Holy Stone Mini Drone for Kids and Beginners RC Nano Quadcopter Indoor Small Helicopter Plane with Auto Hovering, 3D Flips, Headless Mode and 3 Batteries, Great Gift Toy for Boys and Girls, HS210 Blue

Great little drone, absolutely worth the money. Thorough instructions and works as advertised. Very simple and stable in the house. Not very loud, and battery life is as expected. The standard 3 battery packs is nice. I thought 7 mins per battery flight time would be short, but because you're actively flying the drone, 7 mins is quite a long time. I've never flown a drone and don't play video games, but am able to fly this drone easily. In 5 mins I was doing oval laps around the room. This is an excellent stepping stone to learn with, before moving to more expensive drones.

I was apprehensive about buying a toy drone like this however, I believe this little guy did a lot for my indoor flight skills. I have a 4k camera drone that flies itself but I was curious about "whoop" drones. The contents of this kit are on par with the typical "fly more" kits and it is super inexpensive. Flying in the house was sketchy at first but now I fly 3 batteries back to back without issue. I can't fly my camera drone in the house without tearing up walls and/or the drone itself. Taking the HS210 outside, the wind pushes it around a lot and requires flying in high speed while making a lot of corrections. This package flies like a stabilized camera drone vs. the fpv freak whoop pictured next to it which is practically uncontrollable for a beginner pilot. Overall, this Holy Stone kit exceeded my expectations. 4/2/25 update - yes, the batteries are small and do not last very long. My solution was the Urgenex 500mah 1s batteries which you can buy here on AMZN for $21.99/5. If you buy batteries, be sure to buy them with a ph2.0 connector. I get about 4:40 out of these batteries. It is a really fun little drone and will hover in about a 6" square if you trim the controls properly.

I got the drone for my daughter, thinking it’d be a decent toy to introduce her to flying drones, and it absolutely delivered, with a few small caveats. First impression: It’s a lot smaller than I expected. Think palm-sized. But that actually works in its favor, it’s light, safe to use indoors, and easy for little hands to control. The drone is very beginner-friendly, with intuitive controls and features like altitude hold, one-key takeoff/landing, and even flips. My daughter picked it up right away and had a blast learning to fly it. It does come with two batteries, which is great in theory… but in practice, each one lasts only about 5-6 minutes. You definitely need both batteries to get any decent playtime, and more would be even better. Charging time is also a bit long for such short usage. On the bright side, this drone is shockingly durable. It’s crashed more times than I can count (into walls, furniture, floors…) and keeps flying like nothing happened. The propeller guards are a great safety feature. Verdict: If you go in knowing it’s tiny and that battery life is short, it’s a fantastic little drone to get kids excited about flying. Safe, sturdy, and fun, just keep the charger handy.

I have been flying pattern planes for 45 years, but I never had anything I could fly indoors with impunity. This does it. The prop guards keep it from damaging itself and anything else. Me flying this makes my wife laugh. The a-c fan kicked on while I was flying and blew it across the room and behind the sofa. No damage at all. Flying in the basement when the a-c came on blew it against the ceiling and then, rattling behind the washer. No damage. I use it to entertain myself indoors. It flies mode two like my bigger drones and Futaba transmitters. The included transmitter is a marvel of technology and easy to use. Instructions are complete and easy to understand. The Tx and flying drone both have low battery warning via lights. Con: Unplugging the batteries is very hard. I use a 5 mm flat stock end wrench with the points ground down to a point to pry the battery out of its connector socket. Very hard fingernails work too. Also, after the first flight a battery swelled slightly and I used side cutters to clip the plastic battery retainer strips . Now the batteries slide in and out with ease and the strips still retain properly. Designers: take note of these comments for a perfect toy. Fred Dings II I love it and I bought a spare in case I lose it some day flying in the wind. You have to be alert and kill the motors if it's flying away. Control range is stated at 50 meters, unobstructed line of sight which is only about 54 yards which isn't much for outdoor flying. Think of half a football field. Be aware.

