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.

Gift for our grandson and he loved it. That’s what matters

This is labeled as to be assembled by an 8 year old with assistance or 12 year old without assistance. This seems very generous as even with an adult this took several hours to assemble and it was a very complicated process. And after all the effort the tongue was not functioning properly and required disassembly to correct. There are many small parts that require precision to install properly. I think some folks may appreciate the intricate assembly, but our kiddo mostly wanted the finished toy. I wouldn’t recommend for younger kids and would think it should be listed as 12–14 years.

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