She wasn’t, and that’s one thing I will say that is a positive for this toy: it can take some serious licks and keep right on working.

A little over a month ago I blogged about the fact that I was considering getting the Deluxe Light Up Flutterbye Fairy. For a good hour we tried to launch our charged fairy with no results- duh, the fairy itself has to be turned on!After a few moments of hovering around the middle part of the room, she zoomed right up to the ceiling and hung out there. Naturally, as most modernized toys tend to, the Flutterbye requires batteries, and a considerable more amount of patience than the fairy projectile device of my kinder-years. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. There is a base with an on/off switch, a tandem cable to charge the fairy when docked, and a secondary on/off button on the fairy itself (under her skirt).

There are sensors there, and when they sense your hand (no need to touch, just be near), she floats back up again. At this point, you need to unplug the fairy from the base, and then find a rather tiny and hard-to-spot switch on the fairy’s skirt. Scarlett has now put Stardust Fairy on her Christmas list, as there are a few different fairies to collect.When I began to hear all the holiday buzz about Spin Master's latest interactive creation, the Flutterbye fairy, I was immediately taken back to the memories from my childhood. Google: Google's policy requires identification of each party that receives end users’ personal data as a consequence of using a Google product. Both my daughters have been playing with this, they have been having contests to see who can make the fairy fly the longest without hitting the ceiling or wall and it has entertained them for a long while so far. It was quite strange, and the only way we got her down was by pressing on her launch button to get her to come back down and end the flight (tip: press the launch button once to get her to come down slowly, and twice for her to stop very quickly). It really is a Beautiful doll, bought it for our daughters birthday, followed the instructions and charged it up, she flew lovely for the first three short lived flights (each time crashing into the ceiling or Walls and shooting down to earth like a rocket).

Thankfully, the toy is very durable, and the moving parts are made of bendable plastic that shouldn't harm indoor furniture or surfaces. PCMag is obsessed with culture and tech, offering smart, spirited coverage of the products and innovations that shape our connected lives and the digital trends that keep us talking.

Once we figured out the Flutterbye control techniques, it was rather addictive to fly the fairy around the house. As an individual in the health field, I have been in contact with a few patients with ASD and they are very special individuals. She detects the hand motion and gracefully flies through the air and not forget to mention she is meant to be an indoor fairy as the wind outside might hurt her more.

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Once we figured that out we still had trouble keeping her in the air - she doesn't seem to "hover" it's more like she takes off and it's difficult to keep her in the air. A refreshing look at Aspergers and a real lifeline for parents (me included) and siblings who lives have been touched by someone special. There is very simple but clear instructions given how to operate the base and how to make the fairy fly and how to control her. My daughter loves all things fairy so when I told her she had been sent a flying fairy to review she was delighted. Wow, what can I say, this is a very heartwarming, touching and informative site on the experiences of a family coping with Aspergers.