TicToys are various outdoor and indoor games made from wood to train dexterity, exercise, body awareness and coordination. TicToys products offer an incentive for skill training and exercise in the age of media overload and insufficient physical activity. Whether alone or with friends, at home or in nature, the various TicToys skill and movement games, such Ticayo and Tualoop promise fun, exercise and companionability!
TicToys – the beginning
The reason was a simple barter deal during a concert that Tony Ramenda, drummer of a rock band in Chemnitz, Germany, was playing in Madrid in 2009. Tony and an attendant exchanged a band’s CD for a colourful skilltoy made from wood. The aim is to catch the colourful wooden ball on a stick ...
Back in Chemnitz the skilltoy became a long runner in Tony’s shared student apartment. When catching the ball, he and his roommate Matthias developed tricks. Incidentally, the origin of the game goes back to ancient cultural heritage of Latin America. Soon the two students developed their own first prototypes. With the two-sided grip, the play variations multiply. Ticayo is not just a skill toy anymore; now it’s a juggling toy.
Ticayo became more and more a party hit among students in Chemnitz. Motivated by the great response Tony and Matthias founded their toy company "TicToys - the new toy culture" in 2011.
TicToys toys are environmentally sustainable und long-lasting
In the foreground of TicToys products are movement and dexterity as well as a solid environmentally friendly workmanship that gurantees longevity. Toys should in the best case be inherited. Crucial for a durable toy are its quality and professional manufacture. So traditional wood handicrafts from Lower Bavaria and the Erzgebirge are combined with modern expertise in biomaterials from Baden-Wuerttemberg.
TicToys toys offer a sustainable alternative to the colorful world of plastic toys. The skill toys are made of renewable raw materials from local woods and from the new material Arboblend © (consisting of wood fibre, resins and glucose). This outdoor and indoor games are free of harmful pollutants that are often included in conventional toys. Instructions and other printed materials are printed entirely on recycled paper with vegetable oil-based colours. Also the packagings are recyclable and to be re-used.
Regional and fair trade production
TicToys are manufactured in Germany in small family-run businesses as well as in sheltered workshops from Lebenshilfe and the Diakonie. Only the 100% Fair Trade certified cotton bag is made in a "bag-of-Ethics" factory in Pondicherry (South India), as cotton does not grow in Germany (yet).
Tualoop and Ticayo
Naturally in motion with sporty elegance – that is what Tualoop stands for. Made of sturdy beech wood and the bioplastic called Arboblend© the throwing game with many game variants is designed for fitness and longevity.
100% fun provides the tiggy game Ticayo. It kills the boredom and puts the skills to the test. Ticayo is manufactured by selected local family-run businesses and in cooperation with Lebenshilfe Chemnitz e.V. (sheltered workshops) in Saxony. In accurate handcrafts, supported by automatic turnery, the Ticayo is painted and then packed in recyclable cartons.
TicToys products are awarded with the spiel gut® seal for educational valuable toys.
In short: TicToys toys are environmentally friendly, pollution-free, long-living, recyclable and fair and socially produced. True to the motto: “TicToys – die neue Spielzeugkultur" translated literally means "new culture of toys." It stands for the idea that toys should be fun for all: consumers, producers and for the benefit of nature. TicToys is creative, innovative fun sport for children and adults based on traditional games of ancient cultures.