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hey how's it going guys this is day 2 D and this isn't one of my regular tech review videos but Disney recent released two flying drones one of them is a quadcopter that's shaped like the Millennium Falcon and the other is an x-wing fighter that is just a regular front flying drone so I'm not a huge Star Wars person I mean I'm a casual admirer at best but I do like flying things and I've had these for a couple of days so here's my review so I'm going to unbox and review both of these in one video because that's just how I roll the x-wing it retails for $70 u.s. that's the one with a bigger box on the left and the Millennium Falcon is in the smaller box on the right which retails for 110 dollars u.s. the Millennium Falcon is recommended for kids 10 and older and inside the box you get the quadcopter itself the remote and a micro USB charging cable it's made out of some spongy styrofoam looking material which feels kind of like nerf gun ammo so the body of the drone is definitely durable and it can take a bit of a beating the paint job on it is kind of sparse I mean it's beige foam with a few painted spots I just wish they'd painted the entire drone and had some more details on it but maybe they did it to keep weight down I don't know I mean paint seems pretty light alright to charge the drone you plug in the USB cable to your computer and then you take the microUSB end and plug that into the remote and then you open up a hatch on the remote to find a second cable and you use that cable plug that into the drone and it begins charging so this is the more complicated way to charge it the easier way is to not use that first USB cable at all and just to use the batteries inside the remote but then you're draining the 6w batteries inside the remote to charge the drone and that's kind of lame so I always use the USB cable it flashes red when it's charging and then it lights up green when it's done the remote for the Millennium Falcon is pretty basic it's one stick that controls the movement which is your left-right movement as well as forwards and backwards and then the other stick controls the up/down throttle and rotation there's also a volume control here which lets you control the volume of the sound effects coming out of the on the back there are a couple triggers the triangle icon plays different sound effects depending on what the drone is doing and the other is for a hyperspace mode which tilts the drone forward and then it flies a little bit faster so when you turn the drone on some lights come on and it pairs up with remote some blue LEDs in the back and there's a couple white LEDs up front this is definitely one of the cooler features of the drone the lights give it this authentic look when it's flying around and you can play with it in the dark so flying this guy is pretty simple if you've had any quadcopter experience before the controls are really similar it's not headless so your control sticks are always relative to the drone itself and not the pilot and it's a beginners run right it's obviously designed for younger kids who enjoy as well so it's not going to go super fast or anything and it is pretty durable I banged this up quite a few times over the past couple of days and it's held up well and see this right here this is hyperspace mode it's charging towards the camera flight time is around seven minutes or so maybe ten minutes if you just kind of let it hover and do its thing now it's not an advanced drone it doesn't have trim controls and it doesn't have any features to make it do flips or any cool tricks and the top speed feels kind of limited if you've used more advanced drones but it's a very lightweight device so if you're a parent and you're worried about your kids smashing around and it has I wouldn't sweat it it's pretty gentle device my only gripe with it is the price obviously you're paying a huge premium for like an official Star Wars licensed product but it's a very basic and overpriced drone for 110 dollars you can get way better quality drones for half the price but those aren't Millennium Falcon drones so if you want to remote-control Millennium Falcon then you have to pay up and to be honest even though I'm not a huge Star Wars guy it's kind of fun to fly around because of that blue glowing engine alright now before I unbox the x-wing drone I just want to show you the two controllers they are slightly different I'll go into details of the x-wing controller in a bit but they've designed it in a way so that you can use both of them together without any signal interference also they label the battery cover so you can tell them apart and you can't put the wrong covers on because the different size tabs at the bottom but if you do have both of these drones it's like a tangled mess of wires when you're charging them okay the x-wing drone it's also rated for 10-plus when you open up the box you get the drone for plastic laser cannon things and the remote it doesn't come with a USB cable even though it can use one just like the Millennium Falcon which is kind of weird it's made of the same kind of material as the Millennium Falcon spongy nerf II stuff with a paint job I think it's actually a better paint job than the Millennium Falcon and there's an r2d2 guy that sits on the top here he's made out of plastic and he does not come out trust me I tried pretty hard at the front of the drone there's a clear plastic fin you're not supposed to remove it it's needed for flight but x-wings don't have this piece here normally so they tried to make it really subtle and invisible and it's actually not that bad those four plastic laser cannon things fit into the wings but they're only here for aesthetics when it's sitting around when it's time to fly you have to remove them I actually did try flying with the cannons in and it just doesn't work very well at all charges up the same way with the hatch on the remote again you connect the cable and juice it up the controls are a little different engine throttle on the left stick and on the right stick it does some steering and the knob down here is like a trim control you use it to tune the two motors that help it fly straight there's also two triggers up top that don't do anything they're just kind of there to taunt you so if you're wondering how this one works the two motors are front-facing when you hit the throttle both motors spin and it flies forwards turning it left and right activates only one of the engines at a time to steer it I try playing with it indoors and it works but it's not fun at all so I went out with my friend testing out and it's way better outside I've never flown anything like this before and there's a bit of a learning curve so you basically crank the throttle to max and you hold it there just before you let it go I smashed it a couple times and you kind of figure out that it's basically all in a really good launch if you have a bad launch there's no amount of piloting that's going to save you you want to launch it as straight as you can so don't throw it upwards like a paper airplane or glider because it just climbs up way too fast you want to throw it like dead-straight and just let the motors do the work it was a little windy that day and when the wind blows it really messes up with the flight you also want to stay away from trees because it will eventually get caught in them and the x-wing has so many like protrusions and things it's difficult to get it out all right so which is a better buy between the two drones I think they're both pretty fun I think the x-wing is actually a better value over the millennia falken first it's bigger it's cheaper and like you can get two people to play this thing so one person could launch it and the other person can do the controls but the Millenium Falcon is more like a one-person tool because two people are just going to be fighting over that controller I crashed them a lot over the past few days and they both didn't break you seemed pretty well made and even though they both say ten plus I think younger kids will have more fun with the Millennium Falcon it's just more forgiving to learn and you don't have to run around chasing it when you play with it the last thing to keep in mind is that the x-wing is more of an outdoors toy like you just need a lot more space to use it so if you're getting it during the holiday season you may not be able to use it outdoors in the winter but with the Millennium Falcon you can basically play with it anywhere you want as long as your piloting skills are good so that about wraps it up I hope you guys enjoy the review thumbs if you did and if you stumbled upon this channel randomly hit that thumbs up and be sure to subscribe it's been nice and I'll see you guys next time