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PERISCOPE

PERISCOPE
From American Science & Surplus

Price: $11.22 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

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Product Description

Building Das Boot? Finish it off with das periscope. Perfect for a blue-plastic submarine, our blue-plastic periscope will let you see the destroyers following your bubbles, or, if you're stuck on land, let you look around corners. Our visual aid is 1-3/8" dia, telescopes from 14" long to 10", has a clutch to secure the length and a 1" dia port to look through. Handy for reverse snorkeling, too. (Just think about it, OK?)

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #6508 in Single Detail Page Misc
  • Brand: American Science & Surplus
  • Model: Toysmith

Features

  • Building Das Boot? Finish it off with das periscope. Perfect for a blue-plastic submarine, our blue-plastic periscope will let you see the destroyers following your bubbles, or, if you're stuck on land, let you look around corners. Our visual aid is 1-3/8" dia, telescopes from 14" long to 10", has a clutch to secure the length and a 1" dia port to look through. Handy for reverse snorkeling, too. (Just think about it, OK?)

Customer Reviews

Mediocre at best3
Sure, it's an inexpensive plastic toy periscope -- so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as, say, a submarine's periscope. However, even by plastic toy standards, this was highly unimpressive. The primary problem is that the field of view is *tiny*.

Now, I admit, I don't know how challenging it is to make a periscope with a decent field of view, but the lack with this one makes it almost useless. You see so little when trying to look with it that you quickly give up, and I eventually had to hunt around on eBay until I found a used "real" periscope for my kids.

Cheap plastic toy isn't a horrible thing -- if you're CHEAP. This should be five bucks, tops. It isn't. And given how poorly it performs, that's more than a little annoying.

Very cheap toy. Not a good value.2
Arrived with a small plastic tab broken off internally, even though the packaging was fine. A little glue and tape and it was working again, but this periscope is an extremely cheap toy, much cheesier than you would expect for the price. It's the sort of novelty you might pay <$5 for at a dollar store.