I didn’t get from penguin but I’ll review it here. I actually had to get this twice. First time it didn’t work at all, didn’t keep a charge, and returned it for a replacement. When I got the replacement it worked fine for a week then didn’t work anymore. The charger they provide is not the one in the tutorial and the charger I got started smoking . Getting my money back on this one, highly not recommended. I mean I got this twice and both times had issues , do not buy you will be disappointed ☹️

As the title of the review says,i haven't test yet but from the first look it looks dissapointing.The remote control is an IC SMALL BOARD!I can't believe it.Nowdays electronic magic has gone too far and it's such an embarassing thing to see that the remote control is an IC small board.He tells you in the tutorial that you shouldn't touch the remote a lot with your fingers directly because this may cause frequency interference....And his solution? PUT A SKIN TONE TAPE AROUND IT!This is unbelievable!Anytime you want to replace the battery you have to take away the tape(this action will definately cause problems to the very sensitive IC board).
As for the balloon base?Well you need to have great audience management skills and take away the base from their hands because with the first look they will notice things.
If you want to buy this one,BE VERY CAREFULL!!!
I maybe post another review after i use it but from the first look it's dissapointing!

As the title of the review says,i haven't test yet but from the first look it looks dissapointing.The remote control is an IC SMALL BOARD!I can't believe it.Nowdays electronic magic has gone too far and it's such an embarassing thing to see that the remote control is an IC small board.He tells you in the tutorial that you shouldn't touch the remote a lot with your fingers directly because this may cause frequency interference....And his solution? PUT A SKIN TONE TAPE AROUND IT!This is unbelievable!Anytime you want to replace the battery you have to take away the tape(this action will definately cause problems to the very sensitive IC board).
As for the balloon base?Well you need to have great audience management skills and take away the base from their hands because with the first look they will notice things.
If you want to buy this one,BE VERY CAREFULL!!!
I maybe post another review after i use it but from the first look it's dissapointing!

So I’ve used this extensively for a couple years. It’s fine…but there are issues.

Firstly, it circuit board is no trouble for me. I put flesh tape on the unit and left a slot for removing the battery which I do very easily every single show. Takes 2 seconds. I DO like that the board has two ways to trigger the unit but for some reason, the range is more limited with one trigger than another. Strange.

The main issue is the unit itself not being strong enough with enough arc to pop a balloon. If the leads aren’t set properly, the arc won’t work at all or works sporadically. Even once set, sometimes it just arcs and puts a small hole in the balloon in which case it takes forever to go down. More a comedy routine at that point.

Does it work? Yeah. Not great. But if you play enough with it you can get it to function. Would be better if it was engineered a bit better.

I’m thinking of trying out the newer version which is supposedly more powerful.