Saturday, November 21, 2015

Lutema Avatar 2 Hovercraft review

My son received the Lutema Avatar 2 Hovercraft as a birthday present. We were really excited to try it out. Unfortunately this the one of the worst toys ever designed. Lets start with the fact that there are three instructions manuals that all give a different set of instructions on how to sync the controller with the helicopter. None of the manuals are actually for the model we have since the descriptions in the manual do not match the controller or the helicopter. The box claims that the unit comes with a wall charger adapter, which it does not. The instruction manual also states to charge the hover craft to plug the USB into the wall charger that doesn't exist. It also sort of mentions that you can charge it by plugging it into the controller, but it is not clear on this. The instructions also state that there should be a red and green light to indicate the Lutema Avatar 2 Hovecraft is either charging or fully charged, which it has neither. After following the vague instructions for syncing the controller from three different manuals, we finally got it to sync ONE time. We were able to fly the hovercraft for about 5 seconds before it lost contact with the controller and began to fly on its own. It crashed. After repeating the same sync instructions a dozen times we could not get it to sync again. I read through the instructions one more time, repeated the SAME steps as before and it sync again. This time I was able to fly it for about 5 second before it became unresponsive to the controller and landed and crashed again. After trying to sync it again for 5 minutes we gave up. I followed the QR scan code in the instruction for "How to sync your hovercraft". This took me to a video of a different model of hovercraft as the controller looks nothing like mine. The instructions are the extra steps we are doing to sync it. So we try again and guess what it syncs. We fly it for about 5 seconds before it again loses contact with the controller and begins to fly all around on its own until it crashes. We are now unable to get it to sync at all. We are trying to charge it again in case that is the issue but really, this toy and the instruction are a piece of crap. If your products has the following issues, its a piece of crap: Doesn't have what the box says is included. Has multiple manuals for the wrong model. None of the instruction fit your model. The instructional video is not for your model. The instructions are written by someone in China. If the Lutema Avatar 2 Hovercraft actually worked I think it would be really neat. Unfortunately we will likely be taking it back since we can not get it work in the least.