I had one! Took it apart and couldn’t put it back together. It was great fun whilst it lasted. I might still have the pieces somewhere.

Loved this thing but never had batteries for it most the time. They really should have made a DC Jack on the thing.

I had always wanted one of these as a kid, but my parents never got me one.

Later on in life, I did actually pick one up somewhere, but apparently one of the gears was broken, so it didn’t work. And that was before the era of 3D printing, and I couldn’t figure any good way to fix the gear myself. ☹️

Fun fact about these things, they actually only have one motor for all the movements, those joysticks directly control which gears mesh to transfer the movements.