I wanted to see if my cats and foster kittens might be interested in a flying toy. I wanted something relatively cheap so if it got pounced on I wouldn't upset at the cost. The first one I got was obviously used and broken, Amazon replaced it, and the second was in perfect shape. The good news is there's little risk of it getting pounced on. The cats are interested in this, but only at a distance. When it flies close to them they scramble where I was expecting them to get a case of the wiggle butts. I can see where some people damage these on the first flight. Having experience with RC airplanes and big drones I skipped reading the owners' manual (big mistake). I hit the takeoff button and it zipped up rather quickly, hit a cabinet and then went crazy fighting artificially induced pitch sticking itself to the cabinet door. If you're not ready for it the way it zips up will absolutely startle and hit something if you're not in a clear space. I also accidentally discovered the relative direction mode (in this mode which way the stick makes it go is relative to you, so that if you rotate with the left stick until the drone is facing the opposite way, pushing the right stick to the right will still make the drone go to your right right instead of left). This was a little confusing for me having prior RC experience. Again, reading the manual would have been smart on my part. Lastly is a tip about the reviews talking about it just drifting away outdoors. The controller has an IR panel on the front (facing away from the pilot). For those that don't know, IR is light based. I'm pretty sure this is how the drone knows which way it is facing for relative direction mode, but it's quite likely it's used for other purposes, including actual flight control instead of RF. This means that when it's in direct sunlight, the IR receiver on the drone itself will get "jammed" by the sunlight and will be unable to receive input from the controller. This is definitely an indoor only drone, but at a minimum if you're going to do it outdoors, do it at night and keep it really close to you. Without walls for the IR light to reflect off of, the range will be much lower outdoors, so you risk it flying away at night too. It wouldn't be a fair review if I didn't also list one big con. It comes with blue & black fans, which would be great, however the fans aren't actually color coded. The fans spin in different directions depending on their location on the drone. Normally I would expect them to be color coded along the lines of "black = clockwise blue = counterclockwise", however this isn't the case. If you break a blade, you will need to carefully look at the fan blades to ensure the broken ones you are replacing match the new ones. Putting a clockwise in a counterclockwise or vice versa the drone will not be flyable and possibly fly around erratically hitting people or objects in the room (causing further damage). OTOH if you're feeling like mixing it up you could swap a blue for a black or such for visual effect. Overall it's a good little drone. Read the instructions, know how to handle it before you're first flight, don't run into things and I would imagine this will last quite a while UPDATE: Been flying it around my house for a few weeks now. People who complain about it breaking are misusing it IMO. I've had a couple of small crashes. It seems fairly durable, no damage from falls from five feet up onto carpet, or accidentally tapping it into a wall. To break it, you would need to go full speed into a wall, which would probably break it. Kids being rough treating it like an RC car will break it. Drones aren't RC cars and are more fragile.

I wanted to pilot some smaller drones to get back to flying my phantom. I went through Holystone to see if they could help b.c the night I ordered a second one the first started having issues 🥲😬. Idk maybe the second one won't have issues. For now I'm waiting for Holystone to respond. Also the batteries cost $15/battery!! Other than that I love this little guy which is why I got a second one. These drones are getting crazy! Cons: - batteries (when failing, cause the drones to drop height unexpectedly which can be scary if you are low to the ground already. -Drifting like crazy you basically have to steer or it will lol... Pros: fun, 3 speeds, extra props, easy set up, easy gyro set up, props are incased. 🛑UPDATE 9/25/24 I've purchased this item twice because its easily one of the entertaining things ever. The batteries though, you get three. They are good for the first 10ish charges. You can space out your play times. You have to limit how much you play with it if you want it to last. Holystone said they would send out 3 new batteries. That was a few days ago and they only sent me the transcipt of out conversation. On the second purchase I went ahead and got the insurance policy because I anticipated this. I bought my drone because I'm in an area with poor internet. I noticed that the battery I set aside to test whether it was a the drone or the quality of the battery and proved my hypothesis that the drone itself is solid its only the battery quality. Its not quality but they give you quantity but if you look up the batteries that fit this they are $15/piece 🤯its cheaper to buy another drone and just accept that its like a disposable vape. Luckily you can get insurance for 2.99 or at least I did 😌. All though idk how I feel about this as far as the ewaste. As much as I love this specific model. I may look for a brand that isn't considered disposable. Other wise its fun even with the drift after calibration. Its great for learning. 👌

Great little drone! Holds a charge and is really easy for kids to learn. My 6 year old flies it all over the place with very good control. Nice that it has a button to land it gently and to do flips. Also having more than one battery is a huge plus! Easily switch batteries and keep on playing!

