MukikiM eBird Orange Phoenix - 2016 Creative Child Preferred Choice Award Winning Flying RC Toy - Remote Control Bionic Bird (Newest 2.4GHz Version Featuring USB Charging)

On only its second flight the bird stopped flapping its wings and glided to the ground. I could hear the motor was running but there was no power to the wing mechanism. I am a very experienced RC modeler, so I opened the bird to see what was wrong. I found there was no pinion gear on the motor or anywhere inside the bird. Apparently the gear had come off the motor shaft while the bird was in the air. The gear must have fallen out of the bird and was lost somewhere between the yard and my repair area. Very disappointed. This kind of failure should not happen. It is not rocket science to have a gear properly attached to a motor. Millions, if not billions, of toys are made each year powered by small motors. This bird was a lemon, and hopefully the entire Mukikim inventory does not have the same flaw. I will not re-order. Once burned....twice shy.

Had initial PEBKAC with first use. In the instructions, after pairing, it says to toggle the throttle, what it needs to say is toggle it *several times* until it starts flapping. I was originally pretty peeved when it apparently didn't work out of the box, but with a follow-on contact with the seller and following their updated instructions _to the letter_ , it works _perfectly_. Also, what looks like a tiny on/off toggle switch on the bird is actually a tiny push button. The formerly lazy cats of the household are now hunting all over looking for that bird after it flew through the living room! Awesome!

Charged it and it never worked

The kids love it. It flies a long time. It is fun for them, not frustrating. It's been a week and he looks forward to it everyday. It's a winner.

It didn’t work after we put batteries in and charged it.