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WowWee Robotic DragonFly - Green (49 MHz)
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List Price : $49.99
Our Price : from $29.99
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Why I buy this one ?
- Radio Controlled Flying Dragonfly Robot/ Green Color
- Capable of Maneuvering in Tight Spaces Flaps its Wings like a Real Insect
- Takes off from Any Surface and Glides Silently for Soft Landings
- Its Eyes Alert You of the Status by Blinking Pulsing or Shining Clear and Brig
- 0.10 Lbs (WxLxH) 3.40" x 16.50" x 12.30"
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What our customer's say!
"Very fun toy, but has some conditions to use it", I like a lot this Dragonfly, it's fun to use. The only points to consider are: 1- You cannot fly it at home, unless you have a very very big space inside. 2- When you fly it inside, make sure there is no wind (although it can be fun trying to fly it against the wind direction). Anyway, good toy!
"wowwee robotic dragonfly", This toy is advertised as durable - however, the wings are very fragile and didn't hold up well - one wing ripped second time out. Also the charge lasts a very short time.
"awful!!", I bought it for my daughter's birthday gift. The problem was materials are so fragile; not plastic but almost styroform. It was just broken so easily before she enjoy enough.
"Four Words: The Best RC Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", The Wowwee Flytech Dragonfly is awesome! It is extremely fun and easy to use! When I first got it I broke both of the wings, but I taped them back together, and now it works perfectly. I'm actually watching it charge right now. If you have a problem with the bobbing of the dragonfly, you can attach two very small pieces of clear tape to the back of the underside of the tail and the bobbing stops! (well, at least it worked for me). 7 minutes of flight? What are they talking about? I mostly get over 10 minutes of flight! If you are really excited about this product, you should order it on quick shipping;I nearly cried waiting for the dragonfly! Also, if you find that you love this product, you should use 6 rechargable batteries. I charge the batteries every night so by tommorrow I have the batteries as good as new! If you are a lover of rc's(like me), and you have a medium sized living room,(also like me), I would definitely recommend this product!
"Makes a UAV engineer smile :)", I am a UAV/Robotics engineer and wanted to buy this to check out its flapwing design as we tend to view such designs as pretty preposterous compared to traditional fixed wings or rotary wings. Although I don't know that this would scale up very well, it works fantastically in this size!
First...I was initially disappointed since it did not fly in my home at all. Reading a review however, someone else suggested that the indoors pressure differential may have caused them to have this issue as well. So I took it outside and what do you know, the dragonfly flew like a charm!
The flap wing/ornithoper design of it is really innovative and it flies surprisingly well considering how it moves the airflow. Presenting it as a dragonfly makes complete sense, because with the wing design that is what it would most represent even if it were not painted like one.
Whether looking at this for your kid or yourself, it's a really well implemented flyer of a pretty novel design for its price range. Wowwee toys are always good (I have several of their robots)...not familiar with flytech, but they did a great job.
It's a bit hard to control as it's not the most responsive to turns, even on expert. Personally, if you've flow before, skip the tail feather, and the beginner setting...those are really best if you just want to float around and don't care about it going anywhere in particular. This flys most like a fixed wing, not much like a heli. Once you get the hang of it and get it trimmed up (mine has a severe right hand tendency when centered...I have to start it with the rotor spinning to get it to fly right, but it's a toy, so I'll forgive that.) it flys pretty well. The feather makes it turn slower...not really better and reduces its ability to climb. I could see where this would be good if flying it in a tight space though, but outdoors it is more limiting than helpful.
The charge lasts pretty well for this sort of toy...7 minutes seems to be a minimum if you are using fresh batteries in the charger and the recharge is reasonably fast as well (15 minutes is usually what I give it). I would not recommend using rechargable AA batteries...it's tempting I know as this dragonfly munches batteries if you use it very often (I get between 5-8 charges, but by charge 6 or so, my flight time is starting to be less and less). Rechargable batteries (at least of the NiMH variety - this is not true if you have the old alkaline rechargeables) actually have lower voltage so if you're using them, you'll find your dragonfly does not seem to fly as well or as long.
As for the construction, when I first looked at it, I was a bit disappointed. I thought it looked pretty "cheap". I mean, it's almost all Styrofoam and the wings are lightweight plastic film. It made sense that they were keeping the weight down, but a lot of "nice" looking toy-grade flyers are made of plastic (which generally ends up snapping or shattering after too many crashes and is nearly impossible to glue). But after crashing this thing constantly (you WILL crash this the first few times you fly it and probably several times thereafter), I completely understand. The Styrofoam is actually very dense and cushions the internal components extremely well. Mine is a bit scratched and gouged (mostly on the nose) from colliding with trees, buildings and pavement, but I have yet to cause it any real damage. If you don't intentionally try to break this thing, it does not break easily. Honestly, I worry most about damaging the wings, but so far have not managed to do that, even though I've flipped it over a number of times. There is a spare set of "wings" included but that is just the plastic film. If you break the struts, you may be out of luck. I worry most about snapping off the foam tail but so far have not done so, so that seems pretty well constructed too. I guess you could probably tape or superglue it together if it did break so long as the rotor can still turn, but I don't know how that would affect its flyability.
