Magic Tonie Base

Since the prices for certain original Tonies that are discontinued are going through the roof, but my daughter still would like to have some of them and I'm not willing to pay for some up to 10 times of its original price, I had to come up with a solution.
Luckily my daughter doesn't really care if it's an original Tonie figure or one that her dad has made, as long as it's the matching figure, so I got the go from the wife to make our own ones.

As some of the 3D models for the different figures require quite some testing and trial by error, if you want a good clean result, and it's also more difficult to always find the space for the magnets and the chip, I wanted a simple solution for these core parts to be printable quick and reliable.

The base prints reliably in about 30 minutes, I included two pauses, one for the magnets and another one for the chip, and a small “purge” tower, since the printhead will ooze during the pause and this cylinder will prevent your main part from getting messed up.
 

For the Tonie parts (chip and magnets) you'll need to take apart a Creative Tonie (I used a carpenters knife). The figure that came with the box had the chip behind the face plate, the ones you can buy in store have the chip inside the head, magnets are down in the feet (ø6 x 6mm).

Be very careful with the chip!

I came across different iterations, the older one had a chip that was sealed in transparent plastic and come out easily, the newer ones were all blank and glued in with more or less CA, don't even try to remove these, you'll break them pretty much guaranteed, instead just cut off any excess around the chip.
Since the chips is then hidden inside the base, it doesn't really matter if there's still some rubber around it.

Also make sure when you insert the chip, that you insert it with the little square NFC chip going in first (facing downwards), otherwise you might get a connection issue!
 

I made two version of the base:

• Small → ø4,6mm hole for chip (to be used with old style sealed chips)
• Large → ø6,4mm hole for chip (to be used with new style chip that's still embedded in the rubber and excess rubber cut off)
   

I'd recommend to use the 3mf file, import as project and only adjust the printer and/or filament to your needs, everything else is setup  and ready to go.

 

Tip:

I inserted the feet, of the models I was using for the figures, as negative volume to the base model in Prusa Slicers, increased the size to 101% and set the z height so it would remove the shape for the last two layers. This way you have a lot easier time afterwards with positioning and gluing your model to the base plate.