Customer Reviews

PERISCOPE (colors may vary)

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Sure, it's an inexpensive plastic toy periscope -- so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as, say, a submarine's periscope. However, even by plastic toy standards, this was highly unimpressive. The primary problem is that the field of view is *tiny*.

Now, I admit, I don't know how challenging it is to make a periscope with a decent field of view, but the lack with this one makes it almost useless. You see so little when trying to look with it that you quickly give up, and I eventually had to hunt around on eBay until I found a used "real" periscope for my kids.

Cheap plastic toy isn't a horrible thing -- if you're CHEAP. This should be five bucks, tops. It isn't. And given how poorly it performs, that's more than a little annoying.

Arrived with a small plastic tab broken off internally, even though the packaging was fine. A little glue and tape and it was working again, but this periscope is an extremely cheap toy, much cheesier than you would expect for the price. It's the sort of novelty you might pay <$5 for at a dollar store.

As others have said: Don't expect to be able to see very much or very clearly. That's okay really - it was for a child who was really just pretending with it anyhow. What isn't okay, though, is that some days after he got it, the plastic outside piece that holds the mirror (you know, the rectangular SHARP-cornered piece of "glass") kept popping off. It holds the mirror with just 2 teeny clips and that mirror comes out of them awfully quick and easily. No matter how much I pay for something, I do not expect it to fall apart within days and more importantly, I don't expect it to be so shoddily made that it's a danger to my child. Yes, the piece can be snapped back on, then it falls off again within hours, with the mirror snapping out of its clips when it hits the floor, generally. It's been taken away - sorry, TOTALLY not safe.

My son was expecting a better one, after they used a fancy one in his school. But it worked fine.