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.

Thumb Wrestling Federation Arrives at Bus Stop

Get ready to do battle as the Mighty Dexteras take on the Sinistras for control of the Thumb Wrestling Federation.

Each of the foil packs contain one of the 58 thumb wrestling characters available to collect. Who will win the tussle for control of the Thumb Wrestling Federation? You can help decide with your very own team of TWF thumb wrestlers.

Check out the Thumb Wrestling Federation collection here.

Huge Increase in our Thomas & Friends Range

Since we started stocking the Take Along Thomas & Friends die-cast railway system early last year, we've been quietly acquiring a legion of Thomas The Tank Engine Fans. As always at Bus Stop Toy Shop, we seek to bring you more of what you love. So today, we can reveal a massive increase in our range of trains. Duck, Murdoch, Sir Handel, Rheneas, Toby, Fearless Freddie and, of course, all the usual suspects plus a great many more besides. Enjoy!

Jump on over to the website and check out our Take Along Thomas range.

Barack Obama's Daughter Loves Uglydoll

Check out the recent picture of Barack Obama's daughter sporting the Lil' Ugly, Babo's Bird on her backpack over on the official Uglydoll Blog. It seems that wherever you look, people know just how cool Uglydolls are.

If you live in the UK, you can pick from our huge range of ultra-cool Uglydolls here.

Crazy Bones Back In Stock

With apologies to our regulars, we've been out of Crazy Bones for a few days. You see, Santa just wanted so many packets to put in stockings that we had none left over.

Anyway, we're pleased to tell all you Gogo's Crazy Bones fans that they're now back in stock. That's both the original series and the new Evolution packs.

What are you waiting for - grab your Crazy Bones.

Gormiti Series Two Lands

We've been looking forward to this forever - the eagerly anticipated Series 2 Gormiti figures have arrived in stock, and they look great!

We're particularly excited by the new 12cm Magnetic Gormiti figures (pictured) - they're really cool - you can interchange the parts and create characters of your very own.

Check out the new Gormitis now.

Bean Expanding The Range

Further to our post a couple of weeks back, just a quick blog today to let you know that the restock of Beanworld products is nearly complete. Most of the gaps in the Bean Parade have now been filled, all the cards are back in and there's some more keyrings to pick from too.

Oh, and it's still the simplest way we've come across to sort those hard-to-buy-for Christmas presents. Check out Bean World.

Magno-z Black Rainbow Warrior

Ever wanted one of the Magno-z Special Characters? Yes, you and thousands of others. Well, we have good news! As a special Christmas treat, we're giving you the chance to own the Black Rainbow Warrior. Simply buy four Magno-z tins for £24 and we'll guarantee to include the most famous Magnoman of all. Please go quickly, this is an extremely limited offer. Get your Magno-z Black Rainbow Warrior here.

A Quick Stock Update

A few bits and bobs of note into stock today.

Zeebeez make a welcome return to Bus Stop Toy Shop. Pop, catch and spin. All good fun. We've also got all the original colours of Gellibaff back - our biggest ever online seller. We've got all the new colours too - enjoy!

The Crazy Bones craziness continues - we've got everything back in stock (for now - go quick!) That even includes the much sought after pouches. Wow!

Finally, the delightful Bamboo Panda family (pictured) has arrived for Sylvanian Families. Still plenty of time to order for Christmas - we've got the Bus Stop Elves on overtime.

More Sylvanian Families

As promised in one of our posts last week, we've now taken delivery of a couple of more Sylvanian Families products. The popular Baby Carry Cases are back, and we've also added the delightful Esme's Camping Set (pictured) to the range.

Oh, but we haven't finished yet. Keep your eyes peeled, there's more Sylvanian Families to come.

Wishing You An Ugly Christmas

Christmas gets Ugly with Bus Stop Toy Shop. We've had a big restock on our friends the Uglydolls today. If you've yet to come across the most sought after soft toy on the planet, then you need to check them out.

Babo (pictured) is currently taking a starring role in the latest HSBC advert, but he's just the beginning. He has loads of Uglydoll sidekicks that can't wait to make friends with you (and maybe steal from your cookie jar, if you're not careful.) As our regular customers will know, popular styles go fast, so jump in and get the ones you want quickly.

Check out our huge range of Uglydolls here.

Full Automoblox Range Now In Stock

One of our favourite products in the shop for a while now has been the Automoblox Minis. Stylish toy cars that are, well, just a bit special. So, it was only a matter of time before their bigger brothers arrived.

We're pleased to bring you the whole range of Automoblox - special toy cars for special children.

Bean World is Back

It's Bean A While (sorry last Bean/Been Joke, I promise) since we've had a stock update on our Bean World products. Well finally, one of our favourite collectables has the exposure it deserves.

If you've never come across Bean World before, they're a fabulous range of Bean Bag soft toys that are, well, beans. Great to collect and great for a simple solution to that hard to buy present, there really is a bean for everyone. Check out our range of Bean World Soft Toys here.

Even More Groovy Girls

Yes, we confess. We can't resist it. Our latest order has arrived, and we've once again expanded our range of Groovy Girls products. We already adore the Pinktastic Retro Roller, and there's plenty more besides. What are you waiting for? Check out our whole Groovy Girl range here.

Sylvanian Families Arrives at Bus Stop Toy Shop

We're forever using this blog to tell you about what's new and cool, but today a change. We're delighted to announce that just in time for Christmas, we've brought the ever popular and highly sought after Sylvanian Families into stock. There's only a few items there just now (Rose Cottage, the Family Car, the Pizza Parlour, and an adorable Persian Cat Baby), but there's more arriving as the week progresses. Wow! We love Sylvanian Families already - check them out here.

Hama Maxi - Huge Restock

We're not quite sure why we're suddenly selling so much Maxi Hama. (Not that we ever complain about these things, of course!) We've always loved the stuff and almost overnight the world seems to have cottoned on to what's so good about it.

Maxi Hama is a bead design system, much like the Hama Midi Beads for older children. It's superb for developing hand eye co-ordination and the best thing about it, is that it allows children as young as three to create a work of art that looks really good. Bus Stop's eldest daughter is a huge fan and has her designs all over her room.

Anyway, we couldn't ignore this recent trend in sales, and we're proud to unveil our largest ever range of Maxi Hama Beads. Check them out. They're an ideal gift for any child of 3 or 4 years old.

Crossroads of Chaos

The new Yu-Gi-Oh booster launches today - it's called Crossroads of Chaos and it's already going down a storm! It makes great additions to Zombie, Plant and Spellcaster decks, as well as featuring 30 monsters featured in Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds. You can now get your hands on the morphotronic monsters, as well as Turbo Warrior and the awe inspiring Black Rose Dragon. These cards will be making their way into top level decks, so grab some packs quick - stocks everywhere are already running low!

Get Crossroads of Chaos boosters in the UK here.