At World Alive head quarters we are working on the coolest new products for Aqua Dragons.
And as we like to keep our fans up to date, we will show you a little bit of what we are working on now.
This is what will become the new product line of Aqua Dragons, named Aqua Dragons Jurassic Time Travel, with a new cool egg shaped tank, new features, and as always, lots of fun!
Goods will be hitting the shelves next year so you will have to wait for the moment ;)
En la oficina central de World Alive estamos trabajando en los productos más atractivos para Aqua Dragons.
Y como nos gusta mantener a nuestros fans informados, os enseñaremos una pequeña muestra de lo que tenemos entre manos.
Esta es la que se convertirá en la nueva línea de producto de Aqua Dragons, llamadaAqua Dragons Jurassic Time Travel, con una nueva pecera con forma de huevo, nuevas características y como siempre, ¡mucha diversión!
Esta nueva línea la saldrá a la venta el año que viene, así que por ahora deberéis esperar un poco. ;)
Today Aqua Dragons all over the world are blowing bubbles and celebrating the win of a new prestigious award from the Creative Child Magazine of the Top Toy Of The Year 2013!
Creative Child Magazine's Awards Program is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by parents, children, educators and professionals alike. Products are reviewed by many people-including the very people who purchase them, and the overall computation of positive votes based on all these different points of view is what sums up the winning products.
The Creative Child Magazine is a national US publication that provides parents with the latest information on how to nurture their child's creativity and is a respected and followed opinion maker on everything to do with fostering creativity in children.
With this award the Aqua Dragons now hold three of the World top toy titles in just one year, that an impressive trio! Previously the British Toy and Hobby Association, and Tillywig awarded us with “Best new hobby toy of 2013” and the “Sterling fun award of 2013”. Hip Hip Hooray!!!!!!!!!
Hoy, los Aqua Dragons de todo el mundo están nadando y celebrando la obtención de un nuevo y prestigioso premio otorgado por the Creative Child Magazine como Top Toy del año 2013!
Los premios de la revista Creative Child son únicos ya que todos los productos que participan son valorados por padres, hijos y profesionales del sector educativo. Los productos son revisados por mucha gente - incluyendo todos aquellos que incluso compraron el mismo- y el conjunto de los votos positivos están basados en esos puntos de vista, que acaban por seleccionar los productos ganadores.
La revista Creative Child es una publicación estadounidense que informa a los padres sobre como alimentar la creatividad de los pequeños de la casa, además, tienen una opinión respetada y seguida sobre todo lo que hacer para avivar la creatividad en los niños.
Con este galardón, los Aqua Dragons poseen ya tres de los mejores títulos en tan solo un año, menudo trío más impresionante! Anteriormente la asociación Británica de Toy and Hobby, y Twylling nos premiaron con "Mejor juguete de 2013" y el "Sterling fun award de 2013". Hip Hip Hurra!
Over the last few months we have seen many comments on twitter and in Facebook page www.facebook.com/aquadragonswa about whether Aqua Dragons are Sea Monkeys rebranded. Aqua Dragons are not Sea Monkeys but sometimes people get mixed up and use Sea Monkeys as a generic name for brine shrimp, or artemia, aka Aqua Dragons, a bit like people say they are hoovering for vacuuming when Hoover is a brand and they are probably using an electrolux anyway!
So we´d like to clarify in a public post,....Whilst both Sea Monkeys and Aqua Dragons are brine shrimp growing kits they are not associated companies or products at all, in fact they are competitive brands. It´s a bit like Pepsi and Coke, both competing cola drinks and two different formulas.
Aqua Dragons have a two pouch system (eggs and food), the food is our own unique formula, not used by any other parties worldwide. We developed this in conjuntion with a consulting biologist and it is very nutritionally effective, so much so that in our testing the Aqua Dragons were reproducing directly in the tank rather than laying eggs that would hatch after drying and laying dormant which is how the artemia often produce eggs. Scientific studies show that artemia salina only produce live offspring when they have optimum water conditions and feeding conditions, which our system provides.
In any case we´d like to express our respect and afection for all brine shrimp, aka artemia salina worldwide no matter what brand they come under!
En los útimos meses hemos visto muchos comentarios en twitter y en nuestra página de facebook www.facebook.com/aquadragonswa sobre si los Aqua Dragons nos los Sea Monkeys bajo otro nombre. Los Aqua Dragons no son Sea Monkeys pero amenudo la gente se confunde y usa Sea Monkeys como un nombre genérico para la Artemia, también llamados Aqua Dragons, así como cuando una persona pide un cleenex en vez de un pañuelo de papel, y probablemente no están usando un Cleenex ya que es el nombre de la marca.
Así que nos gustaría aclararlo en un post público... Mientras que Sea Monkeys y Aqua Dragons son kits para criar a tus artemias salinas, no son compañías ni productos asociados, de hecho, son marcas competitivas. Es un poco como Pepsi y Coca Cola, ambas marcas competitivas en la fabricación de cola pero con dos fórmulas distintas.
