- William Mark Air Swimmer Remote Control Inflatable Floating Clown Fish.
- William Mark Air Swimmer Remote Control Inflatable Floating Shark.
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- Air Swimmers swim through the air with incredibly smooth and life-like motion. These amazing fish provide hours of remote control indoor fun in even the smallest of rooms (not for outdoor use). They require only four AAA batteries (one in the body, thre
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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The idea of two large beautiful fish slowly swimming through the air propelled by nothing else but their own tails is just so great! Five stars for that. The implementations deserves less than one star. I still recommend this purchase, but be prepared for the following.
1. Check if the electric motors and the RCs work before you do anything else. The manual recommends to first fill the fish with helium. Don't do that before you check the motors and the RCs. You may need to return your merchandise right away. One of my RCs didn't work right out of the box. It had the red light flashing, so I first thought it was the motor. Then I checked the motor with the other remote and it worked. So, before doing anything else, connect each motor to the corresponding tail fin it is supposed to move, put the batteries in the motor and in the remote and see if they work.
2. If the motors and the RCs work, fill the fish with helium. It has cost me $2.50 for each at a flower section of a neighboring supermarket. You will need to refill the fish with helium about every four to eight days to keep them aswim.
2. When filling the fish with helium for the first time, make sure they pump the gas until all the small wrinkles on the fish skin disappear (the large will remain). This is crucial for gluing the fins and motors to the fish. If you try to glue the fins to a poorly inflated fish, the small wrinkles will be a big problem!
3. Attach a rope to each fish before filling. They have a hole in the middle of the belly for the purpose. Tie the ropes to your wrists or belt. When filled with helium, the fish are much lighter than air. You can easily lose your toy transporting it from the supermarket to your vehicle.
4. Glue the fins and the motor using the included sticky tape. A half of it has stuck to my fingers instead of the fish, so I ran out of the provided sticky tape and had to use my own regular sticky tape. The latter works, but not too well. You will need to reattach it quite often.
5. You will need a helper to attach the fins. If you try to do the assembly alone, you risk letting the fish go. Since they are much lighter than air, they can hit the ceiling quite hard and break the upper fins. Alas, this has happened to me.
6. To make fish swim through the air, you will have to make their buoyancy zero by putting some weights in the compartment in front of the motor. They have some putty in the sets, but initially it's not enough. I had to add a few nails to zero the buoyancy. Eventually, as the helium leaks out, you will have to take the extra weights out as well.
7. Finally, it's time for the positive part. If there are no manufacturing defects and if you have enough time and patience to make things work, then it's just super-cool! We had the fish floating in the garage and it looked like they were real and we just stood at the bottom of the ocean without any diving gear. My 7-year-old was happy, me and my wife were even more happy. It's a great toy, if you can make it working.
8. If things go wrong. The seller didn't hurry to replace my defective RC. After about two weeks of fruitless e-mail communications with them, I filed a claim with Amazon. Amazon customer service is fantastic! They shipped me a new remote. And it works!
9. A follow-up. When the fish are completely deflated, they shrink in size and most of the stuff you worked so hard to glue to them falls off. So either travel to a flower shop every few days to refill, or be prepared for a new round of gluing. Despite all the hardship, we still love the toys. Every kids' party we bring them to is a guaranteed success! However, don't let the little ones touch anything except for the remotes. The rest is way to easy to break.
1. Check if the electric motors and the RCs work before you do anything else. The manual recommends to first fill the fish with helium. Don't do that before you check the motors and the RCs. You may need to return your merchandise right away. One of my RCs didn't work right out of the box. It had the red light flashing, so I first thought it was the motor. Then I checked the motor with the other remote and it worked. So, before doing anything else, connect each motor to the corresponding tail fin it is supposed to move, put the batteries in the motor and in the remote and see if they work.
2. If the motors and the RCs work, fill the fish with helium. It has cost me $2.50 for each at a flower section of a neighboring supermarket. You will need to refill the fish with helium about every four to eight days to keep them aswim.
2. When filling the fish with helium for the first time, make sure they pump the gas until all the small wrinkles on the fish skin disappear (the large will remain). This is crucial for gluing the fins and motors to the fish. If you try to glue the fins to a poorly inflated fish, the small wrinkles will be a big problem!
3. Attach a rope to each fish before filling. They have a hole in the middle of the belly for the purpose. Tie the ropes to your wrists or belt. When filled with helium, the fish are much lighter than air. You can easily lose your toy transporting it from the supermarket to your vehicle.
4. Glue the fins and the motor using the included sticky tape. A half of it has stuck to my fingers instead of the fish, so I ran out of the provided sticky tape and had to use my own regular sticky tape. The latter works, but not too well. You will need to reattach it quite often.
5. You will need a helper to attach the fins. If you try to do the assembly alone, you risk letting the fish go. Since they are much lighter than air, they can hit the ceiling quite hard and break the upper fins. Alas, this has happened to me.
6. To make fish swim through the air, you will have to make their buoyancy zero by putting some weights in the compartment in front of the motor. They have some putty in the sets, but initially it's not enough. I had to add a few nails to zero the buoyancy. Eventually, as the helium leaks out, you will have to take the extra weights out as well.
