Thames & Kosmos My Robotic Pet: Coding Chameleon STEM Building & Experiment Kit | Color-Sensing Coding Robot for Boys & Girls Ages 8+, Screen-Free Educational Fun, Robotic Reptile with 3 Play Modes

Very cool toy. Too advanced for kids. Took parent 3+ hours to complete but kids LOVE it. Have to use video to complete build. Written directions are pretty confusing but there is a QR code in the instructions that direct you to the video directions. But the kids love all the functions from it following them around the house to shooting his tongue out

This was a last minute gift for my grandson that loves anything STEM related and this toy was perfect for him. He is 10 and it was the perfect amount of challenge and fun.

Gave as a gift - very cute and fun for the kids but not sure how long the battery lasted.

I wasn’t expecting such a difficult assembly. I feel the product description leaves out this detail. When my granddaughter opened this and I saw the hundreds of cheap plastic pieces my heart sank. She lives abroad and I only had one afternoon to spend on this with her. Fortunately my son was able to help. It took 3-1/2 hours with the two of us working together (both degreed engineers) to build “Carl”. The parts are cheap with terrible tolerances. The assembly is rickety at best. The assembly process is difficult for adults so not sure how a 12 year old would manage it without help. After three times testing the ejecting tongue, a tiny blue piece came out from the bowels of the assembly, rendering the tongue inoperable. Carl would not walk on carpet at all and only barely walk on wood floor while tipping over easily. I don’t expect this to last very long. My son will have to tear it almost completely apart to get the piece back in that came out. I was also expecting actual basic software coding to control the chameleon but admittedly I didn’t read the product description fully. I was very disappointed in this product. It’s just as cheap as the price would suggest. I should have known better.

This chameleon kit required a lot of patience and problem solving. Took my 11 year old about 3-4 hrs to put together. I had to help him about a dozen times through the build. After when we turned it on first time, it couldn’t move and the gears were stuck. Took me about 4-5 more attempts disassembling, reassembling, and problem solving to finally to get it to work properly. In the end, all our problems were caused by not following directions super carefully. If your assembled parts didn’t look like diagrams in the instruction booklet, make sure you double and triple check your work, or else it won’t work properly. Don’t confuse metal rod P9 with P12–they are not interchangeable parts. Make sure you cut off the burrs!!! As an adult, I enjoyed this kit because it takes patience and problem solving. Don’t expect it to work after your first assembly. Big THANK YOU to the toy maker for good customer service. They were happy to supply additional parts we needed or broke. Just had to fill out online part request form.

My son loved this! He enjoyed putting it together and playing with it. Extremely time consuming to assemble but he had fun.

Not sure what the age is for this product It is very tedious to put together

This is a two person build no matter the age of the builder. The pieces don't fit together exactly flush. I would not recommend for a younger kid unless you're and adult with 4-5 hours to spend on building the toy. In play mode it is very loud and not quality. You have to reset the tongue manually at times.

Took forever to build to then find the plastic gears were faulty and just spinning instead of making proper contact to run the toy. It's was extremely loud. They refunded my product money and made me pay my own $30cdn shipping to even get that partial refund

It does not do what it says it’s going to. Another cheap plastic toy

Overall it seems to be a entertaining toy. But assemble is very hard to 8yo and most pieces require filing/sanding to work properly. Tolerances are very tight for a plastic toy and can cause frustration or even prevent some features to work at all. I personally had to disable the shooting tongue since I was not able to make it to work, even after completing all troubleshooting steps.

Very poor quality