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J. Lee “imajeel” (Houston, TX USA) –

  

  

Durability: Fun: Educational: 

My 11 year old nephew who is an R/C afficianado loved this car, and hasn’t wanted to stop playing with it (He’s set up a big ramp on a dirt hill for to master more tricks with it). Here’s the ups and downs of it for us:

The GREAT:
0 According to him, it’s just cool. It does things other remote cars don’t. Transforming into a monster truck (“awesome”), flipability (is that a word?)/Double-sided, and it’s super fast. Plus, it’s really a nice big size for all that speed. (a little bigger than a shoe box)

0 Highly durable: That’s the one thing I always worry about w/ these cars – but this one has been put to every test

0 Easy-to-use remote for doing all those tricks.

THE NOT SO GOOD:
0 Battery life and access:
It’s great they’ve made such a good toy that noone wants to stop playing it, but not so good that the longest it can be played is about 1-1/2 hours before it needs to be charged for another four hours. Then you need to grab the philips screwdriver to pull it out for charging.

MY NEPHEWS WISHLIST FOR IT:
As I said, he loves the car. He’s been playing with it pretty much whenever it’s not charging. But, here were his suggestions:
- Put an extra battery pack in (or sell them somewhere at a reasonable price) so that while he’s playing another could be charging. That would at least double playing time to 3 hours.
- And just as a wish, he’d like to see the next version be able to transform to a monster truck whichever side is up – not just from one side.

BOTTOM LINE: A great, unique fun remote control car that I suspect will be on a lot of kid’s wishlists later this year, and has lasting playing power in the sense that kids (and adults) want to continue playing with it. Unfortunately, the shorter battery life doesn’t make that possible to do for too long at any one time.

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