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Brainstorm
Scare friends and family with this life size furry radio controlled Tarantula RC Spider.
 "Catch" The Fun, "Catch" The Family!, 2008-11-02
What can I say? I caught my wife when I hid it under our Living Room Fire, very impressed, she is not easy to catch! Caught my 4 daughters, 2 grandsons and my grandaughter. Great fun and is currently loaned out to family members for the umpteenth time! Value for money. Buy it!
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Silverlit
- Simply plug in Helicopter and charge, with easy to use connections.
- Charging Time: 20-30 minutes for full charge.
- Flight Duration:5-10 minutes between charges.
- Take off, hover and descend, turn left and right with fixed forward movement.
- Range: Up to 10m (30ft). Frequency: Infra Red Control System.
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List Price: £29.99
Our Price: £14.75
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Silverlit
- Easy-to-fly 3-channel infra-red micro helicopter with LED light
- Available in various colours and we are unable to determine which colour you will receive
- Weighing 12g and featuring a high capacity LIPO battery
- Simply plug in the helicopter, charge and fly
- A 20 minute charge will give 5-10 minutes of play time
Very good. IF YOU WANT TO STOP IT SPINNING READ THIS, 2009-01-04
Whenever you turn it on and fly it it continuously spins around. If you keep clicking the trim button in one of the directions it will stop spinning and you can fly it properly. Once this happens best fun I've had in ages.
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List Price: £34.99
Our Price: £15.95
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Brainstorm
Experience the lunar phases and learn about the moon with the Moon In My Room display.
By the light of the Moon, 2008-06-06
Bought this for my 7/8 year old who is mad about space and astronomy, we all think it's absolutely magical. It's very realistic, gives off just the right amount of light and is suitable to play with or just to leave on to go to sleep to. I can think of a few other kids who will be getting these for presents. Just GREAT!
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List Price: £29.99
Our Price: £17.99
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Silverlit
- Colours May Vary
- Great Gift
- Good Quality
- Famous Brand
Fun, but patience required - this is not a toy for young children, 2008-12-28
This is an excellent little flying machine. It requires patience and concentration, but long flights are possible. (up to 5 minutes at a go). The controls take a little getting used to, but once mastered its like a bug that you just can't get rid of, you keep going back to it for that extra bit of flight control, or hover longer over the coffee table. It is great fun, but younger people may find it a bit too difficult to master and get bored with it quickly. I love it, and I am just off to fly round the living room again.
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List Price: £44.99
Our Price: £24.95
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Silverlit
SILVERLIT HELICOPTER, 2008-12-31
EXCELLENT LITTLE TOY - I BOUGHT TWO OF THESE ONE MY 25 YEAR OLD SON & ONE FOR MY TEENAGE NEPHEW - HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT WERE ENJOYED BY BOTH OF THEM. LITTLE TOYS FOR BIG BOYS!
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List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £12.95
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Silverlit
Damaged your Silverlit Picco Z helicopter with a tricky maneuver?.
These are the replacement parts you need to get flying again. This genuine Silverlit Picco Z helicopter triple rotor set contains the genuine blades to get retired helicopters flying again.
Not one, not two but THREE spare rotor blades!, 2008-01-24
My picoo z was still flying well with a cracked rear rotor blade but I knew one more nose-dive behind the sofa and my fun would be over. Unfortunately my
over enthusiasm after christmas day for tidying up meant the original spare went in the bin with cracker bits. Luckily these are official Silverlit rotors and a pack of three, which I was very happy about as I can play 'Apocolypse Now' to my heart's content.
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Meccano
- Spykee is a robot you can build yourself and is compatible with all Meccano pieces
- Two modes of control: locally (via Wi-Fi technology) and internationally (via the internet)
- Spykee can be a VOIP phone giving free calls and also acts as a webcam, and is compatible with Skype, Google and Microsoft Talk technologies
- When he detects a movement, an alarm can be activated on your computer, or he'll send you a picture via email wherever you are in the world
- MP3 music player: You can also listen to your own music through Spykee by plugging in your MP3 player
- Recommended for age 8 years onwards and not for children under 3 years due to small parts
- Requires one 9.6V battery (included)
 Great robot, although not without its flaws., 2008-12-31
Great little robot, took about 2 hours to put together, although I did take my time. Robot is sturdy once put together although I found a lot of the bolts, even when fully tightened easily pulled out when putting the individual parts together which was frustrating.
Setting up with my pc was straight forward (using Vista), haven't tried controlling it via the internet yet.
The speaker is excellent and when music is played through sounds great although does distort at higher volumes which has to be expected.
My only concern is battery life due to the fact even after a full charge dropped to half way in about 5 mins, but I guess it's a little too early to tell yet as may take a few charge cycles to reach optimum capacity.
Overall a great little gadget more for over 18's than under, unless an adult is going to put it together and set it up.
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List Price: £199.99
Our Price: £129.99
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Silverlit
- Charging time 20-30 minutes from charger supplied
- Flight times upt to 10 minutes
- 2 x Helicopters with controllers
- Machine gun noise as you fire at your opponent
- Flight range of 30ft
Great Fun!, 2008-12-28
I got these for Christmas after finding them on the site. I thought that they would be a little bit of fun, but not brilliant. I was wrong.
