RED5 Vortex Spinner Blue

Received a defective item. Quality of spinner is not worth the price. Return options are limited.

I've owned a few of those ball drone things that you throw and it returns to you (sort of), and this is the same sort of premise, except it's also like a fidget spinner.The main difference is that with the ball-thingy, you can easily catch it when it returns, but with this product, because it's spinning at such at high rate, you can't catch it without it either hurting your hands very slightly (due to it spinning very very fast), or it just rebounding off your hands and hovering off in another direction. If you do manage to catch it, then the motors will automatically switch off after one or two seconds.If you're after a fidget spinner that rotates on it's own really fast, then this is perfect for you. It can even be manually rotated like a traditional fidget spinner without it being powered. When powered, it does blow quite a lot of air, so can act as a fidget-spinner-cooling-fan.If you were attracted more to the premise of it being able to throw it and have it come back to you like a boomerang AND then catch it, you'll likely not like this unless you are a fan of absolute mayhem as it bounces all over the place.

An eight year old might find this amusing, but it's temperamental to get it spinning, doesn't do much and is frankly less fun than a normal gyroscope with a string to power it. It's supposed to boomerang back to you and maybe I'm must an idiot but I don't know how you're supposed to get that to happen.It's really noisy and obnoxious too with a whole bunch of weird flashing lights on it and the plastic is insanely cheap and nasty. I don't believe this is a good stocking filler or worth the money, and I don't think most kids would be amused, adults certainly won't think this is a great executive toy or anything.If there is a good version of this product, this surely isn't it.