Customer Rating: 
Summary: A great toy for the entire family!
Comment: Everyone in the family loved this toy! It's been banged around a lot and hasn't broke. It's definitely worth the money!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Fun but heavy
Comment: This was a present purchased for a 3 year old. Even though he liked the sounds and lights associated with this toy, he didn't want to use it long because he said it was too "heavy." Even my 5 year old said the same thing when she tried. This toy is enjoyable but I feel the helmet is a bit over burdensome and difficult to manage for a small child.
Customer Rating:
Summary: LOVE IT!
Comment: I purchased this for my four year old for Christmas and it rapidly has become THE toy of Christmas. I even walked in on my 26 year old brother in law wearing it, who declared, "This is an AWESOME toy." My four year old is rarely without it. Great find.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A neat concept, but dangerously loud.
Comment: It was my idea to purchase this for our son's third birthday. I thought it looked adorable, and that he'd love racing around with his interactive helmet and steering wheel. And I should preface my review by saying I'm not a particularly paranoid person who wraps their children in bubble wrap from head to toe... While I'm practical about obvious age levels and choking hazards, kids are kids. However...
Little did I know how LOUD this toy is! Not so much for the bystander, but for the child. My husband opened it with our son (after a half hour of struggling with the packaging, which you have to destroy completely in the process), and out of curiosity, propped the helmet on his own head. Thank goodness he did so -- some of the sounds in this thing are really, possibly dangerously, loud.
The concept is cute: the helmet has speakers and a microphone. When you turn on the helmet and steering wheel, several sounds play in (random?) order until you start coordinating your steering movements. The child's voice comes through at a decent level, but screeching tires, "vroom" noises, etc. are really, really loud -- even though the main speaker is located on the top of the helmet.
My husband is a composer who is well aware of the possibilities of hearing loss from misuse of headphones, instruments and toys, and he's not a paranoid guy. When he suggested I try on the helmet (which doesn't fit completely on an adult's head -- on a child, it would settle over his/her ears) -- I was skeptical. But even settled above my head and not around it, I agreed with him that the sounds were way too loud.
We called Hasbro, and my husband discussed the subject with the customer service rep. Not only did we think this was dangerous (you can't adjust the sound levels at all), but we couldn't return it because we had to detroy the packaging just to get the darned thing open. They agreed to send us a return label and then compensate us with a toy of comparable value for the age range (what that will be, I have no idea).
Needless to say, our son was really disappointed, and so were we. I hope Hasbro takes our comments seriously and revamps this for a 2.0 version that doesn't put anyone's hearing at risk. Buyer beware!
Customer Rating:
Summary: GREAT TOY FOR FANS OF CARS
Comment: My grandson loved this, the only draw back was that he wanted me to be in the race with him, which meant running beside or behind him :-)
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