Customer Reviews

Mad Science - Bubble Experiment Lab

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1 star:		(25)

 

 

Terrible, terrible. I am a research engineer and have used laboratory equipment for 30 years. I purchased this for my 8 year old daughter after she saw an ad on TV showing how wonderful it was. The assembly was not difficult however the bubble solution bottle was less than half full as was the smoke solution. The quality of the bubbles was considerably less than what you could make from a dime store bottle and the bubble generator itself was unnecessarily complicated and performed poorly. The "smoke" solution is supposed to make smoke when heated in the internal chamber of the smoke generator. The smoke was less visible than the steam coming off a cup of warm coffee. The video ad for this product is absolutely false and misleading. My daughter and I both felt decieved. I will return this product and get my money back. What a disappointment for a child that is enthusiatic for science toy.

This is a horrible product. This product came partially assembled. The rest of the assembly was difficult and time consuming with poor written guidance. Half the bubble bottle was empty on arrival. After wiring the contraption, it didn't worked. I checked and double checked but found there was a malfunction in the motor. I would recommend this horrible product to no one. Buyer Beware !!!!!

The product was not difficult to assemble, but nothing worked! We had to manually put some bubble solution on the bubble blower and even then it only produced a medium sized bubble. The little cup that was supposed to feed the solution to the blower never worked. There is a tube that connects the two parts, but the bubble solution doesn't flow through it, even when the valve is open. The smoke generator doesn't work either. I followed the directions carefully and tried several times. I bought this toy a couple of months ago on Amazon, but my son just opened it yesterday for Christmas. I hope Amazon will still take it back!

Poorly designed, poorly manufactured. Frustrating for adults and children, no fun for the whole family!!! Very flimsy construction, poorly made valves for the bubble fluid, control for allowing air into apparatus to fill bubbles is almost painful to operate. As others have said, smoke generator is useless, even when following instructions to the letter. The half-filled (and leaking) containers of smoke and bubble fluid only add insult to injury. As far as making bubbles is concerned, even with much practice and patience, we can make far better bubbles blowing them the old fashioned way. Stay FAR away from this...

This product is terrible. We will be returning it. My son received this item for Christmas. He tried to get it to work for 2 hours and the bubbles would not stay formed. He tried again and got the same result the next day. He is 10 and usually is very successful on projects like this. It is also very difficult to clean.

This was the most incredibly time-wasting, useless piece of junk that I have ever encountered. Horrible design: Grandaddy (who has a Ph.D. in science) spent hours struggling to get it to work. Never did. Tubes were bent and occluded, so we could not get the fluid into the chamber, precluding any use of the elaborate set up that might or might not have produced some interesting effects. Shame on Mad Science for marketing this abomination.

Sad grandad

I purchased this product for my 8 year old son for Christmas and we were both very dissapointed. Not only are the directions written poorly with many grammatical errors the toy couldn't produce a decent bubble. It is incredibly loud and and flimsy and the smoke generator was equally as useless. If I could give this product less than 1 star I would, we will be returning it tomorrow.

Piece of crap. Never once got it working right. It went to the recycling center... hopefully something worthwhile can be gotten from the cast-off plastic.

The Mad Science Bubble Lab is a very disappointing product. My daughter saw the adverisement on television and thought it looked amazing. She patiently waited for me set up the experiment and was very disappointed because the toy did not work. The parts that we received were different looking that those in the diagram. The tubes were far to long to get the bubble solution from the cup to the bubble flask. We did not even get to try the motor because we could never get the solution to flow through the tubes. The enclosed brochure talks about how to get kids excited about science which is ironic because there is nothing excited about this toy!

When I first saw this I thought it would be great for our 8yr old. I was wrong. It's complicated,frustrating to get to work right even for an adult. The directions were hit or miss on some of the finer details on how to produce the bubbles. The plastic used to make this also has a distinct (and my wife says "Unpleasent") scent. The smoke liquid to create the smoke effect is not to be used by children. Another point I would have liked to have known before buying this. I ran under the assumption it was a non-toxic,fairly easy to use toy going by the age on the package and just the concept itself. What's easier than making a bubble? I only wish getting this toy to make bubbles was as easy.