Your choice of parts is completely random, adding to the fun and craziness of the robots you can create. Then the belt sequentially brings out a selection of robot bodies, robot heads, left arms and right arms. You select one pair for your robot creation by dragging it into to the marked area of the cardboard box. When you press PLAY, a cardboard box and conveyor belt appear on the screen and three crazy sets of robot legs roll out to greet you.

Toca Robot Lab’s game play is fairly simple and is broken into two distinct parts, “building your robot” and “flying your robot”. I left for work the next morning and Em was still asleep, but when I got home from work I found her playing again and discovered that she had apparently played it much of the day as well! We both laid next to each other on her bed playing Toca Robot Lab laughing and smiling for about 30 minutes until (amidst big-eyed protests to the contrary) I turned off the game and she finally went to sleep, well past her bed time. So I pulled out my iPhone and launched Toca Robot Lab for the first time, and Emily got the biggest smile on her face. Emily, missing her mommy, was having trouble going to bed. I was trying to put Emily to bed since her mom was having a girls night out.

Emily was hooked on the game from the moment it loaded and the now familiar Toca Boca logo splash screen morphed into a robot (instead of growing hair like it did on Toca Hair Salon) and she said while giggling, “Daddy Daddy Daddy look…the smile turns into a ROBOT!!!”. The folks at Toca Boca must either have kids of their own, or be big kids at heart, because they certainly seem to know exactly what kids like.

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