Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought 6 of these for a walk-a-thon my wife was putting on for my sons school. I'm writing this review (my first) because the other reviews helped me make my decision to buy this one. It could not have been more perfect! All 6 were running non-stop for 2 hours (minus the downtime to change paper and clean occasionally) and they all performed flawlessly! I didn't have to change any batteries in any of them during the two hours which surprised me because the kids were loading the paint on the paper pretty thick. After a while the paint pools in the bottom and after a quick wash and dry they were back in business. It comes with three little bottles of paint and some paper. Buy lots more paint! Honestly the only negative thing I could say is that it takes an octagon shaped paper. I read in another post that it takes 5x7 cards and I tried that. It works as well, but you have to give it a slight turn in the holders to lock it in. Otherwise it comes loose and rubs against the sides and it stops. I had a local print shop cut me 500 for about $35 (including paper!) Well worth it since they would work perfectly when the event happened. ****HUGE TIP!!! **** If you are buying this to do in a school or event, buy a bunch of the cheapest paper plates you can find. When the kids are done, put their art on the paper plate and put another one over it creating a little dome! Then put a staple or tape on each side then write the name of the child on the top. It completely eliminates the problem of dealing with all the wet art and they can take it with them right away and not worry about making a mess! I can not tell you what we would have done if we didn't do this. We did hundreds and would have been overwhelmed on where to put them all to dry.