Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

WARPED – I am so disappointed in the quality, or lack thereof in the plastic rings and gears. I still took it over to my sister’s house to have ‘Spirograph Night” and her daughter (22 yrs) loved it so much that she purchased one from Amazon two days later. She was hoping that mine was just a bad one and the one she would get would be better. Well, I texted her the other day to ask how her Spirograph was because she told me she had received in the mail. She texted and I quote “Worse than Yours!”. How disappointing. After that text, I went to write a review, and then looked back at others reviews I hadn’t seen before I made my purchase. I saw others have had this same problem. After this purchase, I found a smaller version (different brand name) at a bookstore. The quality of the other brand was so much better, I mean a lot better. However this other brand didn’t have as many gears, not as many wholes inside the discs (which means less design options) and the wholes are smaller so you can’t use ultra fine point sharpies with it, which is what I love about the Spirograph brand. So I give Spirograph a big thumbs up for variety of discs, bigger wholes in the discs, and that they give a little bit of putty. The putty works best on a heavy card stock. I use 110 lb. But I give Spirograph a big thumbs down for the lack of quality of the plastic. With so many people having this same “warped” problem, I think it’s time this product needs an upgrade, because people do want this product. It’s a lot of fun when it works and frustrating when the gears slip due to a warped disc messing up the cool design you had going.