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New Toca Boca App: Toca Life Hospital

Toca Boca has just launched a new app for kids, Toca Life Hospital ($2.99 at Apple App Store | Google Play). Filled with adorable characters, the app brings the hospital world to kids, making a scary situation fun. Kids will have a better understanding of how a hospital works since the app features tools you would find in a real hospital such as gurneys, bandages, crutches, hospital beds and more. The game is all about open ended free play and you can move people around from room to room. Chloe loves this game so much and was doing her own countdown for when the game would be launched a week ago. I asked her why she was so excited. She told me that Toca Boca games are so fun because they always have funny surprises in them!

The app starts with the hospital with buttons for all the different floors from -1 to 3. Starting at -1, kids will get to take their patients from the ambulance to the hospital. Floor 0, the main floor has the front desk and food and gift shop, complete with outdoor dining area with grassy park. Floor 1 features the X-ray machines, waiting area and surgery. Floor 2 is the maternity and pediatric wing. Finally, Floor 3 has all of the patient beds and visiting area.

Kids can choose from a variety of super cute and fun characters. How cute is the little dog with goggles?

The detail in this app is amazing. Kids can take their patients from the ambulance straight to X-ray and give their patients xrays or CAT scans to diagnose them. Patients can move floor to floor in the elevator.

This little secret lab is just the cutest! It's on Floor -1 all the way to the right. There's a contraption that will light up each time you find the correct secret button on the floor. (Hint: one of the buttons is inside a locker.)

Kids can take care of their patients and give them medicine. It's cute to see the all the little babies sleeping in the maternity ward.

Kids will have so much fun and open play time with Toca Life Hospital where they can learn all of the ins and outs of hospital life. I love that this game as with all Toca Boca games there are no in app purchases at all!

Watch the video trailer for Toca Life Hospital:

Purchase the Toca Life Hospital at the Apple App Store or Google Play

Review app provided by Toca Boca

New App: Toca Hair Salon 3

Did you know that Toca Boca's classic Hair Salon game debuted back in 2011? It brings back lots of memories for me because it was Chloe's favorite app and her first introduction into the world of Toca Boca. Now five years later, there's the new Toca Hair Salon 3 ($2.99 Apple App Store | Google Play | Kindle Fire) featuring the most diverse characters yet! It's all about being creative and getting silly with hair!

The app features all-new characters with dozens of starter styles and millions of possible styling options. You can do straight, wavy, curly and now kinky hair.

Chloe loves all the tools and in this app, there's a new braiding tool. The advanced hair color is her favorite. She loves to do ombre hair color for her characters.

Every character can grow a beard to style!

Again, the Toca Boca games always let kids explore their creativity with no in-app purchases. Even after Chloe's done playing with a character's hair, she spends so much time decorating after. Characters can have clothes and have accessories such as hats, glasses, jewelry and more. Kids can also change the backdrop for the photo booth and snap a picture of their end creation.

Watch the Toca Hair Salon 3 trailer here:

Download Toca Hair Salon 3 at the Apple App Store, Google Play or Kindle Fire.

Review app provided by Toca Boca

Toca Life Farm: New App from Toca Boca Lets Kids Play on a Virtual Farm

Toca Boca has launched another fun app for kids with Toca Life: Farm ($2.99, Apple App Store | Google Play | Kindle Fire). This app, like the rest of the Toca Boca games lets kids take control of their own game play. Chloe loves have free reign on exploring and playing with her favorite characters on the farm. What I love is that there's no wrong way to play and kids can easily figure out what they can do.

Just as in Toca Life: Vacation (review post here), there are 29 new and fun chacacters you can play with throughout the farm. Chloe loves the main girl with the pumpkin skull tee and the blonde girl with the sunglasses. She says those are her main gals that run the whole farm.

Here's a whole map of the Toca Life Farm. Starting from left to right at the bottom, kids can go visit the barn, store, storage farm house and fields.

Chloe's favorite place to go is the barn where she loves to play with the animals there, especially the Buffalo. Kids can also gather eggs from the hens and milk the cow. And if you haven't noticed, the little animals do poop so Chloe has been having fun cleaning up all the poop from the animals.

