Posted on 02/17/2009 2:55:47 PM PST by JoeProBono
Maybe you had one as a kid, or knew someone who did. It's the iconic little red wagon with the Radio Flyer logo.Radio Flyer is developing a prototype of a wagon with digital controls and an MP3 player dock.Radio Flyer is developing a prototype of a wagon with digital controls and an MP3 player dock.If so, you might not recognize the newest product dreamed up by the brain trust at Radio Flyer's Chicago, Illinois, headquarters. This wagon, called the Cloud 9, is equipped with enough high-tech bells and whistles to make the family minivan jealous.
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Those two kids in the stakebed Flyer look like they're having fun ... all that's needed is their big brother to pull the thing.
The new piece of plastic crap is for the poor, quivering offspring of hovering ninnies who wouldn't know "fun" if it jumped up and down in their faces, gibbering like a maniac.
Probably comes with helmets as well. (sigh)
You’re right. It is offensive.
> The new piece of plastic crap is for the poor, quivering offspring of hovering ninnies who wouldn’t know “fun” if it jumped up and down in their faces, gibbering like a maniac.
Well said!
That it is made of cheap PLASTIC is an abomination in and of its own right, astonishing to behold. You can’t wipe out in plastic often, and you sure can’t ride it thru bonfires or over top of rattlesnakes like my cousin Cindy did with her radio flyer (yeah, technically she was a girl, but wouldn’t own up to it until she was, say, sixteen).
‘Tis a wonder it doesn’t come with training wheels and airbags. (perhaps I spoke too soon?)
Whose idea was this?
The trend that new toys are that they are specific in application which prevents kids from using their imagination. The old ones were so versatile and flexible that a kid could do so much with it that kids would play with it day after day with out tiring of it. The new styles are limiting and kids move on to find something to stimulate them. Something that these ergonomic, safety, “Pretty” toys can do.
Did your cousin grow up in the U.S.? I thought rattlesnakes were limited to North America.
Egades, it even has sippy cup holders. But surely, it comes with color coordinated safety helmets and shin pads?
Hot Dog!!
> Did your cousin grow up in the U.S.? I thought rattlesnakes were limited to North America.
My cousins, brother and sisters and I grew up in British Columbia.
My cousins lived in the BC Interior, where my uncle had a ranch full of Rattlesnakes.
To my knowledge, rattlesnakes are only found in North America.
Yikes! The new one looks like it was on ‘Pimp My Ride’. I’ll go old school, thanks.
Seatbelts?
OK. Seatbelts are a great idea in a vehicle. You’re surrounded by metal and plastic on all sides (unless it’s a convertible) and sudden deceleration could be fatal. Seatbelts keep you within the safe confines of a safety cage.
But on a wagon? There are virtually no sides. Definitely no roof. It has a high center of gravity. In other words, when the wagon tips over, as it eventually will, the kid strapped inside will be trapped, instead of just falling out.
I probably wouldn’t be alive today if my Radio Flyer had a seatbelt.
Looks like my 67? Does it run -— if so, it’s not mine. God I loved that car!
That’s what I’m taking about! Try moving a hay bale with a 2.0 Radio Flyer.
That’s it.
I still have one of my Daughters wagons. It’s in the attic, right next to her kick n’ go!
It is a wonder that I have knees, my jeans didn't.
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