XPV Mini 2.0 - 27 MHz (Colors May Vary)
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: JakksBrand: Jakks Pacific
Model: 74140 - 27 MHz
Product features:
- Easy to fly Xtreme Performance Vehicle
- Fly up to 3 stories high and 50 yards away
- Built-in battery for easy charging through controller
- 2 Channel controller
- Requires 6 AA batteries (not included)
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Toys and Games Reviews of XPV Mini 2.0 - 27 MHz (Colors May Vary)
Customer Review: Fast and wild - hard to fly - but pretty exciting.
Summary: 3 Stars
The XPV mini is made of styrofoam and plastic - ultra light weight. This makes it very vulnerable to breezes. You must fly outdoors however - because it's very fast and careens wildly. You must launch by hand - and then switch to the controller. Given the rapid speed of flight it's tough to recover. Over steer and it comes down to the turf, or rockets straight up and out of control very rapidly. On the upside, it hasn't broken yet (and it's tanked into the turf a bunch of times). It charges quickly too (10-20 minutes) via a wire in the hand control unit. I suspect it's just a steep learning curve and someday soon we'll be getting flights longer than the current 5-15 second flights we get now. I'd bet we'll be getting a minute or two pretty soon. I sure hope so because while the sudden lurching wild flights we get now are kind of exciting - they're also a bit disappointing. I want to be clear - the short flight times we're getting are not because the motor or battery gives out - the plane is physically capable of flying for 5 minutes or so - it's that we cannot fly that long without losing control of the craft. This might be learning curve for flying it or how to trim it for stable flight. The weather has been bad this winter and we haven't had many opportunities to fly. I'll follow-up when we've had more experience with it.
Follow up - Spring has us going to the park and flying kites and flying various things - this plane included. My son has more patience than I and he regularly gets 30-45 second flights. It's popular in the park, and often he gets a little crowd. One time a little 5 year old girl borrowing it got a big long 3-4 minute flight - big lazy spirals than came gently to the turf. Personally - I have trouble keeping it from tanking on takeoff. I concede that you can get this to fly with practice.
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