7. Finally, it's time for the positive part. If there are no manufacturing defects and if you have enough time and patience to make things work, then it's just super-cool! We had the fish floating in the garage and it looked like they were real and we just stood at the bottom of the ocean without any diving gear. My 7-year-old was happy, me and my wife were even more happy. It's a great toy, if you can make it working.
8. If things go wrong. The seller didn't hurry to replace my defective RC. After about two weeks of fruitless e-mail communications with them, I filed a claim with Amazon. Amazon customer service is fantastic! They shipped me a new remote. And it works!
9. A follow-up. When the fish are completely deflated, they shrink in size and most of the stuff you worked so hard to glue to them falls off. So either travel to a flower shop every few days to refill, or be prepared for a new round of gluing. Despite all the hardship, we still love the toys. Every kids' party we bring them to is a guaranteed success! However, don't let the little ones touch anything except for the remotes. The rest is way to easy to break.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I initially ordered this product for my nephews' Christmas present. I was glad to see that it arrived when it was promised. I opened the boxes to assemble the items, but found that a) one of the boxes didn't include the motor i.e. KEY PART TO MAKE IT WORK, and b) I received two copies of shark instructions, rather than one for the shark, one for the fish. I put the shark together but it was a complete dud. This is not the seller's fault, it's just a cheap product that looks great on TV but fails miserably in the reality department - I would have been better off spending $5 on a regular mylar balloon. I therefore wrote a bad, but constructive, review on the PRODUCT, and asked the seller if I could refund the product. They said yes and said they would refund me an additional $20 to take down my bad review so they wouldn't have it on their record/profile It was Christmas and everyone can use an extra $20, so I accepted. However, they did not refund me for the additional $9.30 it cost me to ship the package back. Let it be said that if they had offered me $10 to take down the bad review, and an additional $10 for the shipping I would have gladly accepted. But the $20 was specifically to take down the review. I find it unreasonable that they would not reimburse me for the shipping cost, that I never would have incurred if I didn't have to return the faulty, and incomplete, product. I work in customer service, and this would have been a no-brainer for anyone who desires repeat business and/or positive feedback. I gave XMART many opportunities to do the right thing and reimburse me for the shipping - I informed them that if they did not, I would re-post my original negative feedback about the product, and give additional negative feedback on the seller. I told XMART I would understand if they took the $20 back (as I am re-posting feedback that they paid me to remove), as this has become an issue of principle, rather than money. Very disappointing. Everyone has been on both sides of customer service, so I was hoping XMART would understand, but unfortunatley that was not the case. If you want to buy the product (again - I would strongly advise against it), I would recommend you do so from another vendor.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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These toys LOOK great on the web site. In reality, they're inflatable nightmares -- we expected quality and educational value from Animal Planet... not in these balloons. Filling them with helium was easy... that was the end of the fun part. How do you attach fins with tape that won't stick to the balloons? Even if it did stick, how do you place those fins on marks that the directions refer to, but aren't printed on the product? The online assembly video looks so simple -- the happy little girl pulls down the clown fish that I had to wrestle repeatedly from the ceiling. The written directions are completely obtuse. The most patient of adults (us) gnashed teeth while the sweetest of children (ours) melted in a pool of tears. Merry Christmas? Ho. Ho. Ho.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Funny
I am very pleased with the fish. They were received four days after ordering and I have been having fun with them since. The looks on some peoples faces is hilarious. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Leo
Not a air swimmer,but knockoff
Had high hope for these two balloons, but instructions are difficult to follow. When shark finally was ready to fly. Read more
Published 1 month ago by dragon
Sorry I bought it.
I was very excited to use this with my students in my after-school program, but it was horrible. The balloons didn't have markers on them where they should, the instructions were... Read more
Published 2 months ago by dncc26
missing parts
The Nemo fish was missing 10 parts. It was not possible to put it together without the parts. When the fish box was opened it appeared it had been opened and the parts that were... Read more
Published 2 months ago by barbie
Fishy
Looks good on video but the assembly and end result leaves much to be desired. The tape doesn't stick well enough to hold the parts together for very long.
Published 3 months ago by Carcajou
Floating Fish
The kids liked them. Amusing little critters, I suppose they're worth the money. Remember, you need to rent one of those helium tanks from the local party supply store.
Published 3 months ago by S. Gwinn
Cool but not worth it
These air swimmers do take a lot of time to fill, assemble and tweak to get them to work properly. From the time I left to fill the balloons until we were flying them was about 2... Read more
Published 3 months ago by OSU_EE
It's very funny!
These toys have a natural movement of fish, but on air! For a better experience, buy one and you will note what I mean!
Published 4 months ago by Jose Kwo Lee
Our experience has been nothing but positive
Fantastic toys - would definitely get the pair again allowing us to have races, chase one another, etc. Read more
Published 4 months ago by SoCal
A bit disappoinment
We purchased 2 of these.. My son was so excited for this present, but not only was it tough to assemble, but it did not work after all that effort.. Read more
Published 4 months ago by redlehr
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