Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Create & Play from Toy Story | fun kids apps!

by Top Best Apps for Kids · 28. March 2013

A great kids app recommendation has to be our awesome discovery of the very funny and free kids apps Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Create & Play!
Most of you will probably have guessed it by now, that those adorable characters are of the Pixar Movie: Toy Story and also those, who tend to loose their body parts such as eyes, ears, nose etc.
What a great coincidence to find both on the App Store for the iPad and iPhone. Kids love the two of them and also love to change their appearances. Both know how to make kids and adults laugh by simply bringing on one slapstick after another, whilst appearing infront of many different sceneries. Due to the many updates and extensions of these apps, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head belong to one of the most extensive and big ranged, free apps for kids, which are available at this time.

The app has been produced by the app developers Callaway Digital Arts, which are also well known for their brilliant and free kids story book app “Miss Spider’s Tea Party”.

12 in-app purchases for $ 0.99 each, would explain why we haven’t introduced you to this app before, as we are not really big fans of in-app purchases and didn’t really want to recommend this app on top best apps for kids. We’re not huge in-app critics however, we do know the difference between useful and pointless however, such fragmentation of content was quite frankly – silly.

Surprise surprise! – free in-app extensions! Each package offers a new scenery and the matching costumes for both Potatoes in the game. According to the iTunes discription, a lot more packages are to follow soon. For now, there are over 300 costumes, clothes and body parts available, which can be freely mixed and combined.

When the kids have finished creating their very own Poatato Head character, it doesn’t really matter whether the eyes are at the right place or not, they can then choose which background and scenery they want to take their Potato to. In those sceneries are so called Action-buttons, which will lead to some very funny slapsticks, which even toddlers can press without a problem. Perhaps older kids would like to take a picture of those funny moments and save their screenshots, well, this is also possible.

We do however, find one last in-app purchase for $ 0.99 in this app. This in-app purchase will get rid of the self-promotion of the app developers, which may occur every now and again. Of course we do find this useful and affordable to have a ad-free kids game app for kids, which has this huge extensive content.

2 hints so you don’t get confused:

* There are two versions of this app, a man and a woman edition on the App Store, whereby the content is identical to one another, apart from kids starting to play either the man or the woman at the start.

* After starting this app, a lot of content is being reloaded, you should therefore have a wireless LAN connection to the internet. According to the iTunes description, this is only required for the initialisation, which means, that you can use the app just as normal afterwards, even if you’re not online.

We’re really pleased with the decision of the app developers to remove all of the in-app purchases. The app is therefore being given to you and the kids for practically free, which is very unusual, generous and pretty amazing with it being so extensive, lavish and very professionally developed.
The animations of the characters are really perfect compared to the actual Toy Story Potatoes.