“Grandson age 9 loved it. He was immediately working with it. He could change the design and make different things. That was a big plus for him and his mom.”
“It’s a cool toy. It was a lot of fun to put together. But I should have read the description before buying because I thought it would be able to work with my phone or iPad. It doesn’t. it’s a cool coding wheel which helps to get more comfortable with the smaller details.”
“This is a great concept and definitely for 10+. However, the parts are very cheap feeling. Ours has a broken wheel just from putting it together without even using or running it yet. My son is bummed as now he can't use it once he's finished building it! I cannot contact the company so we are stuck with a thousand parts and no hope of a working robot.”
“Took a while for my son and I to assemble, only to find out it doesn't work well and only makes a tiny, whiny noise. Cutting small pieces from the beginning felt like this sure isn't for 10 years old with small, spiky plastic parts possibly poking the skin. The entire process was thoroughly frustrating and makes me regret buying it. I'd give 0 star if I can.”
“This is a ridiculously badly designed product. It has over 200 parts that you have to separate from the frame -- and then trim the burrs off of! That's not even the worst of it. RealtorAmy pretty much hit the nail (screw?) on the head:"Their quality control department missed that the Philips screws supplied, which are self-tapping, are a trace too large for the hole they go into, which means that they are VERY hard to seat. Unless your screwdriver is new, and exactly the right size, the Phillips X section will deform and fail before being properly seated, and then cannot be removed. That they did not use square or torx drive screws and supply the driver is a MAJOR problem."Although I'd characterize it more as a *design* issue than a quality control one. A toy like this really shouldn't have self-tapping screws at all because there's no way a kid is going to get that right (and given the marketing on the box, there's bound to be numerous kids who try to assemble this), and an adult also has a poor chance of getting it right. Screws should only go into threaded metal holes for easy assembly and disassembly.Indeed, my assembly failed at the same point that theirs did (the orange E18 shaft). Getting the screw to go into the shaft required a lot of force, and I thought pressing the shift against a tabletop would do it, but unfortunately this meant relying on a ridge to keep the shift from turning, and the ridge is just plastic so it broke.It astounds me that this product is above 4 stars. I think that just goes to show how many fake reviews there are these days, which is why I actually read a sample of the positive and negative reviews to try and find some that sound real and also have specific things to say.”
