onies Toniebox Starter Set incl 1 Creative Character, Audio
onies Toniebox Starter Set incl 1 Creative Character, Audio Music Player Speaker for Audiobooks Songs for Kids, Kid's Gifts, Screen-free Early Learning Toys, Wireless Speaker, 7 Hr Battery, Grey
| Dimensions: | 12 x 12 x 12 cm; 1.62 Kilograms |
| Model: | Starterkit Grey |
| Material: | Fabric |
| Colour: | Grey |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Age: | 3 years and up |
| Dimensions: | 12 x 12 x 12 cm; 1.62 Kilograms |
| Material: | Fabric |
Our daughter loves this, she picked up on how to use it very quickly. Feels durable and the characters are lovely. was a little fiddly to set up but once up and running very easy to add content and record your own through app. Very happy, I think it will give years of use 🙂
This is the best gift I’ve ever given. My grandson adores it. It’s so easy to use and he loves recording onto the creative tonies
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I bought this product for my granddaughter’s birthday (3). She absolutely loved it from the start and picked up the controls very quickly. I added a Peppa Pig story character and a song character to get her started as I wanted her parents to be able to use the creative with her. She spent the end of her birthday afternoon lying on the floor, eyes closed, listening to the stories and using her imagination. Perfect!
It’s great for use in the car or getting a child to relax when going to bed/sleep.
The battery is supposed to last for seven hours but we have not had it in use long enough to test it out yet. It takes 3 hours to fully charge but I couldn’t see how to tell when it is fully charged.
The sound is good but not too loud or bass-y. We wouldn’t want it to get too loud both for the child’s safety and parents’ comfort!
If you don’t have one , get one! Great for all ages
My 3 and half year old loves her Tonie. It’s a good quality item but the individual storybook characters are quite pricy – so can get expensive quickly. some can also be hard to get hold of.
great buy and would buy 10 times over again.
My 4 year old loves it and falls asleep to i
Our little girl loves this, We use it as a music box more than for the story aspect. Love that each character comes with content but has room to add your own using the app, we add on all her favourite songs, so she can swap to the characters she wants. If you get a new character simply put it on the box wait for it to sync and it pulls the character through to the app. So easy to set up and use. Very child friendly. Charges up quickly and has good battery life. Can be used on charge or portably.
Really like the simplicity of this product. Place the character and hear the story. Sound quality and battery life seem really good but time will tell. Expensive for what it is but granddaughter happy so I am to
Kidproof!! Seriously it really is, it’s the type of toy a child will never tire of, the starter pack ( my purchase) blown away with it!! Thank you Tonies xx
I am able to read a story and send it to the device. Any book can be read or message sent with the app.For Grandparents who are living away or isolated this is a great way to be involved in your little persons life
We bought this for.one of our grandkids and were so impressed we bought another for others. Amazong that we can read a story at our house for them and then they can upload to their Tonie. Its just fabulous!!!
Grandson loved it, but his attention to it was quite short lived.
Supposed to get the child away from “screens”, it may be too late for the over two’s who are now screen orientated?
Best advice would be to never introduce your child to “screen” devices. Get this first !
But easy to use, great idea. Especially if you don’t have time to read to your child in the first place?
Bought as a birthday present for my 3 year old son. Along with the Peppa Pig character he loves it. The character that comes with it can also be customised with your own story book, songs etc. Sound quality is really good and the tactile controls didn’t take long for him to learn.
This is a great product.
Bought this for a 4th birthday present and it’s absolutely brilliant. Sound quality and battery life don’t disappoint, and the variety of Tonie’s available to buy is fantastic. Love that it’s screen and wifi free meaning it can be taken anywhere.
One of the best purchase for my 1.5 old toddler. She loves it sooooo much. In morning she runs to put the music before anything else. During the day she puts a story to listen. We have it for a few weeks already, and she is not bored yet, even if we have just 4 of toniest.
I would say only only minus, how expensive tonies are. But in the same time, they are business and they created something really emazing for kids.
Love love love our tonie boxes! This is the 2nd one we’ve got- one in each of our daughters bedroom. So easy to use and the children love choosing a character at bedtime to decide what stories to listen to.
I love this it’s great my blind autistic son loves Julia Donaldson story’s and with this he can pick and listen to which one he wants to listen to HE NEEDS MORE JULIA DONALDSON TONIES LOL MAKE MORE (super worm,Tiddlers late) are two of his favourites but unfortunately they don’t have them x he loves gruffalo which he has n also room on the broom x worth every penny X
It’s basically a sturdy material enclosed speaker that you put characters on that play music, songs, games and audio stories. Needs internet access. Easy for my son to use. Has ‘little ears’ that turns it on and turns sound up/ down. Seems to have a good battery life once charged as it can be carried around the house.
