and fully articulated. They come with great outfits and a full range of accessories. The Scaris City of Frights Range has Ghoulia Yelps, Draculaura, Deuce Gorgon and Abbey Bominable, whilst the Ghouls Rule range includes Frankie Stein, Cleo de Nile, Clawdeen Wolf and an alternative Draculaura. As always we offer secure online checkout with Sagepay and free standard UK shipping on all orders

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Rotating banners

Posted on 20th February 2014 | 2 Comments

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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Hello!

Posted on 13th February 2014 | Leave a comment

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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