Aqua Dragons tiene un sistema de dos sobres (huevos y comida), la comida es una fórmula propia nuestra, no está usada en ningún otro sitio en el mundo. Nosotros desarrollamos esta fórmula junto a un biólogo y es muy nutritiva y efectiva, tanto que los tests que realizamos con Aqua Dragons, se reproducían directamente en la pecera en vez de desprender los huevos que eclosionarían después de secarse, que es como las artemia normalmente producen sus huevos. Estudios científicos han demostrado que la artemia salina solo produce huevos cuando tienen unas condiciones en el agua óptimas así como las de alimentación, lo que precisamente nuestro sistema ofrece.
En cualquier caso, nos gustaría expresar nuestro respeto y afecto a todas las artemias salina, llamadas así en todo el mundo ¡independientemente de que marca sean!
This week we published news about our recent win of the Tillywig Sterling Fun award and here are two ecos of that in the international toy press in ToyNews and ToyWorldMag;
Those little crustaceans have done it again! Less than a year since their official launch and the Aqua Dragons have won a second prestigous award. As you may have read the first award was awarded by the British Toy and Hobby Association, after the Aqua Dragons were voted the Best New Hobby Toy of 2013 by retailers at the London toy fair 2013.
Now, Tillywig Toy Awards have awarded them the Tillywig Sterling Fun Award. Tillywig product awards are given on the basis of group play tests with consumers, the primary purpose of which is evaluating the entertainment and/or educational value of the products submitted.
So that means the Aqua Dragons are highly appreciated by both the retailers and the consumers alike! And we are so happy about it. We at World Alive are very grateful for this award which is keeping us very focused on developing more top quality additions to the line so every child can have their very own little live ecosystem in a tank, Aqua Dragons.
World-Alive is presenting new additions to the Aqua Dragons and World Alive brands for 2014 at London´s Distoy 2013 trade meeting. If you are coming to Distoy this year dont´t forget to contact us to book your presentation!
The Aqua Dragons line of "hatch and grow your very own live acuatic creatures kits´" has achieved sellout success in the UK as well as winning the Best New Hobby Toy of 2013, and is now crossing the pond to North America at the hands of Imports Dragon.
Founded in 1998 in Canada, Imports Dragon is now among the fastest-growing toy & game companies in North America. With offices in Toronto, Montreal, California and Hong Kong, Imports Dragon has achieved success in a multitude of sales channels domestically and internationally as both a manufacturer and distributor for some of the hottest toy products from around the world.
Located in Boisbriand Quebec, the head office, showroom, and warehousing facilities are home to 30 dedicated employees and over
50 000 square feet of hot products on-hand and ready to ship to our retail partners across North America at anytime.
Recognized in Canada for their generous charitable efforts within the community (2012 RCPHL Community Award Winner) as well as their outstanding retailer partnerships (Toys R Us Canada - 2012 Vendor of the Year), Imports Dragon remains one of the most talked about players in the toy industry today.
Check out the Aqua Dragons TV ad, coming soon to North America.
We are pleased and proud to annouce this collaboration between World Alive and Imports Dragon and we hope that it will permit us to provide Aqua Dragons to every life cycle curious child in North America for a long time to come.
Matt
Hannafin is the owner of a little store in Old Town Fort Collins called Science Toy Magic LLC, in Colorado. It
is exclusively dedicated to selling magical or scientific toys. In his own
words, "You won’t find any dolls here."
Furthermore,
his retail store is crammed with toys he says were first sold by him – some
even designed by him – and some that he says can’t be found anywhere else.
What has
all of this to do with our Aqua Dragons? You may wonder. Matt came to visit us while we were at the New York toy fair and told us his endearing story about how he has discovered and been the first person to retail many innovative science products for the first time in the US and he bought some Aqua Dragons effectively taking the record for first retailer there too
Here you
have a video where he shows his famous store:
Here's a picture of Matt with the Aqua Dragons in hand.
Indeed,
Matt won’t read this post as he doesn’t have Internet, but we hope you will
read it!
Matt Hannafin es el propietario de una tienda ubicada en Old
Town Fort Collins, Colorado. Pero no es una tienda cualquiera, se trata de una
tienda dedicada exclusivamente a la venta de juguetes mágicos o científicos. En sus propias palabras, “No encontrarás
ninguna muñeca aquí”.
Además asegura que su tienda está llena de productos que
vendió él por primera vez en Estados Unidos, otros incluso diseñados por él y algunos
que no se pueden encontrar en ningún otro lugar.
¿Qué tiene que ver Matt con nuestros Aqua Dragons?, os
preguntaréis. Pues bien, Matt se ha encargado de ser el propietario de la
primera tienda en vender Aqua Dragons en Estados Unidos. Le hemos otorgado un
certificado que así lo acredita. En nuestro caso, con toda la naturalidad del
mundo, Matt se acercó a nuestro stand en la feria de Nueva York y nos explicó
su entrañable historia, además de comprarnos algunos kits de Aqua Dragons para
poder así certificar que fue el primero en ofrecerlo en su país.
Os dejamos con un vídeo donde muestra su famoso
establecimiento:
Por cierto, Matt no podrá leer este post porque no tiene
Internet, ¡pero esperamos que vosotros sí lo hagáis! ;)
