Important: Support for the app is discontinued. The app will NOT work with the toy, even if you already have the app downloaded. You will just get an error when you enter the app.

I would not suggest buying it, unless you're keeping it for display or buying one that already has one song and one story stored.

Wonderoo

Wonderoo is a storyteller toy by Tigerhead Toys, a Spanish toy company.

The toy seems to have been released in 2020, with the earliest known videos of it uploaded to YouTube in March, 2020. However, the app for the toy was published in 2019 and developed by Spherical Pixel. The toy requires 3 AAA batteries.

Appearance

The toy has a blue, plastic body, hands with five fingers on each one, and its feet have a purple swirl and three, small, purple paw pads. The toy has an orange beak, purple inner ears, pink eyebrows, and a blue pair of eyelids. The back of its ears is blue, it has a short, blue tail, and its hands, feet, and face are cream-colored. It has green eyes, with a small, yellow star in each, and black pupils with a blue ring around each pupil. It has a pink tuft of fur on its head and an off-white face.

Functions

Click here for the manual. It only contains info on getting started.

The toy was created to only sing and tell stories. To play with the toy, you would require the Wonderoo app. The app is no longer available on the App Store, but the APK file can be found on third party websites.

After downloading it, you can choose a story for Wonderoo to tell or a song. Before downloading a song or story, you will need to ensure your Wonderoo is switched into Bluetooth mode for the song or story to be transferred to your Wonderoo. After transferring a story to Wonderoo, Wonderoo's ears should light up. You can then switch Wonderoo on and pet Wonderoo's head. After petting Wonderoo's head, he will introduce himself and ask you if you want to hear a song or a story. He will tell you to wait if you want to hear him sing, but if you wanted to hear a story, you will need to pet his head. According to the description of the app on the App Store, the stories last approximately eight minutes. Wonderoo's eyes close and open, his mouth moves, and his ears can light-up when he speaks. Once Wonderoo has finished telling a story, he will turn himself off by going to sleep.

Wonderoo can only store one story and one song; to change the song and story, you would need the app. Though the app is no longer available for download and only the Android app is available, if you try to access the stories on the APK app or on your phone if you downloaded the app from the App Store, you will get an error. You can no longer change the song or story Wonderoo has, if it has a song or story stored.

Lore

Not much of it is documented; a copy of Wonderoo's booklet is not available online. Some of Wonderoo's story was revealed in an image of two pages from the booklet, used on the official website and in Amazon listings. While it is very likely, I cannot confirm if Wonderoo actually tells you his story via the app, and there likely is more to the story than the below transcript.

Wonderoo's Story

Once upon a time, there was a strange and wonderful creature named Wonderoo. Wonderoo was brave, intelligent, curious, and had magical powers!

Did you know that Wonderoo could hear sounds from everywhere? He was able to hear voices or noises from anywhere. And he could also communicate with them using his mind! He could talk to other people without saying a word.

His sister, Wondi, also had powers. Wondi had the power to turn her thoughts into real images. If she turned on her powers and thought about something, all of a sudden, the image of what she was thinking would appear to her.

Wonderoo and Wondi were very happy! But they lived alone, far away from their family, on a very distant planet and they didn't know how to get back to their parents. Wonderoo and Wondi arrived on that planet many years ago, because they accidentally crossed the Magic Gate. This gate was very famous because if you went through it, you would appear in whatever place you dreamed of going to. It was magical, and it only took a few seconds! But there was a catch - when crossing the Magic Gate, you had to know where you wanted to go, because if not, you could wind up in an unknown corner of an unfamiliar universe.

This is what happened to Wonderoo and Wondi. The two siblings had tried to return to Wonder, the planet where their parents lived. But they were so small when they crossed the Magic Gate, they weren't sure how to get back home.

When they grew up, Wonderoo tried to return home. Since he didn't know exactly how to do it, he crossed the Magic Gate everyday thinking about his parents and the planet, Wonder. And so, every day appeared on a different planet.

Prototype

A prototype version with a yellow beak, shinier ears, purple eyebrows, and purple hair on its head, exists.

Trivia

Wonderoo was sold in Spanish and Italian boxes. Despite there being an English demo and instructional video, and official footage of an English version of the box, an English version of Wonderoo is not confirmed to have been sold.
Though Tigerhead Toys is a Spanish toy company, ColorBaby was Wonderoo's distributor for Spain, while Rocco Giocattoli was Wonderoo's distributor for Italy.
Jay@Play made an agreement with Tigerhead Toys in July, 2023 to distribute some of their products in the U.S., including Wonderoo, Crackin' Eggs, and Baby Buppies. However, Jay@Play does not appear to have sold an English version of Wonderoo.