RC Helix Race Drone

I bought this for my 9yr old and it flew twice we charged it for the second time and now it won't respond the light on the device and remote flash green and now it does nothing...

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] When my son saw the package for the Air Hogs Helix Race Drone, he was thrilled. We took it out of the package and I looked over the Drone. I was a little worried about the durability of it with the bottom pieces being made of foam. After a quick search for batteries for the remote, we got it plugged in to charge. It charged pretty quickly. The drone is a little tricky to get used to flying. Because it goes so fast, my wife said we had to play outside with our toy. Taking it outside in the backyard, it did pretty good. The drone did sometimes go to high and far away from the remote but it would quickly regain control once it dropped height a little bit. My 9 year old son did a good job and learned it quickly. It flew about 15 minutes before needing a recharge. Because the drone recharged fairly quick, my son was not discouraged from playing and waited anxiously to resume play. We did land it too hard on the first day and the foam did get a small split in it, but it didn't affect the functioning of the Drone at all. We took really good care of it and never left it outside. It stayed beside us when not playing with it. Our only regret was that it didn't have a camera. On the third day of playing with the Drone, it was flying as normal but when it got 5 feet away it suddenly dropped and went to the ground. It has not worked since. It won't respond to the remote control. I have changed the batteries in the remote control and tried to charge the drone again but nothing. It will not pair with the remote. It was fun while it lasted but we were hoping to get more than three days of play with the Helix Race Drone. The idea is good but it seems to need tweeked a little bit.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We had so much fun with this. Not only did my 11 year old son love it, but my 14 year old daughter, my husband, and myself had a great time with it.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I let my 10 year old son open the box and set up the drone. He had a few questions but managed to figure it using the instruction guide. After he charged it I took it for it's first drive. I have used other drones in the past and found this one to be very easy to understand and control. Within 5 minutes I had it flipping. It was tough to keep it level-- I kept getting it too high and then would need to coordinate a controlled landing. There were a few rough landings but no damage to the drone. My son and his 12 year old friend had no trouble controlling it. They thought the flip feature was a little delayed but were able to get it to work. They were disappointed at the short play time (12-15min) per charge. During the course of a camping weekend they played with it 4 times.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Air Hogs Race Drone (Blue) was pretty easy to use right out of the box. It is much easier than a remote helicopter that we have. There are 2 control levels, an easy and an advanced. Honestly, we have only used the easy level. Although this allowed us to fly the drone pretty easily, it was still a little difficult to control. My children loved the stunt button. This would allow your drone to do tricks like flips while flying it. It doesn't require any advanced controls and makes the drone more fun. There were a few things that prevented us from completely loving this drone. First, the battery lasted only about 20 minutes or so before it died out. We took a trip to our local park to have some room to fly it, and it was fun but didn't last too long. Also, part of the foam landing gear on the bottom of the drone started breaking after only a few uses. It still worked fine, but will probably come off after a few more crash landings. Overall, my whole family enjoyed this easy to use drone. It makes us want to get one with a camera on it next. We'll see.