Carrera RC 370181067 Mario Kart Remote Controlled Racing, Multicoloured

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The racer is relatively heavy – probably weighing a few pounds – even though I haven’t officially weighed it. It is very durable – I’ve seen my children ram this RC racers into furniture and other RC racers to cause a big crash scene. A fan favorite – here is our danger scale; where we look at how much potential pain this toy could cause a sibling, parent, or even pet that lives in the household. I did give the Mario RC Racer a 5 on the annoyance scale – but for some reason getting hit by Luigi doesn’t bother me as much….so I’ll give it a 4 out of 10. The Danger Scale It took a little over five minutes to go from opening the box to winning my first race, a timespan compatible with impatient kids on Christmas morning. Rejigging the circuit takes a few minutes each time, letting you change things up in the middle of a series of races if you start to get bored. Racing a championship, you’re given some virtual opponents and the usual array of items and power-ups: munch a mushroom and the kart gets a little burst of speed, get hit by a shell and it stops dead for a second. Each new race has a new theme, from underwater to Bowser’s Castle. I must admit I had more fun abandoning the races and following the kart around my flat with my four-year-old in tow, gleefully enjoining my to crash it into the baby or explore under the bed. Mario Carrera 181066 RC Official Licensed Kart Mach 8 Mario 1: 18 Scale 2.4 Ghz Remote Radio Control CarThe good news: this is a very safe toy. It doesn’t have any small pieces, children can’t jump off of it, and there aren’t any sharp edges or blunt objects that can cause a lot of pain and easily be swung around.

Mario Kart has been a family favourite since the early 1990s thanks to its potent combination of cute characters, speedy but simple racing and an array of red shells, banana skins and other eye-wateringly unfair tools of playful sabotage. Nintendo’s latest experiment in the toy world, made in collaboration with Velan Studios, is an actual Mario remote-controlled kart that comes with a game. Instead of confining all the action to a screen, this lets you race a little car around your living room, using a Nintendo Switch to control it.

I did run into a little issue when we try to operate both the Mario & Luigi RC racers at the same time. Sometimes the frequencies get crossed when you first turn them on, and the Mario control will control the Luigi car and vice versa. Separate them, take them into different rooms and turn them on, and the problem should be eliminated.