T-Conceal EDC Fidget Sliders Open Armor Spinning TopFidget Toys Stress Relief for Adults Magnetic Metal (Gray Gold)

Just received this a few hours ago. Here's the good and the bad so far: PROS - It just looks freaking cool! The 6 large and 6 small moveable "armor" panels are sweet and the "03" text, notches and triangle designs, etc are nice and crisp. - Love the gray color; any shinier and IMO it would look cheap, any darker and you would visually lose some cool design details. - Love the weight; weighed it 3 times on my kitchen food scale: 148 grams, that's 5.22 oz (feels like 7-8 oz to me but I trust the scale). You feel like you got your money's worth; a toy that should last a long time...."plastic" it is not! - Spins a long time; longest so far is 2 mins 30 secs and 2 minute spins are easily achieved repeatedly if you hold it with one hand and spin it with the other. NOTE: It spins significantly longer if you let it spin holding it on its side, ie, keep the center AXLE AXIS pointed vertical/straight up and down and NOT horizontal/parallel to the floor. No idea why that matters but it seems to. - When spinning fast enough the 12 armor panels automatically flip outward and significantly increases the size of the toy; again, giving the feeling of a nice bang for your buck. - When spinning it is almost entirely silent. I estimate the slight bearing noise goes down to zero after 15-20 seconds of it spinning. - When spinning, it's a nice tactile feeling on your finger if you gently touch the toy's armor panels and slow it down or stop it completely. - If you hold it in your hand as you spin it, as the spinner slows down the 12 armor panels usually retract automatically due to the lower centrifugal force and the force of the small magnets in the 12 panels. If they don't automatically retract when the spinning stops, if you touch one of the 12 armor panels they all quickly retract with a nice sound to it like small, metal dominos in a row quickly falling down. Who doesn't like the sound of dominos falling down? - Well packaged; it comes in a small, soft foam envelope which is placed inside a slightly larger zip-close plastic pouch and the whole thing was then mailed in an Amazon bubble mailing pouch. CONS - It's a little smaller than I was hoping; I measured it carefully and it's 1 15/16" across (diameter) with the 12 armor panels in the fully closed position. IMO it would be even cooler if it were about 2 1/4" - 2 1/2" in diameter in the closed position. In the fully open position it measures 2 7/8" across. Measured from the front it is 3/4" wide at the center axle; that's a good thickness/width IMO....gives it a nice, solid feel. - The center axle assembly is incredibly loose; it has ~1/16" of slop/lateral movement in it when it's "not" spinning. This is so large of a movement it must be intended but I have no idea why they settle for that tolerance. Again, however, this thing regularly spins for 2 minutes even with that center axle sloppiness so does this even matter? NOTE: There are 3 separate, spinning/rotating assemblies in this toy; the center axle, a thin/narrow second ring (this is the ring that has the 8 short, separate arcs with a shallow notch in the center of each arc) and the 3rd (outer) assembly with the 12 armor panels. When the toy is spinning the center axle sloppiness almost entirely disappears and instead there is lateral slop/runout between the 2nd and 3rd spinning assemblies (listed above) of ~1/64".....you can barely see it but it's there. Runout matters for unpowered spinning assemblies because it dissipates the energy of the spinning body quicker, ie, the less runout you have the longer the toy will spin. - I haven't yet figured out how to hold it and "flip it" with the same hand and get it to spin fast enough to automatically extend the 12 armor panels like I've seen in a few online videos but it seems to me if you don't have a tight grip on the center axle you may launch it across the room and ruin this thing; it's heavy but probably easily damaged by dropping it. KUDOS: I asked the seller (T-Conceal) why this sells for $39.99 and others exactly like this sell for $179 and I was told, promptly, the difference is quality in terms of tighter part tolerances. They said this version is made using metal parts cast from a mold and the $179 version is made using CNC machining to fabricate the parts and they admitted the $179 version would be a better, more premier experience. True, but you're also going to pay heavily for it. That kind of honesty is incredibly rare online today and I applaud them for it. SUMMARY: If you are struggling to put food on your table, maybe $39.99 is better spent on other things like housing or food but if you have some fun money in your wallet, this toy is pretty danged cool. Highly recommended! PS - No, T-Conceal didn't send me this toy for free or even offer it at a reduced price, but I like detailed reviews so you know "exactly" what you're getting. Cheers!

Very good product. The first thing I noticed was the weight, it's heavy. That weight gives incredible feedback when it spins and it feels amazing. Well crafted, sturdy and high quality materials makes it very worth it.

Pros: - Feels great, very solid *feel* - Can be relatively easily (re)assembled* Cons: - After just 1 day (second day of playing with it) the spinning on one of the two sides in either direction got considerably worse, while the othe remained normal (great). - After just 1 day (second day of playing with it) started coming apart. This is how I discovered it's relatively easy to put it back together... But you have to find the falled parts... And this spins when they come off so... They go places. - The tiny steel(?) screws used to hold the larger dark fins (it's a "pole" thing, held by a tiny screw on either end) , if they come off while spinning, you can forget they ever existed, because there is 0 change of finding them. Honestly, if this was a cheap spinner, I would still rate it fairely highly, but, because this is very expensive for a spinner, I have to rate it according to the quality one should expected from a product that cost so much (even not accounting for the considerable shipping cost) , and that expectation is that it lasts for a very long time before it even starts falling apart. At least a year. It's not like I did anything special with it after all, I was just spinning it... And already have to live with an entire fin missing because I lost two of those tiny screws and can't find them. If you get this for, say, 10USD, then it's ok, but at 40USD, no way. Can't recommend.

Wonderful fidget. The spin time is not as long as you'd like it to be. The weight is able to cause serious damage. The size is as well as it's needed. It functions as a metal fidget spinner. If you let it spin to the point it stopped itself, you'll see all the pieces open like a star. 4* Due to the small screw in the middle easily unscrew, in which will literally lose the function of a fidget spinner...

I had mine, and I am still loving it, but you gotta be careful. It can cone apart and you don't wanna lose any of the pieces I almost did, but I luckily found the piece the screw goes on to hold the center together.

This Fidget spinner looks really cool. The blades remind me of a Gundam shoulder pads. I really like that the blades pop up out and close (when in hand). I seen a video of this before I bought it, so the size wasn't a surprise to me. Seems to be a decent size for a fidget spinner. I have only had mines for two days and I haven't had an issues with lose screws. It does have a pretty good spin time. The big con for me is it wobbles! At first very little, but it seems to be getting progressively worse a little bit at a time. Not a big deal when spinning on a table, but you can really feel it when spinning in your hand. Sadly I don't see this spinner lasting very long. Maybe $30 isn't a lot for this type of fidget spinner since it has all theses moving parts, but you can get an really good simple one for the cost. This is a novel fidget spinner, that looks super cool and has a nice spin time but if you want longevity you should probably go for a simpler option.

Excellent great stress buster