Customer Reviews

Shadow Magic Strobe Flasher

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We love this product (we actually have the exact same one from National Geographic, but it isn't being sold anymore). It is so much fun that we have a hard time going to bed because we can't stop playing with it. We practice spelling, make creative shapes, and make whacky fun pictures. We enjoy scouring the house for new objects that will make good shadows when they are exposed. Everyone who has come to the house and sees it wants one. I have given three away already as gifts. It is worth the money 100%.

Specifics:

It comes with a glow-in-the-dark screen (similar to the ones seen at museums), a light strobe for exposing the pictures, and a light pen (attached to the strobe) for drawing. The strobe is on a timer, so you can play with it by yourself. The general concept is this: when you place an object in front of the screen, it blocks that area from being exposed with the strobe light. This creates a dark image of your object (face, hand, toy, etc.), while everywhere else glows.

Once you create a picture, you can use the light pen to add lines, drawings, write words, etc. It fades quick enough to create a new picture in a few minutes (with a bit of overlap), but will last long enough to enjoy the original piece of art.

Fun things to try:
-take a picture of your hand and someone's head/face. Make "laser-beams" shoot out of your fingertips towards someone's "face"
-try varying the distance away you use the "light pen" to create a more diffuse effect
-find different objects (various kid toys, stuffed animals) and create scenes...use the light pen to fill in your scene

Hours of fun for kids and adults! Highly recommend.

I was hoping this toy was going to be as cool as it seemed, and boy it sure is! In all honesty, I bought it for my 3-year-old nephew to play with his 5-year-old brother... and I want one for myself! Affordable fun + fast shipping + excellent customer service = 1 heck of a deal.

Uncle Milton's Shadow Magic is simply a glow-in-the-dark panel. It's very durable, and rolls up or folds for easy storage. It is a generous size and includes two break-down rods to allow the screen to hang nice and straight.

You really need a bright, focused light in order to get the kind of effect indicated on the box (with sharply-defined shadows), and that's hard to come by. However, my son and I have had a lot of fun simply drawing on it with an ultraviolet penlight that was a part of an invisible-ink message kit he received separately.

How much fun you have with a glow-in-the-dark screen is purely dependent on your own imagination. We're having fun!

From the picture, I thought this would be bigger, but it wasn't. It works just as promised though. I used it in the classroom, and it got the reactions I was hoping for! My students really enjoy having this product in the classroom. It's easy for them to hold and use, and I don't see it breaking in the NEAR future. Again, the only gripe I have is the size, it's just too small for what I thought.

The "drawing" sheet is very durable. Then pen is unique. However, we haven't gotten any images to look as defined as the ad shows. Also, when writing with the pen, the light of the pen becomes so bright that you can't see the shadow you hoped to trace. I probably wouldn't buy this again or suggest it to anyone.

My son really wanted this shadow toy after playing with it at a friend's house. We saw it in a toy store for about $10 more. It probably wouldn't have been worth that, but it is worth the $16 that Amazon charges. Both my children, ages 9 and 11, have had loads of fun with it. They have shadow copied everything from simple shapes to one of the family cats. Just hang it over a door in a closet or bathroom and have fun! I have one worry, which is that the green screen will rip, but my children say it's really sturdy.

We all know that our children always seem to want a standard list of toys at different ages, so I always like to get some gifts no on their list as well. I found this item while going through a search and was really excited because a location a museum in my town use to have a wall that did the same thing in their building and it was a lot of fun.

Although it's not Christmas yet (and we haven't given it to our 5 year old son) we did take it out of the box to try out and we couldn't just stop at one test. It was fun making shadows of each other.

The Shadows are fun to create and the pen can be fun to draw with on the shadows. I know our son will be looking for a lot of objects to shadow with it. The down side is that you have to be really close to the object to get a good shadow, the pen light over-powers the shadow on the page so it makes it next to impossible to actually draw the image, and it will take some teaching of "don't look at the light".

Beyond that I really do like this product and can't wait to give it to him. QVC had it for $30 and I was going to pay that until I found it on Amazon for nearly 50% the price.

So, this shadow magic thing has been kicking around the house for a while, and we finally decided to open it and try it out. I guess I didn't expect much. It has been so much fun. You have to make sure you hold the flash pen right and read the directions so you get awesome shadows. All 4 of my kids and my husband and I played it. It's well worth the money!! I hear the kids fighting over it right now. Should have bought a couple of them!

I was highly skeptical about this product but bought it as a gift anyway. It really works! You have to be in a dark room, but the effect is amazing. I bought it for an 11 year old but it would be just as much fun for high school and college students.

Product as promised. Super fast delivery DURING the Christmas rush. Definitely would do business again. Thanks.