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Remote Control Helicopter

Maybe

The products selling today average only 3.7★. But prices span $4.71–$823.42, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Remote Control Helicopter is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 12% of 1,773 Toys & Games niches · +13 vs the category median of 44
Market size
£432K/yr556K searches / yr
90-day growth
-3.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Remote Control Helicopter against its category

The dotted line is the Toys & Games average. Past it, Remote Control Helicopter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Remote Control Helicopter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Remote Control Helicopter 556K times last year and spent an estimated £432K. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 556K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -3.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £432K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
556K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-3.0%
Conversion, latest week
1.4%
Market size, estimated
£432Ka year
Peak month
December3.6× the quietest month
Top search term
rc helicopter150K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £55.49.

Listings sell for £55.49 on average, from £4.71 to £823.42. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £55.49 that is £6K to £14K a year per listing.

Average price
£55.49inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.71–£823.42
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£14K
Returns
2.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #131 within Play Vehicles. It carries 241 reviews at 3.74 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
11.3%
Average rank
#131in Play Vehicles
Average rating
3.74 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
241per listing
Listings tracked
51

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 20 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

20 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 33 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
20
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Remote Control Helicopter products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 30, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 38% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£13K£26K£39K£52K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

53

Est. top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 96%

Est. top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

32%

  • XIKOTEC22%
  • VATOS15%
  • DEERC10%
  • WFKKMEQ8%
  • TERRAMUS7%
  • Hylukon6%

Demand

Remote Control Helicopter search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

30K20KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.6×

Search terms

Top Remote Control Helicopter search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • rc helicopter150K/yr
  • remote control helicopter123K/yr
  • helicopter toy87K/yr
  • helicopter49K/yr
  • rc helicopters for adults40K/yr
  • rc helicopters14K/yr
  • remote control helicopter kids12K/yr
  • helicopter drone10K/yr
  • rc helicopter for adults6K/yr
  • rc helicopter for kids8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Remote Control Helicopter

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

17%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
13%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
2.7%of orders come back
“It was a very cheap bad product”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”13% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Remote Control Helicopter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data