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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
FRAGILE UN-ENGINEERED FLIP-THE-BIRD AT YOU OBSOLESCENCE, November 20, 2009
Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Mario Kart R/C Vehicle - Mario (Toy)
Wow - $20 for what? Someone will laugh at you if you buy this - it will at least be me. I think the Nintendo Wii system works very well and for the life of me I couldn't beat my child for the first 100 plays on the video game, but that is another story. This little car has nothing to do with that except for little homunculus Mario, and the likeness of the banana, and the little red thing. If I didn't throw the box out, I would take another gander to make sure this wasn't some cleverly misspelled brand to look like the Wii, you know, like that ROLEX some people wear. OK seriously - the infrared controller does talk to the car. I could make the wheels turn. I could make the motor turn remotely, but as soon as you try to put the axle to the gear to the motor, it gets stuck. It gets stuck because someone sort of drew an idea and some sort of guy (or gal) sort of threw parts together, and sort of made the plastic sort of look like the drawing. The drive wheels are on a thin easily bent rod (you are supposed to take them in/out to switch to another). The pinion gear barely engages the reduction gear (all plastic with really really loose tolerances - think Flintstones loose, you know when the stone wheels would fly off the wood axle) and once you snap the axle in (one side at a time, yes yes I was careful), you have maybe one or two more chances of breaking whatever little plastic tabs hold the axle in and you are lucky if all the gears mesh or even inhabit the same airspace. Drive it for about 12 inches on a wood floor ("NOT on the tabletop KIDS!") with any dog hair or baby dust bunnies and it becomes a dog hair/dust remover - and a very purposeless paperweight. Clean out the now circular hair and dust, drive on a dust free environment ("ONLY on the tabletop kids") and watch as the car stops/jerks/goes, stops, then stops, then stops, then stops. You have now played out the life of this product. Throw it out and say a prayer to the environment. On the remote there is a little plastic dongle that is supposed to swing out and act as the Snap-on took kit for the car - I mean the instructions gave it hope, invested it with mighty powers. It has many intended functions to turn things and open things on the car, but it really is a little piece of formless fetal plastic that literally couldn't not stab its way out of a wet proverbial paper effin bag. The remote and the car have the greatest intentions of fun, but you will be much happier, trust me on this, staring at the picture at the top of this web page and IMAGINING all the fun you would have with this product. Go ahead. Scroll back up. Please. vroom. vrooooooooom. errrrrrr. wheeeee........!
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