Why yes this is an odd question. My son wants one for his birthday so nothing too expensive because he will lose interest quickly I am sure. Any ideas?
Post by MixedBerryJam on Aug 23, 2017 20:28:17 GMT -5
They are super loud and you tumble the rocks for days, so make sure you have a place to run it. We ran ours in a far corner of the cellar but it was a lot of fun.
Post by adeliepenguin on Aug 23, 2017 20:34:28 GMT -5
We just got the National Geographic one from amazon. It works great - but it is pretty loud - like a loud dishwasher running all the time. The one thing I will say, it takes a month or so to tumble the rocks "all the way." My 7 and 10 year olds were super into it - but if your DS has a short attention span, this might not be the thing for him.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Aug 23, 2017 21:12:10 GMT -5
I got one when I was a kid (from the Sears catalog!) and absolutely loved it. They are *very* loud. Mom and dad made me keep it in the basement of our two-story home and you could definitely hear it on the first floor. If you can run it in the garage or in a separate building like an electrified shed, I'd do that.
My parents still tell the story about how they bought one for us when we were kids then... Put it in the basement because it was too noisy... Put it in the attached shed because it was too noisy... Then returned it since it was too noisy.
Harbor Freight has a rubber barreled tumbler for $45 (use a coupon, make it cheaper, or wait for a sale). The plastic barrels on the toy ones are so fucking loud, and we don't have basements in FL- if I were to allow one in my house, it wouldn't have a plastic barrel.