For a short while anyway.
As my wife found out after starring in the video, after a few minutes wearing this your fingers begin to hurt. It takes a lot of effort to move the springs in the fingers to get them to move. In that regard this might be a good training device for climbers. I lived with a climber for a while, and he was always going on about building up finger-strength.
I wouldn't, however, recommend going climbing while wearing a BIG hand.
My 5 yo desperately wanted to play with this (and refused to let any larger kids have it for testing purposes), but his hands simply weren't big enough to operate it. Almost, but not quite. So while I say 6-8 year old hands should fit perfectly, it'd be nice if the packaging were designed so that a child could fit their hand inside the glove while still in the box to ensure their hand did in fact fit.
While the fingers work well, the thumb isn't perfect and you can't, for example, pick up something small like a crayon. |
Saying that, it does work, so I don't feel I can knock too many marks off it. It doesn't claim to be anything more than it says: it's a BIG hand. If that's what your children want, if a BIG hand is what fertilises their imagination, then this is a really good BIG hand to get.
And with that said, it's GAME OVER for Toyology!
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