Tonies Box- worth it or a waste of money?

I think they're fab, but we have the yoto mini for our 2 year old instead. It's a cheaper alternative, really portable and has more longevity, lots of cards for as they grow. Our daughter absolutely loves hers!

I was really really tempted to get one, but when I saw all the Disney songs aren't the original movie songs and are sung by someone else, I knew my daughter wasn't going for that 🤣 I know I can make my own, then it doesn't look like the character and seems a little less exciting

We have a tonies box and I got it for my daughter with her favourite characters - peppa pig, Paddington, blippi, and JJ from cocomelon. She actually prefers free girl with the box currently and its a lot of on and off with the characters so its not exactly getting its use. I think I a few months when shes 3 and older she'll use it better. I think in the short run probably not worth it when they're younger in terms of thst they don't fully appreciate it and don't really "get" the function however it gets them used to it in the long run for when they are older.

Love our Yoto. Better longevity in my mind

We've got both the tonie and yoto and the yoto is used far more, love it

We got one when my son was 2 - We go through phases of it being used - the figures are expensive!!! Sometimes it’s on all the time and he’ll happily listen to it while playing/ at bedtime and then we can go for months of it not being used at all. I would get one second hand maybe? We’re going to get the yoto mini for my son’s 4th birthday as it’s more portable.

We have the Yoto and love it. My bff has the tonie and loves it!

Team Yoto!

We absolutely love ours! We use it everyday. He can use it himself so just pops on whatever story he fancies. Sometimes when he wakes at night he will just pop on a story and listen to it go back to sleep. That in itself is worth every penny in my opinion haha

Thank you everyone! Never heard of Yoto so I will look into this too :)

Our little girl is 8 months and loves her tonie box

We have a tonie which we LOVE but we’re going to get a yoto as well as they have different stories!

My girl is 15 months and obsessed with it, keeps her busy for ages as she loves swapping figures all the time 😂

We got the tonie box when daughter was 1 years old, she has used it every day since she got it, and she's nearly 3 now! We are screen free and having the tonie box is a life saver.
However, if I was to get one for her when she was a bit older, I would have opted for the yoto! Went for the tonie box because it seemed sturdier to me for a 1yo

We have a yoto mini and it took my LO longer to get to grips with than his friends did with their Tonies box. He’s 3.5 now and we like the Yoto as it’s compact and easy to travel with. The Tonies always seemed a bit clunky- but I think better for a younger child

Love our Tonie! He just started getting into it more at 2 y/o

I like it, but too this day it’s still to pricey (and I didn’t know that some of the figurines sound like 🫤) but my girl loves the figurines more than anything. She plays with is a bit more these days, probably because she wants to get to it before her brother gets to it, and will insist on using her figurine.

We got a Tonie as our daughter loves the character toys and she plays with them on their own often. Some of the free content is really good. Some are imaginative games you can play together. You can make your own recordings. We sometimes put it on when she has dinner or is in the bath. Never tried Yoto but the characters are fun for younger ones.

Top tip: look at the reviews, not all Tonies and equally good. The review will tell you if it’s original songs and voices/passable. That being said out daughter doesn’t care with Moana/Little Mermaid, she still loves them.

They're fun but we prefer the Yoto

I’ll be getting a Yoto

Yoto mini is the best money I have ever spent

We got one for my little boy for his second birthday and he absolutely loves it!!

Team Tonie!

The Yoto is amazing! I like that it’ll grow with our family more than thé tonie box- baby knows how to put the cards in and loves to switch out his songs and stories and he’ll be 2 in August.

We have both yoto and Tonie box. Our 2.5 year old daughter plays with the yoto daily and occasionally plays with the tonie box. I would recommend Yoto over tonie box any day.

My 2.5yo loves her yoto. We use it as our travel sound machine too. It’s great!

We have Tonie and use it daily for bedtime music which we loaded for free on the figure that comes with. We’ve also got some Disney stories which he loves and it’s all the proper music for the ones we have. Our little boy loves it and can work it himself from early on, he’ll be 2 in August. I am beyond impressed with the durability - the worst that’s happened to it is that he full on drowned it in the dogs water bowl, the water literally poured out of it 😱 but I dried it out thinking the worst and it’s completely fine! 😅 the stories are expensive but good for family and friends who want to get him something for birthday and Christmas x

Really annoyed I got a story pod just for the relatives to record bc they live so far. But they never did it. Wish I went with yoto