Toybox’s New Luna Is a Kid-Friendly 3D Printer Capable of Multicolor Prints

Toybox, the 3D printing platform built around kids, has launched Toybox Luna, its first multicolor capable printer. Introductory pricing starts at $349, with a Luna Pro Mega bundle coming with four rolls of “Printer Food” (filament), Toybox Pro and 5,000 Bolts (its digital currency for unlocking premium toys) for $385.

The idea is that a child picks or designs a toy, hits print, and gets a full-color figure off the bed without painting it or changing filament by hand. Toybox’s launch release goes as far as saying the whole platform is something “a first-grader can run.”

No Slicer, No Fuss

For most hobbyists, slicing is part of the routine: import a model, pick supports and adhesion, export G-code. Toybox’s pitch is that kids shouldn’t have to. You can pick a toy from the catalog or design one in its Creator Space, then print from the Toybox app, or from make.toys/toys by logging in to the account the printer is linked to.

This catalog is moderated, with Toybox stating it holds more than 25,000 printable models, including licensed designs from Harry Potter, Hello Kitty, and NASA. For these licensed designs, users will need Toybox’s digital currency called “Bolts”, though a membership isn’t needed to use the printer.

So for a child entering the world of 3D printing, Toybox moves the technical elements of slicing to a friendlier interface. Its own Creator Space Guide shows a Build tab with print speed, adhesion and support options, so the complexity is trimmed, not removed. Here, users can learn subtracting and splitting shapes in the builder before sending the model to the printer. Parents get a portal for child accounts, with options such as blocking Bolts purchases. You can still choose to send STL, OBJ, 3MF and G-code files if they prefer.

Even with Toybox’s claim that a first grader can run the Luna and accessible to children age six and up, kids will still need adult supervision. Parts like the heated bed and particularly the nozzle typically reach high temperatures, something Toybox’s Alpha printer shields the user from with its semi-enclosed design. As an open-frame bed-slinger with moving parts, the Luna flies in the face of this somewhat, with moving parts more easily accessible to wandering hands.

What Luna Brings

Toybox lists these specs for Luna:

• Up to four colors per print, with four rolls loaded at once
• Build volume of 260 × 260 × 260 mm
• Heated bed with a flexible plate on a magnetic base that you bend to release prints
• Automatic calibration and mesh leveling before every print
• Built-in camera with an encrypted live view in the Toybox app, so parents can check in from anywhere
• Dual-band Wi-Fi, a touchscreen, pause and resume, and runout alerts
• 1.75 mm PLA, with other PLA supported

Toybox doesn’t provide the nozzle size, extruder type, how the color swap works or a print speed beyond “fast printing”. For someone looking to buy a 3D printer, these are unanswered questions. But, for something marketed as a toy, many buyers might not be concerned about this missing information.

Built With Anycubic

Toybox partnered with Anycubic to build Luna, with the software, one-touch printing and toy library all Toybox’s. That’s a sensible split. Toybox brings the app, the moderated library and licenses from the likes of Warner Bros. and NASA, and an established printer maker supplies the machine. Luna’s size and build volume match Anycubic’s Kobra X closely, but perhaps the biggest indicator is the four-filament feeding directly into the toolhead.

Given how closely the two match, it’s reasonable to assume Luna has similar capabilities to the Kobra X, which Anycubic lists with a 300 °C nozzle limit and speeds of 300 mm/s. That still needs to be confirmed by Toybox, which could have capped limits in its own software for child safety.

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