Customer Reviews

Elenco OWI T3 Transforming Solar Robot

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I bought two - one for my 10 year old son and the other for my 5 year old son. My first son built it pretty much all by himself except for a couple of steps. The user guide is very good. Take your time and follow the steps carefully. Make sure to deburr the wheels. Otherwise it does not work.

May be that was the problem with one of the buyers who could not get it to work.

Start putting it together when you have enough sun light. Before you put on the wheels, check it out in the sun to make sure it works. Then put the wheels, check again. If it does not work - deburr the wheels. That's what happened to one of our kits.

My 8 year old son and I had fun building the robot (although, as another reviewer noted, it is A LOT smaller than you expect it to be), but we've had it in the sun for hours and it won't budge. I'm afraid the solar mechanism isn't up to snuff. Another downside is that there's no on/off switch; if it eventually does power up, it will just run in the sun and not in the shade. No power is stored. Overall, a big letdown. Will write the company to see whether a replacement solar panel eases the pain, a bit.

It is not very difficult to assemble and make it work. Son enjoy it for a while. But the assembled product not very stable and parts can become loose easily.

I guess the dimensions of the product were for the box. This is a tiny guy. My husband and 3 yrs old put it together. It hasn't moved yet but we havn't had sunshine yet....

Just got this for my 10 year old for 2011 xmas. Parts were very small and very difficult to assemble. Together we assembled about half of the robot until we came across a defective part (The molding of part B19 had a broken core pin that made assembly impossible) We then took it apart and tried the solar panel. Again, a big dissappointment. Absolutely nothing happened.

If you've already made the mistake of buying this toy, try the solar panel first before you waste any more time with assembly.

The better choice is to not purchase this POS at all.

this solar powered robot is very fun to build and play with but is somewhat fragile on the arms but I would still recomend it

I think I read the description wrong when I originally bought this. I wasn't expecting it to come in pieces. my error. So its not exactly what I was expecting. I still gave it as a gift as originally planned and the father was more excited than the son. I haven't heard their opinion yet.

My 8 year old purchased this for himself with an Amazon birthday gift card. I had to build the whole thing, which we were expecting since it is rated for 10 and up. It took me 3 hours to assemble this toy for my son. He used sandpaper to sand off the burrs and helped when he could. One rotating part needed additional sanding on one of the rotating pivots which seemed to be slightly misshapen. Finally after 3 hours of building, we placed it in the sun and even used a magnifying glass to intensify the sun. (This is a technique we have used to make other solar toys move.) It will not budge. My son is very disappointed an wants his money back. If anyone has any tips on how to make this work, we're open. I have considered spraying the moving parts with Silicone spray to reduce the friction.

My son really liked this toy enjoyed putting it together. H really enjoys this type of toy. He is always putting lego kits together He wants more like this toy.

I will begin this review by saying I have not attempted to put this toy together. I'm hoping to be able to return it. I did NOT buy it through Amazon, but wish I had. I bought it through Steve Spangler Science. When it arrived I googled the product to see other comments and there were none, so here's mine

The trouble with mail order or internet purchases of such toys is that all you have to go on is the picture and description. The actual product in this case is much smaller than it appears in the graphic. The pieces are the kind all afixed to a framework you need to twist off. There are 20 some very small pieces plus 4 gears and screws and rubber feet. The instruction booklet is 26 pages of detailed drawings that look absolutely impossible to follow. If someone could actually follow these directions I have serious doubts that it would actually work as a solar robot. But I'm not even going to try.