4m Great Gizmos Light Up Planetarium review.

Recently we were sent the Great Gizmos Light up Planetarium to review. My boys (being fairly typical boys) adore space and the great beyond and quite frankly who doesn’t like turning the lights off and making shapes on the wall?

Priced at £12.99 and for 6+ years old it’s sold as a light up planetarium, night light and projector in one. It comes with projector baseplate, three projector legs, torch body set, a light module, two 1.5V LR44 button cell batteries, a transparent dome, film sheets, a felt tip pen and screws.

 

It came with instructions although I had to ask my husband for help and I don’t think my 7year old could have built it on their own as you needed three hands at one point.  We still cant though get the light to move up and down to help focus as promised but hey that might just be my building skills!

The boys loved it when it was built. Its smaller than you might expect which means some of the parts are a little fiddly to swap over (there’s changeable disk to view the southern hemisphere as well northern hemisphere) The light up projector is also used to light up the planetarium which the boys adored looking at. It doesn’t project the hemisphere out on the walls, just nicely back lights it but with these night’s drawing in it’s just fabulous to take outside and see if you can spot anything.

 

It’s a perfect little kit to pop in a rucksack or to have on the bookshelf. I don’t think it gives off enough light really to be classed as night light, it more glows in the corner and personally I would worry about how it gets. The same applies to the projector. You have to hold it quite close up to the wall to make it work. These grumbles though are coming from an adult point of view! The boys loved playing with it and for a space mad child it’s a perfect little gift.