Toybox today introduced Luna, a four-color 3D printer with a larger print bed and an onboard camera for print monitoring and clog detection. It requires none of the manual slicing or color calibration that has kept consumer 3D printing in hobbyist hands.
Until now, consumer four-color 3D printing has required manual management of color channels. Luna feeds four spools into one job and switches automatically. Colors are selected in the Toybox platform’s Creator Studio, which suggests a palette a child can override. This is the difference between printing a licensed character as itself and printing it as a monochrome approximation.
“A Hogwarts crest needs four house colors, and an Artemis rocket needs the orange core against the white boosters. A kid should be able to print either one correctly without ever learning why that used to be hard,” said Ben Baltes, co-founder and CEO.
Simplicity and safety
In Toybox’s Creator Space, users can describe an object, sketch it, upload a photo or import a 3D file, and built-in AI returns a color print-ready design. Then one click prints it. Nothing talks to or asks a child questions, unlike chatbot toys now drawing state moratoria and FTC attention.
Toybox stores no personally identifiable information on children, holds all data in the United States and gives parents controls through a parent portal. All Toybox 3D printers and the Toybox platform are designed to comply with applicable COPPA, ASTM F963-23, and CPSIA requirements in the United States, as well as GDPR-K requirements in the European Union. Toybox prints in corn-based PLA, a plant-derived filament that melts at a low temperature and doesn’t produce the styrene fumes that force other printers into an enclosure.
The waiting is the lesson
Multi-part 3D color printing takes time. The child plans a project, commits to it and then waits, which is the reverse of what a screen trains. What comes out teaches as well. The two-foot NASA Artemis print sets the launch vehicle beside its return capsule at true relative scale, and color is what makes that legible.
“Designing a toy and printing it is planning, sequencing and problem-solving with a physical object at the end. Four colors give a kid more to decide before they start,” said Malcolm Bird, COO. “Forty years in the kids’ business, and I haven’t found a better way to teach any of it.”
Thousands of U.S. schools run Toybox. A teacher can push one design to a room of printers or point a class of accounts at one machine. Because the library is moderated rather than scraped from the internet, a child can handle the whole process from start to finish with nothing to supervise. Along the way, children pick up the design and engineering work many will do for a living, and it comes as play rather than instruction.
Licensed designs that no competitor is allowed to print
According to Circana, licensed toys grew 15% in 2025 and reached 37% of a global toy market worth $123 billion, the highest share on record.
This year, the Toybox platform printed more than 20 million toys, drawn from a catalog of more than 25,000 printable models spanning more than 11,000 toys. The licenses behind them include Harry Potter, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, NASA, Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon and Sanrio. No competing consumer 3D printer company carries any of them.
Toybox Luna is available today at toybox.com, with introductory prices starting at $349.
About Toybox
Toybox is a 3D printing platform anyone can use, turning a prompt, sketch, or imported file or photo into a real toy every 3.1 seconds. Its Creator Space, Magic AI Tools and 3D printers create without chatting, listening to or profiling kids, and Toybox follows COPPA and GDPR, stores no personal data on children and is the choice for families and educators worldwide. With over 25,000 printable models, an integrated design studio, STEM-oriented applications and official licenses from Harry Potter, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, NASA, Cartoon Network, Sanrio and others. Learn more at https://toybox.com/.
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