Meccanoid G15 KS - A box of empty promises 

Well at least it's the same size as Linus

Taran looks great in this video, and talks and acts far more confidently than when he first started appearing on camera.

Taran is actually PERFECT for these ruthlessly true reviews. Please do more.

Yep, every child knows C++ by the age of 4.

Taran is a natural presenter, I'd like to see him more often.

There's nothing worse than a toy that's sold to be educational but doesn't actually teach anything.

Just finished building it with my 8 year old. Turned the thing on, tried out the different modes, got bored. We lost interest in about 45 minutes. Our sense of accomplishment quickly faded into feeling ripped off. If this crap keeps up, my kid is going to be more cynical than me by age 10. Knock it off! Matchbox, that goes for you too.

Now I wanna see someone get 2 of these, with 2 phones and make them fight

Is this really the same Taran who was being pranked by a wireless mouse/keyboard

Damn, good job Taran. You're already a better reviewer than I am...so I'm just going to quit RU-vid now.

$400?!!?!?! y not just get ur kid a motherboard, cpu, graphics card, ram, an SSD, some fans, a power supply, and a case that'll be more of a STEM educational kit than this

My uncle had a full metal meccano train, it looked awesome (brass, full metal prop, aluminum, etc) The G15ks is a farcry of what the real meccano used to produce before spin-masters came around.

You could say Tarran was quite Mecc-annoyed about this product.

Does anyone else feel sorry for the robot just helplessly standing there while Taran's talking about how disappointing it is? :(

No dissasemble? Short Circuit Refrence! :)

I suppose you could buy them second hand and gut them for the (apparently fairly sophisticated) microcontroller and servos. Then build a robot that's actually good.

FOUR HUNDRED BLOODY DOLLARS!? I'd rather pick up those headphones Linus just reviewed, thank you very much!

Woah did Linus hit puberty?

Taran is love. Taran is life. All worship Taran.

I played with Meccano sets as a kid and thought they were great. I still design models now, sixty years on (some on RU-vid). It is timeless. As you said, it is quality, modular and endlessly reusable, always inviting the next creation. Once you have all the parts, it is an entirely cost-free hobby too which can't be bad.

I just want a fully working R2-D2

Lol it's not even hitting the piano keys in the Ad!

Taran should do more videos! I guess I am still new to the channel but it's nice too see more of the crew doing reviews and unboxing other than Luke and Linus. I might just have to buy a T-shirt!

I was genuinely surprised when you finished going through the "Programming" aspects of the thing. I grew up with Lego Mindstorms NXT and absolutely loved it. It taught me logic and really gave me an understanding of how the hardware supported the software - both being very versatile in nature. This thing seems like a shiny piece of junk.

God damn even lego would do a double take on that pricing and they are expensive as fuck. 400 bucks for a cheap plastic robot, some hobby shop motors and lame programmable commands?

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I think this kit is definitely educational. Having to decipher diagrams and developing the dexterity needed to use small nuts and bolts are good lessons. If the child grows to do any mechanical job they will need these skills. Whether it is fun or not depends a lot on the child. When I was young I took pride and enjoyment in figuring out things others couldn't. I would be determined to complete certain tasks no matter how tedious. This seems like a toy that would have worked for me. At least for the building, I would probably have lost interest soon after completion. My son on the other hand, lacks determination, and leans toward frustration. He would not complete the build and it would fall to me, just so he could play with it for ten minutes. I see your point with this toy, but it suffers the same fate as a lot of educational toys. They're not really toys to begin with, the part that is educational is not fun. It is like anything that tries to be "multiple purpose", it does none of them well.

Taran did a fantastic job. Keep it up and I look forward to seeing more videos from him.

Wow! Taran is a better presenter than Luke! Ohhhhhh shots fired :P

W T F Even a box with shape holes is more educational than this.

One of the best reviews I've seen by someone who knows what they're talking about. Thanks for this and your other videos. As a child I spent many hours making stuff with the good old fashioned metal Meccano set.

I really would like to see more videos like this, I spent a couple years in high school learning ROBOTC for Vex robotics. Can't wait for the mind-storms review

10/10 review gj man?!

Only Taran and Linus pls.

