Pebli Town is a new pre-school toy from Toys Alive, combining a board and physical play pieces with digital games on your tablet. My younger boys (ages 4 and 5) were excited by this toy straight away and have loved playing it. I am really happy with how well it engages them, and how different this toy is from the usual iPad games.
The Pebli Town box contains the fold out board (requires 2x AA batteries) and cardboard insert, 4 Pebli Town character figures, and 4 pieces of scenery to attach to the board to make up the four locations for play. It also comes with an tablet stand so that children can see the tablet clearly without needing to hold it, leaving hands free for play with the physical toy pieces. You also need to download the free Pebli Town app to use with the toys.
Each of the characters is quite chunky and sturdy, making them easy for the children to handle and each one is easily recognisable as a different profession: fireman, chef, painter and nurse.
To set up the toy, all you need to do is make sure that you have your blue tooth switched on in your device and then press the big blue button. Our tablet connected very quickly, and then the game guides your child through placing each of the pieces on the board to make sure everything is set up, before introducing the four game mode options.
Pebli Town includes four different modes:
• Story mode – Educational stories that allow children to discover new and exciting adventures by choosing the path the characters take, there are 4 interactive stories with 22 alternative endings.
• Game mode – Children can enjoy hours of engaging game play and test their problem solving and comprehension skills, 4 different games with 25 levels each.
• Create mode – Children can choose their favourite characters, record their own voice, add special effects and direct stories. Then watch their creations back in the Pebli cinema. Unlimited opportunity to create stories.
• Video mode – Access 200 pre-approved child friendly educational and entertaining videos, each relating to a Pebli Town character.
My boys enjoyed all of these modes, particularly the games. The great thing about the games, and all of the activities is that the children don’t need to handle the tablet at all, they are activated by moving the toys but they will see the results on the screen, as you can see below the character placed on the board shows up on the screen and this is the case throughout the games.
Pebli Town is a really fun and innovative product. If you’re looking for something educational for your child to use with a tablet, I would definitely recommend this. It is of course more expensive than simply buying a few children’s apps but it really offers so much more, and kept my kids attention for much longer. I also find it more social, for 2 or 3 of them to play together and talk about what they are doing rather than having one child playing alone with an app, looking straight into the screen.
Pebli Town sells for RRP 59.99 – See it on Amazon here.
Check the list of compatible devices here
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I think my girls would enout the Story mode x
My two toddlers would love “Game Mode ” x
my little ones would love the story mode
It sounds good – my kids would like the story mode!
I think that my son would enjoy the story mode most – he loves using his imagination.
my little Grandson would like the create mode
I think my little one would Love the Create Mode!! I think this looks fantastic!
I think the story mode would be favourite in our house
Looks great, I think they would enjoy story mode
The story mode would be fab
I like story mode the best
The story mode I think
think our grandchildren would love the play mode
My son would love the Story Mode 🙂
Creative mode.. but then they’d love all the modes to be honest.
I think it looks great! The story mode would interest my little one the most I think.
My girls would definitely love the Story Creator mode the most x
The story mode would be a favourite I’m sure!
I really like the look of this, it seems to be different 🙂 I think my son would enjoy the Story Mode 🙂
My Grandson would love the Story Mode
story mode.
I really like the look of it, my kids would like the story creator
This looks wonderful.. They’d love “game mode”
Story Mode, the kids would love that.
it looks awesome and i think my boys would love the story creator mode the best
game mode looks great
Love the Create Mode
Story mode
Game Mode
It looks fab, we’d really enjoy the story mode x
It looks great! I think mine will like the Create Mode the best!
i think my son would love story mode
Sounds like an absorbing activity – create mode would be an alternative to plays
Great interactive game and the story Creator looks good.
story creator
My children would love this their imagination would go wild 🙂 they would love the story creator
Definitely the Gem Mode, he is game and puzzle crazy at the moment. Long may it continue x
Game Mode not Gem Mode!
For the age that he is now it would have to be story mode 🙂
All 4 look fab but I think story mode just pips it x
my kids would like the story mode
My son would really love the story mode
My daughter would love Create Mode
Looks like fun! My boy would love story mode I think.
What a good review, very helpful, well done!!
my little ones would love the story mode
Looks great, think my little ones would like story mode 🙂
Grandson would like all this but at a guess I will choose the video mode
My son would like the game mode. Looks a fun way of learning
Story mode defiantly my nephew would like
It looks really good. I reckon little man would love video mode at the moment 🙂
it looks so cool, really want to win one for my niece, she’d love the story mode
Create mode!
Looks great! My Granddaughter would love the story mode
I think story mode would be most fun
Story mode. x
The Storyeller Mode looks fab and my daughter will think it is magic when the characters come alive on the screen 🙂
great fun for my son & learning at the same time, my youngest would love the interactive games )
my grandaughter would love the story mode x
It looks really good – I think they would like the create mode the most
Looks awesome, my little sister would like the create mode
i think my daughter would like the create mode.
i think game mode would be a big hit in our house
It sounds good my daughter would like the create mode
I think story mode looks great 🙂
My little fella would really love the create mode. x
Story mode
My little ones would love the story mode.
Looks like great fun, very innovative. My children would like the create mode best as ‘Children can choose their favourite characters, record their own voice, add special effects and direct stories’. great for their imaginations
It looks amazing and i think he would like story mode 🙂
My 5 year old daughter would love create mode, she has a fantastic imagination
My son would love game mode!
Fabulous fun for the children
I think this looks great, I think my older two kids would love the create mode so that they could create there own stories and my youngest would love the play mode.
This looks fantastic fun! My little ones would love the game mode and video mode!!
i do not know much about these to be honest
but have to say they look fab and i know my little one would
love story mode
My little one would love the story mode
I think she’d love it and enjoy the story mode the best
I’d say probably the game mode!
Right now, she’d like the video mode most.
I like story mode i love 😀 x
I think Pebli is great for keeping the kids entertained and I think they would enjoy game mode the best.
I think my daughter would like the create mode 🙂
love the clever idea – think it would keep the kids entertained for ages – create mode they’d probably like the best
I love it and my son would enjoy creat mode
The story mode. x
I think my daughter would love the story mode
My grandchildren would love “Game Mode ”
think my daughter would enjoy the story mode most
They all look great, but especially Story Mode.
I think my little girl would love the Story Mode
My daughter would love the game mode.
I think that my little granddaughter would love it all but possibly Story Mode the best.
I think Pebil sound great really unique I think the little one would like the create mode.
As my grandchildren are really quite young I think the story mode would be best x
mine would love the create mode
I think this is very creative and my kids would love video mode
my two would love the creative mode x
I think my grandchildren would like the Game Mode most.
story mode
Story mode looks great
definitely story mode
\I think that my son would like the game mode
Great game which meets the differing needs of children. Our youngest would especially enjoy the create mode.
my daughter would love tis
my daughter would love this
I think it looks FAB – so different! My daughter would love the Create Mode 🙂
It looks great, I think my daughter will enjoy the Create mode.
Story mode
I think my 2 would love story mode
my grandson would love to have this
i think my grandson would love the game mode
fabulous prize fun fun fun for little ones xx
My daughter would love story mode and one of my mindees I know would love the creative mode. What a fabulous prize!
I think story mode would interest him most just now
Story mode xx
My daughter would love game mode