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Helicopters are inherently difficult to fly. Silverlit has made things a lot simpler to give you hours of fun. As you might expect you cannot do all the manoeuvres a normal helicopter could do. The helicopter stays flat most of the time and turning is controlled easily but a dedicated switch on the remote.
The durability of this product is phenomenal. After many hard landings at the early stages of the learning curve it's still working and behaving like new. For the price, you might as well buy one even if you 're not a big fan of the genre.

I got this as a stocking filler for my 6 year old and it was quite a difficult puzzle to put together.

First of all we couldnt get in the box without ripping all the paper and secondly the pieces are quite flimsy.

It took us a while to finish but we got there!

I saw this item on Amazon and instantly jumped up with joy.
I've just ordered them and I cannot wait till I get them. I'm a huge fan of top trumps games as they are enjoyable and can be played with the whole family. I especially love motor top trumps.
This item would be a must have for all top gear fanatics like myself.

Ok, buy it as a Christmas present for some kid if you really want to. But why not buy it for yourself? It's utterly brilliant! It's brings out the competitive side in a really fun way and is a great reflexes game that doesn't injure anyone.
Am I saying this because I beat everyone else with it? Probably.
But still you will love this, it's incredibly durable and there are different ways of playing it for those that learn or use their senses differently.
Now if only it had a mute button so you could play after the kids have gone to bed!

I was interested in buying this and saw one out for demonstration, so i thought i'd test it out before i bought it. Lucky i did! I thought of a racoon and began the game. It began promising, asking sensible questions, then went totally off the point. It never got it in 20 questions and only got it on the 25 question, which i felt was a bit of a cheat. I tried again with something simple, but this time, it never got it. I was glad when the words "you win" came up on the screen and it turned itself off, probably because it was embarrassed! At that point, i had to leave, which i felt glad to do, and was very glad i tried it before i bought it. Some of my friends, who were unable to try it, felt disapointed they couldn't and have since got rid of them. It's a good idea, pity about the actual product. It's cheaper (and a lot more fun) to play this game using real people than a computer which can't even guess the item you're thinking of is a pen.

I bought a Rubik's cube from a seller on Amazon. I was disappointed to see it wasn't an original Rubik's Cube, but a cheap rip-off.

Despite this, the cube seemed to move nicely, there weren't stickers but coloured pieces of plastic, so the trouble of the stickers peeling off was non-existent.

However, after about a week of solving it again, again and again, one of the centre pieces fell out. It just... fell out.

So I proceeded to pop it back in again, which it did with a satisfying 'click'.

Later that day I realised the piece was started to become loose. It fell out again. On my second time of replacing it, it shattered.

Now I have a cube with a piece missing.

Great.

We here at gadgetshop HQ remember 'Where's Wally' with fondness. Where's Wally, as you may recall, involved locating the red-hatted chap in a sea of colourful and confusing items. And now fear not, there is no need to miss young Wally anymore. For the considerate peeps at Hasbro have formulated Pictureka - an exciting game of visual hide & seek. Place the 9 game board tiles on the table in a 3 x 3 grid. Players than take turns rolling the dice, selecting a mission card and trying to find objects fast or first. Three different card decks keep the game exciting - players either have to find a matching image or objects that fall into a category like "things that can fly". And watch out, the gameboard can change on any turn - special mission cards instruct players to turn over, rotate or switch one of the 9 gameboard tiles. In this game its finders keepers: you get the card if you find the object fast or first. Collect enough cards to win, and you're the Pictureka champ. And that's a title to be proud of, you'll find.

This is a great idea. The box design and promise of the gameplay is enough to satisfy a die-hard poke-fan. In practice the flaws show up, especially compared to the MB Games original with invented people characters.

The plastic is quite flimsy, and it's tricky to flip up the panels without knocking others over. There are 2 sets of cards, with different Pokemon in each - so in reality half the Pokemon aren't in the game. You could play with 2 sets mixed, as long as you made sure you were guessing from the right set. For the most part, you'll keep one set in... as unlike the MB verison where the cards are clipped permanently in place, these are just slid in and keep dislodging themsleves (they are designed to be switched with the other set of Pokemon).

If you can get over this - as we did, the real flaw of the game is in the difficulty of getting a reliable YES/NO answer from a given question, as there aren't enough firm differences between the pokemon apart from number of legs and type of Pokemon (fire water etc) - they don't have carefully worked out discrete traits that can be easily verified like in the MB version. Also the evolutions of some pokemon, eg Pichu and Pikachu are so similar it is really hard to find anything to clearly separate them. The problem lies in the nature of pokemon themselves. Recommended for real hardcore fans of the pokemon who will obviously overlook these shortcomings without question.