Mattel Mindflex Game

The Mindflex game Mattel has recently launched is refreshingly unique and serious laughable fun when played in a group or proves to be an addictive challenge when you play on your own.  The Mindflex game is becoming an increasingly popular purchase as people are captivated by its sheer genius and groundbreaking innovation after seeing it played by friends and family, which is a great recommendation in itself.

The aim of this mind game is actually pretty simple whereas the underlying technology is a whole lot more complicated.  You have a circular track effectively on the games console board, upon which you set up your desired obstacle course.  Attach the headset around your forehead and the two clips to your ear lobes and you’re ready to go.  Now place one of the small Mind flex foam balls on the track with the aim of using the under track fan and your mind to maneuver the ball around the circular course negotiating the obstacles as you go.  A knob on the front of the console controls the underlying fan, which in turn controls the horizontal movement of the ball, but it is the power of your mind that controls the vertical ascent or descent of the ball.  By concentrating, the ball will move up and by relaxing your thoughts, the ball will move down.  Simpler said than done when you’re first getting the hang of it.

The ‘brain’ of the Mind Flex game allows you to select from 5 different preset game challenges and three different levels of difficulty, which means that there is adequate variety and challenge factor built in so that you don’t get fed up quickly.  The different challenges include the ‘mental marathon’ where you race to do a single lap as quickly as possible, ‘chase the lights’ where you have to tag as many of the built in track lights as you can in a preset time, ‘danger zone’ where you need to escape from the perils of the track or you lose, ‘thought shots’ where you try and score as many points as possible by getting the ball into the basket and ‘freestyle’ where you basically set up whatever course you want and play as you want.

The Mind Flex game is intended for players over the age of eight, mainly due to the small parts that make up the completed mind game.  Adults seem to enjoy this game as a bit of light fun with friends and family and pretty much treat it is as a challenging and highly amusing innovative toy that provides hours of entertainment.  Be careful though, there are already cases where individual adults have become obsessed with trying to achieve complete control of their mind and total control over their foam ball, but that’s another story.  Parents, however, are finding a whole new benefit of this game that was surely not intended by Mattel.  Increasingly, parents are struggling with children that simply cannot, it seems, concentrate longer than five minutes or indeed have children with real attention and concentration problems.  The Mindflex Mattel game, it seems is voluntarily causing children and teenagers to focus their attention and concentrate their minds for extended periods of time.  We will have to wait to see if the future reveals a sudden spike in academic achievement as children remain more alert at school further into their classes than normal…perhaps just wishful thinking!

The Mindflex toy is a great well built bit of electronic kit that looks stylish and futuristic in keeping with the advanced nature of the game’s ability.  The package includes the games console, the headset, 4 foam balls and an assortment of obstacles for you to create a whole variety of different courses to suit your ability and preferences.  The game itself does take some getting used to and it is worth glancing over the easy to read instructions that Mattel provides, even if just for some tips on how to increase concentration levels to enable the ball to rise or how to relax your mind to make the ball drop.

The reviews and ratings from customers that have bought the Mattel Mindflex game are starting to come in more and more, they probably wanted to master their concentration levels before writing an honest unbiased review!  The results are more than encouraging and the overall ratings are high.  It is a little disappointing however, that some hard core scientific types are submitting unfairly low ratings based on their own scientific opinions of the underlying technological innovation, which only serves to lower the otherwise high overall ratings.  This is a fun and entertaining game after all that just happens to be both innovative and unique.

Mindflex review comments are distinctly split into two groups, where the mind game has been used by adults and where the Mindflex toy has been used by children.  Adults find it a really fun game to play, particularly in group situations of friends and family and they appreciate the innovative technology behind it.  When it comes to the children, mainly parents are submitting their review findings that consistently note the benefits for children in terms of improving and developing their concentration and focused attention levels, as a consequence they are thrilled that something, anything has managed to achieve this with their teenager.

What Customers Are Saying:
“Great for my autistic son.  The biggest praise I can give to this game is that it actually SLOWED MY SON DOWN and kept him in place for more than 5 minutes!!!”
“He says it's the best gift he's ever received, and it gave US the gift of time while he actually occupied himself with something for an extended period on his own--thrilling!!”
“I think that a toy that can help special needs kids tap into more awareness of their own space and rhythms is a wonderful thing.”
“the $80 list price is worth it for those who want to get their hands on the lates in toy tech”
“It is a very interesting game”
“This game is a lot of fun”
“I was skeptical about how well the game would work but I was pleasantly surprised”
“It will be fun during the holidays when the whole family can try it.”
“I can also see the educational value for those kids who have trouble concentrating and staying focused. Since they will be in awe of the game, they will learn to concentrate and focus.”
“I gave the game to my nephew who was in awe of it as I thought he'd be.”
“These are great conversation pieces, ice-breakers, and just plain fun with a group of friends (the right group, of course).”