Mad Science - Bubble Experiment Lab

My son received this as a gift. He loves experiments and science but this never really worked. Only got half of the bubbles. Now this sits on a shelf taking up space.

If you must purchase this item for your "gotta-have-it" "nothin-else-will-do" child, then please have these items on hand. A bottle of dishwashing liquid or classic blowing bubbles, a bubble wand, and a small bowl or cup. And anything that smokes. (Gramps with his stinking cigar will do). When your child discovers this item does not work like the video, nor is it's performance even close you will need some backup. My son had more fun, ceased his heartbroken tears, and livened gramps up by blowing bubbles at gramps smoke rings.

Unfortunately there was way to many problems with this thing to have made it worth the effort and cost.

First of all, the tubes are very very stiff which made it a pain to put together. Impossible, no, but annoying YES! A toy should never be too big of a pain for the adults in my opinion.

Second, The smoke liquid AND the bubble solution were BOTH only half full! They were greasy on the outside as if they had leaked. Nothing else was greasy which makes me wonder if they were already like that before being packaged.

And last, after the annoyance of putting the darn thing together, ours didn't work!

Our experience with this thing was simply bad. I might have exchanged it for a new one if not for the first two issues. I just didn't want to deal with it again.

Both the bubble solution and the smoke solution bottles had leaked the majority of their contents into the box. The product was wet and slimy and had to be washed before assembly. The bubble solution had eaten it's was through the safety seal, yes eaten like acid thru aluminum. My son had no problem assembling the product, and said "it looks cool," but was very disappointed with its performance. The smoke never worked and only simple bubbles could be made, nothing like the video. We packaged it back up and we are returning it Amazon today.

I picked this product for my grandson for Christmas. He really enjoyed it. Said it was really fun.