Twist-Whiz

We purchased one of these for our kids last Christmas. Although I wanted to love the idea of this swing, I was also a bit skeptical after reading both the good and not-so-good reviews.The swing was easy to assemble, it's durable and made of high quality materials and it's relatively easy to hang.It's quickly become the favorite playground toy of each of our kids (2 girls, 1 boy). It has been used often. It's good for building upper body strength and it's not a passive "sit on it" toy so it may not be for certain children - at least not initially if they're lacking in physical fitness.The cons are the price ($34, really?! I want to get another but I choked on that price the first time and I am again) and it's not a one-size-fits-all on the height. Presently it's too tall for my 3 year old (he stands on something to reach) and too short for my 8-year old. This height disparity is why I want to buy another one.Also, not to make it sound unnecessarily dangerous, but I suppose with any swinging toy that brings out a child's wildside, our 3-year old took a bad spill that has left him with a nice scar across his nose. He likes to spin himself helicopter style and he did so with wet hands - losing his grips and falling on his face.Anyways - this is the kind of toy I'd have loved as a kid and our kids love it too. Cons aside, great buy for active kids.

I expected this product to be easy to attach.Turns out it has to be assembled! The handle has several parts. The part the child holds actually has a slit (even though I tightened the 4 screws as tight as I could get them and lined the grooves up really well!) which I fear my DD will pinch her little fingers on. So now I gotta' go get some kind of all-weather tape that won't get sticky so she can use her new swing.I'm really annoyed by this.and the rope it comes attached to is really very long. I wish it were considerably shorter. I have it as short as it will go and it's still about 6 feet long. There really isn't a way to make it shorter. I don't see how this will be very fun to use.So I am not very happy with it.Once I get it up and play with it a bit, maybe I will feel happier about it. Until then, it gets only 3 stars.

My daughter really enjoys swinging and spinning on this thing. It occupys her for hours on end. The handle is easy to grip for small hands and feels very sturdy. It has weathered well, even with our nasty rainy weather. My only gripe is that the rope seemed a skosh short. We weren't surprised by the length or anything, its very clear how much rope it comes with, just would have liked a couple feet more if it were available. It was just barley long enough to fit on the lowest branch of our tree. That aside, this stick on a rope is surprisingly entertaining!

When our daughter outgrew her toddler swing seat, we had an empty spot open on the playset, ready for an addition. I found this twizzler while searching on Amazon and thought it looked fun. It is. Our kids and the neighbor's kids all love it. It spins and makes them dizzy. Clean fun. Nothing more and nothing less. The only drawback is it's not so intuitive how to install it on the high beam. And it helps to have two people getting it up: one down below measuring the right height. Otherwise, very cool.

The product I received is no longer just a rope. The rope is rather short, 5 1/2 feet and it's set, no way to shorten or lengthen that I can figure and it comes pre-looped. I can't figure out how to get it on the tree. I thought perhaps you could take it through the handle and then thread it through the metal ring thing but it has a fixed plastic piece on both ends... There's absolutely no where in the manual that describes how to do this. It's all about tying knots.... which the manual actually says in another place that it "now comes mostly assembled and eliminates the excess rope required to tie the knots which are no longer required for assembly and attachment". But then it goes on in the installation instructions to instruct you to "tie slip proof knot as illustrated in figure 1". So not helpful. The only way I can think is to slip the loop over the end of the branch and move it all the way back into place..... REALLY? I can't imagine that this is right? And why exactly does the handle bar not come assembled? It seems like maybe it's not assembled because it has something to do with that fixed loop... but I can't figure it out.

My six year old daughter loves her Twizzler. In a fairly short time she's learned how to do different things on it like swing out on it while spinning, swing around in a big circle, and swing backwards. She chooses to go out and play on it, and her swing set.The biggest challenge I had was finding the right tree and tree branch to hang it from. You need a branch that goes out a ways from the trunk, so they wont' accidentally swing into of course, and that branch has be low enough to get your rope over. The rope that comes with the Twizzler isn't long enough to reach a branch that's higher up.I had to use an extra rope, a tall ladder and several tosses to get ours up, but I do think it was worth the effort. She really does enjoy swinging on it.

We must admit that we were not too handy with the installation, but the instructions are clear and now that it's hanging from a sturdy limb on the tree in our front yard, many kids from our cul-de-sac have enjoyed spinning and whirling on our new Twizzler. It's loads of fun for kids. Just another something to keep them occupied and out of the street. Our neighbor has had the same model hanging for more than a year now, so we know it's durable, too.

Item is nice, except there is a seam going across it horizontally across the handgrips, which my daughter complains hurts her hands sometimes. I have tried taking it apart a few times and screwing it back together, in case I lined it up wrong, no way to improve it that I can see. Seems a design defect on an otherwise awesome item.