Customer Reviews
Six Year Old L O V E S this! Look out Hollywood! 
2008-08-15
~~~>If you can't follow directions, do not buy this item. In order to use this WIRELESS microphone, you need an FM radio that has a dial tuner that you don't mind your child using.<~~~ That said- you'd be surprised- I can not tell you how much my daughter(ans the rest of the family) adores this microphone. She picked this out for her sixth birthday. I have seven children 19,15,11,8,6 girls and 4,3 boys. Every one of them has played with this! I even took a crack at it! Think karoke, but with no background songs! Karoke free-style LOL! Its like you are really putting on a concert with the audience sound effects and your voice coming through the speaker. I wish my other girls had had this when they were little. I've had kids giving concerts since Van Halen wasn't Van Hagar! I've been through Spice Girls, N Sync, Brittany Spears, every Kidz Bop release, High School Musical, Hannah Montana and a bunch more I've forgotten. My kids have always given concerts for Mommy and Daddy(and the neighbors LOL). This is the icing on the cake for them! So much fun and at such a little price! If you don't alreasy use them, buy rechargables for this one! You're gonna need 'em!
Fabulous toy for $10...in NYC area 2008-07-12
I purchased this mic today for my 6-year-old. Maybe I got lucky or they changed the quality, but this mic works fabulously for a $10 toy. Although I can only get it to work on 1 frequency in northern NJ (around the 100 dial), it comes in loud and clear. The manufacturer is Creative Designs Int'l Ltd, which is not mentioned on the Amazon website. They should label the package better to say that you don't sing along with the radio station, but you sing on a "vacant" airwave to whatever music you've got playing elsewhere. Again, for $10 bucks, it's a hit at my house!
Avoid at all costs!! 
2008-06-11
Seriously. It's only *inside* the impenetrable plastic packaging that it says 'may not work in markets where there are a number of FM stations in the 92-106FM range.'
What it should say is 'might work out in the middle of nowhere, but even then, will sound crappy.'
On one out of 3 radios, with bottom of mic pointed at antenna from 4" away, we could make the applause and "scratch" buttons work - and get a voice quality that made the Drive-thru at Wendy's sound like hi-fi digital quality sound.
Bought at brick-and-mortar after seeing it at the Disney store out in Disneyland - my daughter wanted it so badly - should've read Amazon reviews first. Just awful.
Disney should be ashamed to license this one.
Don't waste your money 2008-05-26
My daughter was very excited to use the microphone but when we got it home we found there are not any radio stations (Chicago area) that it works on. This is basically an over priced pretend microphone. We will be returning it.
It's a toy already! Once setup it worked fine 
2008-05-16
This toy was extremely frustrating for my kid until I figured out how to tune it.
1) find a dead spot on the FM radio band. I used 105.9FM. You should hear just fuzz (white noise) on your radio.
2) put batteries in the microphone.
3) get a really really tiny flat head screwdriver - like the kind in those eye glass kits they sell at the grocery store.
4) sit right in front of the radio
5) Insert the scredriver into the tiny hole in the microphone and tune the microphone until the radio goes quiet (no fuzz sound).
The hole is located just to the left of the screw that you undid to get at the battery compartment, but it's off center. Inside this hole is a small tuning screw. Slowly, slowly, SLOWLY turn the screw driver until you here a change or interruption in the fuzz sound on the radio speakers. This will indicate you found a compatible frequency. Then even slower - tune back to that "notch" until you hear nothing but silence on the radio. Test it by pressing the applause button or by pressing the mic button and talking.
There are multiple places that will "work" as you tune the little screw.
Once it's working it ain't perfect. I doubt you'd do a serious performance on it, but the kids love it.
It ain't perfect. It's a toy already.
TOTAL WASTE of your hard earned money! 2008-04-21
With the Hannah Montana Microphone, little rock stars can perform just like Hannah. This wireless microphone features realistic lights and sounds so girls can take the stage while they belt out their favorite songs. Requires 2 "AAA" batteries, not included. Measures 9.75" x 1.5".
True rip off- piece of junk. 2008-03-30
Doesn't work as an FM transmitter AT ALL. Took me forever to get it out of the packaging and it simply doesn't work. Did anyone test this before they sold it to the public?!?!
Don't buy it. 2008-02-29
Worthless product. Incredibly hard to find a radio frequency that you can hear from the microphone.
DON'T BUY IT.
This product does not work. 2008-01-14
Regarding the Hannah Montana microphone, this microphone looks real and they can "pretend" to be singing, it is not really a functional product-not worth the money.
This is a toy...a $19 toy (not the real thing!) 
2008-01-10
This microphone was given to my daughter for her 4th birthday yesterday, and so far has been a hit. The box didn't come with instructions, which made me search for them on the internet and came across these other reviews. We've been able to lock in on a frequency, approx. 99.5, but you have to be standing pretty close to the antenna for it to work well (we have her touch the antenna portion of the microphone to the antenna of the radio for the best reception).
One thing to remember is that this is a toy. A $19 toy! $19 is pretty inexpensive for a decent frequency modulation circuit and a transducer for the microphone, not to mention that it has Hannah Montana on it. If you want your children to be able to run around and sing like Hannah, I suggest you invest more money into a product that costs more than $4 to make.
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