These helicopters are a very good laugh. You can fly them well enough to use after the first couple of minutes; leaning to fly them really well however takes two or three recharges.
They are also very durable, I have flown mine into various walls, ceilings, floors and small children, and they still work, save for a bit of plastic taken out of one of the main propellers. They do take about two or three times as long to charge each time as you get flying time, if you follow the "wait ten or fifteen minutes after use before charging" rule in the booklet.
The only disappointing thing about them was the fact that each controller (that the helicopters charge of) require 6 AA (LR6) batteries. I should have realised, but a bit disappointing on Christmas day as we didn't have enough.
Overall, Thumbs up!
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List Price: £49.99
Our Price: £32.50
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Silverlit
The Picoo Z is one of the newest flying experiences from Silverlit....the experts in flying right out of the box!
First helicopter - an early report, 2008-08-18
Right , Ive got a bit of time to write while the PicooZ charges up again so I thought I would write the sort of review I would like to read if I was contemplating buying one. If your not in for a longish read then i'll summaries it for you now in one sentence;
Yes, buy one but don't expect you'll be Mr/Mrs Airwolf from what is essentially a 2 channel toy that cost £20. With that in mind you can't go wrong.
For anyone else that wants more detail read on ....
first things first- some more flesh on the ratings ive given it:-
how much fun is this toy? - 5 stars. It's all relative of course but unless you have the attention span of a gnat , the co-ordination and reaction times of a sloth and just plain don't like the idea of flying your own model helicopter round the house (in which case what are you doing here?) - you'll love this little toy.
How would you rate this toys educational value? 5 stars. More than a few goes of this and your going to have a pretty good idea of what things 'like' lift and 'thrust' really mean. The significance of moving and static air and maybe even the influence of thermals, the value of patience and a whole load other vast if nebulous skills. Your kid will love you if you buy one and for £20 i'll amazed if it doesn't trounce Aunty Gertrude's selection of soft soaps as present number one year 200_ ( insert at will)
How durable is this toy? 3 stars. Could have been 5 because I haven't broken it yet despite managing to guide the thing into the top of a standard lamp shade and it clattering to silence against the bulb and lampshade struts (mercy!). However 3 not 5 because if you push it far enough or are plain unlucky - it WILL break. I guess ive just been lucky so far.
How do you rate this toy overall? 5 stars. I could gush on about it but lets just say i can't remember being as excited about opening a package since I was a kid. I wasn't wrong to be either.
OK now the main observations from a one day old pilot with 5 flights under his belt.
In no particular order...
* noise levels- makes less noise than a cordless handheld 9v vacuum cleaner and won't interfere with someone else watching telly unless you normally have the volume way down low.
*charge instruction - mine says that the green light will flash then go solid when it's charged. What actually happens is that a solid green light goes on and then goes OFF when it's charged. Yours may be different but if it's like mine - it's fine.
*The helicopter gets it's juice from the AA's in the remote. Switch the 'copter and remote off before plugging in then switch the remote on to feed power to the 'copter. This is not made explicit from the instructions. This may be obvious to many but i'm talking to my fellow luddites here.
* following on from the above - because it gets it's 'juice' from the AA's...expect to buy lots of AA's.
* yes, it's only two channels and you'll read many reviews that say it can't really fly properly forward. They're right to some extent but three points 1) when you get a little more experienced i'm sure adding some gentle weight to the nose will produce a better nose-down or forward pitch effect. Until then, stick with the aluminium stickers that come with it to start. They give just the slightest whiff of forward motion if you stack them on top of each other which is fine to start.2) this is a simple toy and for further down the line there is always the 3 channel Atlas of TandemZ as the next level. For about a fiver more - why not?3) hovering and just getting control of the thing may LOOK boring but I assure you that when the controls are in your hand just attaining a steady height and nose positon is enthralling.
*(Self edited section) I had initially suggested that I thought that the tail rotor was a simple free spinning blade- driven by the blast of air from the main rotor. Wrong- on closer examination there is the tinniest of motors driving it and connected to the main fuselage by a wire down the spine of the tail fin. As I said in the first draft - I think this rotor must contribute something to the stability of the flight by preventing the helicopter from tracking sideways.
Some final points on flying
* A literally breathless room is going to give you the best chance to get some control. Close the windows and doors. This thing weights 10 grammes which is mite less than my last sneeze. Give yourself a fighting chance.
* low flight is best if you've haven't ordered spares. Higher you fly, further you'll fall ...and more damage your likely to inflict. Sit down and keep it buzzing around knee height- just as much fun and will save a few bob until you become proficient.
* when full throttle (left controller in full 'UP' position )doesn't provide any further lift and increase blade rotation speed (the helicopters noise pitch is another clue) then you're no more that 20 seconds away from the end of the ride. Set it down. Make a cuppa.
* edit - extra trick - try and keep it away from walls if you can as Ive found that the blast of air created by the main rotor(or maybe it's the tail rotor) seems to bounce back on the helicopter and create stability and manouvering problems. If you need to 'ditch' at this point- cut the throttle off- a blade than is not spinning is less likely to break when it hits the floor.
everything else you need to know is covered in the other reviews
I hope this helps and that you have as much fun with it as I am
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List Price: £24.99
Our Price: £19.95
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