Welcome to Wishlist After Dark, folks! We've got the Botley 2.0 Coding Robot Activity Set from Learning Resources, the perfect gift for kids five and up who love robots and puzzles! And with me, the happiest golden retriever in retail, Sunny, and the magpie who reads every single review, Penny Pickwell! Hi, everyone! Marty, I've been excited about this little robot all day. Hello, hello. Brought the fine print, as usual.

Here's the trick, folks. Kids punch a sequence of moves into the remote programmer, and Botley drives the route. No tablet, no app! Ooh, and look at this number, Marty. Botley can run coding sequences of up to a hundred and fifty steps! A hundred and fifty steps? Sunny, that's a whole road trip across the living room! It is! Kids code by color, and Botley moves in six directions. Then they stack obstacle pieces into their own courses.

Okay, Sunny. What's actually in the box? The robot, the remote programmer, forty coding cards, six double-sided boards and the obstacle pieces. Picture a kid building a maze right there on the rug! Oh, I want one! Penny, what's the catch? There's always one. Botley runs on five triple A batteries, and they're not included, so tuck a pack under the tree too. Good call! Nobody wants a robot that can't roll on the big day.

Also, it's made for ages five and up. And we didn't catch the star rating, so check the listing. Fair enough! I'm at eight point seven, folks, a real coding robot with zero screens. Sunny? Eight point two! Kids build the course and code the route themselves, and that's the fun part. I'm the strict one: seven point seven, mostly for the battery hunt. That's an After Dark Score of eight point two out of ten, below magna-tiles on our toy board.

Buy it for the kid who loves robots and puzzles. Thanks to Learning Resources for the details! The link's on our site and in the description. See you next time, folks!