@AttyVette Great: Now we're going to have a pun thread hovering around here.

@AttyVette I'm up in the air as whether to join this tomfoolery.

Interestingly (to no one else, I'm sure), the etymology of helicopter comes from something like helix (spiral) and pteron (wing) (same root as pterodactyl). In other words, the two roots are helic and opter — not heli (or helo in some military circles) and copter.

Hence ergo therefore pro quid absurbia ... Should be a quad-opter.

Or maybe quad-ptopter.

@opshannon someone called it yesterday actually

@opshannon… except, amazingly, the 289 purchases already made in the first hour. o.O

@djslack I'm still holding out for Multirotor Mondays.

But then, I also hold hope for the return of Firefly to broadcast television...

@ruouttaurmind I can get down with both of those concepts. QCM just came out quickly.

Next Monday when they surprise us with a tri or a hex, I'll remember to phrase it properly.

@ruouttaurmind

Fixed-wing Fridays?

@Heat214 until someone buys them all ...

@Heat214 Until they sell out or do not sell enough

@Heat214 Im annoyed too about the copter spam, but they arent junk. Ive owned one for about a year. They're bad ass lil quads. Bought several as gifts over the months.

@ColeSloth
Bullshit i bought two over the summer and the motors siezed within 10 minutes.

@mikey9777 i cant hardly believe that, since i have bought 6 of these between mine and other people and the only thing thats gone wrong with them has been busting blades from hitting walls. None of us have had any other issues with them.

@mikey9777 Check for hair (fur, carpet fibers, grass) in the motors. It doesn't take a lot to freeze a motor.

@mikey9777 When I first flew mine it sucked up some hair I couldn't see and two of the blades stopped. If you pop the props off and take out the hair it'll be good as new.

@sp3ar I like drones, but I'd rather have those pastries right now!

@ruouttaurmind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulla

@sp3ar Mmmmmmm.... Pulla....

@studerc lol. I actually DID say that to my wife. :) She did not agree. Fortunately I have two on the mantle (w and w/o camera) and two still in the box after giving a few away as extremely well-received gifts.

@OutbackJon You're the reason they keep posting junk. There will always be people like you who buys it. All 3 of those items you mentioned are overpriced cheap junk!!!

@Heat214 Nearly everything here is "cheap junk", whether overpriced or not. That's kind of the point. But I bought those items a cheap stocking stuffers, so I'm sure they will serve their intended purpose.

@OutbackJon go to https://meh.com/orders and check the tracking number, they usually have an estimated delivery time.(the farther away from texas you are, the longer delivery takes.)

@OutbackJon There is also an "Estimated Delivery" date in the specs (first) post of every product thread.

@Thumperchick Wow I have never once noticed that! Thanks

... surely we no longer have any inventory to cover up this blunder.

@djslack Uh... Chris? I want a camera one too, buddy! :-)

@ruouttaurmind Sure. Swing on by the house on Christmas Eve, apparently I'll be handing them out all day long. I count seven going out so far (both A and C models).

@djslack yeah but if you wanted it you would have already boughten it by now

@aaaapatrickaaaa Did. It's been boughten. Influential-freaky-buffalo.

@msoriano19
I was wondering.
If the speaker docks are now all gone, and assuming this is the LAST we'll hear about micro-quad copters, what's left..... Ginsu resurrected??

@msoriano19 Knives... Speaker Docs... Quad copters... Quad copters with a camera... next we should expect quad copters with speakers and then quad copters with speakers AND knives. Not sure where the neoprene cases fit into this, but if they can find a way, they will....

@bx2a5z RTFM (and online advice for calibrating)?

@bx2a5z Mine did that too and I spent a lot of time trying to decipher the FM.

Then I used the Interweb to find videos for CX10. I know you can do that. These are fun and durable for 10.00, but do a little research.

@sligett Tried calibrating, but maybe I can't hit the sweet spot or something? I have a $50 quad that I was able to calibrate easily. This thing, not at all. It doesn't even fly off in the same direction every time, so I can't even tell which way to calibrate it. Also, after a few minutes of trying, one of the rotors stopped working entirely. Maybe this is your idea of a quality product, maybe you expect to have this many headaches. I don't.

@bx2a5z Ah, mine haven't done that and haven't given me headaches. Maybe it is time to try meh.com/support (or the "I need help" button in your order email) for replacement. Good luck.

@Thumperchick Well; now you know.

@Stallion It is.

