Customer Reviews

PC Powered USB Missle Launcher

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The USB missile launcher is a simple, fun toy that fires three foam darts from any Windows computer with the handy included software. (Some enterprising hackers have also rigged up open source software for even more compatibility!) Load up the three small, soft darts, plug in, run the software, and you're just a space bar away from securing your office to the shock and awe of your co-workers. Little kids love it, too.

Overall its not really worth it. unless you plan to take it apart and soup it up. When I first got it the left and right motion worked but the up and down didn't so before I decided to take it apart I just gave it a whack like you would on an old tv and it suddenly started working fine.
also the darts you get are very fragile, I had to supper glue some fins back on within the first two weeks of using it. Most of the time the darts don't even leave the tube they sit on.
this product has a great potential just has fallen apart at so many crucial points.

The ads looked interesting so I thought I would order one for a friend. He really liked it. He said he can hit his cat at 20 feet, but it will go further. The cat loves to chase the missles. He took it to work (network administrator) but it was kidnapped by jealous co-workers so it had to go home for safe keeping. Fun Toy!

Brought it in this morning and everyone loved it (including the bosses). I plan on using it sparingly, but it's so darn hard to resist when you have three bright yellow missiles just waiting to be fired. :)

Good movement and range. Shoots a good 15 feet at maximum arc in my office, enough to rain some comedy on the next cubicle over. Although you won't hit moving targets with it, as it has to "wind up" then shoot after pressing the fire button (4 second lag time). Won't rapid fire either, but it's still accurate if you take care of your missiles condition.

Not dangerous at all, good conversation starter usually ending with laughs. I'd pay $5 less for another, I think it's just slightly overpriced right now, but it could be just me. You can buy replacement/extra missiles in large packs for cheap if you know where to look online. Honestly, it's exceeded my expectations of a cheap chinese toy... it's very fun if you don't expect it to clean and cook for you.

This is a fun toy. I bought two of them and gave one to my son. Both units lauch the missles more than the 10 feet stated which is great! The only down side is the fins can come off easily and the length of time it takes to build up pressure.

I added this to my birthday wish list and just received it. I work in a cubicle so I thought this would be a great toy to put on my desk. While it is extremely entertaining it does have some major flaws.

1. It's LOUD! The motors in this thing are very loud, if you wanted to use this in an office setting good luck getting a surprise attack. Imagine a pencil sharpener and then picture it just a hair quieter.
2. Doesn't actually shoot 3 out of 3 darts. 1 of the barrels shoots the dart 10 feet, the second barrel seems to be 50% worse and maybe gets 5 feet. The third barrel is a dud, it sometimes shoots but when it does it falls right in front of the launcher.

I have learned the trick to this thing is NOT to put the darts all the way on the barrels. Just put them on enough to hold it but not all the way down as they will not launch at all.

I'm still going to bring this to work, I'm still going to have a lot of fun with it but the price given the noise and malfunction level of it should be closer to the $14.99 range... At $25 it's a bit steep.

My husband wanted this missile launcher for Christmas so he could attack his business partner at work without looking or using the super soaker (big water gun for those of you who don't know about company methods of inter-cubical warfare). The Missile launcher does shoot, but it takes a while to warm up and only one missile could actually shoot far enough to hit his partner in the back of the head 6 feet away(it really does not hurt b/c it is a piece of 2 inch Styrofoam). The other two missiles barely launched, which was pretty disappointing (1 foot for 2nd missile, failure to launch for third missile). Maybe it was just this one particular product that had launch issues. I just thought it would have more power (grunt, grunt ala Tim-the-tool-man-Taylor style).

I bought this little rocket launcher, as well as two other people in the vicinity of my office. We are shooting at each other all day long. It's a fun little toy, but don't lose any rockets. You only get three, and beleive me, if you don't watch where they fly, you're gonna spend more time searching for the rockets, than you will working...

It's a fun toy although a little over priced for what you get. The included software does not work and you have to download the updated driver from the manufacturer. The launcher can't be plugged into a USB hub. It must be plugged into the ports on the computer. The launcher does not come with any extra missiles so don't lose any. That aside, it's been alot of fun to play with at the office.

I just bought this plus some extra darts. Sadly, if you push the darts all the way on to the firing tubes, more times than not they wont even launch. I just barely set them on there now. About 1 out of 10 will go a solid 10 feet or so. Most fall around 5 feet. The motion of the turret and sound effects are pretty sweet. I wish the unit overall was a bit quieter so I could snipe my co-workers. Even with the sound turned down, they know it's coming. I think this item is a bit over priced. I would have been happier with my purchase if it was closer to the $15 area.

A can of compressed air with the straw and a few of these darts is much more fun than the turret. Just saying...