The new eeBoo season arrives in the Bobangles warehouse around early July, and the backorder window is now open on bobangles.com.au. The drop covers the next titles in five established 1000-piece puzzle series, four standalone 1000-piece titles, six new games, three new Match & Make sets, three new Little Memory formats, and refreshed mini-puzzle and Tiny Journal CDUs.
No deposit at checkout. We invoice on dispatch. Stock is allocated in placement order, so a backorder placed this week sits ahead of one placed in three weeks for the same SKU.
This post is your guide to the drop and the merchandising stories behind each section.
Why eeBoo, why we keep coming back
eeBoo has been a Bobangles partner brand for more than a decade and currently ranks #3 by units sold across all Bobangles retailers. Founded in 1996 by Mia Galison in New York, eeBoo is a women-led, family-run company built on two principles that have not shifted in 30 years: every product carries original artwork commissioned from a named illustrator, and every product is made from recycled and sustainable materials.
The sustainability story is the real one, not a recent rebrand. eeBoo has used 90% recycled materials and vegetable-based inks for nearly three decades. All paper products carry FSC certification. The company is certified carbon neutral via Climate Partner. Packaging now ships in the Good Green Bag, a plant-based compostable alternative to plastic. For retailers running a values-led edit, this is one of the few puzzle ranges where the sustainability claim holds up to the shelf-talker.
The artist model is the other half. Each puzzle and game features artwork by a named, independent illustrator (predominantly women), credited on the box. Select 1000-piece puzzles include a QR code linking to a Spotify playlist curated by the artist. No other Bobangles puzzle brand offers this depth of artist provenance.
The commercial proof point: the eeBoo Kitchen Series has moved 1,223 units across 10 titles through Bobangles retailers in the last six months. Customers buy one title, come back for the next. The new season extends every collector series in the range.
How eeBoo backorder works
Browse the new lines on your wholesale account at bobangles.com.au. Add to a backorder cart. No deposit. We invoice the day the container clears the warehouse. Allocation runs in placement order. For series titles where collectors are already lined up, that order matters.
If you want a hand building the right mix for your store, we can walk through it with you on a call.
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The Kitchen, English Cottage and Alchemist series get their next title
Strawberry Kitchen is the tenth title in the Kitchen Series, the same warm-interior story that drove Floral Cupboard to 195 units in 6 months. Pink walls, cottage windows, jam on toast, two cats on the chair. Pair it on the Kitchen Series table with the existing nine titles and let collectors fill the gap themselves.
English Cottage Library is the next title in the English Cottage Series, a literary-puzzle subset that sits cleanly in bookshops and gift stores with a British-cosy customer. Stacked books, a sleeping cat, sailing-ship models on the shelf. The cottage-library theme runs straight into Books & Tea by the Sea below.
Alchemist's Studio extends the Alchemist Series. A woman in a yellow dress mixing pigments, a cat at her feet, jars of botanicals on the shelves. Fits naturally next to the Sorcerer Workshop series for retailers building a fantasy and folklore puzzle bay.
Hero pick for the section: Strawberry Kitchen. The Kitchen Series is the proven repeat-purchase title in the eeBoo range, and Strawberry Kitchen gives existing Kitchen Series stockists a new fixture anchor.
Three more series titles: Sorcerer, Village by the Sea, Travel
Sorcerer's Workshop is the next title in the Sorcerer Series. A black cat on a windowsill, a raven, stained glass, candles, jars of mysteries. Pair with Alchemist's Studio for a single fantasy-and-folklore display bay.
Books & Tea by the Sea is the next Village by the Sea Series title. Four women around a table loaded with cake, tea, books and flowers, with shop awnings out the window. This one runs as the cross-brand anchor in any bookshop puzzle wall and pairs with Cavallini botanical wrapping for the gift-table cross-sell.
Artists Amsterdam is the next Travel Series title. Canal houses, bicycles, a market scene. Sits next to Paris Christmas, Paris in Autumn and the rest of the European-city titles for retailers running a travel-and-cities puzzle edit.
