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

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

If you want to ruin your day by all means buy this product. After several times and many hours building, taking apart, and rebuilding, it still has issues with the tongue and isn’t working properly. The pieces are very fragile and do not connect together effectively and the quality is just not there. The pieces all come attached and you have to shave down little nubs when you disconnect them; so much work just to get the pieces and it’s not like Lego where you have the pieces you need on each part. You have to search for them on the different attachments. My husband is very good at building and technical things and this was still an extremely challenging product.

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

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.

This was a Christmas gift for my sons he loves it. The plastic is not a strong plastic. One of the legs broke during assembly. We’ve been VERY careful cutting out each piece. He’s excited to get the part replaced so we can enjoy all the fun things Carl can do.

I gave this to my grandson as a gift and it was his favorite he got from anyone! He loves it. His Doberman does too and even though she grabbed it and shook it a bit, it held up nicely and no damage works as it should.

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.

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

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

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