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“How Toons” Contest from Toontastic & Minecraft

By Emily On October 7, 2013 · Add Comment

We love Toontastic so this news is pretty exciting! The masterminds of storytelling at Launchpad Toys have teamed up with MinecraftEdu to show how kids can learn from playing the astoundingly popular sandbox indie game. Using a copy of Launchpad’s award-winning Toontastic or Toontastic: All Access, kids are encouraged to create and upload a how-to (“How Toons”) video. Check out this Toytivity for more info. ToonTubes is where young storytellers can watch these submissions, as well as over 7 million other Toontastic creations from over 200 different countries around the world. Share the video on Facebook and Twitter and the most likes, shares, retweets, and comments count as a vote. The video with the most votes wins a prize package from Launchpad Toys and MinecraftEdu. All video submissions will become part of a learning community called Toon Academy: Minecraft, where kids can teach [...]

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LaunchPad Aspires To Engage Children Instead of Pacify Them

By Faith O'Neil On May 7, 2013 · 1 Comment

Parents who are involved in what their kids play on the iPad know the difference between a quality, educational app and a mindless “babysitter” app game. When we limit our child’s ‘screen time’, parents want to make the most of this time by keeping their children engaged and learning instead of tapping away without even having to think. Worry not, brave parent! Entrepreneur Andy Russell and his company, Launch Pad Toys, feel the same way! Russell and his Launch Pad Toys team have recently partnered with DreamWorks Animation to create apps that are educationally nurturing, instead of “digital pacifiers”. This partnership has birthed the new ‘Toontastic’ app that features characters from the latest Shrek movie. Toontastic is designed to, not only tell stories to children, but to inspire children to tell their own stories. Designed with the help of Stanford’s graduate school of education (where Russell also graduated), Toontastic [...]

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Toontastic Jr. Shrek App Review – Ogre-ly Ever After

By Emily On May 2, 2013 · Add Comment

My husband and I used to have a weekly movie night. Every Wednesday, after the kids were fast asleep, we would settle in to watch a flick together. Unfortunately my husband (who has seen pretty much every movie made since 1977) learned quickly that I was a horrible movie-watcher. I asked too many questions, critiqued the dialogue, and ripped apart actors’ work. My kids have picked up this awful habit of mine, and the little Spielbergs think they can out-direct even Scorsese. Launchpad has already made my budding directors quite happy with their Toontastic apps, and today they’ve done it again. Now available in the App Store, Toontastic Jr. Shrek combines story-making magic with the cast from Dreamworks crazy-popular Shrek movies. Young players are given everything they need to create animated stories, and if they don’t like the way the original movies end they can make their own [...]

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Toontastic Review

By Emily On August 31, 2012 · 1 Comment

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“How Toons” Contest from Toontastic & Minecraft

LaunchPad Aspires To Engage Children Instead of Pacify Them

Toontastic Jr. Shrek App Review – Ogre-ly Ever After

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