WowWee’s Flytech Dragonfly. Doesn’t sound much fun does it? Well then get ready to be proved wrong. When I opened up the package and looked as this frail looking plasticky creature I thought even a Dodo could have outflown this. I lifted it up gingerly expecting it to fall apart in the gale of breath I exhaled. But boy did it prove me wrong! At 41.9 x 8.6 x 31.2 cm (not counting the wingspan of 40 cm) and weighing it at just 885 grams, it’s too big and heavy to be a fly and too small and light to be a dragon.

At first you don’t know what to make of this thing. It looks “pretty” alright. With its big colorful bug-like eyes, cool retro transparent wings with circuits and a ribbon-like tail. Looks like something that would attract the attention of a 2 year old for 5 seconds before he crumples it with his hands. But this was no toy, it was a flying machine. Though, I was very much skeptical about that last part.