So what do we have here, Sphero's Ultimate Lightning McQueen! Build strategy! Unlock
skills! Acting studio! Lightning McQueen! Running LED head and tail, animatronic mouth,
emotive suspension, lifelike voice and engine, responsive to touch, Bluetooth Head Connection,
expressive LCD Eyes, this is lightning McQueen! 30 meter range 40 minute battery
life, 6 miles per hour! Learn more at Sphero.com. This is lightning McQueen,
driving, drifting and this is the bottom of the box and here's the top
He's definitely bigger than Sphero's R2D2. Oh yeah look at that! See the suspension.
Your tires, number 95, so he's front-wheel drive the back are free spinning. His front face is
actually rubber. Has this compartment, service manual just like you get in a car. Inside here
is a very nice red power outlet. Step one remove his eyes, step two plug him in for 30 minutes.
The other end actually goes in his little gas compartment here that's a very creative idea!
Step 3 download the app. Step four legal guide and explanation. Sphero! "Another day another drive!"
"Oh woh woh hey hey hey what's happening?" So Lightning actually comes alive while he's
charging, and I do not know how to shut this off so he just stays on like this during his charge
but every once in a while he will talk and makes a noise and scare you if you're unaware. "Oh woh woh
hey hey hey what's happening?" Search up Sphero Lightning McQueen and up here Ultimate Lightning
McQueen is the app and then just click install! You start the app and when it starts it's gonna
download updates which actually take a while it took me about a half an hour to download all of
these updates. Once the app opens so click connect make sure you have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled so
now the app is looking. "Shall we cruise?" Okay so to orient him... "Hey watch it that tickles!"
Yes yes it does ;) "Hey!" Let's orient him just make sure his butts facing towards you and then
you click the align and you would normally move this to drive him but, the system knows that he's
plugged in and charging so it will deactivate any movement controls. Here you can see is the battery
life "Yeah! Lightning is ready!" Here you can see it's the battery life of Lightning McQueen he's
pretty low on mines. Okay so I'm gonna try to not drive him off the table. Woop... whoops! But he
moves really fast, okay so you have two control types. This is the default Sphero type which I
really do not like. He will always move forward so if I turn left he will move forward and turn left,
if I go right, he'll move forward and go right. "What's going on up there?!" and then this is the
crazy thing, move backwards he goes forward. If you want him to reverse they expect you to hold
this button and now all these controls will reverse them instead. It is very confusing
because you want to go backwards you would think pulling back would make him go backwards but
you're supposed to hold this button. Where even moving forward now will bring him backwards. Very
strange very weird, do not like. Fortunately you can click here for more options, in the controls
here you could switch driving controls from Sphero mode into RC mode, which acts more like
a remote-control car. Ah! There we go! So now you have left and right, which turns the wheels
just left and right, he does not move forward or back and then this will move him forward and this
will move him backwards. So this makes sooo much more sense. "Hey come on let's go!" Now here's a
dialogue button that will randomly make him say random dialogue. "Woohohoo Woo! What a blast!"
so you can see the mechanics, "Watch this I call it the wave", and "Easy now. Take it easy!" his
mouth moves up and down. "I am so ready for the Piston Cup" "Look out folks Lightning McQueen is
back!" so this is a track race mode where you can select a type of race you would like to do, here
an example is figure 8 race and you would start to race, "Time to watch a pro!" it's gonna simulate a
race on your phone on top here and all you have to do is keep making lightning do figure 8 movements,
for the red car to slowly pass by. "You bored? I'm a little bored. Wanna hit the road?" Basically
just a gimmick, it's just this little race thing that requires you to do certain maneuvers in order
to pass your opponents, like that one was a figure eight, this one's just a straight line, so you get
to keep driving straight as much as possible, this one is just a circle and another one. This is a
pit stop game on the phone. "Being a champion is all about teamwork and that means you got to know
a pit stop, bumper-to-bumper!" This is basically just a phone game that Lightning will talk and
react to what you do on the phone. "Want to play a game huh?" "You're ON!" So basically the car needs
parts and you have to just give him the parts here like he needs gas, he needs a tire change,
now depending on when you do... "YES! Woo!" Now depending on when you do good stuff, Lightning
will react to you, like when you complete a combo or... "Yes! Woo!" or get him what he needs, "Oil
Can!", "That's what I'm talking about!", "and the crowd goes wild!", "McQueen takes a victory lap!",
"Aww really, well I guess we could do something else". So this is all the dialogue Lightning has.
