The Tonies radio play figures now have more to offer
21.8.2020
Translation: machine translated
From now on, there are new possibilities for the Tonie figures, which children can simply place on the matching box and start listening. You can now download new episodes of some of your favourites - without having to buy a new figure.
The manufacturer Tonie is expanding its range of audio plays. From now on, you no longer have to buy new figures of Bibi Blocksberg, Benjamin Blümchen and the Bibi and Tina series if you want to listen to new episodes. Registered customers were informed by e-mail that an audiotheque is now available. This is also an online shop. This means you can get a new episode of the talking elephant, for example, if the episode originally linked to the character has become too boring and your child already speaks it by heart.
According to the Tonie website, the whole thing is child's play. The audio library area can be found in your user account, which is also optimised for use on smartphones - but not (yet) in the app versions. You will have to wait for updates with support for the audio library. The announcement does not reveal if and when these will be released. The new radio play episodes can be paid for via PayPal. Other forms of payment are not yet available, but are being planned. As soon as you have purchased a new episode in the audio library, you can link it to the character. But please note: A character can only play one story at a time. If you download a new story, the old story will be moved to the audio library. From there, you can link it to the character again later. This is a certain limitation, but simplicity is also part of the company's recipe for success. The technical background: The figures themselves are not storage media, the memory is in the Toniebox itself. There is only one NFC chip built into the figures and each of these chips can only transmit one ID to the Tonie Box as a player.
A total of 300 new episodes are available in the audio library. Each episode costs 5.99 euros - the Tonies offer comes from Germany and therefore the prices are in euros. The 5.99 euros are significantly cheaper than the 15 to 19 francs that are otherwise due for a new figure. However, with a few new episodes, you can quickly reach a price where the Spotify plan, which also includes all the episodes of the radio play heroes, is cheaper.
According to Tonie, the introduction of credit cards is also planned. This will allow gift-loving grandparents or godparents to benefit from the new option. However, a date for the introduction of the prepaid cards is not yet known. <p
Martin Jungfer
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