meccano meccanoid g15 ks

First I would like to say that this robot is AWESOME! Also, the fact that it can be built into a dinosaur or rover is very cool. I'm sure that with some creative ingenuity, one would be able to create many other things as well. Especially if there were mini kits of parts that could be purchased. The possibilities would almost be endless. This robot is programmable in so many ways. You can even install your phone in it's chest and it will utilize the camera to move with you. Jokes, dancing and true customizable speech and movements are even more features that this wonderful robot has to offer. With the high impact plastic and quality grade hardware, this robot has very good form to go with its function. With that being said, this robot takes quite some time to build. There are about a thousand pieces of hardware alone. You must pay very close attention to the orientation of the parts and the placement of the hardware. You definitely need to be somewhat mechanically inclined to assemble this product. The directions do not give full detail on how to connect all the servo leads together. They do tell you how to connect a couple of them and the rest are pretty much common sense to some one with some mechanical ability. I also found that two screws were missing. There are a few different size screws and they give you a couple extra of the mostly used size screws, so I just used those. No big deal though. It seems to have worked just fine in place of the two that the manual was calling out for. I would have to say that overall this robot is five stars and anyone young or old would absolutely love this product. I sure do!!

This took a few days to finally complete. It came with alot of screws, nuts, etc. I suggest having small bowls or cups to help keep the parts separated as well as help keep them from spilling from packages. We used plastic cups we had left over from a party. My 5 year old and my 11 year old helped my husband put this together. I would suggest many breaks!!! My husband was very tired of putting this together. But the kids had fun. Then it came time to turn him on. He runs a self check to make sure he is built correctly. Which I thought was really neat. Once he has ran that he reboots. I suggest keeping the book handy when you play until you learn all the commands. But you can make him introduce himself. He tells jokes which are cute and funny for the kids. He dances all sorts of dances. He exercises like yoga. His moments are mostly his arms and head. The legs do not bend but do roll and turn. So alot of his movements are very similar like from one dance to another. You are supposed to be able to down load an app and make him move using your phone. I never could connect it to my phone. There are also other things you do online with him. But I never messed with that either. We just put him together before Halloween. We had a kid friendly party so we put a cape around him and he was a big hit. What's funny is when he doesn't respond to people the people usually talk louder almost yelling at him. Really I find if he doesn't respond thr best thing to do is speak slower and clearer not louder....lol!!! But it was funny to watch people repeatedly yell at him!!! Over all he is very cool. But after the first few days he is like anything else and in the corner being unused.