I can get the lowest price on Ebay, but it'll take a long time to ship from asia. Can I buy this from any retail stores? I live in southern California. Walmart and Target seem to only have those garbage Air Hogs.

There's not really any true retail stores that carry them other than some hobby shops/mall kiosk, but their few and far between and their probably going to charge top dollar. xheli.com sales them for $29.99 w/ free shipping right now and over the last few days the red s107 keep randomly dropping to $17.99 for a few hours (don't know if that will happen anymore). You could also buy a firebird which is a rebranded s107 that has the r3 board (the best version board, most s107's now have the r5 board in it). It's basically the s107, but built with higher quality control and possibly even a little bit better (maybe more precise is the better word) build quality. Also the r3 board tends to make the heli a little faster and definitely increases the pirouettes It's a little more expensive though. You can order it from helizonerc.com it $49.99 w/ free shipping, but if you put firebird in the discount code section it knocks $10 off, so it would be $39.99 w/ free shipping. Plus their located in California so you would probably get it within a day or tops two days, their extremely fast. I order from them on Black Friday and my order showed up Monday morning on my door step and I live in Ohio and used free shipping!

Follow this link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
This is where I got mine. It arrived in perfect condition, without even a scratch on the box. Amazon rules.
The price on Amazon fluctuates, so if you wait a little while it might be cheaper, but personally I think it's worth it to pay extra and get it from Amazon.

Syma S107 has been seen at Fry's electronics.

And now we have 2 "where to buy a S107" on this page. Sir, there are many S107 threads on page 1 to stuff a horse

Originally Posted by chap1012

and now we have 2 "where to buy a s107" on this page. Sir, there are many s107 threads on page 1 to stuff a horse:roll eyes:

Originally Posted by killbucket

"It's that good"

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(I guess I'm gonna quote killbucket so many times on that line, that he'll regret ever having said it)

firebird which is a rebranded s107 that has the r3 board

Just today, helizonerc delivered a Firebird with the dreaded R5 board. Briefly you might get either one, but factory is definitely out of R3s.

R5 isn't 'all that' bad, but some other quality parameters changed at the same time it was introduced, which gave it a bad rep. Still glad I got 2 R3s.

Wow, I thought paying extra for a Firebird was a guarantee to get a rev3 board (at least according to the majority of people who had posted on this issue). I'm beginning to think this rev3 stuff is starting to become folklore. I've got a rev5 S107, get 9 minute flight times, and very very good performance. I'm satisfied.

Originally Posted by TravisBean

Wow, I thought paying extra for a Firebird was a guarantee to get a rev3 board (at least according to the majority of people who had posted on this issue). I'm beginning to think this rev3 stuff is starting to become folklore. I've got a rev5 S107, get 9 minute flight times, and very very good performance. I'm satisfied.

Maybe they've started to fine tune the rev5 boards with some better programming to make turning faster. My rev3 S107 can fly circles around my rev5, and I've heard more people share this experience. If I fly the rev3 first, and then the rev5, I get the feeling I am watching the flight of the first one in slow motion, it feels like the air has suddenly gotten twice as thick, and the heli struggles to move forward and turn in it...

ugh, I cringe at the thought of paying $40 for a firebird and the R5 being inside, unless their doing something different, if not you really paying ALOT for cleaner soldering and a different paint scheme.

Looks like Xheli just received a new shipment including the Syma S107, shows back in stock , free shipping is till in effect.


http://www.xheli.com/newsy3chs1mi1.html

http://www.xheli.com/newsy3chs1mi.html

http://www.xheli.com/s107-miniheli-blue.html

Originally Posted by jlcamp7

ugh, I cringe at the thought of paying $40 for a firebird and the R5 being inside, unless their doing something different, if not you really paying ALOT for cleaner soldering and a different paint scheme.

I suspect the S107 & firebird all came out of the same Chinese manufacturing plant. They just had different names,color schemes and box art depending on what RC toy distributer ordered them.
The First production run Syma S107 had the Rev 3 board as did the helizone Firebird. Syma however priced the S107 much lower than North American company Helizone did so the S107 soldout fast and had to goto a second production run that came with the Rev 5 board.
First run Helizone Firebirds are just now reaching soldout status and second production run rev 5 firebirds are hitting the streets.

Originally Posted by TravisBean

I'm beginning to think this rev3 stuff is starting to become folklore. I've got a rev5 S107, get 9 minute flight times, and very very good performance. I'm satisfied.

9 min flights
Don't try this one at home kiddies unless you want a sure fire way to over-discharge and permanently ruin your battery.