Customer Reviews

Robots - Wonderbot - Flying Toy

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We bought one of these three days ago for my four-year-old. On day two, after using it as described in the "instructions," the string broke. We returned it to Toys R Us an hour ago, got a new one, and after using it twice, the whirly thing cracked. $10.00 and a child's expectations down the toilet. Thanks, Mattel.

My 7-year-old loves things that spin and things that fly, so he was very happy to receive this as a gift.

I don't see how he can possibly pull the string hard enough to get the top to fly to a decent height or distance. Also, after only having the toy for 2 hours, the string became completely tangled inside. I unscrewed it and forced the pieces apart to fix the string, but he hasn't played with it much since then. There shouldn't be any way to have the string jam if you are playing with it properly, so I don't consider this very durable.

Is it cute? YES Is it interesting? YES Is it durable? Absolutely NOT. Within 24 hours the propeller cracked. Even after a tape job it exploded (fell apart). I soon had a 4 year old crushed. Come on MAttel I expected better out of you! I think you owe a lot of comsumers an apology. My advice? DON'T BUY IT!

I bought this for my 7 yr old grandson. He had it for one day, pulled the string approx. 25 times that day, it was fun when it flew in the air, it did fly high but,by the next day the string was shredding and bunching up so we couldn't even pull the string all the way. The string broke, end of toy. He had the toy one day. It was also hard to connect the spin top each time. I would not recommend this at all. It may only be $10. but definetly not worth the money and disappointment in his face when it broke.

The toy is great for kids who loved the Robots movie if they have the patience to work with it a little. My 5 year old son thought it was great and loves anything that flies. The first few uses were great but now the top will not stay on long enough to launch it. It seems like there is a certain place it has to line up and we had three adults trying to explain to a lively five year old that you had to turn it a little and try it and turn a little and try it. Now he has of course abandoned it and my husband is using it to torment the cat.

We took my son to see the Robots movie and he loved it. His 6th birthday was not too long after that so we did a Robots themed party. He saw the Wonderbot in the store and had to have it. He was sooo excited about it. So I got it for him. Well, the first problem was that we couldn't get the top to stay on. Three adults tried thier hardest and none of us could get it to stay on. Then the next problem that came up was the string getting frayed. By the third day it was a goner. And my son was sooo upset cuz he loved that toy.

Wonderbot does fly great! He is really cool. I think I would recommend this to anyone who asked. He is so cute, and is not a lot of money