Popular Christmas Toys 2010 & where to find them.

loulabella1980

stebiz wrote: »

Well popped down to Smythstoys today to collect a Chatimal, and although it says in stock - it ain't. Flying off the shelves I believe.

None in my local Argos. Tesco or Toysrus either. Any ideas?

Chatimals are £16.99 with free delivery on Play. I bought one this morning. They are not awaiting stock either as i checked with someone and they have them in stock!

daisygogo

stebiz wrote: »

Well popped down to Smythstoys today to collect a Chatimal, and although it says in stock - it ain't. Flying off the shelves I believe.

None in my local Argos. Tesco or Toysrus either. Any ideas?

Lambs toys www.lambstoys.co.uk have the chatimals in stock, they have Sophie, Max and Oscar and when you order it lets you pick which one you want 14.99

I originally bought mine from Play before realising I could get one in my local toy shop Although Play.com had them shown as 'in stock' it took about 2 weeks to arrive which caused me to panic when I remember the go go hamster situation last year, when you could place an order for stuff which took forever to arrive

daisygogo

TessieP wrote: »

lol.........I have 2 in my toy stash now in case my boys or nieces and nephews ask for one then am prepared which is highly likely, just need Bullseye now.......the search goes on

I ordered Bullseye from Tesco, found a code to give me a tenner off with free delivery to the Store

LynneM85

stebiz wrote: »

Well popped down to Smythstoys today to collect a Chatimal, and although it says in stock - it ain't. Flying off the shelves I believe.

None in my local Argos. Tesco or Toysrus either. Any ideas?

I got one at the back end of last week from Littlewoods x

stolt

Maximouse wrote: »

Did you take advantage of the on the shelf promise then?

For anyone reading this, you can check stock at your local Smyths online and if it says something is in stock, you can print out an on the shelf promise and if it isn't, they give you a £7 voucher - not bad me thinks.

got to be careful with symths, they dont do this on every toy ive noticed, they dont offer it on the stinky the garbage truck, chatimals and bullseye and lotso, anything popular.:rotfl: Although in my local store they are offering it on the monster high dolls.

stolt

tobyjones01 wrote: »

Hi Guys and Gals, this is my first post as you can see and I run a toy info/price comparison site and just thought I would let you know what parents/customers are looking for and buying now. I have been in the toy business for 10 years and the online toy business for 6 years and so we have our finger firmly on the pulse.
The build up to Christmas is always a manic time and for parents it can be a nightmare trying to find that must-have toy in December. Anyway this is the list of the top 10 most-wanted/bought over the last 3 weeks hope it helps for you to plan ahead:
1. Toy Story 3 Lotso Bear
2. Real Construction Deluxe Workshop
3. Matchbox Stinky the Garage Truck (SUPER HOT)
4. Monster High Dolls (Majority of online retailers won't get stock until the end of the month)
5. Vtech Mobigo
6. Vtech Storio
7. spynet video watch
8. toffee the pony
9. chatimals
10. lego hogwarts castle

hi is this information based on the purchases from your online business?

thanks

tobyjones01

stolt it's based on the amount of hits and sales we pass on through our price comparison table and customer feedback. We are averaging around 535000 hits a day at the moment and cover over 200 of the top toys for christmas based on TV advertising and catalogue placement, so it gives a good barometer of where the market heads, of course this isn't an exact science :-)

rach246

Phew just ordered Lotso from The brilliant gift shop, using the 20 % code. Thought I had nearly finished Christmas shopping after buying lots of presents from Argos on 3 for 2. My DD was off school poorly today and whilst I was at work decided to write her Christmas list. After looking through it I realised I have only got 2 things on her list, so going to have to do some work in convincing her she really wants some of the things I have bought instead. That will teach me for being organised!!!:rotfl: (no she really doesn't want a £150 fur real dog, or the £50 spy watch that's out of stock everywhere!)

wendyphant

stmidwife wrote: »

Not sure if this helps but if you want to order the one from Boots with points you can do this at the photo counter and then have it delivered to store so no delivery charge! If you do want to do this, take the code in store with you as it saves a lot a time! HTH!

Thanks for that I didn't know that. I have over £100 in points hooray off to boots to shop x x x can i get it delivered to the store too for free del cost? My local boots in llanishen is small so that will be easier:T

tobyjones01

(no she really doesn't want a £150 fur real dog, or the £50 spy watch that's out of stock everywhere!)

rach246 the spynet video watch comes from a company called jakks pacific who have just started their own UK distribution (same company that make real construction set) as of yet only a few retailers have had early stock. Expect to see the watch everywhere by end of month :-)