Starlux Game Viking Freeze Tag: Glow in the Dark Board Game and Kids Outdoor Toys for Ages 5+

I love the lights and the fact you play outside. The kids love using their imaginations to create other games. They love even hiding them inside. My daughters friends keep coming over asking to play! My kids are excited it snowed so they can try playing out in the snow with it ! I love they are playing together and being active ! My teenager saw it sitting on the counter and even said it looked way cool and wanted to play! Definitely a family fun game !

I picked up Vikings of The Northern Lights from Starlux Games for my family to enjoy while we are home quarantining! It's a really cool wand and you kind of feel like Thor when you get to hoist it! The gems glow brightly and are small enough to hide almost anywhere! We have played by the rules, but we also have had fun making up our own games and side stories to further the adventure. We even played inside in the dark during a power outage and it was really cool! When I first saw the game advertised, I hesitated getting it because at 10 & 12 I thought my kids might be too old for this, but I was wrong! They both love it and so do we! We are looking forward to playing this with more friends someday soon, but for now my family of 4 will continue to enjoy just us! We all consider this another winner from Starlux, we also have their Capture the Flag glow game and have enjoyed that for years!

First of all, the game pieces are fantastic! Each gem lights up individually and slides into the Rod of Winter. My kids couldn't wait to play, so they invited a few of their friends over and played in our backyard. The instructions were so easy to explain and perfect for our variety of aged kids. The best part was seeing them running around, hiding and chasing and being active and not on screens. It kept them outside and entertained for hours, and the glowing game pieces allowed them to play into the night. Now, they are excited for the first snow so that they can hide the gems and play it in the snow! I'm going to check out the other games that Starlux has to offer.

The kids are having a blast playing with this toy!!! I'd highly recommend it.It's fall of 2020, our schools are closed and we're still heavily social distancing. Like most people, it's been a boring 8 months already. So this outdoor hide and seek game has been a great addition to our outside fun. It really helped get the kids interested in playing outside again, plus gives them good exercise. This game includes plenty of running around and lots of moving.I think the kids like hiding the gems more than the like finding them, lol. The battery life seems to be good so far and so much more fun to play at night. And the toy feels durable. We all had fun!!! I'm looking forward to buying the kids another Starlux light up toy for xmas this year!

I ordered this game for my niece and nephew who are 7 and 9 years old and are big fans of Frozen and How to Train Your Dragon. They love the specter and that the gems light up. Their parents like that this is an outdoor game where they can use their imagination and get exercise.They played the game according to the directions a couple of times and then made a game of their own using the scepter. This is an active family game that leads children to use their imagination. I recommend it!

Bought this on a whim because I thought it was something Thanos/End Game related. I was wrong but we ended up playing this in the snow with the kids and it was wayyyy more fun than expected! Definitely a pleasant surprise and it gets everyone out of the house! This could be played indoors too though!

Vikings of the Northern Lights is an action-packed tag game, played best with 3-10 players. The instructions are easy to follow and make for a fun game for everyone, whether you are a kid or an adult looking to have some fun. Inside the box there is a magical medieval scepter and five glow-up gems, the colors being red, blue, green, purple and yellow. And honestly, the scepter looks really cool and gives a powerful feeling when you hold it. The lights in the gems are very bright, while making for long battery life. The kids in our neighborhood have played with these for almost a week and the batteries don’t need to be replaced. This game is great for birthday parties and outdoor events, like camping and backyard play. Also, the best part for me, my kids stopped playing video or shooter games and started playing outside more, made new friends with the kids in the neighborhood while playing with this toy. Definitely a good way to get your kids to get outside and off of technology. One perk of this game is that you can put your own twist on the rules and make your own games with the gems. My kids and their friends played capture the flag with the gems in the dark. The best time to play is at dusk, as the gems are very bright and visible in the dark. We also tried playing in the day and it worked well. You can play pretty much anywhere, we played in the streets of our neighborhood, in the woods, and an empty backyard; all of them were equally fun, but the woods were more challenging as there were more hiding spots. And even with all this play and abuse one big thing that we noticed was that the gems are surprisingly strong and have been dropped and thrown many times and survived, still in great shape, which speaks to the durability. Our only complaint was that in our experience the red gem seemed to slide off easily and fall out, even though the other gems did not (which did not affect our game) Pro’s• Easy to learn• Great for all ages• Gems have good battery life and are very bright• You can play it anywhere• Gems can handle some abuse Con’s• In our experience, the red gem slid off easily and was prone to fall out. This did not affect our game and might be a specific only to the set we receivedOverall, this seems like a great game for the money and it’s loads of fun; I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an outdoor game.

What you get: a plastic wand with five different colored lights attached to the top. Each light has a switch on the underside and can be inserted either way, there's no right-side up. It comes with batteries already installed. The wand looks cool. The surface has a worn metal appearance. But it feels light and hollow like fairly cheap plastic. It does work. The handle is easy to grab and carry and the lights seem secure. If you think you or your kids have the imagination to make a game (or games) out of that, it's a very nice prop.

Starlux Games continues to reinvent tag with a dash of technology. This latest version pits vikings against dragons.Like Starlux's other games, each "gem" is a different color and is battery powered. Turn on the switch and then hide the gem. Ice dragons play defense while vikings play offense, attempting to place the crystal into the rod of winter. If the dragons freeze-tag all the vikings, they win; if the vikings collect all the gems, they win.Really, the best part of this set is the Rod of Winter, which makes for a great prop and looks nifty with the gems in it. that said, the gems work best at night or in dark conditions indoors, and the gems don't sit very well in the Rod so be careful when running with it!

The idea behind this is great, and there are many possible ways to play beyond freeze tag. My two are eight and five, so we used this as an Easter egg sort of hunt with the idea of it being a race against a clock to find all the pieces. The kids loved it and played happily outside in the snow with this (and later inside).The gems take CR 1220 button batteries and they are kind of a pain to remove so you will want to make sure the gems aren't left on. You will also need a very small philips head screwdriver to remove them.The issue with the game comes down to the construction of the rod. Other reviewers have noted that the gems can easily slide out if the rod is tilted the wrong way, and that was our experience too. The kids would find a gem and slide it on only to have it slip off as they ran on to gather the next (see the picture of the kids by the tree with a lost yellow gem in the foreground). It would be nice if there was a child-friendly way to clock the gems in place. However, that is not the issue we had.The rod we had ended up having the plastic parts fall off of the rod (see picture). It should be easy to fix once I find my hot glue gun, but it really shouldn't have come apart in the first place! This is my reason for the lower rating.