We’re very excited to announce today the release of Toontastic v1.6: Make History YOUR Story! In honor of President’s Day and Black History Month here in the US, we’ve created three new playsets honoring landmark milestones in human rights: “The Dream”, “The Vote”, and “The Signing”. With these playsets, kids can retell the stories of these seminal moments using characters like George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B. Anthony in settings like Independence Hall and the Lincoln Memorial. Hip Hooray for History!

Thanks to popular demand, we’ve extended our “Birthday Bonus” one more month: for just $9.99 you can unlock EVERY CURRENT AND FUTURE PLAYSET in our Toy Store – over $34 savings! (pssst, teachers: it works for classrooms too!)

Above all, the crew here at Launchpad Toys would like to take a moment to say thank you for your support of Toontastic and playful storytellers around the world. Your kids’ remarkable creativity and humor make every day feel like Saturday Morning Cartoons!

-Your Friends at Launchpad Toys

One year ago today, we launched our beloved Toontastic into the App Store to see if kids might be interested in creating and sharing cartoons using the iPad. Fast forward 365 days: hypothesis CONFIRMED!

Over the past year, kids and kids-at-heart have played for a cumulative 28 years, creating over 600,000 cartoons in 100+ countries around the world.

To celebrate, we’ve launched a “Birthday Bonus” for the in-app Toy Store enabling users to purchase all current and future playsets for one flat price of $9.99… and we can’t wait to see all the absurdly creative stories y’all imagine with a Toy Box chock full of lions, tigers… and nefarious space villains.

Above all, we wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to all the kids and parents out there who have made our dreams come true. Your creativity, humor, talent… and love for Angry Birds parody inspire us every.single.day.

We’re excited (and quite relieved) to announce today the release of Toontastic v1.51. As many of you found over the weekend, v1.5 had a couple of hiccups that we scrambled to fix in this build. Thankfully, once you update Toontastic via the App Store, all should be resolved. If you run into any further issues, please don’t hesitate to email us anytime at support@launchpadtoys.com.

In honor of Toontastic’s 1st Birthday (complete with toddler-like stumbles), v1.51 features three awesomely adventurous Wildlife Playsets for kids to explore. Go on safari with Jill Evergood, Lionel the lion, and Stretch the giraffe… discover the depths of the Amazon with Paulo Longtrek on his search for Web. E. Toes – that ever elusive tree frog… or zip up your parka and head out ice fishing with Don DeFurcoat and his Arctic sidekicks Ariana Puffington and Papa LeTusk!

To celebrate, we’ve included a limited time “Birthday Bonus” in the Toy Store – a one time purchase of ALL 24 playsets + ALL FUTURE playsets for $9.99: over 60% savings! With this update, kids can also share “Bonus Toys” with friends on the playground or via email and win special rewards for earning Story Badges on ToonTube.

Thank you as always for your wonderful support and for your kids’ remarkable creativity. Happy Tooning!

-Your Friends at Launchpad Toys

We’ve heard a number of reports that the v1.50 update is causing a crash for users installing the app over an old build (though not for new users). We’re sorry for any frustration this has caused and our crack team of code-gumshoes is hard at work sleuthing out the problem.

In the meantime, PLEASE DO NOT UNINSTALL TOONTASTIC to install a fresh version as this will erase your kids’ cartoons and we certainly want to retain those great memories. We’ll have a fix out for this shortly. Thank you for your patience and, again, please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

Ok, that was a bit overdramatic… but exciting nonetheless. To celebrate our latest Action News! Storytelling Contest, we’ve made Toontastic free to download. Tell your friends, your neighbors, your teachers, your dog… er, well, yes, your dog. And above all GET TOONING! We want to see and hear all the Cartoon Newscasts your town has to offer!