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(More customer reviews)I saw this toy first in a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog and thought it looked fun and innovative. Before purchasing I checked here on Amazon since I have free 2 day shipping with my Prime account and decided to buy it here.
The idea behind the toy is a great one, the implementation not so much. The toy itself seems pretty durable and it's easy to use. You push down on the two handles on the side prior to loading the skeets and then insert each skeet into a separate compartment. The handles are spring loaded and you need a little pressure to push down fully, so smaller children may have difficulty. Pushing down on the three handles locks the launcher arms into place inside the machine, and I noticed that sometimes I had to push down again because not all arms got locked into place on the first try.
The skeets themselves snap together pretty easily. One side of the skeet has two red arrows on it, so when you snap a skeet back together, you must make sure that the arrows on each half line up. It can't snap together any other way, and the arrows are just a good visual for which way to face each piece. When loading the skeets into the machine, the arrows must face towards the "Skeet Shooter" logo so that they can charge within the machine (this takes 10 seconds and will enable them to interact with the gun). A red LED will light up to show that it was inserted correctly. It is very easy to slightly offset the skeet when inserting and thus not enabling it to work. The arrows must face straight down exactly for the metal contacts to touch those on the machine. Smaller children may have trouble figuring this out on their own.
To play, you can either push play on the machine or you can cock the gun and fire it at the machine. The machine tells you "Ready, Aim, Shoot" and you must cock the gun each time before firing at a new skeet. You can adjust the speed to be 2 seconds-10 seconds between each skeet and you can adjust the angle that the machine will shoot at. You cannot however change the angle between each individual skeet.
I was messing around to see what would happen and fired the gun at the machine before pushing "play" and a skeet did break apart inside the machine. The machine could then tell it was not ready to begin a game by telling me "Check Skeet". I could not get the bottom half of the skeet out to put it back together, and had to try and snap it together while inside the machine. This was doable but a little harder to snap together.
I thought overall that this toy was boring. The skeets always launch in the same arc (for all 3 for that round until you change the angle of the machine for the next round), and it makes it very easy to hit. The skeets are overly sensitive as well. I purposely aimed 3-5 feet to the left of a skeet in the air and it still took my hit and broke apart.
This toy may be fun for young kids as it may be more challenging for them, but I would still think that children would get bored with it quickly and the entertainment value would only last for a few minutes.
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Why head to the open range when you can hone your marksmanship in your own living room Skeet Shooter is a fun, safe interactive game that brings the thrill and skill of skeet shooting indoors. It\'s your challenge to blow the target out of the air with the infrared Skeet Blaster pistol. Complete with realistic sound effects, one skeet launcher and three break-apart targets that easily reconnect again and again. For ages 10 and up. Requires three AAA and six C batteries (not included).
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