Bought a gold one of those a couple of years ago and cooked the battery following the error in the instructions. Cannot be charged for the time specified when charging for the first time. Since then, I purchased from Buy-Cybie, a new battery, the automatic charger timer, Docking station, chip programmer, and the Clear replacement shell. Replacing the shell was a scary operation(some parts had to be modified to fit my cybie version)but cybie survived. The new battery definately increased the run time though I never timed it and the timer has protected the new battery from cooking. The docking station is nice but only works in line of sight with limited range. Cybie slowly turns in a circle until it picks up a signal. It successfully docked about 80% of the time after seeing the base. I never tried the chip programmer as I only had one chip and mistakes can be terminal. I want to hack a computer interface eventually if I can find the hack site again. Nice toy with good potential. P.S. I am sorry to say that Buy-cybie is not selling at this time.
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Bought a gold one of those a couple of years ago and cooked the battery following the error in the instructions. Cannot be charged for the time specified when charging for the first time. Since then, I purchased from Buy-Cybie, a new battery, the automatic charger timer, Docking station, chip programmer, and the Clear replacement shell. Replacing the shell was a scary operation(some parts had to be modified to fit my cybie version)but cybie survived. The new battery definately increased the run time though I never timed it and the timer has protected the new battery from cooking. The docking station is nice but only works in line of sight with limited range. Cybie slowly turns in a circle until it picks up a signal. It successfully docked about 80% of the time after seeing the base. I never tried the chip programmer as I only had one chip and mistakes can be terminal. I want to hack a computer interface eventually if I can find the hack site again. Nice toy with good potential. P.S. I am sorry to say that Buy-cybie is not selling at this time.