Space Explorer Space Shuttle Launch Center Playset with Educational Rocket Poster
by WowToyz
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: WowToyzBrand: InAir
Product features:
- Includes 100 Years of Rocketry Educational Poster
- Metal bay doors open to reveal a satellite
- Diecast metal and plastic
- Fuel tank and boosters do not detach
Toys and Games Reviews of Space Explorer Space Shuttle Launch Center Playset with Educational Rocket Poster
Customer Review: Great play value if you are willing to make it usable first
Summary: 2 Stars
This toy is great for budding space enthusiasts like my 3 year old. Space shuttle, boosters, tank, astronauts, a place to launch them from, what more can you ask? However, unless you are willing to do extensive repairs on the shoddy construction before you give it, the recipient can well end up in tears like my son did. First, the boosters DO NOT detach from the tank, despite what the description suggests, they are solidly bonded together, and, if your kid has seen a launch on TV, he or she will know that the boosters go first. I had to carefully saw them apart and used Velcro to fix them back on. Second, the tank-to-shuttle connection is just some tabs that don't latch together, meaning they constantly fall apart. A magnet and an anchor plate glued to tank and shuttle fixed that. Third, the two plastic pieces on top of the launch pad, that hold the shuttle steady, are also extremely loose with no positive connection, resulting in constant frustration. Hot-melt glue from the bottom will easily make them solid. Fourth, the doors of the shuttle do not stay closed, I have not repaired that yet.
After all those repairs, my son truly loves it and sleeps with it every night. Before, he just came running every 10 seconds and either asked for help or cried that the thing fell apart in his hands when he was trying to launch it.
Great play value now, construction quality is an insult, especially for the money (it's just a couple bucks worth of die-cast metal and plastic).
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