Customer Reviews

Scatter Fish

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I purchased this toy for our annual 4th of July party!! It was definately a "big hit" with the younger kids! For those over 10 years old, they got bored easily. It's a little hard for kids to wind up and set themselves. It does require some parental assistance. Overall I would reccomend it, especially for younger children!

This toy requires winding up and then being placed in the middle of the pool, so everyone's waiting for the fish to get fired off -- and when they do (all four of them), it happens in such slow motion that it's too easy for the kids to retrieve them instantly. Plus, the fact there are only four fish means that, if played with two kids it's a little boring, if played with more it's hardly worth doing. This game would be excellent if there were a lot more fish for the kids to retrieve -- eight or ten, maybe, instead of four. My daughter and her friend who played this are ages 7 and 8. They were completely unenthralled. They played for 10minutes and now there it sits, $20 worth of plastic, to be consigned to the heap of unwanted toys!

My son received this as a gift for his 5th birthday. I noticed right away that the toy had a "warning" on it not to wind it up more than 1 1/2 times, but kids will be kids (and there's not really a definitive stopping point to the winding), and to make a long story short, the toy never even made it to the pool. He likes to play with the fish, though, but the main piece was in the trash the very first day.