Awesome video. Looking forward for more review of this type of product from Taran

Never seen you do a video before, so seeing this video of you for the first time with you hosting and presenting, I think you did an outstanding job in all ways that matters that doesn't matter. Hope you get to start doing more reports and videos, you seem to be a natural. Keep up the good work, love how your channel is growing @LinusTechTips. Hope we get to have Austin on more often too!

Meccano (or Erector, whatever) was one of my favorite building sets growing up. It was harder to use than Lego, sure, but it had a certain feel to it that made you feel more accomplished when you built something. The joy of building something that had instructions in the kit, then saying screw it and changing everything, was never ending. This piece of sh!t shows how companies don't care about what people want anymore, they just want to sell flashy, gimmicky bullsh!t. Do you know how hard it is to find just a big bucket of Lego anymore? When I was a kid I got a bucket of 10,000 Legos for my birthday one year. I still play with them, there's infinite use for something like that. Now, after quite a bit of searching, the only way you can get a large amount of Lego (comparable to my huge bucket) today is to buy individual pieces in bulk. It's all gimmicky kits that have one use parts. I hate the way building toys have gone.

Taran has improved massively, more videos from him!

Awesome video! Really enjoyed it. Great job Tarren!

Nice vid the talking presentation was much better then the previous ones with him. Was quite nice, keep it up

I love these style of videos with Taran as the host. I just really like how he comes across the internet and conveys his points about this stuff. Like if he did PC reviews it wouldn't be the same but doing reviews on in depth toys like this is great keep them going!!!

One positive thing about it... it's so short, it makes Linus look taller.

Great video! Please keep Taran to more reviews!

That was a great vid Taran, do more of those!

I am guessing that the reason why this can be so negative is that meccano wont be a LTT sponsor

Thank goodness it's an RGB robot! 7:03

I had the Meccano set that came in a wooden box with several layers (I didn't realise how blessed I was!!). If I had a £1 for every hour I played with that I would never needed to work in my life! Fantastic toy. Built cranes, robots, bridges - even my own gear box, Now, that is a toy! I really dis myself for letting that thing go - as kids do but over the years I have collected Meccano bits and pieces and even use it now for building prototypes. Every kid should have a Meccano kit. Not one those silly cars with about 15 pieces but a full set. Yep. I just got donated a GK15 from my grandson, fully assembled and after fixing a few faults it works perfectly. It's great. think I'll 'programme' it with few arty pieces and use it as a conversation piece for visitors (poor visitors! lol).

I really enjoy your videos, Taran. Please make more :)

Heh, the two older sets you showed early in the video (the helicopter and the buggie) were the two I had as a kid! Though the buggie might have been a knock-off. I still remember assembling both though, and I was like three (that was the helicopter, with the help of my dad) and six at the time. I didn't change the designs much after, but the assembly was at least a little challenging in the case of the helicopter so I felt like we had achieved something when we finished.

When I saw that Meccano had been brought out by Spin Master. My sides. XD

Wow! Why isn't Taran doing this more often? He nailed it! Great review with a great sense of humor! I loved it!

Thank you for a very well detailed review I was thinking of getting one but not any more, u have saved me a small fortune.

I feel like Taran, Linus, and Luke should be the only ones making videos

Taran, you should do more videos, this was a negative but fair review and you covered it well.

Wow, Taran, very impressed, nicely done. Linus, please more reviews and other sections with Taran please!

I saw these in Maplins in the UK last christmas. My immediate thought was "Some kid will see that on telly and pester for it, and some idiot will spend £300 and then be left with assembling it, and the kid will play with it twice and then it'll be a massive waste of space". I'm so glad I was right! My inner child lives on

just get the lego mindstorm

Spinmaster have a lot to blame them for. For the whole fucking idea of Bakugan, for example.

this is still one of my favorite videos

Loved the Short Circuit Number/Johnny Five bit :D

number 5 no disassemble ! hahaha i surprised there arent much comments saying how it looks like Johnny 5 from the Short Circuit movies

Taran's confident swagger outshines Linus and Luke's worn-out presence. He should be doing more videos.

Wow really really well made video!! Well done, I really liked this

That's what I call thorough testing. Congrats my friend! Keep doing this.

dam teran, looking slick!

