Customer Reviews

Discovery Exclusive Radio Control Tarantula

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

My 11 yr old thought this was amazing but the maneuver wheels on the bottom will only run over hard surfaces and not carpet which was OK with us. He did, however, run it over carpet and the traction wheel rubber pully snapped. The legs are also quite fragile and after only 2 days of play, one of the legs broke. Because of that, the spider cannot "walk" now! Too bad because its looks great. We are going to send it back.

Not only will this be a fun gift for our 5 year old grandson, it will be a fun gift for our 65 year old brother-in-law! Quite realistic looking! It works great on smooth surfaces, but doesn't do well on carpet. Our dogs got a big kick out of it!

I got it purely for the shock effect. Unfortunately the computer lab floor is carpeted so I can't make it attack everyone who walks in the door. But it looks really cool.

I've had my tarantula for five years now and it still works great. I keep it in the computer lab at school for kids to play with while their parents work.

I bought this for my husband as one of his Valentine presents. He was delighted, but a little disappointed that it made loud mechanical noises which would give away (as if the red light on top of the spider wouldn't!)that it wasn't real. As other reviewers have said it won't work on a carpeted surface. Very realistic - I hadn't realized I have a slight case of arachnophobia. I could hardly bear to touch it to insert the batteries. Note this product uses 2 AAA in the remote and 2 AA in the spider.

I gave this trantula to my boss who is a consumate practical joker. It got the desired result; a scream heard around the office. This is a fun toy. They need to make a model where the eyes do not light up, though. The batteries also run out pretty quickly, so rechargables are probably the way to go.

In the short time on Christmas day that my brother (60 years old!) played with this, we got a kick out of it. The control did not always respond well, but we thought that might be a 'contact' issue. When moving and turning, the leg movement was surprisingly realistic. (We grew up with tarantulas in the backyard near Saddleback mountain in Orange County, California).
At this price, would highly recommend.

We bought this toy for our 7 yr old daughter who just 'had to have it'. It is very life-like. When it works, it's a pretty good toy. What we've found, though, is that it will work for about 5 min. on a set of new batteries. After that, the R/C range diminishes to nothing and the only way to control the spider is to have the R/C controller antennae touching the one on the spider. Not too much fun in that.

I got this as a Christmas gift for my 9yr old cousin who wanted the spider to (in her words) "scare her sister". She really liked it and played with it for longer than the xbox360 her parents got her, so that's saying a lot. It takes a really small screwdriver to open up the battery covers on the spider and the remote control, but after that it worked great. The range on the remote is at least 30 feet which is pretty impressive, and the feet move pretty realistically. I doubt, however, that anyone would actually think this is a real spider unless perhaps it woke you up : )
Overall it is a fun toy and I recommend it, but I do have a couple of caveats. 1 - The spider is much noisier than expected - whirring about as loud as an RC car - its not going to sneak up on anyone unless they are hard of hearing. 2 - the gears that make the spider move and turn are very delicate. We have a dog, and after a couple of runs over the rug, the spider stopped moving because some dog hairs got stuck in the gears. After removing the hairs, though, it was working like new.

The only thing about it that I would change, is that it only travels on smooth surfaces. My son loves the toy, he loves how real it looks, he loves how the legs move and I love that it hasn't broke. It was money well spent.

This was a gift for my 6 year old spider loving son. It moves much more realistically than I expected (although not backwards, but perhaps spiders don't go backwards?) My son loves it. Especailly the glowing red eyes. I'm not sure of the durability, he stepped on it once and 'dislocated' a leg but I was able to put the leg back in place and it still works fine.