Mine is one of the first. It has provided me with yeeeears of service. Everything from egg shells/kitchen scraps (for my compost pile) to finely ground bacon (use the flat blade) to frozen fruits...it has served me well. The base gear finally broke but the replacement is cheap (the fact that most of the parts are replaceable means good design...not disposable junk) and the fact this thing has lasted so long has me very satisfied. Oh...it's also very, very easy to clean. The sheer simplicity of the design is no-frills and less to clean/break.

Originally I had a platinum pro version of magic bullet. It worked amazing! Imagine my shock to discover not only have they discontinued that model (so I cannot buy replacement pieces). They've since switched to this less effective model and it is junky. I threw 2 frozen strawberries in it using the ice blade...rather then chop them it just broke off bits of plastic from the container and uselessly whirled them about. It has no power to chop anything that isn't soft already...extremely disappointed.

I was happy with my purchase until I noticed the motor rotation system was eating up the bottom of both blades. I didn't get much use out of my product and it has been sitting in its box in my garage for over 5 years, now I want to give it away to a friend who has a baby and needs to make baby food, it is so new that I want to purchase the replacement blades so she gets some use out of it before it breaks again. This company sure knows their product and should be giving out the replacement parts for free. I GOT MYSELF A NINJA BULLET LAST YEAR. ITS GREAT AND THE BOTTOM OF THE BLADES IS STILL INTACT!

I got this when it came out new and paid lot of money. but then all of a sudden it stopped working, and hardly used this and I still have the attachement which never been used and tried to used the attachement it wont work either. it looks the motor went out.

I've been using this blender for about a year now. My family enjoys making smoothies of many varieties, and I'd say we use it several times a week at least. It does a good job of blending ice and items used to mix with it (fruit, nut butters, milk, ice cream, etc.). I will say that when blending ice the blender is extremely loud. We usually have to walk into the next room because we can't hear each other talking in the kitchen. The consistency and flavor turn out pretty well. I've also used the flat blade for blending spices and coffee beans (only when my burr grinder wasn't working). It worked fine for that as well. Recently I've noticed that the blender has been leaking under the quad rotor blade assembly. I have repeatedly seen liquid in the base of the motor portion of the blender, and I'm worried that this will lead to damage or bad smells (or both). I've checked the seals and all of that, and even made sure that the blade is securely tightened to the cup. The leakage is coming from under the blade and into the motor cavity. It's still working, but I don't think I would buy this one again. It's worked for me so far, and it wasn't terribly expensive. However the noise and quality would lead me elsewhere.

We bought this product several years ago and have used it for everything plus. I am sad that we can not buy the replacement part that drives the blades in the cups. Now we have the main body that is not useable and the cups. The piece that is broken is not showing as a replaceable part.

My original Bullet was probably10 years old. I wanted a small food processor that make this appliance complete. Love, love, love it. I can now chop, slice and shred with this one unit, and still make my smoothies. Why it is so hard to find, I don't know, but it was just what I was looking for in a blender/food processor.

I've had 3 magic bullets and I use them all the time but thing that keeps on breaking is on the blender itself where the 3 little tabs from the cup lock in to start the blender. When one or two of those break it makes it very difficult to use . The cup tabs break as well but I have many cups to replace but only one blender so I have to buy a whole new set each time.

Started using the magic bullet and within two weeks all the tabs broke off the cups no matter what I tried. I was told there's no warranty on the cups. Bullet is now in the trash. Moral of story. Don't buy stuff made from plastic! Works great otherwise! Good luck.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I have always had traditional blenders. The large kind that can be difficult to clean and store. They take up space and are bulky. This thing is amazing! I love that I can make up a smoothie in smaller portions and with the modular containers I can make it in the cup that I drink it out of so it's ready to go. It's perfect for taking camping too due to its size as well. It took me awhile to figure out the perfect ratio of solids to liquid, but I have it dialed in now and thoroughly enjoy this blender.