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    Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
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    Image of zimmi88 zimmi88
    12/29/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    *facepalm*


    Seriously, the wonderful thing about the good old red wagon is that it's simple entertainment. I really really really wouldn't want Radio Flyer's version of "Pimp My Wagon," even if I were rich.


    ...though I guess if they wanted to go all the way they could add spinning rims...

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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    What no spinners.... thats bullshit man!!!!


    If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

    --Cordfucious

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    At this point, a little clarification is necessary. No child in the target demographic would be drinking Juicy Juice. The child would drink Odwalla and even that would be slumming it.


    In fact, the child riding in this wagon would never taste anything that had ever been packaged in a 46 oz. steel can and stocked on the bottom shelf of a supermarket.

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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    I got my little guy the classic steel RF wagon with the all-terrain wheels for X-mas. Set me back $144 on Amazon. Oh how I love the no shipping charges and no sales tax on Amazon.
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    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    Last night I was feeling really good about the planet: my local radio station played a couple of songs about bikes! Not cars. Bikes!


    Dance Band - "Pedal Power" (Dalida Remix)

    City On The Make - "Chicks On Bikes"


    After reading this post however, I'm not so sure.

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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    A Radio Flyer with cup-holders? This is solid proof that the Anti-Christ has been born.... the little demonic tyke is probably being pulled around LA by a nanny in this thing as we speak...


    It's linked from a site called "Born Rich"... the new money proles...

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    Image of MadCrazy MadCrazy
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    No electric motor, No killer chain-saw bummer? I mean c'mon I want the kids to be able to run over the neighbourhood bullies and what not.
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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    12/28/08

    @MadCrazy: Well put... and propane flamethrower for those-up-close-and-personal moments with that creepy neighbor who collects Precious Moments figurines, and desperately wants to show all the neighborhood kids his basement freezer full of freezer pops.
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    Image of russdanger russdanger
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    Wow! I can't think of a better icon to represent the materialistic, spoiled, pampered, self-obsessed, hyper-fragilized, bloated consumerist young-uns of this great nation of ours...YEAH!, I'm talkin' about YOUR kid, you shmuck!...Whaddaya gonna do about it?, go on Oprah and CRY???!!!....
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    Image of Counterglow Counterglow
    12/28/08

    @russdanger: The kids aren't the problem here. The problem is any parent who would buy this manure spreader.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    12/28/08

    @Counterglow: As a person who lives on a farm, I'd rather have a manure spreader than this thing.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/28/08

    @russdanger: There's plenty of things that better represent overpampered and overscheduled youth of today than this.


    That said, this looks to be less sturdy than the old lacquer-painted steel wagons of days-gone-by. I wouldn't buy this because it has too much breakable stuff. The beauty of the old wagons was that they were a bin, four rubber wheels, two axles, a pull-bar and a wooden handle. Easy to maintain, easy to fix, built to last.


    From a child's standpoint, I wouldn't have enjoyed this because the seats prevent you from putting stuff in there - like a whole bunch of sticks and rocks, or snowballs, or stuffed animals, or friends.


    It has little to do with the spoiling of today's youth and more to do with an unnecessary and impractical update to a time-tested design.

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    Image of Max_Lux Max_Lux
    12/28/08

    @russdanger:

    also +1


    The next four years will take care of a lot of this. We will soon be thinking of food, not gadgets.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/28/08

    @russdanger: Maybe you're still miffed you never found this under your Christmas tree:
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    12/28/08

    @Max_Lux: Why, b/c more of the world is obese than hungry?
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    12/28/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: I must agree with you. I find the same thing has come to apply to cars. We now install entertainment systems into cars, rather than the old fashioned backwards facing seat which not only increased cargo room, but also let kids stare and make faces at, to them, oncoming traffic.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/28/08

    In reply to Radio Flyer Cloud 9 Wagon Crushes My Youthful Memories With MP3 Player, Bucket Seats
    How's a kid supposed to get tetanus from this?!


    Less plastic and electronics and more metal and sharp edges.

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