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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012
As much as this toy is fun, it completely misses the joy a child feels when he can wield his own weaponry in close-quarter combat.
I mean, we all played Cowboys & Indians and had lots of fun (and where are the Indians now?!) with our revolvers and bow & arrows and knives, shot, thrust and thrown to eliminate the enemy in a gory mess.
Now all the children will learn is that by moving a joystick and squeezing a trigger, you can eliminate the enemy. There's no visceral experience in that! There are no screams of pay and invectives during play and the "Indians" are eliminated hundreds at a time!
The biggest advantage, of course, is that the little child can make whooosh noises a whole lot easier than the "hooowdy pardner" and "ugh, pow-wow" noises of the Cowboys and Indians games of yore.
Also, learning that the threat of Those Brown People Over There can't easily be solved with revolvers and horses, but far faster with anonymously dropped bombs is a vital lesson. It makes playing with your friends take less time, and it might push your little rug-rat to make more mixed-race friends to have as playing partners/victims. Synchronized death FTMFW.
So all in all, it's a great educational toy, that challenges the runts to come up with new rules, learn a new game and make more minority friends.
On the downside, it is a relatively short game ("wooooosh, BOOOM" all brown kids fall down, time to go home) and it lacks the grizzly death of "I shot you in the gut, roll around a bit in pain before you die!" along with the hide & seek aspect of finding the enemy before you eviscerate him (or her - no discrimination in this household).
I can taste no lead in the paint, and haven't easily choked on any small parts either. Testing will continue, but I think it's safe enough for now.
I mean, we all played Cowboys & Indians and had lots of fun (and where are the Indians now?!) with our revolvers and bow & arrows and knives, shot, thrust and thrown to eliminate the enemy in a gory mess.
Now all the children will learn is that by moving a joystick and squeezing a trigger, you can eliminate the enemy. There's no visceral experience in that! There are no screams of pay and invectives during play and the "Indians" are eliminated hundreds at a time!
The biggest advantage, of course, is that the little child can make whooosh noises a whole lot easier than the "hooowdy pardner" and "ugh, pow-wow" noises of the Cowboys and Indians games of yore.
Also, learning that the threat of Those Brown People Over There can't easily be solved with revolvers and horses, but far faster with anonymously dropped bombs is a vital lesson. It makes playing with your friends take less time, and it might push your little rug-rat to make more mixed-race friends to have as playing partners/victims. Synchronized death FTMFW.
So all in all, it's a great educational toy, that challenges the runts to come up with new rules, learn a new game and make more minority friends.
On the downside, it is a relatively short game ("wooooosh, BOOOM" all brown kids fall down, time to go home) and it lacks the grizzly death of "I shot you in the gut, roll around a bit in pain before you die!" along with the hide & seek aspect of finding the enemy before you eviscerate him (or her - no discrimination in this household).
I can taste no lead in the paint, and haven't easily choked on any small parts either. Testing will continue, but I think it's safe enough for now.
