Disney Pixar Cars Dinoco Helicopter

by Mattel

Product Features

• Lightning McQueen makes good on his promise to his best friend, Mater, when he gets him a ride in the Dinoco helicopter
• This 14-inch helicopter features spinning blades
• Mater vehicle included
• Young fans of Disney's animated "Cars" can reenact their favorite scenes and create their own.
• Sounds and phrases from Mater

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 8.3 x 16 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000OHE0ZU
• Item model number: L2560
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 8 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,557 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Lightning McQueen makes good on his promise to his best friend, Mater, when he gets him a ride in the Dinoco helicopter. Now you can re-create this scene from the hit Disney/Pixar movie, CARS, with the Dinoco Copter*. This 14-inch helicopter features spinning blades, and sounds and phrases from Mater. Stores 3 vehicles. Mater vehicle included.

Product Description

Dinoco Helicopter Lightning McQueen makes good on his promise to his best friend, Mater, when he gets him a ride in the Dinoco helicopter. Now you can re-create this scene from the hit Disney/Pixar movie, CARS, with the Dinoco Helicopter. This 14-inch helicopter features spinning blades, and sounds and phrases from Mater. Copter stores three vehicles. It includes one Mater vehicle and requires three button-cell batteries, included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a good toy and it can store another cars!, July 6, 2007

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Eduardo Nolazco (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Disney Pixar Cars Dinoco Helicopter (Toy)

First of all: it includes a removable Mater.
It has recorded phrases and they are played when you push the door button.
It can store 2 additional cars in the back but not the big ones. You must use the other door to do that. They recommend Luigi and McQueen. You can store more cars at your own risk.
Also you can put Guido in another section
it has a trigger so you can make the helices spin and sound like a real helicopter.
My son drop this toy a lot of times and it's a durable toy.

The cons:
-the front door button is a little hard to push for a young kid. My 3yo son can do it.
-You got to be careful with the helices when you pull the trigger

I recommend this toy as a good gift for a kid.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars HTF, so easy to love!, July 25, 2007

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B. Miller "slow learner of 3" (Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Disney Pixar Cars Dinoco Helicopter (Toy)

I seen the helicopter a couple months back at Target, ignored it as I wasn't looking for it. A week later i thought it would be a great gift and went back for it, no longer there. I looked for a few weeks different stores, nothing. Put a couple bids on it on ebay, outbid. Walked into walmart, there it was, almost missed it, gave up looking.

Needless to say my son was with me so I didn't get to put it away as a gift but he started playing with it then, in the cart, and has continued since.

He'll be 2 in August,07. He is a huge cars fan and all I have heard since we got this is mater yelling out of it, which is funny. It makes cool copter sounds when it propells.

It can also roll as a vehicle.

Not much storage in it, another car or two.

Very durable as my kid likes to bang and crash vehicles.

Glad to have been lucky enough to found it before a vulture bought it for resale.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Took it apart and put it back together to understand how it works., March 13, 2008

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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Disney Pixar Cars Dinoco Helicopter (Toy)

I had the same problem as a couple people in that my boy really likes this toy but after a little while the blades stopped spinning with the trigger. I took the entire thing apart and here is what I found out. The blade spinning trigger is connected to a plastic bar which has gear teeth on the side end. The teeth stick into a gear box. Inside the gear box another smaller gear box pivots into engagement with the rotor(blades) hub. When the trigger is released, the smaller pivoting gearbox can move out of engagement with the hub, allowing you to pull the trigger and spin the blades again. This unit seems to be fairly durable and was not the problem with the blades not spinning. What was causing the blades not to spin is this: The hub(center) of the blades is designed to lift out of engagement with the gearbox when the blades are folded. This appears to be so the blades and gearbox don't break when the trigger is pulled when the helicopter is in the box. Once you take it out of the box and align the five blades open, the hub snaps down flat and the blades hub gear engages, allowing the trigger to work. End of gearhead comments. ************ S u m m a r y - If you are having problems with the trigger not spinning the blades, make sure the blades are opened and evenly spaced. This will mean the three big black hub disks at the center of the blades are all laying flat together with no spaces between them. This will allow the gear to engage. If it feels like the blades are going to break trying to align them at first you may want to grasp the sides of the hub disks and pull up when aligning the blades as this will make it much easier to line them up properly and the hub spring will pull them back together as soon as you let go of the hub. Hope this helps to put more helicopters back in action.