I45;Top Pro

The I-Top Pro is really amazing - I just can't imagine how they put this together and are able to sell it for fifteen bucks.The I-Top Pro is a top - you spin it with your fingers just like any other top. But the similarity stops there. The I-Top Pro counts how many revolutions and displays the number while it's spinning. The display is like those clocks that display the time by waving an arm back and forth with a row of LED's.When the top isn't spinning, the row of LED's is used to program what "mode" you are in.There's different games you can play. First is to just get the highest number of rotations you can. My high score so far is 720 revolutions. In the next mode, you try to grab the top when it hits a certain number of rotations. It's harder than it sounds! I think this is the funnest - it's very addictive and very gratifying when you do win. With the next mode, you try to spin the top so that it stops within a certain range. You spin it once to see the range you are trying for, hit the "play" button and spin it again to play. It displays three numbers while it's spinning - the current number of rotations, and the "high" and "low" range that you're trying to hit.For every mode, it will show the high score and the score from the last spin.You can also program in custom messages - the ui is a little confusing for this, but my seven year old son went crazy when he saw his name scrolling across the display of a spinning top!Although it's not hard to use at all, you'll want to keep track of the instructions, just so you know what game is what number on the display.All in all, a highly recommended toy for both kids and adults.

Bought 5 of these for Christmas,everybody loved them.Great fun with lots of people.all ages can play.Had problems with one,returned it,new one showed up in 3 days. Amazon is great with returns.

i'VE HAD ONE FOR YEARS ARE FUN TO PLAY IN GROUP SITUATIONS. Specially the one game that goes for most revolutions

We bought 2 of these amazing tops a few years ago. This Christmas we were have a spinning frenzy competition when my son's top stopped illuminating. Circuit failure I presume.Anyway i go online to Amazon to find that the iTop is no longer available bar importing from the USA. Because we rated it so highly I ordered one (apparently the last one available). Whereas the tops we bought before cost about £9.00, this top was over £40.00!!! We were told there would be no import duty... when the top arrived I had to pay an additional £12.00 for duty and PO handling. So... maybe the most expensive spinning top ever but iTops are brilliant; why ever have they been discontinued in the UK. Everyone I have shown ours to wants one!

The 12 yr-old boy that recieved this liked this think a lot. He's a very smart kid and it is a challage.

My son received an original I-Top a couple of years ago and I thought it was great. I found it at the bottom of the toybox recently and we have been playing with it for a past couple of days. It is still fun. I found the I-Top Pro on clearance at Toys R Us today for about a third of the normal price so I picked up one for our family and one for a friend. The Pro version just adds to the fun.In mode 6 you can enter messages (3 separate messages up to 12 alphanumeric characters each) and my 7 year old thinks this is just the coolest thing. He's been asking us to spell words for him and this may motivate him and his six year old brother to work harder learning to read and spell.For those of you asking about secret codes it is mode 6 that lets you unlock these. The instructions tell you to enter CMP as the message to display a compass (just like the one in the hidden mode of the original I-Top). The only other one hidden mode I've found is AAA which displays a pattern of lights.Another feature I stumbled across is that if you enter certain four letter words (just four letter word) as the message you get a sound but the profanity is not displayed. So far I've only found a couple of filtered words. I haven't let the kids in on this feature. A friend discovered that if you add a space or another word the filtered words are displayed so apparently it looks for an exact match.I suspect the rest of the I-Top Pro secret features are hidden in three or four letter combinations like CMP or AAA. If you count the space character and the numbers from 0-9 that gives you a total of 37 possible characters or 50,653 possible three letter combinations so there are a lot of possibilites for three letter secret codes and an astronomical number of possibilities if (over 6.58 billion billion) if you consider 12 character messages.So if you are looking for secret codes try entering three letter combinations in the messsage mode 6 and see if you get a display of three characters or something more interesting. You can also look for more filtered words.Max

First, in review, I just got my iTop Pro, and it's really neat. However, my batteries seem to be dying already, probably because this toy was originally released a couple years ago.Also the original iTop had an RPM mode, which the Pro does not seem to have.Meanwhile, all I can find on the Internet about these 'hidden modes' is iToy's "Secret Mode Contest" website. Unfortunately, none of the secret modes are shared there. I was really hoping the RPM game might be one of these secret modes. This contest ended almost 2 years ago, can't someone share?

Well, the Amazon reviews for the first iTop told me how to get to the secret mode in that one (hold both buttons down for a few seconds) and here is Amazon helping me again with the secret codes in the iTop pro! I also discovered the Rock/Paper/Scissors game by accient, when I typed in my name RAY. This means the codes are independent of letter order, cutting down the possibilities from 50,653 to 9,139. I double checked it with the CMP code, and it's true.

Bought one of these for a fellow thirty-something gadget fiend friend. He loves it - and so do I! Great fun for small groups. It's spent some time at his office. Apparently it spins quite well on desks...Engaging little thing, this is. Doesn't look much, just a disc with a fold-up spindle to turn it into a top. But the LED display is timed so that it can show all sorts of things: revolutions, high score, etc. Very addictive.I've scored it 4 for durability because it's quite cheap and one wouldn't expect it to be perfectly solid for the money, however the spindle mechanism isn't perfect so I think that a little "play" would develop in the movement over time. The top works well even so.It's not really educational hence the low rating.Really good fun though. In addition to the built-in games I'm sure it could be used for all sorts of forfeit/bonus type games for adults as well as children.