WL V202 Scorpion 4CH Micro Quadcopter RTF 2.4GHz w/6-Axis Gyro

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Product Review (submitted on November 11, 2013):

I have bought and flown several of the Value Hobby-sold V949 Quadcopters, and have found them excellent values. I got a little unlucky (or maybe unskilled) the first time I flew this V202, and it crashed into a gym wall after only a few minutes of flight. Some part of the connector or controller for one of the motors broke, so of course it is now unflyable. Either the V202 is more fragile than the V949s, or I crashed it harder than I had the big brother V949s. I am painfully aware that the fault may be mine, not the model's.

But I would very much like to buy a BNF version of the V202, and I am hoping that Value Hobby will make the separate bird available at a somewhat reduced price, as they have done for the V949 series. To be sure, the price for the RTF V202 is not too steep, but I don't think I need a backup transmitter--I almost never crash THOSE! So I'll be looking eagerly for a BNF version of the V202, while cheerfully flying my V949s--they have more lights, anyway.

I am (rather wistfully) hoping that some day the various 2.4 GHz manufacturers will get together and adopt a standard protocol, so I won't have to carry five different transmitters to the gym. The current lack of cross-reactivity almost makes me yearn for the days of 72 MHz.