Inside the barn, kids can milk the cow and then take the bucket to the little milk factory to bottle your own milk. It's so adorable!

In the field, kids can farm their crops from planting to harvest. The tractor here is really fun and kids can use the different functions on the tractor to farm faster. My favorite animal is the little rainbow llama that has rainbow poop! So cute!

Here's the food machine which turns all of the harvest the kids pick into food. It's a great way for kids to see the process of how food goes from farm to table.

In the top right corner throughout the app, kids can record their own little movies and save it onto their device to watch again and show their friends. It's an extra layer for their creativity!

Download Toca Life: Farm at the Apple App Store, Google Play or Kindle Fire.

Review app provided by Toca Boca

App Review: Sago Mini Planes

Just launched today is the new Sago Mini Planes ($2.99), a fun flying game that lets kids take off on an adventures with all of their favorite Sago Mini friends. (My favorite is the cute little birdie!) The game is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers aged 2-5 but I think just about any kid will enjoy all the silly fun.

Kids can pick their planes that range in design from cute to wacky. Yes, there's a corn on the cob plane and a banana plane!

Next kids can add their favorite Sago Mini animal friends into the plane. The plane's flight path is controlled by the kids. Chloe's favorite thing to do is to get the plane up really high and enter space where there are not only meteors, but flying sports balls and space penguins! Kids can also make loop-de-loops, pop balloons, and even find giant piñatas.

At the end of the flight, there are fun and silly snapshot highlights of the trip. Chloe loves showing me the pictures and can't stop laughing. As usual Sago Mini lets kids explore and have fun with no in app purchases. It's the perfect game to have on your phone or your child's tablet before a long trip!

Watch the trailer above

Sago Mini Planes is available starting today at the Apple App Store, Kindle Fire and on Google Play for $2.99.

Review app provided by Sago Mini

New App: Toca Life Vacation

It's finally summer and kids can enjoy a virtual vacation with their favorite characters in the new app, Toca Life Vacation ($2.99, available for iOS, Android and Kindle) from Toca Boca. My daughter Chloe is a huge fan of the Toca Boca apps and was desperately waiting for this app to be released, having watched the trailer video over and over. Thanks to the folks at Toca Boca, she received a preview app and was immediately excited to explore the game. Intuitively, she knew exactly what to do with the game once she started. It does does not disappoint with it's vast interactive possibilities where kids are in control of their own game play. There are five locations in Toca Life Vacations accessible from the main "map" screen: Beach, Airport, Hotel, Sightseeing and the special Storage island where kids can dress up their characters. I love it's cast of diverse and adorable characters that kids can interact with. Again, I can't stress how much I love that Toca Boca games do not have any in app purchases -- always music to my ears!

Chloe's favorite place to go is the 3rd floor of the hotel because she loves that her characters are able to relax on the balcony outside. Characters can ride the elevator and have adventures outside of the hotel. Chloe likes to see how many characters she can stuff into the elevator. Kids can also record their play session which saves it to the tablet's or mobile phone's library for them to view again at a later time.

The beach is a fun place to visit with a boardwalk, vacation souvenirs and an island you can sail too. There's a green creature that lives there and you can even find the treasure chest.

The fun details aren't lost at all in this game. I love that at the airport, the characters can get a body scan. Sometimes there is a bad item found (like an aerosol can) and it's your job to discard it. The co-pilot dog is also too darn cute!

All in all, Toca Life Vacation is a perfect game for kids. I love the free game play and that there are always interactive gems and easter eggs to keep them entertained in this little vacation world. And moms, this is definitely one of the apps to have on your iPhone in case you need to keep your little ones occupied when you are out and about. It's definitely an app to have for long road trips or plane rides this summer!

Watch the video trailer and purchase Toca Life Vacation at tocaboca.com.

