it shines a red laser and it twists and turns into diffrent shapes it would occupy a little kid nicely hahahaha i had fun with it the one time i played with it haha it has two switches for motor speed and turning dials for shape changing it has an automatic setting you just flip the switch at the bottom and if you want manual there is a red button on top well thats about it hahaha hopefully that answered your question and cool so it should be easy for you to get haha