Merchandise it: a single themed bay with the three new titles face-out alongside the existing series volumes. Collectors recognise the series art direction at a glance and come back for the next one.
Four standalone 1000-piece titles
New England Wharf is a working-harbour scene. Lobster shops, general store, fishing boats, gulls. Strong fit for coastal-town gift stores and any retailer running a maritime themed edit.
Paris in Autumn extends the Paris range. Sacré-Coeur, Notre-Dame, autumn trees, market awnings, a cyclist. Pair with Paris Christmas as a two-title Paris fixture, or run alongside Artists Amsterdam as the European-cities edit.
Country Fair is village-green territory. Striped market tents, sunflowers, a stone church, crowds on the green. Slots into bookshops, regional gift stores and any retailer with an English countryside customer.
French Medieval Songbirds is the most decorative of the four. Birds, butterflies, flowers, all stacked in a folk-art symmetry. Works as a counter-hero 1000-piece for a botanical or nature display table.
Hero pick: New England Wharf for coastal stores, Country Fair for inland gift and bookshop accounts.
All-new games: a six-SKU games refresh
The dice-game format extends with Roll for the Dinosaur and Roll for the Castle, ages 4+, $12.95 wholesale. Both run as imagine-and-create dice games with glow-in-the-dark detail and a strong character pull at the toy-store shelf.
Kitten's Time for Tea ($22.95 wholesale) is the new spinner-game format. The same illustration style that built the Kitten's Tea Party puzzle, in a game format that works for ages 3+ and parent-led play.
Animal Rummy and two Go Fish card titles ($8.95 to $9.95 wholesale) extend the eeBoo playing-card range. These are counter-and-impulse heroes, gift-ready format, every box illustrated.
The Giant Shiny Cottage Fairies Dominoes is the new dominoes hero. 28 oversized illustrated pieces, gift-box format, $19.95 wholesale.
Merchandise it: build out the games section with the new format mix (dice, spinner, cards, dominoes) rather than stocking one of each. The eeBoo games section sells as a collection and rewards depth.
Memory and Match & Make: the early-years refresh
Match & Make is the new $9.95 wholesale memory format with three openers: Meadow, Sea Life and Vehicles. Each set lets players match a card to a coordinating image to build a scene. Three themes covering the main early-years splits (nature, ocean, transport) without internal cannibalisation.
The Little Memory format adds three more $12.95 wholesale titles: Little Pets, Little Sea Life and Trucks & Bus. Smaller-format memory and matching games designed for early-years dexterity and pre-school stockists.
Merchandise it: a dedicated early-years memory and matching bay, all six new titles face-out, with the existing Match & Make and Little Memory stock alongside. Sits beside Floss & Rock and Mudpuppy in the kids' zone of any premium toy store.
Hero picks: Match & Make Meadow for nature-led stores, Little Sea Life for aquarium and coastal gift shops.
Mini Puzzles and Tiny Journals: the counter restock
The 36-piece Mini Puzzles ship in a counter display unit covering four illustrated themes. Pocket-money price point, party-bag format, designed to live on the counter rather than fight for shelf space.
The Tiny Journal CDU by Jill Howarth covers six character-led mini-journal designs. Hedgehog with strawberry, fox with apple, frog with banjo, raccoon with accordion. $4.95 to $6.95 wholesale, gift-wrappable, ideal for the under-$10 counter section that drives basket-builder sales.
Merchandise it: both CDUs ship counter-ready. Drop them straight on the counter, no rebuild required. The Tiny Journals also work as a Christmas stocking edit in November.
Lock in your eeBoo allocation
Backorders are open now on bobangles.com.au. No deposit, invoiced on dispatch, allocated in placement order. For the series titles (Kitchen, English Cottage, Alchemist, Sorcerer, Village by the Sea, Travel) and the standout games (Giant Shiny Dominoes, Kitten's Time for Tea), the order in which you place matters once short-run titles start to thin.
Your Bobangles rep is available to walk through the new lines, recommend a mix by store type, and confirm any timing questions on the drop.
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