Accu Force 3.5 Channel Helicopter
- Model: 1652766
- Gyro-stabilized copter priced like the crappy pre-gyro kind
- Fairly rugged metal body, but you might need the included replacement rotor blades
- Three channels: get up to three and they can race or fight
- Included USB power cable allows copter to charge directly or via controller
- Also includes a puny little screwdriver to get at the batteries
- Packaged in a retail box, so whoever you give it to will enjoy the anticipation of struggling to free the damn thing from the packaging
The most fun you can have for eight bucks.
RC helicopters used to suck. If you could figure out the baffling controller enough to get it off the ground, it’d spin into an immediate lopsided dive and crack several key pieces when it hit the ground. You just spent 25 bucks for a jumble of useless plastic. Have fun, uh… throwing it at your friends? A generation of kids grew up thinking of RC copters as projectile weapons.
But the 'copterpeople have figured all that out. Now gyros keep pleasure craft like this Accu Force helicopter reasonably stable. It can be piloted by human children, not calculus droids from the Inverted-Gravity Dimension. Not only does it crash a lot less often, when it does, it’s a lot more durable with its metal body. And now that they’ve been around a little while, gyro-stabilized RC copters like this are even cheaper than the shitty ones used to be.
With the ability to switch between 3 channels, the Accu Force nullifies another drawback its kind used to suffer from: controllers interfering with each other. So you can play with three at a time. Who says you have to be Monty Python to have a Flying Circus?
Uh, sorry. Yeesh. Anyway, RC copters are actually hella fun nowadays. Forget your bad memories from the late 20th century. Of everything under your tree this year, these’ll offer the biggest fun bang for your gift buck.
In a day when a movie costs at least twelve bucks, when you can pay $7.99 for a month of Hulu Plus and still have to decide “which ad experience you prefer,” eight dollars for this Accu Force 'copter is the biggest steal since the Star Wars merchandising rights. Even if your kids just need something to throw at each other.
