Review on Fisca 15-Channel RC Excavator With Sound And Lights - Realistic Construction Vehicle Toy by Brian Finley

- Very impressed with the run time. My son has played with it (indoors) for more than an hour and it keeps going.- It weighs about 3 pounds with batteries. The ad says it weighs 6 pounds (perhaps a shipping weight). Either way, in part I bought this excavator because it said it was heavy and I thought that meant substantial. It's not.- The ad also says "Die Cast". Most associate that term with metal. Looks like some of these units came with a metal bucket but ours did not. It is ABS plastic. The excavator body is almost entirely plastic except for a few small parts.- I cannot imagine this toy lasting if it is used outside, in sand / dirt on a regular basis. Does not seem built well enough to handle that.- The included battery pack was not charged when we received it. It was very tough for our son to wait for it to be charged so you may want to hold off showing to your kids before the battery is charged. It's packaged separately on the very bottom of the styrofoam packaging so it can easily be removed and charged without disrupting the other packaging your child may want to open for themselves.- The battery pack, to my surprise, was NiCad. Not lithium-ion or NiMh. I was mostly surprised because I haven't seen NiCad anything in years. Lithium ion is expensive, so that makes sense. NiMh has more capacity than NiCad but doesn't like to be discharged fast. I'm guessing this toy doesn't discharge the batteries fast enough to *require* NiCad but I need to read more on that.- The battery pack charger is a USB charger. Charge times are *very* long (more than 2 hours).- The bucket on this excavator has a bit limited of a range when clasping objects or holding material you don't want to spill. I wish it closed tighter than it does.- More later .