Mattel GamesRock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots Kids Game with Red Rocket & Blue Bomber Fighters

My children and I loved this while it lasted! It is certainly not the same design as the original. I'm guessing people made suggestions on the original for the bots to be able to block. It's a bit bigger than the original rock em sock em bots and a wonderful gift for my son's birthday. The price is reasonable and putting it together was extremely easy. It served it's purpose and did exactly what it was supposed to do. Highly recommended from me and my kids!!

I purchased 5, and 4 were Good. One of them was Busted. The kids made good use of the 4, but it would have been nice had they all worked properly.

For such a cheap little toy we have had the most fun with this! My hubs and I played it one evening and laughed and laughed. My g’kids play each other. I played the five tu the other day but she refused to out her guard town and got mad when I held the aim so I could knock her block off! It’s not something I thought would last but it’s hanging in, no problem. It’s smaller than I’d expected but for the prize I shouldn’t have been surprised. But it seems to be big enough. Super easy to get started out of the box. This is a fun keeper.

The grandkids love playing with this. It was a bit smaller than we thought it would be.

So, my son and I have fun playing this game. If it worked as it should it would definitely get a 5 star. The red robot has problems. It's head is so secure to the body it can take hit after hit and never come off. We tried a lot of things such as putting it in and out of the neck manually to maybe loosen it bit woth no progress. We finally made it so a hit to the head wins regardless of if it falls off. As I said we had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs, just aggravated the robot wasn't cooperative.

Good quality. My son loves it

It is cheap plastic and unusable. If I could give zero stars I would

Remember the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots toys that all the kids wanted, from the 60's to the 80's? This is not the same toy. Not even close, really. So if you're thinking about buying this ONLY because it reminds you of the old school toy, don't. Look up the original on Amazon, Mattel actually sells the original version for twenty bucks. But if you're willing to give a new spin on Rock 'Em Sock 'Em a chance, then it's not a bad buy.HERE'S WHAT DIFFERENT:1. The original toy had "joysticks" to move your fighter around. This doesn't, your boxers don't move.2. The original had two buttons for each boxer, which allowed you to throw punches with your fighter's left or right arm at any time. This new spin-off toy doesn't allow that.3. The original made a noise whenever you scored a "knockout." This one has no sound effects.4. You can quickly push the heads back down on the original, and instantly go back to throwing punches. For this new version, it takes more than a few seconds to prep a fighter to be able to "swing" again.HOW THIS VERSION (KNOCK OR BLOCK) WORKS:This is almost like those "slap competition" videos you come across online, more than something boxing-related. Each player pulls back their fighter's right arm. Each player rolls a die with the letters "K" and "O" in either blue or red. If the letters K and O both appear on the rolled dice - say they're both red - then the player with the red fighter gets to hit their "knock" button to slap once at the opponent. The opponent has to quickly press their block button, to raise a defensive arm to prevent the slap. First player to knock the other one's head off three times wins.Personally, I think it's boring. And a bad idea for a spin-off game.Now my Daughter, on the other hand, loves it. I mean, she absolutely loves playing it. Maybe it's because her reflexes are that quick, that she surprisingly catches with me with a knock before I have time to properly hit the block button. That, or the fact that the block button is actually hard to push down easily. It's easy to press the knock (slap) button, but the mechanics of lifting your block arm require more pressure to that button. So you have to give it a pretty hard push.I also disliked the idea of each player having to roll the dice at the exact same time. Because you have to come up with a system, or count down, to keep the rolls simultaneous. It made more sense for us to just take turns with just one person rolling both dice with the same hand. Another issue is that if you see the other player has K and O in their colors, and you reach your block button first, there's really no point in them hitting their knock button to hit you. Because you're just holding that defensive arm up, and they can't slap through it. So if one player is consistently quicker than the other, it's going to be one-sided playing the whole time.I will add that it's sort of silly for certain reviewers to give this toy one or two star ratings, because they refused to read ANY of the product details, or look at the product pics. If you take even a minute to really look over the product info, it clearly isn't like the original toy. It doesn't look the same. The pics show that the fights aren't the same. There's no way you would mistake this for the original. It even says "KNOCK OR BLOCK" on the box, so that people understand it's a spin-off of the original. I ordered it knowing it wasn't like the original toy, but just curious to see what new spin they'd put on this version.My Daughter's rating for this toy: 5 stars. She thinks it's fun, so we play it often. The only reason I'm rating this four stars, is because of the force needed for the block button. Otherwise, I'm not rating this based on MY fun scale. Because the target audience for this toy is our Little Girl, not me. It doesn't matter if her toys are fun to me, or if they make sense, or if they're similar to toys I played years ago. All that matters is how fun the toy is to her. She loves, it that's what counts. My next move? I'm just going to order the original Rock 'Em Sock 'Em toy from Mattel here on Amazon, see if our Daughter finds that one just as fun. Because I know I'll have fun playing that one.