Found in home bargains for £1.99
Its a diy solar kit to make 6 different toys.
You can build:
1 - Robotic Dog
2 - Boat
3 - Moving Plane
4 - Car
5 - Windmill
6 - Desktop Plane
No Batteries required as it's solar powered.
Top comments
fulyue to noahsdad
30 May 153#10
Disagree. You just need to take a bit of care and attention and follow the instructions properly. This kit would easily retail for about £10 from places like the Science Museum so well worth £2.
Bought one for my son today from Lakeside Thurrock branch, and I pretty much hogged playing with it all evening when we got home!
All comments (32)
kevsoth
30 May 151#1
These are fiddly but I'd say worth a few quid. Okay for older kids.
s4mri to kevsoth
30 May 151#4
I agree, minimum age is i think 9 or 10.
ryanbailey
30 May 151#2
£2 each! Stocking fillers already
consumermonkey
30 May 152#3
No, not £2 each. It's a kit to build all of them. The parts are interchangeable. It's a fun kit.
solid
30 May 151#5
Buy a few packs for spares...
chrisfloyd82
30 May 15#6
I couldn't get mine to work, maybe I was just unlucky.
esar to chrisfloyd82
31 May 15#14
The solar cell is a bit too small, it will only work in full on direct sunlight
terriclarkfan
30 May 152#7
Quite fancy this just for the solar windmill on my work desk.
noahsdad
30 May 151#8
Lot can go wrong, you need to do quite a lot to get it working. Connecting the cables is the hardest part. Not colding it, but I do think it is a cheap product and not worth any more than £2.
fulyue to noahsdad
30 May 153#10
Disagree. You just need to take a bit of care and attention and follow the instructions properly. This kit would easily retail for about £10 from places like the Science Museum so well worth £2.
Bought one for my son today from Lakeside Thurrock branch, and I pretty much hogged playing with it all evening when we got home!
MR GUS
30 May 15#9
thanks OP!
nikolaj
30 May 15#11
I bought this kid for my son you year before. Quality very bad,scrap material. But for £2,may ok
mumofthree1982
30 May 15#12
Is it in store only?
s4mri to mumofthree1982
31 May 15#13
Yes its instore.
benslatz
31 May 151#15
May have to get one just for the irony of having a solar powered windmill!
Curly Cat
31 May 15#16
Useless and fiddly and the bits don't even fit together. Instructions are almost impossible to follow too. Not worth it at any price.
noahsdad
31 May 15#17
The Solar Cell is pants and even that needs constructed. The individual parts for the kit all come connected together and need snapped off which leaves plastic blobs on each part where the snap was. The pictures of the models look lovely, but no one will be impressed with what they see when it arrives, and the constructing process will not be lovely. Chances of getting it working are probably LOW-MEDIUM at best.
1. Science Museum and the like would not put their name to this product and this is why they don't carry it, it is a very cheap and hence cheaply made alternative.
2. The reason Science Museum sell similar products in the £10 ball park is because they are better quality and non tat. You get what you pay for with this type of product.
Dokko
31 May 15#18
Very poor quality, very small and fiddly and unfortunately mine didn't work. Suppose you get what you pay for.
Pasanda
31 May 15#19
I bought this about a year ago. Decided with my 5yo to go for the spinning plane. Rolled it out about 2 weeks ago andit still works perfectly. Now he is a year older and is asking questions about how it seems to work by magic. It is a kit and that is the point. You can show children how electricity is generated and carried to the motor and how propellers work. Not as effective if you bought a pre built toy.
This is such good value at 2.00 I'd happily buy another. Heat
nah33d
31 May 15#20
You get what you pay for but at 2 quid worth a punt.
RichTE
31 May 15#21
I got one as a stocking filler last Christmas. Was a nice little gift. I too thought mine didnt work but a minute in direct sulight soon got the cogs turning.
Michelle1981
31 May 15#22
cheap horrible thing.. wouldn't buy another even for a penny!
Your not solar powered are you ?
You better checkout my thread MSK not happy with you :neutral_face:
Reading the comments I think I might give this a miss
do love HB mind
cheyannet23
31 May 15#25
bought one of these at xmas for my son. built the windmil for him. only got it to work 3 weeks ago for the 1st time and he loves it. although it is quite noisey esp 1alst thing in morning as its sitting by the window but well woth £2 would buy more to have a full set of things he really enjoys it. and hes 9. soon to be 10
dotd13
2 Jun 15#26
These are rubbish....sorry, had two lots they never work and so so tiny.
twinmum123
3 Jun 15#28
my didn't work :disappointed: small n fiddly, kids were disappointed :disappointed:
Lean1ng
7 Jun 15#29
I have had two of these kits. These are great for the money but the build quality is terrible. You need a very sharp scalpel or craft knife to remove excess plastic from the moulding process and the points where you snap the pieces out of the holder. Also when you build the gearbox you must make sure that the wires aren't touching the metal shaft.
also the solar cell only works in direct full sunlight. Even a glass window will slow it down a lot.
Mandroid578
7 Nov 15#30
It's not even on the website
esar to Mandroid578
8 Nov 15#31
The thread is 5 months old, these deals go quick, assume hours . Suggest you get the app. And set some alerts.
Good luck!
Housebrick
1 Jan 17#32
its back now as was in home bargains tonight for £2.49 right next to the zoomer dino boomer toys
Opening post
Its a diy solar kit to make 6 different toys.
You can build:
1 - Robotic Dog
2 - Boat
3 - Moving Plane
4 - Car
5 - Windmill
6 - Desktop Plane
No Batteries required as it's solar powered.
Top comments
Bought one for my son today from Lakeside Thurrock branch, and I pretty much hogged playing with it all evening when we got home!
All comments (32)
Bought one for my son today from Lakeside Thurrock branch, and I pretty much hogged playing with it all evening when we got home!
1. Science Museum and the like would not put their name to this product and this is why they don't carry it, it is a very cheap and hence cheaply made alternative.
2. The reason Science Museum sell similar products in the £10 ball park is because they are better quality and non tat. You get what you pay for with this type of product.
This is such good value at 2.00 I'd happily buy another. Heat
You better checkout my thread MSK not happy with you :neutral_face:
Reading the comments I think I might give this a miss
do love HB mind
also the solar cell only works in direct full sunlight. Even a glass window will slow it down a lot.
Good luck!