Customer Reviews

Discovery Kids Glow Star Globe

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This globe is cool. My 9 year old daughter has it in her room, and loves to look at the different star constellations at night. During the day, the globe features are useful when she wants to be able to see different parts of world. After all, that is a globe's purpose, right? :-)

My one minor thing is that you don't want to leave the switch "on" during the day. It'll drain the battery very quickly. Other than that, fun product!

I was expecting more for this product, everything is fine except that it doesn't assemble very well, so the globe easily is not very stable. It has little cities on map. My son really enjoys watching this globe.

Sent this back. Did not work with new batteries, and does not assemble particularly well. It is simply not sturdy. Let down because it looks better in the picture than in reality.

I bought this for my 6 1/2 year old son and he loves it. It looks very cool at night with the stars and is a great educational toy. Only drawback is that the globe does not connect to the base very securely, it just rests. Overall a great toy for older kids.

Good buy, great price, fun for about 1 min. The problem I have with the globe is the it only lights up for a few minutes. My son likes it but would like to be able to sleep with the glow on. It just lights up his room in a nice gentle way so it would be great if it would last all nite or atleast a few hours.

This was a gift for an 8-yr-old grandson. He loves it in both modes. As a matter of fact, the glow version is now his nightlight. It's nice quality for the price, and very educational. And of course it promotes interest in not only the Earth and geography, but astrology too. Leads to lots of questions and interesting conversations.

This was a Christmas gift for my daughter. I don't think that the star map adds much to this globe. The star map stays illuminated for three minutes after you turn it on. It does not even come close to proving enough light that it could not be used as a nightlight as other reviewers have suggested. This does NOT come with batteries.

I bought this globe for my daughter, 12 years old, in the 7th grade, as a learning tool; and to help with homework. I am also interested in refreshing my knowledge of geography. I also like the glow in the dark feature showing the star constellations. Worked just fine -- I wondered about the negative reviews I read about this feature. The only negative thing I would say is, that the globe comes off the base quite easily, in that when you lift to carry to another room one must be careful and hold straight up, so that the globe does not fall off the base onto the floor.

First of all I was amazed that you can not find a globe in Toy's R Us...with that being said I went on line to Amazon and found this really cool globe for my 10 year old son. It lights up at night or when the lights are out at the touch of a button so that you can clearly see the constellations so he is learning astronomy as well as geography. Fantastic! The only down side I find is that I often find the globe detached from its pedestal...done so by my son and not put away, but that can also be seen as an advantage. He can easily dismount the globe to more closely examine countries -- which he would be unable to do with the traditional fasten on axis globes. Great Product!

It fells apart very easy, and it is a headache when you installed the batteries. I would change it for cord and plug it in, than batteries.