@shawn put up the final JBL Mini speaker dock sellout and that will happen.

@shawn Ha. I'm going to keep buying them until you figure out that I have enough. I'll show you.

@Mattskiii go to your my orders page and cancel the current order, then place a new one with the cam unit PLUS speedy shipping.

But hurry you only have a limited amount of time to cancel the order.

@thismyusername Thank you!

@Mattskiii

@thismyusername you guys are going to make me obsolete and get my badge taken away. Good job!

@Thumperchick impossible, but you know I'll always say something if i see it and there is a time crunch...

@wickhameh It was a printer/copier, not a fax machine. "PC load letter my ass!"

@cfburne Looks like they need to screen the wetb er contractors they hire for the warehouse better.

@cfburne did you contact support? that seems like a minor blunder that they will fix up for you easy peasy.

@cfburne are you sure? Did you see the posts telling you:

The micro SD card is inserted in the adapter which is taped in the plastic mold (underside) holding the quad and remote.

Yeah, I thought mine was missing, too, when I first bought them a while back, until I lifted it up over my head to throw it crashing against the floor in disgust... and saw the adapter underneath.

@radi0j0hn All over Amazon. Here's a 16 pack with a blade guard. Just make sure you install them in the exact same order. http://www.amazon.com/Cheerson-CX-10-Protector-Propeller-Purple/dp/B00PGRNFE0/ref=pd_sim_21_1

@quimming

@MrMark where can i buy one???

@obxer I'd gladly take 'em off your hands. ;)

@obxer The next 5 people who walk into your office get a quadcopter!

@JazzyJosh

@UnguidedSALT What, you mean no irresponsible tourist from another state has flown their quad into Old Faithful yet? I'm sure someone will eventually come along, crash theirs into the geyser, plugging it up and cause the Yellowstone super volcano to erupt. I'd like to see them get the registration sticker off the drone then! ;-)

KuoH

@inhollywood They only have a 5 minute flight time plus another 20 minutes to recharge. Multiply the miles from meh's warehouse to your home by 25, add "x", and that's how long it will take.

@inhollywood did you order an expidited bundle?

@Thumperchick hell no that bundle was like 30 bucks.

@DaveInSoCal what do you expect for $10. I bought 3 for stocking stuffers.

@inhollywood "Estimated Delivery without Expedited Bundle: 12/29 - 12/31"

@inhollywood you can expect delivery by 12/31.

@Thumperchick Man what the duck? It must be coming skraight from China.

@inhollywood delivery estimates are always in the top post of every product thread. If you want, you can print out pictures of the copters and put those in stockings!

@Thumperchick I'm not even worried about the shipping time, its the processing that was taking forever. What the ducking hell?

@inhollywood now you're just nitpicking. The delivery estimate includes processing time and shipping - so the week of Christmas, your order for the following week's delivery schedule probably isn't going out the door.
Also, you can say fucking - unless you prefer ducking, in which case, carry on my wayward poster.

@Thumperchick Are you the resident troll here?

@inhollywood She's the resident helpful volunteer mod. You don't wanna meet the trolls if you don't like @thumperchick.

@inhollywood nah, that's Irk.

@Thumperchick do you people have nothing better to do than hang out on a geek site?

@inhollywood OMG it says they wont get there until 1/02/2016. My family will be long gone by then. So sad. And its only being delivered a few states over. I swear they are shipping these from China on a boat.

@craigthom Did you put batteries in it? lol I had trouble with that then I realized the quadcopter has to be on a perfectly level surface before you turn anything on. move left stick to bottom. Turn quad on while maintaining grip on the left half of the controller (it knows you are there) then turn on the controller. it will beep twice. push the stick all the way up, it will beep once, all the way down, it will beep again.(this might be a run on sentence) bam!!!!!! ready to fly into walls.

@msilivestro well damn! Write in to meh.com/support. Sorry you didn't get your bundle on time.

@dbsalerno The SD card's ship a bit hidden. Can you take a look and see if it's here:

The micro SD card is inserted in the adapter which is taped in the plastic mold (underside) holding the quad and remote.

@Thumperchick Yep that was exactly where it was at. I guess I thought it was going to be separate in the box since it was pictured that way online. And since it was a gift I didn't consider opening it first. Even the outside of the box said the SD was optional and led me to believe it wasn't included. Wow, feel a little dumb now, but still don't see how anyone would have known that...

@dbsalerno definitely not just you. They had to post it in several spots because no one could find it. I'm glad yours was there!