I took one of those Halloween Jumping Spiders apart...

[parabuzzle]

I'm a halloween nut and I usually build my own elaborate props but sometimes we buy filler props like those cheesy jumping spider props (http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/tt-jumping-spider1/) as filler for our charity haunted house.. well, one of them stopped working this year  and I decided to take it apart to try and fix it.. needless to say, I abandoned the idea when I saw how it was made. Its doomed to fail from the start. I can't believe that someone would approve this for a production product, let alone sell it for $80! I have prototypes that look cleaner than this.

Here are some pictures of the inside:

[Kjelt]

I can't believe that someone would approve this for a production product, let alone sell it for $80! I have prototypes that look cleaner than this. 

Yeah this looks like standard Chinese chopshop quality not much different from the Sony products in the 70's I must say.
As long as the ic under the blob is still ok, this should be an easy repair, I have seen much worse when half of the components were soldered together above the pcb 
Concerning the price, my guess is that the chinese chopshop received $10 for it, the shipper another $5, the importer $20 and the seller took the rest, so don't blame the chinese chopshop to make this product for $10 but the american enterpreneur (aka scam artist) that took the most of your money 

[parabuzzle]

It appears that one of the "solder pads" lifted off the board.. I just added another bodge wire... sad.

[mariush]

Here's a copy of the images he attached, because they either load extremely slow or not at all for me:

[Richard Head]

Looks like someone had a bad sneeze when working on that PC board!

[Zero999]

It's very cheap and nasty so it's surprising they've bothered with two speakers: a very cheap piezo transducer and a not so cheap moving coil speaker.

Anyone know why this might be?

[parabuzzle]

I think one is a speaker and one is for sensing vibration as the prop trigger. I came to this conclusion because I can trigger it by touching it