KidsEmbrace ... a look

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It arrived this morning, but with three under three I'm kind of busy during the day. I still haven't had a chance to install it, hopefully tomorrow, I'd do it now, but it's dark and raining :( I'll probably do a two part thread. This one is just unboxing and measuring. It is for children who are at least 1 year and 22lbs through 65lbs. And booster at least three years through 100lbs. It is latchable in booster mode.

top slots-16" just over
width at widest- 19.5" at the cupholders
seat depth- 12"
headwings-5" deep flare out to 8"

* I also own a rps, gn, fr85, and maestro, if anyone needs to see it next to something else or has a question comparing it to the others*

The box is a short square, similar to the tf boxes and the square gn boxes. Not very heavy. Heavier than the maestro, lighter than the others. They put a ton info on the box itself.
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There are two harness heights, with the top being just over 16" pushing 16.5". To my surprise A still fit with about .5" of growing room, unistalled anyways. He's over the top on the blvd70 which I thought had 16.75" top slots?
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The headrest adjustment is basically just for booster mode. It has a push in slide up adjustment in the back. I don't like it, and found it hard to adjust up, it adjust downward easy enough but pulling it up was difficult.
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The backside
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The beltguide
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**continued**
 
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Buckle tongues
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Buckle
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Behind the seat pad. I didn't totally undress him ;)
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Behind the headwings, the manual said it was removable, but it looks like the glue from glueing the gray foam on wasn't dry when they put the cover on and it pulled up when I took it off.
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Under the bum
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harness covers (very thick)
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cupholders- the white snack tray is moveable to either side.
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Latch storage- Latch is usable up to 40lbs in harness mode, but it is also useable in booster mode.
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Overall, it isn't as bad as I was expecting, it's not the greatest either. It says easily removable seat pad, but it's not that easy. Lots of little clips and stretchy bands. The "arms" seem a little flimsy, they could break if a heavier child decided to climb on them I think. It's cute though, if you like squarepants.
 

TerisBoys

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Interesting that the box has the Euro "stages" on it.

I'm still reserving judgment on it. To ME it still looks like a Cosco seat, especially with all the ties and stuff for the cover.
 

tarabelle

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So it's 19.5" at the cupholders, it looks very narrow in the seat area itself.

It doesn't look nearly as garish in your pics.

Handcupholders still give me the heebs though LOL

On the part with the glue sticking to the headrest cover, it appears that it is either missing a chunk of the gray comfort foam? Or is it just how it pulled off?

I'll be interested to see what the lowest slot measurement is too
 

BabyKaykes

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So far I see one down side that would keep me away from it if I were your average car seat shopper...

It doesn't look like the headret comes down closer to those bottom slots. I'd want those wings around my 1-2yos head if I wwere going to FF them.
 

ketchupqueen

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And the headrest doesn't come in, huh? I foresee headless Spongebob seats (not as much risk with the other "characters" because they have the actual HEAD on the headrest, from what I've seen) as well as headless Nautis in the future.

The back looks very straight, so maybe that's why, like the Radian, it would give a little more harness height than it "should" according to measurement.
 

ketchupqueen

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Know what I like? the yellow harness. :eek:
I did like that! Harness webbing comes in so many colors, we never see the fun ones! Some of the really old infant buckets had blue, but that's about as "wild" as it ever got. I've seen some stylin' old 80s cars with burgundy seatbelts, I want a car seat with burgundy harness! :D
So is the whole buckle assembly plastic then? I'm not sure I could handle that.

Eh, they do it in Europe... It's much harder plastic than what's used even for the shells of the car seats. I don't have a problem with it as long as it functions.
 

TerisBoys

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I did like that! Harness webbing comes in so many colors, we never see the fun ones! Some of the really old infant buckets had blue, but that's about as "wild" as it ever got. I've seen some stylin' old 80s cars with burgundy seatbelts, I want a car seat with burgundy harness! :D

Evenflo in the mid-90's had royal blue as well as bright red. And Gerry had teal/turquoise.

Went well with the bright primary paint-splattery covers.
 

Baylor

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I don't like the plastic buckle either. Plastic no matter how hard is still not metal. That would be it for me.
 

morninglori

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The buckles aren't just plastic. According to the Sabelt product catalog, they are metal and plastic.

B U C K L E S - G R O U P 1
OLYMPIA 62 Specific for 5 points seatbelt
Co-moulded body with metal insert
Coated tongues to provide heat insulation
Central push button system
Light weight (101 gr). Specific for US market
Meets FMVSS 213 Regulation

from here: http://win.sabeltspace.com/public/download/cat_infanzia.pdf

I was scoping the sabelt site when some guy posted on the KE page about how awsome these harness were and I went looking. Sabelt has been producing primarily european harnesses. Most of the buckles seem to be puzzle ones and the one the KE seat uses is one of the only ones that isn't.
 

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