"Crank the acceleration!", "Hey!", " Uhh have I mentioned that I love your garage". So you can
grab, his different dialogue and put them in a script over here, and then you play the script
and he'll go through... "Focus, Focus" in order everything that you... "Here I go!", "Hey!". And
then what you do is you save it, instead of having a random dialogue generator, you have
your script generator, so you could click play on these scripts and he'll play through your script!
"Focus, Focus". So this is a drive-in section, so this is where you can watch the movie Cars
and keep your phone near the TV or the speakers, because the microphone of your phone will pick up
the sounds in the movie and synchronize Lightning McQueen with what scene of the movie is playing
and then lightning will react, talk and either move slightly to react to what's happening
on-screen in the Cars movie. Over here you have the museum and the museum are basically just
achievements. It's things you've done like how far you've driven with him and then here trophies
would appear if you earned them while playing. It's more for kids, it's more of a gimmick in the
app, and then now here we have settings so it's Lightning's battery level. This is Lightning's
voice volume, the volume of the music in the app and sound effects of the app. Ok so Sleep
Now would put lightning McQueen to sleep so that when you reopen the app, Lightning will turn on
when it senses a signal from the app. If you click Advanced and then you click Power Off,
now this will actually shut down Lightning McQueen where the app would not be able to
turn him back on, instead you would have to plug in the charger to reactivate and turn him back
on. So that's everything that comes in the app, most of it is just kid games... "Fillmore makes
the best organic fuel in the world!". So you can see he randomly just says things as he's charging.
OK! So I find that Lightning actually accelerates really fast, really quickly, and the reason why I
believe they gave him a really fast acceleration is so that he can drift. Cause they really,
want to push the fact that he can drift. As you can see... "Who's a stunt racer? I'm a
stunt racer!", he's actually quite hard to handle, hard to control, because the tiniest
turn makes him want to drift. (Bang Sound!) "That's gonna leave a mark!". His bumper has
a sensor so that when you crash, he senses he crashed and some dialog plays... (Bang Sound!)
"It's cool. It'll buff out." (Engine Revving Sound!) then
(Bang Sound!), "That's gonna leave a mark!" (Engine Revving Sound!) "Who's a stunt racer? I'm
a stunt racer!" (Bang Sound!) "OWWWWW!"
(Bang Sound!) "It's cool. It'll buff out." Now Sphero also has two other buttons in the
Sphero controls. One is for drift and one is for speed-boost. As you can see
it's really difficult to operate him like this.
Okay so if you don't use the drift button he kind of does a 180,
"Doing donuts reminds me of burnouts in the Winner's circle! Kachow!". So by
holding the drift button it makes it easy for him to do donuts. (Bang Sound!) Oww.
"Lookout race car backing up!". (Bang Sound!) "It's cool. It'll buff out."
I don't even really notice the speed boosts but it is difficult for me to get him to
drive straight. So back to the RC controls. "Who's a stunt racer? I'm a stunt racer!"
(Engine Revving Sound!) "oh aww come on!".
"Cool crank the acceleration!" "Focus... focus",
"Come on! Groovin!" "Uh have I mentioned that I love your garage!",
"Here I go! Hey hey come on let's go!" "I am so ready for the Piston Cup"
"I am speed! I'm a precision instrument of speed and aerodynamics!"
"I've been all over the world and I can honestly say that Flo's V-8 Café serves the best quart of
oil anywhere!" "Kachow!"
"Look left, look right, yep nothing but open road" "Look out folks Lightning McQueen is back!"
"My buddy Fillmore makes the best organic fuel in the world! Loads of power and a clean burn"
"Next up Lightning McQueen!" "Oh yeah! Lightning is ready!"
"Pay attention this is how it's done!" "Thank you! The crowd loves us...
yeahhhhhhhhhhyeahhhhhhh" "The road is calling my name,
hear it? Lightning.... oh Lightning." "This is amazing! Watch me now!"
"Watch this! I call it the wave." "Whoa. Wooohooo. Wooohooohoo Wooo!
"What a blast!" "Wow."
"Yehesss Whoo!" "I feel a power nap coming along..."