Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue Firetruck: Let Your Porn Stars Ride in Style!
Written: May 04 '04
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Pros: sturdy, fun
Cons: only works with talking Rescue Heroes
The Bottom Line: If you have a Rescue Heroes fan and already have some Mission Select figures, this is a worthwhile investment.
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| pippadaisy's Full Review: Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue F... |
Oh, my sister. Have I complained about her enough yet? My sister decided that it was her responsibility as evil aunt to get my two-year-old interested in Fisher Price Rescue Heroes. Not knowing entirely what I was in for, I capitulated, and added on, getting my son the Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue Firetruck for his birthday. Oh, what a tangled web has been woven!
~&~ The Basics ~&~
If you aren't at all familiar with Rescue Heroes, they are a band of rescuers, representing most branches of civil servants (fire, police, etc.) who go out wherever there is a need, usually during a natural disaster, and help people. Lead by Warren Waters and Roger Houston, they put themselves "in the line of fire" on a daily basis. The Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue Firetruck is one of the ways they get to the scene.
The Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue Firetruck is large. I'm estimating, because I can't find my tape measure, but it's approximately 22" long by 8" wide at its widest section by 12" high to the top of the water cannons. The Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue Firetruck is red (after all, it's a fire truck!), but looks unlike any fire truck you've ever seen before. True to the usual space-age technology that the Rescue Heroes employ, this fire truck looks very futuristic. Narrower in the front than in the back, this open-topped vehicle boasts a red top section and black bottom base with large black wheels with silver centers. It seats one, with a Mission Select slot for the seat back so that you can plug in your Mission Select Rescue Heroes figure (or actually any Rescue Heroes Figure. There is a low clear-plastic windshield.
Behind the driver's seat is a large black box, and connected to the box by a black spiral cord is a silver Mission Select pack, much like the backpacks worn by the Rescue Heroes themselves. If you put one Rescue Heroes figure in the driver seat and press the button, he or she will talk about a fire-specific mission. Attach a second figure to the pack, and the two figures will converse about the mission you select on the dial on the pack (fire, earthquake, avalanche, flood, volcano, or tornado). A button on the left side of the truck also plays three realistic fire truck noises: a siren, an engine revving, and a horn beeping.
Behind the black box is an open truck bed with a large silver dual-barreled water cannon. There is space behind the water cannon for a Rescue Heroes figure to stand to "fire" the cannons, which fire two blue plastic "water" shots by pressing small buttons on either side of the cannons. Also included are two removable silver ladders.
The Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Rescue Firetruck comes fully assembled (including stickers!) and comes with the three "AA" batteries that it requires.
~&~ Parents Perspective ~&~
While I'm not overly fond of the Rescue Heroes toys to begin with (their porn star names, incessant advertising, and cheap structures annoy me), this really is a truck that is worth the money. My son is two, and a whirling dervish of destruction, and this truck has stood up to all his abuse and more. He's thrown it, dropped it, kicked it, fallen on it, and it still looks brand new.
Not applying stickers or assembling toys is always a big plus in my book for ANY toy, and I do like how the characters have conversations between each other. Believe it or not, however, my son prefers to make his own sound effects, so I had to do a test run of all the sound effects myself in order to write this review! There is no on/off switch or volume control, but when it does make noise (usually when my daughter is playing with it), it isn't horribly annoying as some other toys are.
The stickers add nice detail, and stand up very well to play. My son is in a phase where he thinks his world needs more color, and has colored on the stickers with washable markers, and I've been able to clean them off with no wear. Overall clean-up is very easy, and I've done so numerous times using baby wipes.
~&~ Kid Value ~&~
My son loves fire trucks, and he loves Rescue Heroes so the Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Firetruck was bound to be a winner. Its large size makes it very easy for him to push along, and yet isn't so heavy that he can't pick it up and carry it to another location for yet another rescue.
The only thing that annoys my children is how other Rescue Heroes talk when placed in the truck. I've read reviews on other sites that say that the Voice Tech figures will work, but non-speaking Rescue Heroes cause the truck to repeat the same phrase over and over and over again. It would have been nice to at least have the option to shut it off if using the truck with non-Mission Select figures, but it's a small price to pay for a toy that is loved so well.
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My other Fisher Price Rescue Heroes reviews:
Fisher Price Rescue Heroes HydroTeam Billy Blazes
Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Ariel Flyer
Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Billy Blazes
Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Jake Justice
Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Matt Medic
Fisher Price Rescue Heroes Mission Select Wendy Waters
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 34.99
Type of Toy: Action Figure
Age Range of Child: Other
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