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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: Elric on March 05, 2011, 20:02:52
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Noticed on the pm usa website that the gliders come out in April but I found this one at a local TRU.
I paid 16.99 for the set. I was a little skeptical at first but I would recommend this set. It flies very good. The kids and I have around 75 to 100 flights and it's very durable.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/DarthNon/Playmobil/SDC10591.jpg)
Inside the box.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/DarthNon/Playmobil/SDC10592.jpg)
My son loves this plane. He has misplaced his helmet already.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/DarthNon/Playmobil/SDC10593.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/DarthNon/Playmobil/SDC10595.jpg)
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That's good to hear, that it's worth having. They have it at our TRU, too, and chris has been thinking of getting it. We may have to give in!
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If you have a big enough area you can get at least 25 to 50 yards with a proper throw.
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Wow, that's really good! We live right across from a school with a huge playground, so he'll have a good place to throw it. He was into RC planes and helicopters before he got into playmobil, and he used to play with them over there. Hopefully this won't get him thinking about those again! :lol:
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I have my sights for the blue one!!! Thanks for this review!!
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Looks like fun. Fortunately it's one set I am able to go without. I think it will be popular with kids though, which is great.
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does it fly better with klicky in or out of the cockpit
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does it fly better with klicky in or out of the cockpit
You have to fly with the klicky in the cockpit.
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hi! Ireally like the plane but at first I thought it was plastic but I just now realize it is made of Styrofoam (or whatever it is called) right? ??? ???
Not in my wishlist then :'(
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Yep, it's styrofoam. I think we probably will get it, though, just to see what it's like.
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It's styrofoam but it's flexible and sturdy. My two and half year old son has been playing with it for over a week, and it can handle some abuse.
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Thanks Elric, kids in general adore such themes, my son also wanted this airplane for the first time he show it and it is already in the list !!! :wave:
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Thanks for the review. My son is after one, and he doesn't generally have a lot of luck with gliders. I was hoping the Playmobil one would be up to the job. Sounds like it will be.
In the meantime, he bought one of the click and go planes last week, which I must review. Obviously you can't throw it but it's a very practical little toy.
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Thank you for this review, Elric! Very informative information! :thanks:
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¿Can you rig it as a tethered glider for extended flight time?
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¿Can you rig it as a tethered glider for extended flight time?
Not sure. This thing gets some good glide time as is.
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That would be interesting.
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Thanks for the review. It is something that I think my son would enjoy as well. :thanks:
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Edit:
Oops, cross posting, sorry :-[.
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I pick up one from TRU for my sons 6th b-day and he and his brother had a great time with it at the park. They loved watching it fly for long distances and then on impact with the ground the klicky would sometimes get launched out. You can only imagine the excitement a boy gets when klickies go flying in the real sense and in the crashing sense :lol:
Since playmobil does not have Styrofoam machines I was curious as to where it was made ?
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They loved watching it fly for long distances and then on impact with the ground the klicky would sometimes get launched out. You can only imagine the excitement a boy gets when klickies go flying in the real sense and in the crashing sense :lol:
Forgot to mention the klicky ejection system. :lol:
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Too bad he doesn't eject before the crash so he can deploy a parachute and have a chance at survival.
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Too bad he doesn't eject before the crash so he can deploy a parachute and have a chance at survival.
Now there is something playmobil should make. I have a special giant sling shot for shooting heavy weight to 100 feet. You could wrap a klicky in a parachute and send him to orbit and watch him float back to earth
(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc457/Koretsky/54_2_step6.gif)
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Playmobil parachutes would be really cool! :yup:
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Now there is something playmobil should make. I have a special giant sling shot for shooting heavy weight to 100 feet. You could wrap a klicky in a parachute and send him to orbit and watch him float back to earth
Been tried. Didn’t work.
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Been tried. Didn’t work.
you have to have the video-gammer mentality, never give up even if you lost 10,000 times, keep trying ;D I have this toy that has a parachute that has no strings to get all tangled up. Instead it has a sort of fine mesh on the lower half and a normal parachute material on the upper half. I hope I did not throw it our due to it not being playmo :-[
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Hi Friends,
thx for this new review.
Enjoy my last year 4215 Jet-Team review with Video.
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4435.0 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4435.0)
world greets
Andi
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Here's an interesting film made at a Funpark, even with on-board (!!) footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVi_rDDEcwQ&NR=1
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Wow cool videos Andi, I must have missed your reviews. When I brought home the red one my other son asked "does it come in any other colors?" And I had to say yes, but in a year :'(
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you have to have the video-gammer mentality, never give up even if you lost 10,000 times, keep trying ;D I have this toy that has a parachute that has no strings to get all tangled up. Instead it has a sort of fine mesh on the lower half and a normal parachute material on the upper half. I hope I did not throw it our due to it not being playmo :-[
I wasn’t the cords that was the problem. It was the chute bags; They never opened properly.
The alternative, not having a bag, wouldn’t work either- It’ would open itself before you’d want it to. If you’re not lucky, it might even open with the pilot still secured to his seat, thus causing the plane to crash in an unplanned way, breaking wings or even worse the fuselage. Not a good plan.
I wonder if it would be possible to add a small motor and prop to extend flight time…
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I wasn’t the cords that was the problem. It was the chute bags; They never opened properly.
The alternative, not having a bag, wouldn’t work either- It’ would open itself before you’d want it to. If you’re not lucky, it might even open with the pilot still secured to his seat, thus causing the plane to crash in an unplanned way, breaking wings or even worse the fuselage. Not a good plan.
I wonder if it would be possible to add a small motor and prop to extend flight time…
I am trying to figure out where to put a clip so I can shoot this plane with a large rubber band.
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I am trying to figure out where to put a clip so I can shoot this plane with a large rubber band.
Maybe mid way on the fuselage?
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Maybe mid way on the fuselage?
there is that grey plastic piece on the bottom that snaps into the cockpit. I was going to try to put a stud there . I will try it this week if it ever stops raining
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Slingshot. Big one.
You may have to custom build it.
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there is that grey plastic piece on the bottom that snaps into the cockpit. I was going to try to put a stud there . I will try it this week if it ever stops raining
Let us know how this turns out. :)
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Well I'm not a happy camper. I bought the new black and white plane Friday and crashed and burned the same night. I was in my backyard and threw the plane and it was soaring good until a small gust of wind blew it towards my work van. It went under my van but the tail piece clipped the exhaust pipe. Well, no more tail piece. It still can fly but not as far and its very unstable.
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That’s not a design defect, it’s pilot error.
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That’s not a design defect, it’s pilot error.
I know. :lol:
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I realize I'm resurrecting an old thread.
I found this yesterday at Winners (in Canada) for $12.99.
It does seem to work good.