Force1 UFO 3000 LED Mini Drone for Kids - Remote Control Drone, Small RC Quadcopter for Beginners with LEDs, 360 Flips, 4-Channel Remote Control, 2 Speeds, and 2 Batteries

This drone is really cool! I bought it for my canine daughter who loves it! It is very responsive and fairly sturdy and well made. I love how it lights up for flying at night. It comes with 2 rechargeable batteries for the drone, which is nice. The only thing is each battery does not last long on a full charge and only last about 20 minutes each. For the product quality, features and responsiveness, and price, I am very happy with it. And my canine daughter (Golden Retriever) loves it too and that makes mom happy! And she is so gentle with retrieving it and bringing it back to me. Somehow, she always knows to wait until the little propellers have stopped before she attempts to gently pick it up and bring it to me. Gotta love canines!

UPDATE:Customer service reached out to me, not to change my review or ask for more stars. Instead they asked for the batch number so the could investigate what went wrong (2 blade props vs 3 blade pros). That is awesome. It's OK wanting to "make it right" with the customer that feels slighted, but it's so much better to care enough to make it better for every future customer too. I did update to a 5 star rating based on the great customer service, not just for me, but for all future customers. And keep in mind, as I note in my unedited review, it's a nice flying drone. I have have some issues with pretty much all small drones that have the same "features" for beginners, that I'm not fond of, but it flies as good as any other 5 star drone - and with this one you get great customer service.Original 3 star review unedited below:All the pictures show a three blade propellers. I got a version with two blade propellers. The box, the manual, and the drone all show two blades on my version as opposed to three in all the material. That's very misleading. I ordered other 2 blade prop drones to compare and to 3 blade prop drones... and now I'm missing a drone for my evaluations. All of this is for the REC Aerial Drone Competition (we need "practice drones", and I'm trying to find drones that fly close to how our competition drones fly - only cheaper). I don't like the false advertising here.Good - the drone flies fairly well once it's flying.Bad - You have to push a special button to get it into flying mode - and the propellers start spinning immediately at that point. And then you can't simply take off as you wish - up throttle causes the drone do jump into the air some predetermined amount. More significantly you have to push that same button to get it to stop... and it doesn't always work, sometimes the propellers refuse to stop spinning after you have landed and you have to push the button some large random number of times to get them to stop. This is bad. This is how you lose propellers and burn out motors. Why do companies do this. It should be that when the throttle is down the propellers stop. That's it. Pretty simple. Want and emergency stop in mid air? Hold the throttle down. Want to catch the drone out of the air? Hold the throttle down. Crash and need to kill the throttle before you burn out a motor? Hold the throttle down. The altenative solution provided with this drone is fumble for another button somewhere on the remote and push it, then wait to see if it stops, then repeat for some number of times. Terrible behavior. All the drones are doing this now, so you'll need an older drone to avoid this horrible behavior.Good - the flips are really crisp. Very little altitude loss, and only a bit of altitude gain before the flip. This is true in all directions. Really nice.Bad - Altitude hold is iffy. It seems to do a pretty good job most of the time... but that's the problem - it lulls you into to thinking it's good enough, but it's not and your altitude has drifted, and since it was close enough you can fix it manually, delicately enough. So it's good-ish for a beginner, but bad if you're flying an obstacle course. That sounds minor, but it's actually a real problem on the obstacle course - it would be better to learn to hold your altitude the whole time on your own. This is most pronounced on turns and stops.Good - pretty durable so far - but it's only been one day with a few dozen crashes. But so far so good.Bad - the prop guards are useless if you hit the ground upside down. The propeller isn't down inside the prop guard!!! What is that point in that? This boggles the mind. The prop guard supports are more protected than the prop!! Seriously. The prop guard supports should be below the prop guard (that's the ring) and the propeller should be fully inside the ring. As it is the bubble canopy almost holds the props off the ground, but it's such a fundamental design flaw.Good - the prop guards haven't broken yetBad - the plastic seems a bit brittle. It doesn't feel like it can take a lot of abuse... but so far so good.Good - the battery can be replaced with [the smallest I could find] 600mAh batteries. Not because I'm looking for bigger batteries, just any cheap replacements. I find it takes 6-10 batteries to be able to fly nearly continuously. That is fly a battery, then rest if for one flight period, then charge it, and repeat.(charging takes forever, and you should let the battery cool before you toss it back on the charger). Extra batteries are a must and they just barely fit. They are actually thinner (flatter?) than the stock batteries. You do have to stuff the wires essentially inside the drone body though.Bad - the wire for the drone on/off switch look fragile and stuff precariously inside. I hope/think it's enameled wire... (if not this drone might be a fire hazard).Good - the box and packaging are nice. I like the way that drone stacks on top of the remote and then has a clear cover. All of which fits easily back in the box. The below the bottom stack is plenty of room extra batteries and chargers.Overall it flies pretty good and I think most people will like it, but for us it tries to be too smart and so we won't be using except for introduction to drone controls.

My son had this drone and it we needed new propellers, they fit and were easy to change out. Totally worth it to keep the drone going. We ordered and they were there like the next day!

We got this for our 9 year old grandson. He, and everyone else in the family have really enjoyed it! Difficult enough to be interesting.

It seems like every time I get a new quadcopter, I like it better than my previous ones, so I guess I'm just following my trend, but I find that I really do like this one the best. It is easy to fly and extremely well-built. I've accidentally crashed it a few times with no problems, and the dog has even "fetched it" for me (despite my pleading with her not to) and it has survived her slobber and teeth.The only reason I took off one star is because of the color of the lights. The green are the "rear" lights that you can keep towards you if you wish to maintain orientation, while the blue are the "front" lights. I really wish the industry would agree on a standard for rear lights, and would use the existing 'automotive standard" of red lights for the rear. I don't really care what color is used for the front lights, but after so many years of driving cars, I'm used to wanting the lights facing me to be red. Some quadcopters do use red rear lights and I always appreciate that--it is always easier than "reprogramming my brain" to try to remember which color this particular manufacturer wants to use for rear lights. I suppose they think "green means go" so they (and a few other manufacturers) seem to like green rear lights, but I find that kind of annoying. The green and blue are pretty in combination, though, and they are nice, quiet colors. It is fun to fly at dusk or at night, as long as you can see well enough not to send it into bushes or trees.There are two modes, a gentle novice mode and a faster expert mode. The expert mode is better if you have a breeze, but both are fairly responsive. It also does flips very well. The controller is basic but comfortable in the hands. The battery for the quadcopter is large enough to have a better than average flight time (7 minutes or occasionally more) and it does seem fairly responsive and easy to fly. I would think this would make a good "first quadcopter" since it is well-made enough to survive crashes and the design makes it less likely to break blades (or catch fingers in a moving blade). I kind of wish it didn't say "for boys and girls" because I'm an adult and still enjoy flying it. I imagine other adults would also enjoy flying it, even though that description is kind of off-putting.