bilibo has been chosen as a winner in the 2009 Fat Brain Toy Awards which means that visitors to Fat Brain Toys have chosen it as the best-of-the-best in specialty toys, games, and gifts. Congratulations!
Children have an indefatigable talent for finding unusual uses for their toys or, more inconveniently, finding interesting new uses for your property – mostly at the exact same time that you need it.
If you have given a present and found that the kids play more with the box or, like me, have despaired at spending Christmas Day watching the children use the tubes from the tinfoil and the wrapping paper as swords, whilst ignoring all their carefully selected, non-violent toys, the perfect present has arrived. Say hello to Bilibo.
Tortoise shell and sand toy, swing and spinner, cradle for dolls and substitute for sleds – Bilibo is all this and much more. So what exactly is a Bilibo? Well one clue is the fact that it does not come with an instruction manual. Kids can do what they like with it!
Says Alex Hochstrasser, Swiss inventor and designer of Bilibo, “When I introduced the prototypes at the kindergarten of my hometown the little ones were astonished at first. But then a boy sat down in Bilibo and started spinning, a girl turned Bilibo around and tried to balance on him – after that you just could not stop them any more.”
This shell is made of high density polyethylene which is shock-resistant, weather-proof, food safe, completely recyclable and comes in six bright colors. Bilibo is big enough that kids of different ages can sit in it comfortably. All this, and friendly too -Bilibo has two holes at the side which look like eyes and give the appearance of a smiling face on the shell.
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Review of bilibo
Posted yesterday by Charlie Streciwilk
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Great experience, clearly designed for creativity in terms of how this can be used. Enjoyable and fun.
a great many ways to play
Posted 2 days ago by Aleksandr Lipkin
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It's super toy! It can be used at home, outdoor, in trip, summer, winter, in water-play and more and more else.
Seemed like a good idea
Posted 7 days ago by Mom
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Perhaps my son is young for this toy? The toy arrived over a week ago and still, he isn't the least bit interested in playing with it. Heck, I even played with it myself, but he couldn't have cared less. I am hopeful that we'll get some use out of it in the future, but who knows. Interestingly, I never would have purchased the toy if I hadn't read the rave reviews-- Bilbo just didn't look like something my son would go for. I guess my instinct was correct. (Note from Fat Brain Toys: Rest easy, even if it's not with Bilibo. With our variety of 6,000 products and helpful customer service staff, we guarantee your full satisfaction. Any purchase that does not meet your expectations may be returned for an exchange or refund. Please visit the Returns & Exchanges center for details.)
Still a little too young
Posted 8 days ago by Nicolette Green
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I bought the Bilibo for my son who is still two months shy of 2 years old. So far he hasn't yet paid it much attention and the one time he did try to climb into it, he overbalanced and didn't want to go near it for a while. It has proved fun to hide things under and play "Where's the ???" but that's obviously been a game initiated by mom.
I have high hopes for this toy when he's a little older and I may just get him some of the little Bilibos in the mean time.
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