Toysmith 4 M Create A Night Sky Projection Kit # 3440 Review B00064XG6A
Toysmith 4 M Create A Night Sky Projection Kit # 3440 Feature
- Create your own starry sky in your bedroom
- Invite your friends to enjoy the star show
- Kit includes parts and instructions
- No batteries required
- Turn the kids onto the notion of leaving a smaller carbon footprint
Toysmith 4 M Create A Night Sky Projection Kit # 3440 Overview
Create your very own starry sky in your bedroom. Invite your friends and family for the star show. They will be amazed! Create your very own night sky domes. Punch holes onto the night sky dome, fold, and build them up. Insert the lamp provided to project your very own night sky. This Kit Includes: Night sky domes of Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Lamp, Detailed instructions including star charts of both Hemispheres and 4 1/2" diameter lamp (4 AA batteries required, not included). For Ages 8 and Up
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Not a good use of my time - C. Traynor - Seattle, WA
I attempted to put this together for my daughter and found it just about impossible. I have the reputation of being extremely patient building these sorts of things and keep going when others give up. I did finish it but the end result was lame, lame, lame and it took waaay longer than an hour for me to punch holes for all the stars and use the almost-impossible-to-separate transparent 2-sided tape.
Hint on the miserable tape - it is fairly easy to peel one side off but almost impossible to do the second side - some don't even recognize that it is 2-sided. Anyway, once you peel off one side stick a very short piece of the sticky side to the edge of something. Once it is stuck you will find it much easier to peel the other side. But, even smarter, don't buy this.
It is great in theory but falls way short in practice. I bought it from a local toy store - had I seen these reviews I never would have purchased it.
Awful Valentine"S Day Gift - Jon_Strange - New York City
I don't know what my girlfriend was thinking. Sure I like space and educational toys on occasion, but really? For Valentines day? Really? I guess what I'm saying really isn't directed at the toy just more at an appropriate occasion for giving this gift. Ladies do not buy this for your man for any holiday except maybe April fools and then bring out a better gift like, "hey look I got you this terrible planetarium that you have to make yourself and it really won't work that well and you'll step on it the day after you built it and direct your anger at me and not it's poor construction errr I mean your poor construction as you had to build it and did not use enough tape." and then like, "oh, just kidding, april fools I actually got you this other thing that is way better." Hopefully it's a BJ. Also, just because they sell it at Urban Outfitters doesn't mean that it is fun or cool, most thing there are not.
Poor Qualty - J. Shakes - Washington, USA
The theory is that you
1) Punch holes in a piece of cardboard, according to guides printed on the cardboard,
2) Use two-sided tape to form the cardboard into a dome, then
3) Place the dome on a light, so each hole projects a "star".
Each one of these steps has problems, though.
1) No holepunch was provided, so it's unclear how big to make the holes. Making the holes is tedious.
2) Although the instructions say that two-sided tape is included, in fact my box contained one-sided tape, useless for the intended purpose.
3) I never got to step 3.
Long and painful assembly - Christian Lee - Airmont, NY United States
Just to assemble the northern hemisphere required over an hour of painstaking work, about half of it punching holes and the other half carefully taping it together. The double-sided tape (included) was nearly impossible to apply without messing it up. The finished result was lame -- just a scant few stars from a handful of constellations. Most were so distorted that they were unrecognizable. Moreover, even the slightest misalignment in the dome let through light leaks. Either spend more money on a higher-quality star projector or, for about the same price, buy some glow-in-the-dark stars and use a star map to apply them to the ceiling.
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