Discovery Exclusive Ultimate Star Planetarium
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Toys and Games Reviews of Discovery Exclusive Ultimate Star Planetarium
Customer Review: Short Life of Enjoyment
Summary: 1 Stars
I am very upset and disappointed in the planetarium's durability. I am a mom that tried to give a special gift to my son and instead I gave him a whole lot of disappointment. I purchased one and soon after, about 1 month, I had a problem. It would seem to work after you input the information on what program you want and it would turn to set itself but then shut off. Very upsetting! The company sent me a new one without issue. That service I rate high, but now the second one has had the same issue and is also not working. It is EXTREMELY sensitive and has a short life.
I wish it worked and lasted longer than a few months. It costs a lot of money and I felt that Discovery was a reputable company to purchase this from. I do not normally write reviews, good or bad, but this experience has caused me to alert other buyers of the planetarium's issues. Don't buy this product.
Customer Review: Overall love it, disappointed in one thing
Summary: 4 Stars
We bought this for our 3 year old daughter to go to sleep with, knowing she will get a ton of educational use out of it when she becomes older. She loves it. She has already started to learn the names of the planets. Every night before we go to bed she ask me to swith the planet to saturn. Then right before I go out she always ask me to change it back to the moon. The only thing I have found so far that I am disappointed with is that when you choose a sky (location and time) that the moon does not go to that type of moon, its always full. When its a half moon outside it would be nice to have the moon on the computer do the same thing. That way the sky is really the same, not just the stars. Overall though, we love it.Customer Review: Nice idea... poorly executed. Expensive with low quality.
Summary: 2 Stars
I got this for my son for Christmas a few years back. At first, this seemed like a really cool toy. Its one of the few planetariums that actually project white stars instead of the inverse. Unfortunately, it was plagued by defects related to low quality. At first, a wire became disconnected from the planet projector light bulb. I soldered it back on and it worked. But ultimately what did it in was the failure of a position sensor on the main projector mechanism. The projector would keep turning and turning even after hitting the mechanical stop. I gave up and ended up throwing out this very expensive toy after only a month. My son was very disappointed. Save your money and look elsewhere.
Customer Review: very poor durability
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought one of these from the discovery channel and saved it for last xmas. sadly the thing lasted one week after it was opened and had sat on the shelf for months before xmas came. so they offered a repair / swap that cost nearly as much as the new one. the repair didn't last any better and my kid loved the thing and was very disappointed. so when her birthday came someone gave her anotherr with alomst exactly the same result. this product is a casebook example of why amazon should allow some things to be banned as crap... i can't blame amazon though because neither of the ones that we got was from them. How do you feel when your kid crys because an expensive toy was crap?Customer Review: We love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this product initially at a garage sale. My 8 yr old loved it so much he opted to sleep on the floor instead of his loft bed for over a week just so he could watch the stars. It is full of information and has only encouraged my son to delve deeper into space. He has learned so much that his 3rd grade teacher asked him to teach the class a little about space. We took the planetarium to school, and it fell off a stool. It still works, but it no longer rotates. He loves it so much, we are buying him another one. We highly recommend this toy!