When my son’s first birthday was coming everyone was asking me what he liked, what would be a good present and what not. My sister was leaning towards a Fisher-Price Little People construction vehicle and a remote control car, I told her that either would be fine and she decided on the remote control car and funny enough my son’s grandma gave him the construction vehicle. When my son’s birthday party rolled around the younger cousins that he had, ages 4 and 5 were delighted with the remote control car but he was less interested.
Parents Remote-Control Racer was the remote control car that my son got and it was for ages 12 month and up. The controls are very simple, understandably as they are geared towards a toddler, one round button on the control, push it once and the car drives forward, push it again and the car turns in circles, push it again and the car drives forward, etc. Although my son didn’t seem to be very interested in doing this at age 12 months, plus the car is load when you turn it on, but I guess all race cars make noise. You can push a button on the car to hear the noises that it makes when it is on. My son had more fun doing this than anything. I didn’t push him into learning how to control the car and after he put the end of the antenna in his mouth, only for a second and it has a plastic ball on it, I kept the controller up high and let him do what he wanted with the car. After many month of just pushing the button occasionally everyday the batteries went dead.
The Parents Remote-Control Racer takes four AA batteries and a 9 Volt one to work, the box included the AA batteries but not the 9 Volt, which still is running strong 8 months later. For this reason I didn’t immediately replace the batteries as my son didn’t play with it anyway. It wasn’t until I noticed that all of the car things that my son had were being played with more and more and he had begun pushing the remote control car around and I thought we would see if he wanted to control it. At 20 months he got the controls right away, and was delighted with the ability to move the car around using the remote control.
All in all I think it is a cute toy and my son thinks that it is fun. I find it to be a tiny bit loud and certainly advanced for a 12 month old and hate that it take so many batteries but we both would give it a good review.
