Rhode Island Novelty Inflatable Globe Replica 16-inch

This is an inflatable globe for less than $5. It's a great product for its price. It is much better than a flat paper for teaching about world geography. Which is better: no globe, or this affordable globe? This affordable globe. Honestly, I have no nits to pick with this product. For what it is: 5 stars.

Real globes are expensive. And little kids can't be trusted to treat them with the care they deserve. But I figured I had hit on a fun and inexpensive way around that problem for my daughter, a K5 teacher. A way she could use a simple little beach ball globe to help her students visualize our planet, and gain a beginning perspective on this BIG ball we all inhabit. I actually bought two of these inflatable balls, so the teacher would have a spare, in case the first ball "bit the dust" prematurely, before the lesson was quite completed. So my girl made up a lesson plan, imagining a few things she could do with the kids to help teach them all a few fun facts. She blew the first one up on her planning time, only to find that the United States was missing. Apparently the entire country had fallen into the sea. And where it once proudly floated? Nothing but a lot of water...and an ocean alive with floating city and country place names belonging to places far, far away. Undaunted, she blew the other globe up, but it was the same thing. Neither one was accurate. Not representative, not even close. Well, okay. You get what you pay for I suppose. But sometimes? A lot less. And though I knew that these were a cheap novelty? I still expected they would be similar to what the photo showed! Accurate enough for a class full of barely reading little kindergarteners anyway! But that wasn't the end of the story. I couldn't really return these products. This child of mine lives far away, not right down the road...and therefore it's way too much time, trouble, and expense to retrieve and send these "globes" back for a refund. So this becomes my only redress: to let other customers know about this sorry manufacturer, it's inferior products, and my complete dissatisfaction. This is all I can do. I suppose there was a bit of a happy ending though. A little bit or redemption. This same daughter of mine has two beautiful little K5 and 1st graders of her own, so she let them have the balls for play. And it turns out that they DO hold air. Small win, right? The moral of the story here though? The old quote: "You spins the wheel, you takes your chances!

Love it had one hanging from my bedroom ceiling

Nice quality, but I did not like the indelible made in china that took up quite a lot of space (See photo)

A little smaller than I expected. Some parts of the map are not lining up. It's a Good educational toy for young kids.

I bought this globe for a church VBS lesson for preschoolers, and it was the perfect size. It easily fit in their hands and was comparable to the size of a beach ball. It was easy to blow up just by using my mouth, but you could easily blow it up with a hand pump too. My dog got ahold of it and punctured the globe several places, but I was able to put just clear tape over the puncture and fix the problem myself and it has held up even with lots of preschoolers playing with it.

I read some reviews below about the ball looking different to the picture displayed. Mine is just like the picture with the blue background. My only complaint is that in some parts the seam lines don’t meet up correctly so parts of Australia are cut off for example. All in all it’s a nice little globe and great for the price, my kids have played with it a lot and it’s sturdy.

It was really hard to blow this up. It stayed full long enough for my grandsons to see how their flat map is actually round. Then it deflated. Really a dud.

Very high price for the quality