Brands
Fun Factory: the brand that makes its own toys
Almost every brand in this market designs a toy and has somebody else build it. Fun Factory runs the factory, and that single structural difference explains most of what the range is like.
Fun Factory has made its products in Bremen since the 1990s. In a category where the normal arrangement is a European or American brand name on a product built to order in a shared factory, owning the production line is unusual enough to be the main thing worth knowing about the company.
It has two consequences you can see in the products. The first is the silicone: the surface across the range has a distinctive slightly matte, slightly grippy feel that is consistent from one model to the next, which is what happens when the same people mix and mould it every time. The second is the shapes. Fun Factory designs things that a contract manufacturer would push back on, because a shared factory prefers a mould it already owns.
What the range is known for
- Pulsators rather than vibrators. The Stronic line moves a weighted mass back and forth inside the body of the toy, producing a thrust instead of a buzz. Nobody else has committed to this mechanism at the same scale, and it is the most genuinely distinctive thing the company sells.
- Colour and shape that do not apologise. Bright two-tone mouldings and ribbed or wavy profiles, where most of the premium market has settled on matte neutrals. You will either like this or you will not, and it is not a quality judgement either way.
- Dual-density dildos. A firmer core inside a softer outer layer, moulded together, so the toy holds a shape while the surface gives. Doing this well is a manufacturing problem, which is where owning the factory pays.
- Click-and-charge. A single magnetic charging system shared across much of the range, which means one cable rather than one per toy. A small thing that becomes a large thing by the fourth purchase.
Where the criticism is fair
- The grippy surface collects everything. The matte silicone that feels good also picks up lint, dust and hair from any drawer it is not stored in properly. Every owner discovers this, and a pouch solves it.
- The pulsators divide people sharply. A thrusting motion either does something for you or feels like a machine knocking politely. There is no middle group, and no amount of reading will tell you which one you are.
- Buttons under silicone. Controls moulded under the surface are easy to clean and harder to press accurately with wet hands.
- Price without the luxury signalling. Fun Factory charges premium prices for products that deliberately do not look premium in the matte-and-rose-gold sense. If the object mattering to you is part of why you spend the money, this is the wrong brand.
The two models that show what the brand is for
- 1
The mechanism nobody else makes
Fun FactoryFun Factory Stronic G / Real
A pulsator rather than a vibrator: a weighted mass driven back and forth so the toy thrusts in place. Curved for internal front-wall contact, and the clearest demonstration of why this company is not interchangeable with its competitors.
- Strengths
- Genuinely different mechanism
- No hand movement required once positioned
- Dual-density silicone surface
- Limitations
- Louder than a comparable vibrator
- The motion suits some bodies and not others
- Needs firm positioning to work at all
- Best for
- Somebody who has decided vibration is not the sensation they are looking for.
See it at the Fun Factory store: Fun Factory Stronic G / Real
- 2
The conventional one, done properly
Fun FactoryFun Factory Miss Bi / Lady Bi
A dual-stimulation toy with the brand’s usual rigid-core, soft-surface construction. It is the model to choose if you want what Fun Factory builds without committing to the pulsator question.
- Strengths
- Firm enough to hold its angle
- Waterproof
- Shares the standard charging system
- Limitations
- External arm is less flexible than some competitors
- Shape is assertive and not adjustable
- Best for
- A first Fun Factory, or a replacement for a rabbit-style toy that was too soft to press back.
See it at the Fun Factory store: Fun Factory Miss Bi / Lady Bi
Choosing within the range
Decide about the pulsator first
It is the one irreversible choice in the range. If the idea of a thrusting motion rather than a vibration is what brought you here, start there. If it sounds like a gimmick to you, buy a conventional model and do not feel you have missed the point.
Check the charging system
Most of the range shares one magnetic connector, which is an argument for staying inside the brand once you own the cable, and an argument for checking that the specific model you want uses it.
Read the firmness description, not the photograph
Dual-density toys photograph like soft toys and behave like firm ones. The product page states which layer is which, and that is the sentence that tells you how it will feel.
Buy a pouch, or use the one in the box
The surface is the brand’s best feature and a lint magnet. Storing it loose in a drawer is the single most common reason people stop liking a Fun Factory toy.
Questions people ask
- What is a pulsator, exactly?
- A motor drives a weight back and forth along the length of the toy, so the whole body moves in a short thrust rather than buzzing. The toy stays where you put it and provides the motion itself, which is a different thing from a vibration travelling through tissue.
- Is Fun Factory silicone different from other brands?
- It feels different, consistently, and that is because the company mixes and moulds it in house. Whether it is safer than another brand’s declared silicone is not something we can tell you without laboratory testing, and we have done none.
- Are the toys loud?
- The pulsators are the loudest things in the range, because a moving mass makes more noise than a spinning one. We have no sound meter, so treat that as a pattern in published owner reviews rather than a measurement.
- Does the warranty work outside Germany?
- The company sells and supports across the markets this site covers, and the claim route is its own store or the retailer you bought from. Read the current terms on the product page rather than trusting a figure here, because warranty lengths change.