Customer Reviews

Wild Planet Magnet Dive Gloves

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A great toy for the swimming pool, you throw in the magnetic fish and dive underwater collecting them along the bottom with your magnetic gloves. There is a mesh pocket on the back of the gloves for storage. Each fish has a number so you can add up your score and see who can get the highest. Our kids love these, but after four days of play the front of the gloves (that hold the magnet) have come unstitched and the magnets have fallen out. It would have been nice if they lasted through one swim season. I'm going to see if I can sew them back together and get more life out of them. The fish can still be played with though so they're back to diving for those!

This toy is such a good idea - someone has taken the time to figure out that both gloves should fit onto either hand, which makes getting the gloves on quicker - but since the fabric is very thin, it is still a struggle to get the gloves on. The idea is that you have these tiny weighted 'fish' that you throw into the pool, they sink and then you go fetch them - since the 'fish' have a strong magnet in them and there is a strong magnet in the palm of the glove, you can pick up the fish by swimming past them and moving the glove over them. There are two gloves - and each child really only needs one glove to play, so one pair permits two people to play the game. Both gloves can go on either the right or left hand. There is a folded piece of fabric that makes a pocket on the back of the glove where you can store your found 'fish' but this pocket is way too small to be easily used - really hard to get the 'fish' into the pocket and even harder to get them out. The 'fish' themselves are too small, I think, and easily get misplaced - everywhere - in the house, in the grass, in the skimmer. So I think the idea of the game is wonderful - which is why I initially purchased the game - but the actual parts are rather poorly designed with less than adequate materials.

My children have had a lot of fun diving for the fish with and without the gloves. Even my older boys will take on the challenge and race to get the fish. My four boys rangein age from 18 to 6 years.

I bought these for my nephew who just started swimming more seriously. His parents said they were a great addition to all the other underwater diving toys they had. My wife wanted to know why I didn't buy a pair for our daughter...

I got this for my 9 year old grandaughter; probably suited to somewhat younger children, however, she did play with it with a friend and enjoyed it.

These rock - my neighbor's kids spent a half-hour hour on them alone.


Sweet - so we could drink up without interruption..//