Tonies makes a screen-free imaginative audio toybox and accessories for kids 3 and up.

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Tonie Box

Toys

Baby & Kids

Lovely product! My daughter enjoys playing with the tonies and I’m happy it’s a great alternative to videos

At first I was so annoyed by this gift. You have to download an app, there's a learning curve to it, and my baby couldn't care less about it. But now he's two+ and we've gotten the hang of it. He's in a good phase of playing independently, and he can zone out with the tonies or have it on in the background while playing with blocks for hours (jk, minutes. But it feels like hours when I can just be in a separate room and sit down.) As he gets into new characters from books and movies we can order the corresponding tony and he gets so excited!

Yes, yes and yes. Love the branding, works great! 

So freaking cute and amazing to keep screens away. 

The product is funny…. There is a lot of different stories, it’s a good idea of gift for little kids, and the figurines are cute. The only problem for me is that it’s too big, you can’t take it with you if you want to travel…

I bought one of these for my toddler—I love the idea of having something that isn't a screen.

Overall, I like it. I do find that the toybox + app is glitchy. For example, during setup, I had to redo it a couple times because the app kept freezing up. Then, once it was setup, I realized I had set the volume max on the app to a certain point but was unable to change it back to the original setting. I found online that other people had this error and the fix was you had to remove the tonie box from your account and re-do the setup process again. So that was defintely a drawback.

Once it started working, my toddler really liked it. He loves switching the characters and going forward/backwards to other stories, etc. I will say, a majority of the Disney characters/stories aren't the 'original' ones. I realized that when I was listening to Toy Story that the voices are slightly different. It wasn't a big deal to my toddler, but was kind of a bummer for me TBH. 

I also bought some of the meditation / deep breath tonies, which I really like for him. And I'm excited to try the creative tonies (I haven't yet, but will hopefully soon). 

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