Review: Ultimate FX LightSaber by Hasbro
Written on Oct 18, 2011 by RuthJS and filed under Brands, Featured, Hasbro, News
“An elegant weapon for a more civilized age,” is how Ben Kenobi describes a lightsaber in “A New Hope.” The Ultimate FX Lightsaber, new from Hasbro, is hands down closer to that description than any other toy lightsaber we’ve played with. And, agreed with us, our testers did. Overview Hasbro’s Ultimate FX Lightsaber is well-designed [...]
Review: WowWee Roborover
Written on Oct 23, 2009 by RuthJS and filed under News, Reviews, WowWee
WowWee’s line of automated toys just got bigger with the addition of Roborover, a happy-go-lucky robot who plays games, lights up, and interacts on a basic level with it’s user. While WowWee calls it “a fusion of technology and personality,” our testers called it just plain “fun!”
Review: WowWee Alive Mini Cub (White Tiger)
Written on Oct 10, 2009 by RuthJS and filed under Reviews, WowWee
The Mini White Tiger Cub is the little sibling of the WowWee Alive baby animals. While it’s designed with fewer interactions, this mini version of the motorized fuzzball is every bit as cute, cuddly, and hard to resist as its older siblings.
Review: WowWee Alive Baby Animals (Leopard Cub)
Written on Oct 6, 2009 by RuthJS and filed under News, Reviews, WowWee
The Alive Leopard Cub by WowWee is part of a series of plush animals that aims to provide children with an interactive baby animal that is somewhat lifelike. When a child touches the cub, it responds by blinking it’s eyes, moving it’s mouth and making baby cub sounds.
Review: WowWee Lightstar
Written on Sep 28, 2009 by Brian and filed under Reviews, WowWee
WowWee’s Lightstar is a hovering remote flight vehicle with a few twists, including light effects. Lightstar has an internal battery that gives it up to four minutes of flight time, and comes in three colors and channels so three Lightstar’s can be flown at the same time.
WowWee CrashFX Remote Control Airplane Unveiled
Written on Apr 22, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, WowWee
WowWee launched a series of new products for this year at CES in January, but this remote control airplane was not part of those announcements. WowWee has released several flight vehicles in their FlyTech lineup over the years, but this is their first “traditional” airplane. And what’s not to love? With a name like CrashFX, we fully expect it to be durable enough to be driven nose first into the ground more than once.
Review: WowWee Mr. Personality
Written on Apr 14, 2009 by MKowalski and filed under Reviews, WowWee
A robot with multiple personalities? That’s the idea, at least, behind Mr. Personality, yet another highly interactive robotic toy from WowWee. Similar in design and over function to WowWee’s Tri-bot, the tri-wheeled, wisecracking Mr. Personality adds the ability to download and install different personalities using a simple software interface and a USB connection.
Review: WowWee Panda Cub (WowWee Alive Series)
Written on Apr 1, 2009 by Brian and filed under Reviews, WowWee
The WowWee Alive series of plush animals includes a lion cub, white tiger cub, panda cub and polar bear cub. All four do roughly the same thing; they try to provide children with a baby animal that is somewhat lifelike – these cubs respond to touch with blinking eyes, moving mouth and baby cub sounds. The segment is quite popular, WowWee announced four new alive cub varieties at CES this year to complement their offering.
Review: WowWee BladeStar
Written on Mar 16, 2009 by Thomas S. and filed under Reviews, WowWee
The WowWee BladeStar is a remote controlled helicopter designed for manual or assisted flight indoors. The BladeStar uses special sensors to automatically detect ceilings, floors, and walls to fly around obstacles without much user input. Powered off an internal battery that recharges through the remote for quick bursts of flying fun, the BladeStar needs little maintenance on a day to day basis.
Review: WowWee Tri-bot
Written on Feb 6, 2009 by Brian and filed under Reviews, WowWee
The Tri-bot is another in a long list of robotic toys from WowWee. Much different from Wrex, the robotic dog we just reviewed, Tri-bot roves around on an omni-directional three-wheeled base. He operates via remote control and has several play modes for a variety of interactions. He’s also quite the comedian, telling jokes and poking fun as he cruises about. Tri-bot is designed for kids 8 and up and is available now.
Review: WowWee Wrex the Dawg
Written on Feb 1, 2009 by Thomas S. and filed under Reviews, WowWee
Wrex the Dawg from WowWee is a robotic junkyard dog designed to entertain kids with many playful modes and controlled with a colorful junkyard inspired remote. This playful guard dog has mood swings, breakdown modes where you can fix him, and can even be programmed to play back a long set of moves. Wrex can “see” in front of him to handle guard dog duties with motion sensors which also help locate borders to a room. Designed for kids 8 and up, Wrex the Dawg can entertain for hours (or until the batteries run out).