![]() The HEXBUG® Scarab is an exceptionally high-speed, mechanical, beetle-like robotic bug that skitters around on six angled legs. In addition to HEXBUGs, Innovation First produces the Vex Robotics Design System, the top-selling robotics platform in middle and high schools. Today, the company is an industry leader in hobby, competition and education robotics, as well as a developer of consumer robotics toys. Innovation First began producing electronics for robots in 1996. “HEXBUGs were a runaway success that we had not anticipated,” Joel said. The company introduced the HEXBUG in spring 2007 and sold more than 1.5 million units by year end. We knew we could do better cost-wise and come up with a cooler product.” Getting from the initial idea to actual production took nine months. “We saw people waiting to pay big bucks for a bag full of component parts and an instruction sheet on how to build robot bugs that didn’t do much. “The power of observation is important to succeed,” Joel Carter, vice president of marketing at Innovation First, told TDmonthly Magazine, explaining that the inspiration for HEXBUGs came because of a long line at a robotics trade show. Listen, kids today are so into these things at such a young age, as long as your kids aren’t putting things in their mouths, they can play with them.If a robot toy were crossed with an insect, what would you get? A HEXBUG! For Innovation First, the result has been a sellout, with demand overwhelming supply in the products’ first year. It says on the package it’s for ages 6 and older. ![]() Every other line has orange, what’s up Warriors? Get some orange, will ya! So what starts as a stocking stuffer, will end up becoming a pain in the royal icing! For us, they work just fine without the arena, or stadium. Battle Arena/Stadium: If you want to really get the best out of these little things, you would need the Arena, or Stadium, which are an added expense.Tiny little things, cost $3.99 if you buy them from the website. Battery DISLIKE: As in all their line of toys, you need those very expensive “watch” batteries.They are holding up nicely, since they are built to “battle.”.Kept my attention for just as long as my kids’ attention.Kept the attention of my 3 and 5 year old kids for a healthy length of time.Every big hit that it receives, means it’s health will go down. Which means it’s health is decreasing, and when it hits RED, it will deactivate. You know you’re the winner of the battles when the little light on the top of your warrior is still green, while your battle partner’s goes from green, to yellow, to RED. As you can tell from the name of the toy, they battle. None of them has orange, so the kids got one green, and one blue. You’ve got the Caldera Prep Academy, Viridia Prep Academy, Bionika Cyborg Academy, and the Tronikon Tech Academy.Įach academy has a specialty, and a color associated with it. The robots can be configured with weapons, and armor, and come from four different “academies. These students use all their “skills” in order to compete against one another with battling robots. The premise of these toys is that in the future, there are students from the best science academies. My daughter would like it better if they had an orange option, but they don’t. Surprisingly, both my kids like these little warriors. It’s great that they made them so you don’t have to purchase a “battle arena” for them to fight in, you can just use them on any surface. They, too, are small enough to be stocking stuffers. I mean, just hours of fun for the kids, and it’s something they can bring with them to a relative’s house, instead of lugging one of their huge, overpriced toys with you when you have to go for your holiday dinner over at Grandma’s house!īut we’re here to chat about HexBug® Warriors™ Battling Robots. So load up the Christmas stockings with them! Perfect price point of $5.99, or if you want the little glow in the dark ones, those are $7.99. The Nano behaves like an actual bug, and I would prefer robotic bugs in the house, rather than real ones. Personally, the best stocking stuffer for a little “gadget loving kid” is the Nano. Even the original – the one that reacted to touch and sound, no remote needed, was cool. Honestly, I think that’s where HexBug has it’s strongest market, remote control robotic creatures. It’s like blowing bubbles, it all just brings out the kid in every last one of us. Who doesn’t love Micro Robotic Creatures? Girls, boys, parents, grandparents….you pull out a remote control anything, all ages will be happy. We all know orange is a big favorite around here with my kids. It’s the coolest thing, and it comes in Orange. My personal favorite is their remote controlled Spider.
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