Wild Planet Spy Video Car

by Wild Planet

Product Features

• The Spy Video Car includes a headset, screen and hand-held controller
• The sleek R/C features a built-in video camera that sends a live feed to a flip-up screen on your headset up to 75 feet away
• 2006 Top 5 New Toys: NBC News, Family Fun Magazine, "What I want" - TV Show
• View all the action through your own personal headset

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 11.1 x 19 inches ; 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EMRVI8
• Item model number: 70133
• Our recommended age: 6 - 12 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 years and up
• Batteries: 12 AA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,665 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #23 in Toys & Games > Learning & Education > Science > Geology & Earth Sciences
  • #30 in Toys & Games > Novelty & Gag Toys > Spy Gadgets
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Because plain-sight video monitors are not acceptable in the spy world, you'll need the one-of-a-kind private screen of the Spy Video Car to keep your secrets safe from enemy eyes. Wear the lightweight frames with the single LCD lens to ensure you're the only one who views the video transmitted through your RC vehicle. Adjust the camera angle on the wireless spy car and send it on secret missions using the hand-held remote control. Observe the journey and the destination through the small screen attached to your headset. From the safety of your spy headquarters, watch what's going on wherever your video vehicle travels, indoors and out, up to 75 feet away. 90 day warranty. The ultimate spy rover is here!

Product Description

This stealthy speedster zips from room to room while remaining virtually unnoticed. The Spy Video Car is a remote-controlled vehicle that comes with a headset video feed so you can spy on your friends in other parts of the house. The LCD screen lets you navigate from Point A to Point B as you view your surroundings through the headset. Remain undercover with special night vision - you see them, but they don't see you. Requires 12 "AA" batteries (not included). Measures 7.5"L x 6"W x 8.5"H.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

98 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 8 y.o. nephew loves it. Uncle is a bit disappointed in video., September 5, 2006

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J. A. Edwards (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Planet Spy Video Car (Toy)

Pretty expensive but I ended up splurging and getting it for my 8 year old nephew for this coming Christmas. I ended up giving it to him this weekend instead; I wanted to see it go too and couldn't wait 4 months!

My nephew REALLY likes it but, oy!, is the video bad -- what they show in the online commercial is quite a bit clearer and contrasty than what we see in our actual unit. I think the infrared aspect blurs things a bit and its sensitivity is pretty low in any case. You can't read ANY writing thru the video, regardless of size of print, etc. Still, the video link is minimally serviceable (adequate for manuevering with a little bit of practice) and my nephew has a BIG time sitting in his "command center" and sending it out on "remote missions" using only the onboard video link. Seems fairly robust and sturdy so far.

46 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's cool....but.........., January 9, 2007

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C. Fleming (Marysville,MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Planet Spy Video Car (Toy)

It's great concept for a toy. There's a few issue's that I found personally. First of all it's supposed to be a "spy" car, when it moves its a little nousy not loud but noisy. If I was sitting in a room I could hear it coming. Second, the car doesn't have much of a range on it. I would say a good 15ft. which ain't much in the R/C world. The car starts to get a little glitchy through walls. Once again going back to the "spy" aspect of it. If i'm spying I would like to be able to stay out of sight. I think they should do a little more work on this toy and it would be a awesome toy.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, really nice, really fun!!!, December 27, 2007

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Nacho - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Wild Planet Spy Video Car (Toy)

This was the one item my youngest son (6 years old) wanted for Christmas. He kept talking and talking about it. I could not find it anywhere at first. Walmart listed it for seventy but it was not available online from their site. I went to four different stores and while all the toy sections were aware of the product and claimed they had carried it, all were out of stock. I finally found it online through an Amazon.com reseller, but it was just over one hundred and with expediated shipping at over 30 dollars, well you do the math. It's not worth that much. Try to find it for 70 or less if possible, but honestly everywhere I did find it was roughly a hundred. Anyway, the toy itself is great fun. It's basically a remote control car with a spy camera on it that you can use to view anything it's pointed at and you view using spy glasses. The image is black and white and pretty good quality. It's equivalent to any remote video spycam you see shown on tv like from atm's or other spycams. The car is also very quite. I've heard reviewers write it's loud. Ours is not at all. It's not completely silent. If you are sitting in a room reading a book you will hear it come in, but if there is any noise in the room at all, a conversation going on, the tv on, or a radio at normal levels, the car can sneak in unnoticed so beware those of you in the shower, lock the doors. The kids have great fun trying to sneak in on parents activities. I found myself typing on the computer several times only to see this thing watching me and hear my kids in the other room laughing. It's great fun to pick it up or crouch down in front of the lens and make silly faces........you'll hear large laughter from the other rooms. Enjoy. Our spycar was not well shipped, and the spy glasses arrived with the plastic around the viewing lens of the spy glasses cracked in a triangle shape and that plastic piece actually fell off, but we taped it back in place. Only a slight astetic peice of plastic that broke, it did not affect the function of the glasses at all. The glasses plug into the remote and the car and remote use 4 or 6 double A's each for a total of about 10 or 12 batteries. I can't remember exactly how many, but basically alot of batteries. It's been running 4 days non stop now and not showing any signs of slowing down, so maybe the extra batteries are a good thing, so you don't have to switch them out as often. This is a great toy as a gift, but search for the lowest available price out there as it appears to have been increased in price for the holidays since i've seen it listed for about thirty dollars less.