triscuitsmom
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I now own a MR65 *finally pics up in post #22 and #23*
I picked up a My Ride 65 at my local Babies R Us today (Belleville, Ontario). Bought it to try out since we were looking for a new seat anyway.
First impressions: It is *way* shorter than the Radian. Not at first glance (because it's a big seat!) but when Tobias (who admittedly has a *huge* head in proportion to his body) got in it I'm skeptical about how much room we're really going to have with the 1" of shell rule. Now granted the infant body pillow was in when I tried him in it so I didn't get a true measurement yet.
It is a big seat. Width wise I mean. I am going to have to play to see if I can get it installed to puzzle and I have Radians and still I think I'm going to have to play to see. It certainly wasn't easy going when I set it in beside them (I got the floor model, so no box).
I love the manual. Has several different descriptions of locking retractor types and seat types for installing that was more detailed then I think I've seen before.
There are seperate LATCH anchors for both rearfacing and forward facing. They have their own clips and you don't have to rethread for the different path, it's already there.
Also no height restriction listed *huge yay*. It says 1" of hard shell. It is definitely 40lb rearfacing limit (and 65 forward, as we knew it would be). Also the manual says that the child must be 22lbs, 1 year old AND walking unassisted to flip forward, just for reference.
Oh one weird thing I noticed. It says in the manual that the body pillow can only be used on the bottom two slots (there are five total, bottom four can be rearfacing, top four can be used forward facing), which made sense to me... but it also said that the head support (a pillow type thing across the top of the seat) and the harness pads (the same as all of the other seats I've owned, the little pads to cushion the harness a little bit beside the child) have to come off when the child is 40 pounds. I've never seen a seat before that can't use the harness pads above a certain weight. It said so in the manual and on the pads themselves there is a tag that says so too. It says because it might not be safe in a sudden stop??? That's the reasoning given at least and was the one weird thing I noticed about the seat.
Overall I like it. I would've preferred the blue/grey pattern (Bartlett I think?) but Spiral is nice too. I can't wait to play with it more tomorrow. I will get pictures.
I picked up a My Ride 65 at my local Babies R Us today (Belleville, Ontario). Bought it to try out since we were looking for a new seat anyway.
First impressions: It is *way* shorter than the Radian. Not at first glance (because it's a big seat!) but when Tobias (who admittedly has a *huge* head in proportion to his body) got in it I'm skeptical about how much room we're really going to have with the 1" of shell rule. Now granted the infant body pillow was in when I tried him in it so I didn't get a true measurement yet.
It is a big seat. Width wise I mean. I am going to have to play to see if I can get it installed to puzzle and I have Radians and still I think I'm going to have to play to see. It certainly wasn't easy going when I set it in beside them (I got the floor model, so no box).
I love the manual. Has several different descriptions of locking retractor types and seat types for installing that was more detailed then I think I've seen before.
There are seperate LATCH anchors for both rearfacing and forward facing. They have their own clips and you don't have to rethread for the different path, it's already there.
Also no height restriction listed *huge yay*. It says 1" of hard shell. It is definitely 40lb rearfacing limit (and 65 forward, as we knew it would be). Also the manual says that the child must be 22lbs, 1 year old AND walking unassisted to flip forward, just for reference.
Oh one weird thing I noticed. It says in the manual that the body pillow can only be used on the bottom two slots (there are five total, bottom four can be rearfacing, top four can be used forward facing), which made sense to me... but it also said that the head support (a pillow type thing across the top of the seat) and the harness pads (the same as all of the other seats I've owned, the little pads to cushion the harness a little bit beside the child) have to come off when the child is 40 pounds. I've never seen a seat before that can't use the harness pads above a certain weight. It said so in the manual and on the pads themselves there is a tag that says so too. It says because it might not be safe in a sudden stop??? That's the reasoning given at least and was the one weird thing I noticed about the seat.
Overall I like it. I would've preferred the blue/grey pattern (Bartlett I think?) but Spiral is nice too. I can't wait to play with it more tomorrow. I will get pictures.
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