Is this Taran with AMD driver instead of Nvidia?

I love when linus pats it on the head and walks away.

Can I just say I really enjoy Taran review videos. can we have more?

More videos from Taran please! You have really come far, in my opinion, you could easely side with Luke and Linus ^^ Maybe you could participate in a scrapyard wars? just a thought. You go girl!

Taran is getting so good at these. :D

Superb work Taran !

Taran DEFINITELY needs to host more!

Dude you review the awesome nerdy shit I want to buy but you answer almost EVERYTHING that would take me hours to research. As a nerd, I like to look into products for HOURS before making any decisions

might as well get a Gundam kit :)

Loved this! Moar pls! You should definitely make more videos, we so very rarely see your videos like this.

I have an old Erector set I believe from around the early 60's I'm guessing. It was my dad's and I loved playing with it as a kid, despite it missing some parts, some of the few plastic pieces being broken as I recall, and of course the entire thing having that gross old metal smell that would get on your hands. But still, it has a motor you can plug into the wall and I had tons of fun coming up with things to build with it. Actually, I forget what I made with it, but when my elementary school had us make Valentine's day bags, for the last couple years I would make some sort of contraption for putting the valentines in. One was a catapult and the other was something made with my old Erector set IIRC.

Wall-E ? is that you?

It’s cool and I think it’s a good buy, but it just needs more features and needs Higher quality Parts.

More Taran. He's doing a really good job hosting.

Taran rocked that show. Keep up the good work!

Should I buy this...? 0:24 Terrible disappointment : so it's not a good disappointment? Bad box of empty promises : so it's a good normal box? Well noting bad I see here, time to go on Ebay.

Meccanoid 2.0 is now out! Review time?

The editing at 6:38 absolutely killed me; beautiful job juxtaposing expectation and reality. Hahahahaha

that's one great, thoughtful review, good job Taran

TARRIN's SOOOOOO RIGHT!!!!

Looks like someone's just salty cos Linus gave him the shittiest job of the day. Jk. The robot looks shit anyway.

best review Ive seen all week! Honest, funny and seriously needed to be said

Bought this for my daughter when she was 8yrs old. I got it from Toys R Us before they went out of business. It was a on clearance for $110 because it had been returned. All sales final kinda deal. Well, after Christmas, we opened it up only to realize that the people who returned it combined ALL the nuts and bolts into a single zip lock bag🤦‍♂️. Since we couldn't return it, I spent a week sorting out the 1000 or so nuts/bolts. Needless to say, I was done with it after that. It went into our garage and was all but forgotten about until this year. My daughter, now 12 yrs old, decided she wanted to build her robot for her 7th grade science fair project. Over the course of about a week she has completed the meccanoid! One part was missing, and another similar part had a duplicate. They were not interchangeable. Thankfully I was able to fabricate a replacement out of some thin plywood. She had had some set backs but she has truly enjoyed building it. Our biggest complaints are #1 The battery life is terrible. And #2 the voice commands can be pretty aggravating. You definitely get tired of repeating yourself. However this has been a great learning experience for her as far as assembly goes and I am very proud of her as she did it all on her own! It was definitely worth the $110 we spent. But I would definitely not have paid the $400 retail on it!

fuck this im going to play with a IROBOT Vacuum.

Quite franky, my 10 yr old self, wouldn't mind having to screw and bolt things together. I was always constantly taking apart things and rebuilding them even before I was 10. So being that I am much older, this doesn't seem that bad. You just need patience. And an imagination. And I would like to add that as an Electrical Engineer, this is absolutely not a "Box of Empty Promises".

Enjoyed this review, I think Taran should make more robotics videos.

Good to know, thank you for your input Taran.

He needs to review more products

This vedio was to professional for me but I like it anyways... ☺☺☺

What this channel needs is more "Taran ranting about shitty products" episodes. :)

man I love your reviews.

Just get Mindstorms instead. Jesus, this thing is bad.

Didn't Lew from unboxtherapy do a video on this?

I had a meccano RC car. I played with that thing for years. I made it into a Jeep, an FJcruiser, a Myers Manx and so much more. I wish I had more when I was a kid

it is guys like you kept me entertained+educated...so THANKS !!! i am laughing myself to sleep ...so danke !!!!