LED Isis Wings - Light-Up Costume Butterfly Wings with Telescopic Rods, 7 Colors, Adult & Child Sizes
LED Isis Wings - Light-Up Costume Butterfly Wings with Telescopic Rods, 7 Colors, Adult & Child Sizes
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Isis wings that light up - a wingspan of pleated film strung with hundreds of LEDs
These are the big fan-shaped dance wings you have seen at festivals and on stage, with a string of tiny LEDs running out along every pleat. They sit on your shoulders on fabric straps, you hold one telescopic rod in each hand, and the whole span opens and closes with your arms. In a dark room they read as a solid sheet of moving light. Under house lights they are just iridescent film - this is a dark-venue costume, and it is worth knowing that before you buy.
Read this first, especially if these are for a child
We hold no toy-safety certificate for these wings. There is no ASTM F963 report and no conformity file in our hands, and we are not going to print a certification mark we cannot produce on request. That is the honest position, and it is the same whichever size you buy.
The good news on batteries. The pack takes three AA cells. It does not take coin cells - and that distinction matters more than anything else on this page. A swallowed coin cell can burn through a child's esophagus within hours and is a medical emergency; AA cells are not that hazard. They are still not something to leave loose in a room with a toddler, and you should check the battery cover is properly shut before a child puts the wings on.
What we would actually watch. There are three things on this costume that we would not leave a young child alone with:
- The straps and the lead at the neck. Anything that goes round a child's neck and can catch on furniture, a bannister or playground equipment is a snag risk. Put them on for a performance or a party and take them off afterwards. Never leave them on a sleeping child, in a car seat, on a bike, or anywhere with climbing frames or slides.
- The telescopic rods. They are metal poles that extend to roughly arm's length and they collapse under a squeeze - which means fingers can be pinched at the joints. Extended and swung at head height in a crowd of other children they are an eye hazard. These are not toys and they are not swords.
- The film itself. Pleated costume film tears if it is stood on or caught, and a torn wing has a sharp-ish edge. It is a costume, not play equipment.
Used the way they are meant to be - on stage, at a recital, at a party, with an adult in the room - they are a lovely thing. We would rather set that out plainly than let the word "certified" do the work.
Power: three AA cells, at the nape of your neck, and no remote
A small plastic battery box is fixed at the base of the neck between the shoulder straps. It takes three AA cells, which are not included - buy a pack with the wings, because there is nothing more deflating than a costume that arrives the day before the party and will not light.
The switch is on the box itself. The supplier lists two modes, a steady glow and a twinkle mode, cycled from that switch. Their listing also mentions a "hand extension control line"; from the wiring we can see, that is most likely a lead that brings the switch down from the nape to where your hand is, rather than making you reach behind your own neck mid-performance. It is not a wireless remote - do not buy these expecting to control them from the audience.
What the lights actually are
We counted them. On the supplier's own photograph of the red wings we can pick out more than two hundred and fifty separate lit points, and that photo cannot show the ones facing away or hidden in a fold - so "hundreds of LEDs" is a fair description.
What they are not is beads set into the fabric. They are tiny LEDs soldered onto fine copper wire - fairy-light strings - and those strings are run out along every pleat from the center of the back to the wingtip, then round the outer edge. You can see the wire between the folds when the wings are closed. That construction is why they are light enough to dance in, and it is also the honest answer to how they should be handled: a wire string will survive being folded, and it will not survive being yanked.
Each color option is a different LED color, not a different fabric. The film underneath is the same iridescent pleated material on all seven; Rainbow runs warm reds near the center out through green and blue to violet at the tips.
Sizing is by the wearer's height, not by clothing size
Both options describe how tall the person wearing them is. That is the only thing the size changes - a bigger wing on a taller frame - so measure the wearer, not a dress size.
- Adult fits a wearer about 5'1" to 5'11" (155-180 cm).
- Child fits a wearer about 3'9" to 5'0" (115-154 cm).
If the wearer is right on the join, size up. The rods are telescopic, so a slightly large wing can be flown short; a slightly small one cannot be made bigger, and it will drag on the floor at the outside edge when the arms come down.
What you get
What we are not claiming
- No certification. We hold no conformity file, no toy-safety report and no test certificate for these wings, so this page carries no certification mark. If you need certified costume electronics for a school or a licensed venue, buy from a supplier who will send you the paperwork.
- No water resistance. There is powered electronics on a fabric costume. Keep them dry, keep them away from pools, and do not wear them in the rain.
- No run-time figure. Nobody has published one we would repeat. Take spare cells to a long event.
- Rod length not measured by us. Listings for this wing give the rods as extending to roughly 39 in (100 cm). We have not put a tape on a pair.
- Not a flight aid, not protective, not a toy. It is a stage and party costume for a dark venue, worn under supervision.
