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A kid can't actually make it GO anywhere in particular,
December 27, 2011 MarianneB - See all my reviews
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This car only goes two directions: a) forward or b) backwards and spinning. If you want to make it go anywhere in particular, you can't, at least not predictably and not without a huge amount of frustration. The backwards and spinning action isn't even the same each time. Sometimes it goes backwards quite a long way before spinning, and sometimes it spins immediately.
I gave this to my daughter for her 6th birthday, after she really liked her little brother's Lightning McQueen RC vehicle, and she was polite but terribly disappointed with it. She played with it for a few minutes twice, and hasn't really touched it since. I had seen other RC vehicles marketed to girls (My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake) that have the same controls, but in looking at this one's remote I thought you could get it to go in 4 directions. I should have looked closer! It seems that toy makers don't think little girls can or want to actually drive their cars with any purpose. At least with...Read more
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