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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
Bakugan Launcher!
This Bakugan Launcher is the exact same one that Dan uses, so it makes this cool! That's beside the point. According to my son the launcher is awesome! There are only two drags about this toy. One, you can only have 2 Bakugan in the launcher at one time. Two, it takes forever to launch a Bakugan! First, you have to open the Bakugan holders, take the Bakugan out, put...
Published on March 23, 2008 by O.F.S.
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
Needs some basic instructions
My 6yo son bought this today with a gift card he received for his birthday. We got it at Target, and I thought $15 was a little much to spend on a toy like this. After getting it out of the package, there were no directions at all, not even something basic on how to use the item. Right away my ds had problems, and I wasn't much better at getting it to launch. I came here...
Published on August 3, 2008 by snoopygirl
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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
Bakugan Launcher!, March 23, 2008
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This Bakugan Launcher is the exact same one that Dan uses, so it makes this cool! That's beside the point. According to my son the launcher is awesome! There are only two drags about this toy. One, you can only have 2 Bakugan in the launcher at one time. Two, it takes forever to launch a Bakugan! First, you have to open the Bakugan holders, take the Bakugan out, put it in the launching part, set the way you want your Bakugan to shoot out, and finally pull back the trigger and launch your Bakugan! Overall this is just anccessorie, you don't need this to play the game. But it does make the game more fun!
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
Needs some basic instructions, August 3, 2008
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This review is from: Bakugan Launcher (Toy)
My 6yo son bought this today with a gift card he received for his birthday. We got it at Target, and I thought $15 was a little much to spend on a toy like this. After getting it out of the package, there were no directions at all, not even something basic on how to use the item. Right away my ds had problems, and I wasn't much better at getting it to launch. I came here to see the reviews on the product and my heart sank (Should have told ds to wait so we could check reviews before purchasing).
However, I must say the reviews here are such a great resource. Because a previous reviewer recommended watching a YouTube video on how to use the launcher. This was very helpful in two ways: first, you pull part of the launcher tube forward and place the bakugan into the hole in the top side of the tube. Second, the launcher can come off the wrist band. One YouTube video recommended placing the launcher on the floor/table, which makes the wrist band kind of useless. My son is now enjoying the launcher much more, although it still could be so much better in my opinion.
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
Do NOT buy this toy, it just doesn't work, November 7, 2008
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My 8 yr old son got this for his birthday. He was excited at first because he had seen it on TV and is a big Bakugan fan. But after a while he was just bummed out about how bad this toy is.
Firstly, the toy holds two Bakugan, however the little plastic doors unsnap and fall off very easily while you're using it.
To load the device, you take either Bakugan out of its little holder (carefully so the doors don't fall off). You then slide the barrel forward to reveal a hole in the top, which you are supposed to drop the Bakugan in. This sliding mech. jams very easily as it's very flimsy and it doesn't come out parallel. After wrestling with this a few times he did what any kid would do and just dropped the Bakugan down the barrel. Whichever way you load the Bakugan in, if you angle the unit downward, the Bakugan will often just drop out the front and fall onto the floor.
The package says the toy has three modes, curve angled or straight. These are determined by two arms which have "hands" at the end of them. When the arms are in the forward position these hands are meant to interfere with the flight of the Bakugan as it launches. They sure do interfere, often causing it to just fall out the front, or bounce back into the barrel, but if you angle them just right or out of the way, then the Bakugan will come out. For some strange reason these arms fold back and lock into place. They can then be deployed forward again by pressing a button and they spring forward. Of course if they'd put this effort into the launching process...
The launching process, (which is what this toy is supposed to do, after all) is pathetic. If you have managed to get the Bakugan to stay inside the barrel, then you retract a small sliding button backward. The button is under spring tension, but it doesn't lock into place, it just works like a rubber band being pulled back, only harder to use. There is no way to lock the mechanism back and aim the unit. Launching is a process of perhaps folding the arms back, flicking them forward (not sure why) and then totally separately pulling back on the slider while trying to stop the Bakugan from falling out the front of the unit, attempting to aim while holding your hand on the slider and then releasing the whole thing at once. Naturally, if it's on your wrist your arm wobbles all over and the Bakugan dribbles out the barrel nowhere where you wanted it. And you have a hand cramp from trying to hold it all together and still while you tried to aim. If they'd spent less effort on getting the useless arms to lock back and used that effort having the launching process lock back and fire with a button like every other toy known to man and child, it might make some sense.
