Wild Planet Spy Video Car | 
| Brand: Wild Planet
List Price: $159.99
Buy New: $54.98
You Save: $105.01 (66%)
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 135
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries: 12
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 12 years
Battery: 12 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 11.1 x 19
MPN: 070133
Model: 70133
UPC: 788668701339
EAN: 0788668701339
ASIN: B000EMRVI8
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | REAL NIGHT VISION -- you see them but they don't see you, LCD screen lets you navigate | | • | The Spy Video Car includes a headset, screen and hand-held controller | | • | The sleek R/C features a built-in video camera with night vision, that sends a live feed to a flip-up screen on your headset up to 75 feet away | | • | 2006 Top 5 New Toys: NBC News, Family Fun Magazine, "What I want" - TV Show | | • | View all the action through your own personal headset |
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Product Description
You see what the car sees. See in the dark with real night vision. This RC vehicle has a video camera and headset screen. The headset screen lets you see live video feed from the camera on the car. The LCD screen lets you navigate. The night vision lets you see them but they don't see you. The video transmits at maximum range with 2.4 GHz transmission frequency. The screen is easy to view in the dark with backlit Active Matrix LCD. The screen appears as big as a 20" television at 5 ft. away with 4:3 aspect ration display screen. Black and white video feed captured with 1/4 VGA CMOS camera. Camera sees in the dark with infrared light, which is invisible to others. Full function car operates at 49 MHz frequency. Contains: 1 RC vehicle with video camera and night vision light, 1 remote control, and 1 headset screen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
8 y.o. nephew loves it. Uncle is a bit disappointed in video. September 6, 2006
J. A. Edwards (Los Angeles, CA USA)
82 out of 88 found this review helpful
Pretty expensive but I ended up splurging and getting it for my 8 year old nephew for this coming Christmas. I ended up giving it to him this weekend instead; I wanted to see it go too and couldn't wait 4 months!
My nephew REALLY likes it but, oy!, is the video bad -- what they show in the online commercial is quite a bit clearer and contrasty than what we see in our actual unit. I think the infrared aspect blurs things a bit and its sensitivity is pretty low in any case. You can't read ANY writing thru the video, regardless of size of print, etc. Still, the video link is minimally serviceable (adequate for manuevering with a little bit of practice) and my nephew has a BIG time sitting in his "command center" and sending it out on "remote missions" using only the onboard video link. Seems fairly robust and sturdy so far.
 It's cool....but.......... January 10, 2007
C. Fleming (Marysville,MI)
30 out of 34 found this review helpful
It's great concept for a toy. There's a few issue's that I found personally. First of all it's supposed to be a "spy" car, when it moves its a little nousy not loud but noisy. If I was sitting in a room I could hear it coming. Second, the car doesn't have much of a range on it. I would say a good 15ft. which ain't much in the R/C world. The car starts to get a little glitchy through walls. Once again going back to the "spy" aspect of it. If i'm spying I would like to be able to stay out of sight. I think they should do a little more work on this toy and it would be a awesome toy.
Comment December 12, 2006
I. Terracciano (MI, USA)
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
I bought this for my 9 y/o nephew for Christmas he's been wanting it since his birthday. It's seems to be the hottest toy to get right now. I think your price of $399 you are charging is totally outrageous for this toy and whoever buys is it for that price is even more stupid. I bought it at Toys-R-Us for $79. They also have it at Target, Walmart and etc. You must be out of your mind to sell this for that price, It's a cute toy but it's definitely not worth over a $100. Even my nephew agrees with that.
 Super Spy RC Car January 9, 2007
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
The spy vision remote control car is sooooo much fun! My parents are always playing with it and my dog must think it is some kind of an animal. It is quiet and not too fast so I can control it very easily. I have a very fast RC car and this one is more fun even though it is not as quick. While sitting on the couch I can watch it "roam" through the house and spy on everyone. What alot of FUN!!! I suggest this toy for anyone at anyage.
Wow, really nice, really fun!!! December 28, 2007
Nacho
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This was the one item my youngest son (6 years old) wanted for Christmas. He kept talking and talking about it. I could not find it anywhere at first. Walmart listed it for seventy but it was not available online from their site. I went to four different stores and while all the toy sections were aware of the product and claimed they had carried it, all were out of stock. I finally found it online through an Amazon.com reseller, but it was just over one hundred and with expediated shipping at over 30 dollars, well you do the math. It's not worth that much. Try to find it for 70 or less if possible, but honestly everywhere I did find it was roughly a hundred. Anyway, the toy itself is great fun. It's basically a remote control car with a spy camera on it that you can use to view anything it's pointed at and you view using spy glasses. The image is black and white and pretty good quality. It's equivalent to any remote video spycam you see shown on tv like from atm's or other spycams. The car is also very quite. I've heard reviewers write it's loud. Ours is not at all. It's not completely silent. If you are sitting in a room reading a book you will hear it come in, but if there is any noise in the room at all, a conversation going on, the tv on, or a radio at normal levels, the car can sneak in unnoticed so beware those of you in the shower, lock the doors. The kids have great fun trying to sneak in on parents activities. I found myself typing on the computer several times only to see this thing watching me and hear my kids in the other room laughing. It's great fun to pick it up or crouch down in front of the lens and make silly faces........you'll hear large laughter from the other rooms. Enjoy. Our spycar was not well shipped, and the spy glasses arrived with the plastic around the viewing lens of the spy glasses cracked in a triangle shape and that plastic piece actually fell off, but we taped it back in place. Only a slight astetic peice of plastic that broke, it did not affect the function of the glasses at all. The glasses plug into the remote and the car and remote use 4 or 6 double A's each for a total of about 10 or 12 batteries. I can't remember exactly how many, but basically alot of batteries. It's been running 4 days non stop now and not showing any signs of slowing down, so maybe the extra batteries are a good thing, so you don't have to switch them out as often. This is a great toy as a gift, but search for the lowest available price out there as it appears to have been increased in price for the holidays since i've seen it listed for about thirty dollars less.
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