This is genius. And I mean genius. Both my kids (5 & 2) absolutely love it. It’s made bedtime so much easier. I can’t praise this enough. Ok the characters at 15 quid each are a little expensive. That would be the only downside.
So far I have mixed feelings regarding the toniebox. I wish there was a way to skip tracks without hitting the sides as we seem to have to really whack it, often causing the tonie character to fall off the top. This seems to be worse with the creative Tonie. The top of the box is already marked up from the tonies falling off, considering we only opened it 20 minutes ago, this is very disappointing. I can’t fault the sound quality of the speakers and it seems well made/durable. As others have said, the set up can take some time so best to do it before giving it to your child but it’s not particularly difficult. So far our children love it and it keeps them off screens. Time will tell as to whether it holds their interest long term.
My son has been a nightmare to get to sleep on his own, but now we have something that works! He loves listening to pre-recorded stories read by myself on the creative Tonie. He can also control it completely on his own and loves putting the different figures on. He’s asking for them for Christmas this year! Highly recommended.
My kids love this. We bought it for our daughters birthday and are getting my son one for Christmas because he loves hers so much. Can’t wait to get a few more tonies. So easy to use. My son is 2 and he knows how to put it on.
This Is the second tonie box I have purchased for nieces and nephews. The first one was purchased over a year ago and it’s a toy my niece always goes back to. I am hoping this one will also provide the same entertainment. Love the fact that little ones can use this completely on their own and select which story/music they want to listen to without being glued to a screen and being interuppted by annoying ads! Very sturdy and well made for clumsy fingers.
I am probably wrong, but I didn’t want him to only be able to use it with MY wi-fi.
Also, they had difficulty setting up a Gruffalo Tonie.
A very clever concept for children. My two sons who are 3 and 1 love it, they both know how to put the tonies on to hear the audio. We have also got my Dad reading them stories that are then uploaded to the creative tonie you get in the box.
Seems really robust and something I believe my children will play with for years to come.
Customer service was also good and they helped with a few queries I had before we purchased it.
One small gripe is the setup initially can be fidly. Took us around 30 minuites to get it connected to our WiFi. Never had issues like this before.
The toniebox is very nice looking although slightly heavier that I anticipated its still easy for my 2 year old to carry about
Set up was fairly straightforward but it did take me 3 attempts, we got 2 creatives and 1 story.
Adding content to the creatives was pretty simple and quick
It’s easy to use, my 2 year old has sussed it out fairly quickly and is able to skip the track/story although this is slightly more difficult for her
Overall I am glad I got it, we uploaded my daughters favourite YouTube songs and I feel good knowing she can enjoy these without having the TV or tablet on
We have got family members to record stories for her which is great given the current lockdow
The Toni is very well designed and of very high quality. The only issue is trying to download on to the creative Toni, especially from an Iphone, where the instructions could be a little more detailed rather than relying on bogs or customer frequently asked questions.
Remember to set up the cloud registration when prompted (i thought I could go to it later, wrong!) What you’re aiming for is a static green light
I even put some things on the creative Tonie which came with the box. There is a free story and song to download to your device and then upload via the Cloud to your tonie. To record your voice etc, you need the app (free).
I think this is great, I love that it has no screen and is so child friendly.
It didn’t get 5 stars because I had to choose between lime green and grey…my daughter I’m sure would have chosen pink, red or purple!
I also couldn’t ‘rewind’ to the start of a story without tilting the box repeatedly which was a bit tedious.
Otherwise, really impressed!
Where do I start, this tonies box is a fantastic idea and a brilliant product!! Available in a variety of different colours and do many stories you can buy for it. I love that it comes with a little tonie to start with that you can record your own story on. Clear sound, easy to set up just have to download an app on your phone which is quick and easy to use, and off you go it ready for your little ones to listen to. Highly recommended this product.
He loves it. I’m not sure whether he will in 6 months time but right now he plays with it most days. He prefers the songs and isn’t too interested in the books read over it (though that may come).
I like the design (squashy, droppable etc) but I find it really frustrating that there is no possibility of scooting through songs or back to a song that he likes. You basically need to listen to the whole recorded matter (so 15 songs) with no ability to miss one out. So when he asks to play something again you can’t. I personally find that frustrating (and so does he)…
Would I buy it again? Yes. He enjoys putting the little figures on top. But I would have given it 5 stars if there was more control in what he could listen to. Currently the only control you have is volume.
Positives, it’s a lovely item, because it’s so basic there’s no temptation for little one to get out of bed and mess about with it, the characters are cute and it’s easy for our toddler to use. Both us parents easily downloaded the app and found it really simple to add content for the creative Tonie and the content was there pretty much instantly.
Negatives, I think some of the tonies are quite pricey, for example, the gruffalo is one story, but Favourite Tales is 5 so is better value… It was also tricky to set up and took a few goes but nothing major enough to drop to a 4 star rating. Its fab.