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National Geographic - Children's Digital Metal Detector | 
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| Brand: Trends Uk Ltd
Category: Toy
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £17.39
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 739
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 23.6 x 7.3 x 2.6
MPN: 37/NG7020D
EAN: 5060062141085
ASIN: B000I6I3R8
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Much better than I thought October 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reading the other reviews, I was pretty worried when I heard that this had been bought for my daughter's birthday. I thought that it could put her off something that she could otherwise take an interest in. Having tried it out though, it's actually fine, and got a lot of interest and play time from my daughter and her visiting friends.
Physically it's typical for a modern toy, quite plasticky and light. It fits together easily and is easy to hold (where the lightness helps for a child). It has two rotary controls: one for on/volume and one for sensitivity. There is an animating display which is lit and spins while it's searching and stops when it finds something, accompanied by a beeping sound.
I found that if I turned the sensitivity up so that it was detecting 'thin air' and then just tweaked it down a notch to silence it then the detector worked very well, being set off by a 2p coin from about 5cm away. I actually used it to find a garden spike for a clothes drier which had become buried by long grass and mud!
The children have had fun testing different materials to see which qualify as metal, and looking for small hidden 'treasures'. I have to say that for the price this is a good toy. It works perfectly well and is fun an easy to use (once it's been adjusted!).
 Big metal items fine, small things rubbish June 30, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Our son was brought this for his birthday - it did pick up large items that we hovered over (i.e. the telephone, the alarm clock etc.) but couldn't pick up our wedding rings or anything small - and if there was anything between the detector and the item - nothing. Not much good when the whole point is to find buried things!! Very disappointing as a working item - more like a "let's pretend" toy. :(
Complete and utter rubbish - don't waste your money March 10, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This was on the top of my son's Christmas wish list and what a disapointment it turned out to be. I fully agree with the other reviewers here, the detector simply could'nt detect! We placed a variety of objects directly in front of it and on no occasion were they picked up. I thought by buying a product endorsed by National Geographic I was buying a quality item but I was sadly wrong. A waste of money and one sad and frustrated small boy!
Please avoid - very disappointing January 18, 2008
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
My daughter was thrilled to receive this for Xmas but we were all so disappointed with it. It doesn't detect any small pieces of metal at all - a coin for instance. It just doesn' work!
I would not now buy anything with the National Geographic branding.
do not buy this - it is a total waste of money December 27, 2007
46 out of 46 found this review helpful
this product is the worst piece of plastic masquerading as a toy that i have seen in a long time. it barely detected metal when it was placed within 2 mm of it. it could not detect a ring on a marble floor, and two grains of sand on a tin can stopped it working.
A magnet on a piece of string would work better than this piece of junk.
I has scored 1 out of 5 from me only because I could not score it less.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS and SHAME on National Geographic for letting their name be associated with such total rubbish.
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