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(More customer reviews)I just spent a full day helping my four-year-old daughter and one-year-old son play with the Iron Man Walking RC Robot. My daughter loves robots so I wanted to give this toy a try since it has a kid-friendly remote control and the manufacturer claims this toy is suitable for children 4 and older.
First, this Iron Man toy is a very well built amalgam of plastic and rubber. The main body elements (head, torso, arms and legs) are all made of tick plastic while joints and smaller details (such as fingers) are made of hard rubber that flexes under pressure rather than breaking. The fact that the fingers flex and don't break is one of the reasons I'm willing to let my one-year-old son play with this as well.
The only choking hazards on this toy are the four missiles and "possibly" the two shoulder missile launchers. Luckily, you can remove all of those so that there are no potential choking hazards for little kids. Since the shoulder missile launchers can be removed they also fall off the robot if the robot repeatedly falls on a hard surface. The launchers are designed to come off rather than break off which shows the designers were thinking about how kids play rough when they designed this toy.
The IR remote control is a simple two-button controller that has a small nylon strap so that a child can wear it on his or her wrist like a giant watch. The remote is very durable with no tiny pieces to break off and a Philips head screw holding the battery door in place. Since it's an IR remote it has to be in the line of sight with the robot in order to control it (which is a nice way to avoid accidental remote activation).
I really couldn't be more impressed with the durability of this toy. However, playability is another matter.
First, this Iron Man robot is very particular about how its legs are positioned in order to allow it to walk. If the legs aren't in the perfect position the toy will fall over rather than walk. Also, the toy really only walks effectively on hard surfaces like tile or hard wood floors (though that's a common problem for walking robot toys). Another walking related issue is that our robot always tends to walk slightly to the left ... so it walks in a giant circle rather than a straight line. This means my daughter can't make this robot walk down the hall without stopping every two feet to change the direction of the robot. There are only two remote functions that you have with this robot:
1) Walk forward (and slightly to the left)
2) Fire missiles (shoulder and arm missiles)
Since you don't have a reverse, right, or left directional control it makes playing with this toy boring after a few minutes.
The voice in this talking Iron Man robot doesn't sound like Robert Downey Jr. from the Iron Man movies even though this is obviously supposed to be Iron Man from Iron Man 2. That doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it only has four phrases that it repeats in an endless loop.
In short, I really want to praise the durability and design of this toy but it lacks fundamental playability features that kids and adults expect in a remote control toy. Directional controls to make the robot go in reverse and turn left or right would have made this toy MUCH more fun.
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