Not well made.,
March 10, 2012 G. Benitez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CARS 2 - RC TRANSFORMING FINN McMISSILE w/ LIGHTS & SOUNDS
I had almost the exact same experience that "Keith E." had. Car was sluggish, even with fresh batteries. It feels cheap, too.
I have a number of the Air Hogs R/C cars with the 'moving eyes', so I am comparing this car to that model-type and there are a couple of things I would add:
The remote looks pretty cool. It looks like a flip cell phone, and it opens up into a remote with forward/reverse and left/right control sets (buttons, not levers). It looks great, but as a remote for the car it's not very practical because your fingers just can't work it well.
The wheels on this car are smooth rubber, so they don't grip well (especially compared to the 'moving eyes' RC cars).
Even with these problems I was prepared to like the car, but this car was unresponsive to the remote from the moment it came out of the box. It might work for a minute or two, but then stop for no reason for a few seconds. Also, the flip-doors for the guns felt very cheap.
a BIG let down, thanks Disney,
December 16, 2011 Keith E. "Keith E." (California) - See all my reviews
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See the other review under the same car type for Mater.
This review is for the Mater model but saw similar results with Finn in-store (most of the display models at Disney store ran this way. Buyer beware. The good news is their return policy in store is very good:
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Got this at the Disney Store after seeing the various cars demonstrated & getting to try a few. Choose Mater & Finn for the simplicity of controls (the Lightning McQueen model is much more complicated with different controls, found it hard to use-forget this one for a little kid.)
In store the car was jerky & didn't respond well to the controls. Ran sluggishly with stalling. The manager said this was because the batteries were run down. I asked him how long the batteries last & he said 4-5 days with constant use, which begs the question "then why haven't you guys changed the batteries?"
Anyway I bought the 'bad-battery' line and went for two...Read more
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