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Fruit Crate Scooter 70% Off

Lisa Mulcahy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:30:00 GMT

For better or for worse, kids stuff has come a long way. My only hope it that old-fashioned fun is not forgotten. I know that retailers market to the heartstrings of parents’ past, which it definitely what’s going on here, but I couldn’t help but fall in love with this company’s Christmas catalog.

Maybe it’s the simplicity of using drawings instead of photos, but Duluth Trading Company’s catalog oozes Americana to the core. I can still remember puttering in the garage with my older cousin to build a go-cart of sorts. I wonder if kids today will ever experience that or if they would ever be willing to trade in their Razor scooter for a fruit box on wheels. I’d be curious to see a test market. For the bargain price of $29.99 (marked down from $99.50) maybe it’s worth doing some research with Duluth's Fruit Crate Scooter.

Very Big Toys: Razor PowerWing Three-Wheeler

Aaron Burgess — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:04:00 GMT

In anticipation of the holidays, Razor rolled out its newest three-wheeler, the PowerWing, this week at Toy Wishes Preview 2008 in New York. While at first glance it looks as though someone slapped a hot-rod-style spoiler onto the back of the company's trademark scooter, that little extra in the PowerWing's rear end has some nifty functionality.

The PowerWing's 68mm rear inclined caster wheels keep your weight behind the handlebars (the front wheel is 125mm, or around double the size of a typical skateboard wheel), and to accelerate either down hills or on flat surfaces, you just move from side to side on the "wings" and let gravity do the hard work. Obviously, this makes things a little complicated when going uphill, but at that point you can just push the PowerWing like you would a regular scooter.

Tricks, on the other hand, become much easier with the PowerWing: You can lean to zip around tight corners, and shift your weight to pull off side drifts, wheelies, 360s and spinouts. There are around 8 million amateur videos of the thing in action on YouTube, but here's the PowerWing's trick potential captured in a little over three minutes:

There's a front-wheel hand brake, too, so you don't need to rely solely on foot power to slow down, and the PowerWing folds away for storage when you're done tearing it up. Best of all, though, those wings accommodate up to 220 pounds of grown-up, so you can pull out the PowerWing to play while the kids are at school.

$99.99 at Target.

Razor Bumper Buggie Puts an Amusement Park in Your Cul-de-Sac

Aaron Burgess — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:33:00 GMT

Between its electric wagon and these motorized bumper cars, Razor is ensuring that our kids will never know the simple pleasure of wheeling around in a Radio Flyer. Like Razor's wagon, the Bumper Buggie ($129.99 at Target.com) packs dual 65-watt motors and gives you up to 40 minutes of vroom-vroom time on a single eight-hour charge.

For safety's sake, it goes a wee bit slower than the wagon (2 mph as opposed to 3), and it also includes a safety belt and a breaker switch, just in case. You really do need two or more to get the full bumper-car experience -- but with the holidays coming up, there's always a chance you'll spot another one scooting through your neighborhood.

Recommended for ages 3 and up, although with a 38" length and a maximum rider weight of 55 lbs., budding racers may outgrow it by their 6th or 7th birthday.

Brave New Baby: Razor Electric Wagon

Mir — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:01:00 GMT

Remember when you were little, and you had to walk everywhere, except maybe if you were really lucky, occasionally your dad would pull you in a rusty metal wagon, and you'd bounce around and maybe your butt would hurt a little but you thought to yourself, "This is the ultimate luxury!" as you felt every single pebble underneath and your dad grew progressively more red-faced and sweaty with the effort of pulling you along?

Kids nowadays already had it too easy, what with their molded plastic luxury wagons with under-seat storage and attachable umbrellas. But this -- this electric wagon from Razor ($99.99 at Skates.com) -- is really going too far. Dual motors? Push-button power? Up to 3 miles an hour? I guess this is what you buy them if a couple of Alfas seem like too much.

Close-up photo after the jump.