Sunstar Industries Dropping Spider Prop 10 Inch Tall

This item was listed as refurbished. When I opened the box a leg was broken. For my use that would have been acceptable, but that should not be acceptable to Amazon. I installed batteries. The spider almost worked in that it dropped but never returned on the pull string. The one time it worked a second leg broke. I have reordered one and the original piece of garbage is in the trash. When I say legs broken I mean the metal leg was broken. Think twice before you order “refurbished”.

My family loves this spider! This is the second one I'm purchasing. My original is at least a dozen years old and the motor finally gave up. Boris comes out every year at the beginning of October, and my kids spend a month clapping to watch him fall down and crawl back up. We hang him in a doorway and have caught visitors off guard at parties. What a kick.

My grandson is 11 years old and for about 10 years has enjoyed a toy spider very similar to this new drop down spider. The old one lasted for 10 Halloween with hundreds of hand claps.This new one didn't even get a good start. Have to clap very loud for it to drop and then it is very slow dropping and has to be pushed to climb back up. I would not buy it again.

Dropping Spider drops repeatedly then stops. Both eyes light up but one eye not attached properly. I have bought similar spiders and they are better made.I am disappointed in this one. I will be returning it.

I ordered this while at a local pizza joint. They had their spider hooked up over and next to the register so it kept going off when people came to pay for things. I watched it go at least a dozen times so I used my amazon mobile and secured my own. Came decently packaged and was easy to unwrap and install the 2 AA batteries. So far I have hooked it over the threshold of three doorways and only managed to scare my dog when she barked (she's now down to a single bark and a cowering period while the spider reels itself back up) . It's a little noisy when it's reeling itself in and the over all quality says to be I may get a few years careful use out of it. The nature of the spider is that it will drop something between 2-3 feet in a freefall and the led green eyes blink. It's quite scary when you don't expect it. In all it's a fine edition to my Halloween decor.

Bought a seemingly identical spider three or four years ago which worked like a charm. However, it's been misplaced somewhere in the deepest recesses of my garage so I bought another one. It arrived today and looks the same but when switched to "On", it drops and retracts non-stop. It just goes up and down forever. Or at least until the batteries die out, which is why I had to turn it off. I'm going to search for my old one and send this piece of junk back.

This was a gift. It did not include a battery and I wish I had know that so I could have provided batteries as well. Recipient loved it.

My experience with this spider is that it never stops working...up and down incessantly. I thought it would "rest" at the top until it heard a sound or something moved it, but I think the movement climbing back up the string is enough to send him down again. I had to turn it off and won't put it back on until Halloween. Otherwise, I might have to kill this spider and I hate to kill anything!