Uncle Milton Moon In My Room
by Uncle Milton
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Toys and Games Reviews of Uncle Milton Moon In My Room
Customer Review: BUYER BEWARE!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am incredibly disappointed with this product. The moon worked great when we first set it up. My 5 and 4 year olds loved using the remote to change the moon from full moon to half moon. We enjoyed how the moon would automatically turn on when it became dark.
Everything was great until a week later when the moon stopped working. The batteries had died within a week.
The moon looked cute up on the wall even though it wasn't lit up, so I left it as it was for a while. After a couple of months I decided to try replacing the batteries and see if it would work.
After putting in brand new AA batteries, it did not light up. A few hours later it came on. We put the moon up on the wall and again enjoyed having it turn on when it became night. Within a week, the batteries were dead, again.
I called up Uncle Milton, the company who makes the Moon in My Room, and they informed me that the batteries dying in less than a week is normal if you keep the moon in the on position. I explained to them that the instructions never mention having to turn the moon off every night as it already has an auto shut-off. She said even with the auto shut-off on the moon, it is normal for the batteries to only last a few days.
For the batteries to work longer than a week, you have to turn the switch on the back side of the moon. We keep our moon on the wall up high to look like a moon, so turning the switch on the backside is completely impractical. There is no on/off switch on the remote to turn the auto sensor off, so the only way to turn the switch is taking it off the wall.
Overall this moon is not worth over $10 to use as a decoration if you can't keep it lit up for more than a week. The money I spent on the batteries to keep the moon lit for such a short time was a complete waste. If I could do things over, I never would have purchased this product and I will not be recommending it. Save your money for something else.
Customer Review: amazon needs to get it together
Summary: 1 Stars
This is showing for a Moon in My Room by Uncle Milton which can be purchased at Walmart for 19.88 right now, and the pictures are for the National Geographic Moon in My Room, which is not the same thing. They have pictures up for both the Uncle Milton version and the National Geographic... hard to tell what you're actually purchasing here..Customer Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
My son loves this--he's seven. He uses it as a nightlight of sorts but it's awesome. He has his own remote control with it that he keeps at his bedside.A great product!!!Customer Review: Cool educational device not a toy
Summary: 4 Stars
Moon In My Room hangs easily on the wall in any of three positions that allow correct tilt for all four seasons. It requires two batteries in its remote and three more inside the Moon disc itself.
The display of the Moon's surface is accurate in the sense that it shows the brightest quadrant of the Moon at the lower right. The remote turns the illumination of the Moon on and off and advances its phases either manually or automatically (every five seconds). I was very impressed that the Moon's basic phases display with accuracy in the sense that the "horns" of the Moon are 180 degrees apart.
An accompanying audio CD contains fifteen minutes of narrative about the Moon. This is sufficient information to encourage further exploration but not so much that it becomes boring.
Moon In My Room is a fine educational device. It belongs in a kid's room, but it's not a toy or merely a night light.
Customer Review: Misleading picture
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this for Christmas for my niece. The item itself looks like *a* moon, but not like the moon I've been looking up at all my life and not like any pictures of the moon I've ever seen, including the picture used in the ads. The product is textured, and painted whites and greys, but a NASA photo it ain't.
I put in batteries and tested it, and it does what it says it would do. It's still pretty cool, just not as realistic as depicted.