And if you want to put it on your wrist, the strap is a piece of thin nylon webbing with holes melted into it with a soldering iron in some sweat shop in China. No grommets or edging, just rough, melted holes.
Don't disappoint your kids with this one, even if they are huge Bakugan fans. And certainly don't reward the manufacturer by buying this poorly designed, poorly implemented piece of not-so-distant-future landfill.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Watch U-Tube how-to video, July 23, 2008
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This isn't so mauch a review as a hint to other Bakugan Launcher owners. My son owns one and likes it. At first he wasn't sure how to use it correctly, so he watched some U-Tube videos on the subject. He found them helpful. Personally, I think the toy is overpriced, but my son likes it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Gift for Grandson, September 4, 2009
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This was a surprise for my grandson. He has watched a video about this launcher and described how much better it was than the one in local stores. He felt it was a great launcher. Now he has one and he said it was as he expected, and he loves it. I ordered it from Amazon and it came in a most timely manner. He really likes the way you can adjust different launching forces and how easy it is to adjust. Also the option to launch from wrist or another surface. The fact that it will carry his favorite 3 bakugans and their cards is what really excited him also. Bakugan Launcher
it is everything he expected. I feel his imagination is worth encouraging. He loves playing with his bakugans and this launcher will encourage his imagination, which is good that he knows imagination and reality.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Bakugan Launcher, October 15, 2008
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The Launcher does not come with instructions, and it badly needs some. I had to do a lot of online searching to find out how it works. When it fires, the Bakugan barely drizzles out, at best. It's useless.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
launcher brawlwrs, March 16, 2009
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i bought bakugan lancher,but to my surprise the brawlers that came with starter pack are bigger size (B2)and won't fit in the launcher.launcher says it is only for original size. as a buyer how do i know which are the original size or smaller balls. i try to find the balls that fit on this on your site and other sitesbut my effort was unsucces except i came to know that it needs different brawlers . it doesn't make sense of selling that kind of products which makes customer unhappy and having harder time to find the balls. during checkout process there is no recommendation for bying required size balls for the launcher. i am still looking for b1 or small brawlers whichever good for this launcher. i appreciate your feedbck to my email [...].Bakugan Launcher
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
It's Okay, December 2, 2008
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My 6 year old daughter loves Bakugans. We have collected several toys and recently purchased the Launcher. It took us a few minutes to figure out how it works. My daughter likes it but wished it would work a little better...she would like for it to shoot out further. I think it is good for 5 or 6 year olds. She is still enjoying it after having it for 2 months...still works.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
BAKUGON LAUNCHER, April 3, 2009
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THIS TOY IS A RIP OFF SO DONT BUY IT OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MONEY. I AM 8 YEARS OLD AND IT DID TAKE MY MONEY. IF IT LOOKS COOL STILL DONT BUY IT BECAUSE IT JUST WANTS YOUR MONEY. IT WILL UPSET YOUR CHILDREN. AND I AM REALLY MAD.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Wrist Strap is bad too, December 28, 2008
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I agree completely with the other comments: (a) the spring on the launcher being too weak to be useful, (b) it does not cock so the bakugans just role out of the barrel before you actually want to shoot it, and (c) the storage doors are easy to break.
One item that I haven't seem mentioned is the wrist strap. The wrist strap is separate from the launcher itself so you can play with the launcher on the floor without the straps in the way.
HOWEVER, the launcher slides on the wrist strap FROM THE FRONT... So if you sling your arm toward the front, the launcher flies off of the wrist strap... It should slide on from the back like every other product made so that it stays on the wrist strap when played with.
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