Air Hogs Connect: Mission Drone by Spinmaster- A Definite on Everyone’s Wish List! 

Our family is all about gaming. We love to play together as a family and really enjoy it! Recently we found something that you will definitely want on your holiday gift list! AirHogs have gone digital! The newest from SpinMaster’s popular line of remote-controlled vehicles allows you and your kids to take a step into the world of augmented reality, with the new AirHogs Connect: Mission Drone! The drone, which is the first in SpinMaster’s new AirHogs Connect platform, connects to your iPad, iPhone, or other mobile device and transforms your living room into a virtual battlefield. You’ll be able to fight aliens, save citizens in peril, and more with the help of this awesome drone!

     Here’s how it works: first, you download the free app, available now on Apple’s App Store and Google Play. From there, you link to your drone and can begin play either in free flight, where you have control of your drone to fly as you please, or in augmented reality, where the specially-designed playmat comes to life on your mobile screen and delivers you missions and objectives to complete with the drone. 

     The mission-oriented mode is designed to operate in the style of  an arcade-like high score competition, challenging players to complete as many increasingly difficult missions as they can in a single burst. Most play sessions are intended to range between ten and fifteen minutes, depending on how aggressively you play, and when the levels are completed, there is a hub world where players can utilize the resources they’ve obtained in the levels to upgrade the virtual performance of their drone.

      There is also a fully-simulated experience called Danger Dome that kids can check out while the drone is charging (it takes roughly 40 minutes to get a full charge.) In Danger Dome, players fly a simulated version of their drone through “training” levels similar to the standard missions, still accumulating points and resources to gain upgrades in the main game. There are also leaderboards showcasing players’ high scores, ranks, and more, so that kids can show off and compete with their friends on AirHogs’ network to have the best scores!

        We had the opportunity to test out AirHogs Connect: Mission Drone and absolutely loved it! Watching the play mat sprout a virtual city on our living room floor was super exciting, and we loved being able to navigate the environment from all angles with the drone! This is sure to be a holiday hit this year– it would make an excellent gift idea for kids of all ages, and particularly those interested in tech and toy-based video games.

Air Hogs Connect: Mission Drone is now on sale at U.S. retailers, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon, for $149.99 MSRP. Air Hogs Connect: Mission Drone is the first to deliver an immersive augmented reality (AR) game experience where players fly a physical drone in an interactive 3D digital universe.  Using a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) enabled smart device and the free Air Hogs Connect: Mission Drone app, now available for download at the App Store and Google Play, players fly the Mission Drone over the customized AR tracking mat, which uses visual and spatial tracking to create an advanced 3D augmented reality world.  

 Air Hogs Connect: Mission Drone, based on Spin Master’s award-winning Air Hogs Connect augmented reality gaming platform, pushes the boundaries on RC (remote control) vehicle play by creating an experience where the digital fun of augmented reality and gaming is combined with the physical fun of controlling an actual RC drone.  The result is a fully immersive, mixed reality, interactive gaming experience, where players enjoy flying the Air Hogs drone, while they are challenged to lead and pilot it and a team of heroes through endless search and rescue missions and challenges to save the world from attack by alien forces.