John Adams Restock

If the name John Adams doesn't mean much to you, don't worry, all will be explained. Last year, we put a great deal of effort into finding a manufacturer of high quality, good value toy gifts. We'd tried various suppliers over the years and had never been particularly happy with them - either the contents weren't much good or the price was too high. John Adams changed all that for us - they make superb toys that are ideal for presents, that are good quality and great value for money.

It wasn't just us that thought that - our customers agreed. As a result virtually everything we sell made by John Adams has been out of stock since Xmas. Fear not though - it's all back now. Our favourites? The Make-A-Bear kit is superb. We love Merlin's Magic - it's a great value box of fun magic tricks. Electro-mag is cool and the chemistry set is good fun. Finally, is the famous Golden Coin Maker only for Christmas? We don't think so.

There's loads more though. For your next present for a child, look no further than our fabulous range of John Adams toys.

Meccano Now Available On Our Website

Further to our earlier post, first thing this morning, we've been working hard all day to make Meccano available for our website customers. We've done better than we expected, and you are now able to check out and purchase our full Meccano range online at our website.

To give you a run through: At Age 2+, there is the Kids Play range, featuring fabulous early construction toys. As the child grows, at 4+, there is a new range for them to get their teeth into - Meccano Build and Play - more parts and a higher level of complexity. At 8+, the range gets far wider, with Design, Multi Models and Tuning Kits. As usual, if we can give you any further guidance, please let us know.

You can check out our full Meccano range here.

Meccano Is In The Building

Just a very quick post - we've been promising the arrival of Meccano for ages now, in our newsletters, coming soon pages and in our retail store. We're pleased to say that it's arrived. We're hugely proud to associate ourselves with this classic brand and there's loads of stunning kits to pick from with both classic and contemporary designs. Retail customers can already view the range in store. For our online customers - sorry you'll have to wait a little longer - we'll post here when it's available to purchase online - hopefully in the next day or two.

Crazy Bones Explorers Now In Stock

Attention all Crazy Bones fans! Finally - the wait seems to have lasted forever. We're pleased to announce that we now have Explorer Crazy Bones in stock. The third series of Crazy Bones has been hugely anticipated and contains another 80 characters to collect.

As with the previous Crazy Bones releases, stock is limited at the moment, so buy quickly to make sure you don't miss out. We also have extremelly limited quantities of the new album.

Get your hands on Explorer Crazy Bones here.

Sylvanian Families Caravans

The latest arrival in our ever growing range of Sylvanian Families at Bus Stop Toy Shop is the brand new caravan. Designed to be towed by the family car, this product is already going down a storm with all you Sylvanian fans. Containing over 30 accessories, it's a gorgeous addition to the range.

Check out our full range of Sylvanian Families here.

Thumb Wrestling Federation Rings Now In Stock

At last we have them. Hoorah! The much sought after Thumb Wrestling Federation wrestling rings have arrived at Bus Stop Toy Shop. Each ring comes complete with the very cool 'Ouch' thumb wrestler. Stock is limited, so act fast.

Jump over to our Thumb Wrestling Federation page, to check out the rings.

New Sylvanian Families In Stock

Just a quick note to update everyone on new Sylvanian Families stock. We've taken delivery of three fancy new families for your collection - it's one of our favourite things in the shop at the moment, so keep an eye on the blog for even more Sylvanian products arriving.

In the meantime, check out the Sylvanian Bramble Hedgehogs, Honeybears and Chocolate Rabbits (pictured).

Pokemon Platinum Arrives

The dawn of a new Pokemon Era is upon us. Pokemon Platinum launches for the Pokemon Trading Card Game today, ahead of the new Console Game next month and the new TV series later in the year.

It's terribly exciting - we were salivating when we saw the two new theme decks, featuring Shaymin and Giratina. Wow! The boosters also look like there's a pile of cool stuff to get too.

Check out the new Pokemon Platinum products here.

Hama Restocks

With apologies to our Hama Bead regulars, we've been out of stock on a couple of essentials (Ironing Paper, Mixed Solid Beads) for a couple of weeks. We're sorry! We've also been a little thin on the ground on our Maxi Hama range.

Anyway, we've rectified the problem now. Just about everything is back in stock. We've also added three colours to our already huge range of 1000 bead bags: Brown, Burgundy and Orange.

You can check our entire Hama range here.

Toy Fair 2009

I thought I'd just let all our regular readers know about this year's toy fair at Excel in London.

Bus Stop paid a visit on the opening day, when all the media types were around. We did some celeb spotting for you, of course. We were barely in 5 minutes when we encountered a couple of muscle bound Gladiators - Battle Axe and the pretty-boy one with the long hair. Next we were somewhat surprised, whilst browsing the Playmobil 2009 line up, to discover Samanda of Big Brother fame perusing beside us.

However the jewel in the crown came whilst Bus Stop was enjoying a sandwich in the main concourse of Excel. A vision of blue came jogging past, and on glancing up, it turned out to be none other than Sportacus (wife and eldest daughter very jealous when they heard). The geek in Bus Stop Toy Shop was hugely dissappointed to manage to miss the Tech Deck world champion in action and we're lead to belive that Brian Blessed was around too, but we didn't spot him.

Anyway - enough chat about celebs. On the toy front, it was great to see the industry in such bouyant mood, despite the current economic climate. We saw more superb new products than you can shake a stick at.

Amongst our current favourites, we saw some great new Magno-z and got a sneek preview of the new series of Crazy Bones. The toys coming out for the launch of the new Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds TV series also look fantastic. As we suspected, Thumb Wrestling Federation looks like it will be huge.

There's also a whole raft of new, exciting brands coming to Bus Stop Toy Shop over the coming year, but we won't spoil any surprises - you'll just have to keep checking back.