Natural History Museum Sea Creatures Stem Torch & Projector – 24 Ocean Animal Image Slides, Precise Projections up to 1 Metre Wide, Interactive Kids Fish Flashlight Toy

Firstly, let’s get the blurry images out the way, if you read instructions or understand manual lenses then you will know that any difference in focal distance between the torch and the surface need an adjustment to make it clear, the white top on this turns to facilitate this up to about 2 meters from the surface.That out of the way, this torch is great, my two year old really likes the pictures I put on the wall and exploring with the torch, it is small and lightweight and just right for his hands. I have the sea creatures and as a scuba diver I can appreciate these are the images we like to see and are the classic tick offs. Would I buy the others and also recommend…absolutely on both counts

A great little toy, especially for bedtime.My 6 year old loves it!Great to learn loads of animals and for the price I would say it’s very worth it!

Really cool idea, however pictures are not very clear. If you push on the disc you can sharpen the focus but not something my kids could do themselves. We had a lot of fun with it Christmas morning and they still play with them 6 weeks late as regular flashlights. If you’re getting a flashlight then you will get a bonus with the picture discs as well but only in a very dark room and with some adult help to Center the image.Will still buy again next year for stocking stuffers but with lower expectations

kids loved it

I bought this as the main gift for a child's birthday party. When it arrived however I decided not to give it as it was so small it looked way cheaper than I'd paid for it and to be honest just looked a bit naff. Instead I gave it to my 3 year old to play with (the product recommendation is from 36 months).Whilst he loves it as bedtime when it's dark enough to see the images properly, it's not safe for him to hold himself as he tries to look into the torch to see where the images are coming from... and the light is *so* bright, it's blinding. Which I guess it needs to be to make it work well as a projector, but just worth considering if giving it to children on the younger side.Also the slide disks are very small too, and I wouldn't be comfortable giving this to a child under 5 or so incase they are swallowed (I'd also expect them to very quickly be lost). One more big negative is that the battery life doesn't last long at all if you want the torch to be bright enough to actually see what the images are. We used ours for about 2 minutes at a time, once a day and the batteries needed to be changed after 2 weeks. When I came to change the batteries I realised it takes 3x button batteries, which again are horribly dangerous for small children.But, my son does love this toy- I hold it myself and flick through the images onto his ceiling as he's laid down for bed and he loves identifying all the different sea creatures. So for that, it is a fun toy that he enjoys. However I would never let him play with it himself now I know it contains button batteries, is blindingly bright and has such tiny parts.

Torch itself feels a bit flimsy and cheap but the images produced when using the little wheels were clear and great quality. My 4 yo found focusing the images a bit tricky by herself, but the projected is definitely one of her favourite stocking filler gifts.

Nice little stocking filling for christmas. Images very clear.A pouch for this would be a great edition as the disks for it are tiny and so easily lost with little fingers involved !Overall good value for money

The "Natural History Museum Creepy Crawly Torch and Projector" proved to be a successful gift for my 4 year old great-nephew, who enjoyed being able to see the projected photos of a few insects and other bugs. Fortunately he's too young to read or care much about the fairly large gap between the hype of the product description and the reality of this cheap little plastic toy: the focus mechanism is a bit loose & fiddly, and you'd have to be in almost total darkness to see the projections from more than about 60cm away. Plus I suspect it won't take long before the ten-pence sized photo disks become lost, but at least he'll still have a little toy torch. So: good for a young child but only in the well-under-£10 toy category.