Other comments: It can take a REALLY long time to connect to the remote. Sometimes on the order of 3 minutes or more. Best suggestion is to turn the trim (so the rotor will start spinning as soon as it's connected), extend the antenna, turn both on, lay them next to each other and go do something to keep yourself busy while listening for the rotor to turn on. However...it's a toy, so again forgivable. Once connected, they stay in contact pretty well. I've walked out of range, but as long as they're both on and you reconnect immediately, they usually pick up again pretty well. The range is at least as large as the manual says however, so as long as you stay within those limits, you should be fine (unless you let the batteries get too low, but by then it won't fly well anyway).
Recommend starting it from your hand at full throttle, tilted slightly up. It can take off from the ground but will need a "runway" of sorts as it's gonna take it a few feet to get up. Also do it full throttle and don't be surprised if it flips over if you don't get it up fast enough...it is nose heavy (for stability).
If it looks like it's going to crash, throttle back all the way. This way it doesn't hit with its wings flapping. Seems like a good policy with any moving parts on things like this and so far I haven't broken anything, so I think it's a good policy.
It glides pretty well as a fixed wing. I like to get it up and stop the wings temporarily. Then you can do tricks by turning the tail rotor. Start the wings again to get it to recover and climb when it starts to dive. Takes practice, but a lot of fun!
Watch out for buildings if you aren't confident of flying it. It sucks having to get a ladder to get it down. Flying it down off a roof is very difficult.
Only complaint is the indoors thing. I've seen videos of them flying indoors but it will not fly in any of the places I have tried it. Granted I have not had the opportunity to fly it in something like a conference room or a gymnasium yet though, so maybe.
And...last but not least, look for it on sale. I got mine for only $20 (not from amazon). Of course, had I known how much I'd like it I'd have gotten more at that price, either for gifts or to replace this one when it finally does break/stops being able to charge properly. Of the under $50 flyers I have, this is easily my favorite.
I fully intend to pick up a couple of the other Wowwee/Flytech toys when I find them for a good price.
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Read this reviews before You buy...
"Real flapping functional wings", I find the flapping wings that work intriguing. But I find it difficult to control. Directions say don't let it climb steeply because it may stall and fall. But it WANTS to climb steeply. Mine spends a lot of time going to the ground, so I have to pick it up to start it again.
It doesn't have enough space in my 20 ft by 12 foot living room with 8 ft high ceiling, and a hanging light in the middle of the ceiling. More height is required. I fly it out doors when the air is really calm.
"Fly's but not well", I purchased this toy product for my 12 year old Grandson. He was not able to get it to fly for any length of time easily. It took some learning on how to make adjustments before we could see it fly with a bit of WowWee and that was outside the house on a calm day. In the house was impossible to get it under control enough to keep from hitting anything. [...]
"Great Gift", I bought this for my brother for Christmas and he really enjoyed it. It's still working despite him constantly crashing it. I think the only drawback is the time it takes to recharge the flyer. Other than that, it's an excellent toy.
"More durable than it looks, tricky but fun!", I bought two of these, one for myself, and one for my boyfriend. Christmas morning we took them for a spin around the house. The room we were flying them in was decent size however we did have a lot of problems making it turn on its beginner setting. once the ribbon was attached and it set to expert it turned more sharply for the space we had to play with it. it still crashed a lot, but we're beginners, so i expected that.
with practice, indoors i can get it to take off from my hand and return to me. outside on the other hand! what fun! It still takes time to master, and I still haven't been able to fly it without the ribbon (which helps the dragonfly to fly stable) but I'm getting the hang of it. In a breeze it can still be flown as long as you've had some practice. I even got a really nice five min constant flight from it, with a breeze. i actually like a small breeze for flying them. it makes it much easier to give them lift.
as for durability, I've crashed mine into walls, plants, trees, snow, puddles, slush, windows, and even people and it still works great!
I've seen flight times of about 15 min. sometimes even 20. but that isn't constant flight, so maybe that's the difference.
being a big kid at heart, this is the coolest thing I've bought myself in awhile. I'd suggest it for anyone who likes r/c flyers.
"Great for the price, robust but short battery life", Bigger than I expected (about 15" wingspan) but is fairly robust and does fly reasonably well. Battery life is only 10 mins or so before it needs a recharge. To be expected really for a relatively small and very light device. With a little practice you can control flight quite well and steer around obstacles. My kids have had tons of fun with it. I'm amazed it hasn't broken any of the delicate flight mechanism so far with all the crashing, it is more robust than I expected. Watch those precious ornaments!
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