These drones are fun, however they definitely have technical issues… I have 3 kids (boy age 8, boy age 6?and girl age 2.5. For Christmas of 2026 my two boys each got one of these drones and they lasted about 2 weeks before they just quit working. It was a gift from grandma. We had so much fun with them that I spent $120 on 3 drones for each of my kids ($39.99a piece). (My daughter seen how much fun my two sons had that she requested one too) Dad would fly her pink drone for her. Same thing, after 2 weeks of use only ONE out of THREE drones work. Ridiculous. My eldest son who had the blue drone, said “mom, this drone smells bad and is smoking” And he was right. After inspecting his drone, one propeller would just start spinning without any controls being touched on the actual remote. The pink drone just quit flying, completely. It would no longer take off even after the remote would beep and connect to the drone. The red drone is the only one that currently works…. After 5 drones from this company, only 1 is in working condition. The only plus to this situation is that we have 15 batteries to the one drone that actually still works. My kids do know how to fly these as they do many flips and tricks with the drones. They didn’t mistreat these drones, they are just hit or miss with quality.

I've bought several "beginner" drones recently. I think this is the best one to learn on. It is really tiny but that's a good thing when learning and flying around inside which is where you should learn the controls. It is reasonably fast and responsive in the lowest speed setting and is ideal to get comfortable with piloting drones. It doesn't have obstacle detection but the protected blades and the light weight mean it can't do much damage if it hits a wall/painting/etc. I've crashed it a number of time w/o consequence to it or anything else. It's also surprisingly quiet compared to other, larger and heavier "beginner" drones I have which have much bigger propellers. DO READ THE MANUAL THOROUGHLY because 1) some buttons multitask and it's easy to crash by forgetting which buttons do what; 2) it's crucial to learn how to use the trim function - it makes a difference here (and on all other drones) for stable hovering; and 3) some other beginner drones have slightly different start-up and gyro calibration procedures and button functions and it's easy to mix them up. Unlike some folks writing here, I've got 5-6 min+ with all three batteries at the lowest speed so far. Higher speeds may burn through the battery faster. Make a point of charging all of the batteries FULLY BEFORE FIRST USE and not using too powerful a charger. I use an old iphone charger with the provided USB charger adapter. Nitpicks: I agree with other users. The battery connector is finicky - hard to connect and pull out. I just don't jam the connector in hard (on either the drone or the charger adapter) - just push it in gently on a bit of an angle until the connection is made and the lights start flashing. Other models like the similar HS450 (which I also have) have a better, modular battery system. I'd also like a bit longer flight time (ie higher capacity battery than 250mAh) but there's no way I've found so far to "McGyver" a larger battery in w/o significant modifications or unbalancing the machine. There are additional similar batteries (but only 220 mAh) for sale on Amazon but the 3 provided have worked well and as advertised so far (a few weeks). Ultimately, it's really not an expensive unit so I accept the limitation. I will undoubtedly move up the food chain to more sophisticated machines as time goes on but I find this the most fun and entertaining of my current fleet. I expect it will be a favourite to fly for a long time since it's easy to practice on around the house (especially in the winter). If you are new to drones as I am (or are buying for someone who is), do yourself a favour and buy a beginner unit like this before you go to Amazon/costco/wherever for the $1000 Mavic set (which I was tempted to do). You can (and will) crash the hell out of this one with relative impunity, and have a hoot in the process.

great item youngster is loving it.

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The 6 and 7 years old are really enjoying the Mini RC Drone...

Excelente producto para aprender a manejar un drOn específicamente para niños si aguanta los golpes muy bien