Review app provided by Toca Boca

New App: Sago Mini Robot Party

Get robot party fun with Sago Mini Robot Party by Sago Sago. The app just launched at the Apple App Store ($2.99) on Thursday and it's tons of wacky fun for kids. There are 58 billion robot combinations and you can explore the robots' rhythms to make music. I love that at the end for the robot's "picture time" you have to move the robot around in a pose to get them to actually smile. It's something kids identify with when taking pictures so it's extra hilarious for my daughter. It's these little extra things that sets apart Sago Mini games from the rest. The interface is very intuitive for kids to use and I like that there are no in app purchases with any Sago Mini games. With Sago Mini Robot Party there's no shortage of cute characters, wacky items (such as a piñata falling with hot dogs and burgers) and laughter!

Chloe loves the robot assembly line where she creates her own robot with crazy pieces (of course).

Kids can turn the crank to "power up" their robot and make them alive. Chloe loves seeing them take life. It's pretty cute!

The robots then proceed to make cupcakes, music and break the pinatas in each of the following scenes. The final picture scene is where kids can take a cute photo of their finished robot after the party!

Purchase Sago Mini Robot Party at the Apple App Store.

Review app provided by Sago Sago

Toca Boca's New Toca Dance Game

Just out is Toca Boca's new addictive game, Toca Dance (available for $2.99 at Apple's App Store). This super fun game allows kids to play director and choreographer where they can create a dance show with their characters complete with costumes, music and special effects. Up to three characters can dance in a show and you can choose from nine different characters. My daughter Chloe's favorite dance character is Marta.

Once you choose your character you can dress them up in fun and quirky costumes. Let's just say the poo costume (pictured left, looks kinda like the poo emoji) cracks her up to no end and it comes to life with animated tiny flies.

Now it's time for choreography. You choose the music and move the dance instructor's head, arms and feet. Marta or whoever your dance characters are, will mimic the same movements as the instructor.

The stage is set and here's where it call comes together. Kids can choose the lighting, backgrounds, special effects. At this point you can can make their bodies and head bigger or smaller. Once you press play, the movie starts to record and kids can add special effects to the sequence such as bubbles, confetti, fire flames and my favorite, the fog machine.Things can be thrown onto the stage from the audience like roses, eggs, shoes and even toast! You can have the crowd cheer, boo and more. Each finished movie can be saved onto your device so kids can replay their dance creations.

Toca Dance is really fun and creative for kids to play with. I love all the humorous extras that kids *just* get and can't stop laughing over. Chloe loves throwing toast and shoes onto the stage and I can hear her infectious laughter while she plays this game. What I love is that it's never boring. Chloe can play it again and again while coming up with new funny experiences each time. Bravo to Toca Boca for creating another app masterpiece!

Watch the Toca Dance video trailer:

Pick up the Toca Dance app at the Apple App Store.

Review app provided by Toca Boca

App Review: Sago Mini Trucks and Diggers

Sago Sago has just launched a new app, Sago Mini Trucks and Diggers ($2.99 on iTunes). This game features the familiar lovable Sago Mini animals that kids have fallen in love with over the years. Let's be honest here, kids are always fascinated by those big construction machines from bulldozers to drillers. With all the construction we have going on in San Francisco, my daughter is always looking out the car window reporting to me what's happening with what machine. This game takes a child's love for construction and mixes it into the whimsical Sago Mini world. Kids can choose from various diggers to help build a home for an animal friend. Chloe's favorite machine is the chipper where you can not only chip trees, but silly things like jelly toast or a bone.

This game works perfectly for both boys and girls. Chloe loves decorating portion of the game the most, when fun items drop from the sky (windows, candy canes, flowers) and she can decorate the animal friend's new house. The mushroom house is her favorite!

In Sago Mini Trucks and Diggers, there is no shortage of fun and cute animated surprises that will keep kids entertained. I personally love the Sago Mini (and Toca Boca) games for their ingenuity, smart play and also for their safe content.

Here are some screenshots from the Mini Trucks and Diggers app:

Purchase Sago Mini Trucks and Diggers at the App Store on iTunes and see all the Sago Mini games at sagosago.com.

Review App provided by Sago Mini

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