Hasbro’s range of Furby toys has certainly moved on a lot since its debut in the late 1990s. Check out the new Furby Boom, for example, which is designed to work with a companion app on iOS and Android.
The app has been released this week as a free download on both platforms. The app lets kids give their Furby Boom a name, track its health, hunger and cleanliness levels, and act accordingly by (respectively) running an X-Ray, feeding it a snack or giving it a shower.
The Furby Boom can also have its own eggs to hatch baby ‘Furblings’, which also happens within the app. There’s also a football mini-game and virtual playrooms to decorate too. Oh, and the actual Furby Boom toys come in a range of what we’ll euphemistically describe as ‘eye-catching’ colours.
Anyway, it looks like a very interesting blend of physical and digital play, whether you’re a Furby fan or not.
Furby Boom (or Furby BOOM! as Hasbro puts it) is a free download for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, and a free download for Android from Google Play. Obviously, you’ll need to buy the toy separately: they go for $59-ish in the US.
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my dumb furby aint connecting to the app it says its not there when it is i have an ipad mini with ios7.3 something please help b 4 i smash it
Hi we purchased the Furby Boom POlka Dot and we are trying to install the Android version on our Galaxy Tablet but it tells us this app is not available in your country we live in South Africa. When will this app be available in South Africa? Thanks
I’m afraid we don’t know the answer to this question, but wondered if this website, run by Hasbro, might be of any help? http://www.furby-southafrica.com/page/meet-furby.html
My furby is not connecting to My Kyocera hydro Android. Is there anything i can do.