Note to New Owners: Once you pull the "Please remove this plastic tab before use" tab, turning the phaser "on" is not intuitive (at least for my contemporaries and I). You must rotate forward the clear plastic numeric right side dial on top of the phaser one (not the silver left side wheel which serves another purpose). We loved everything about this toy, except our ineptitude at making it work with the tab out. Hope this spares the rest of you some tinkering.