Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker: Snow Way This is Popular
Written: Jan 05 '05
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Pros: we like the snowmobile
Cons: arg!
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My 2½-year-old son, Buster, is an avid Rescue Heroes fan. In fact, he has four loves: Toy Story, Rescue Heroes, trains & cars, and dinosaurs. Lucky boy got some of each for Christmas, but unfortunately, the Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker was somewhat of a disappointment.
::: Fisher-Price Indecent? :::
If you are new to the world of Fisher-Price, you may not be aware of the parental amusement to be found in the world of Rescue Heroes. Ostensibly a team of do-gooders, the Rescue Heroes team is a bunch of beefy, muscled public servants (yes, including the women) who go out saving the world saddled with names worth of the adult film industry. Let's see you have a nice time playing Rescue Heroes with your child and not laugh at names like Jack Hammer, Gil Gripper, and Wendy Waters.
At any rate, the hero currently being discussed here is our friend, Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker, usually found in snowy areas dealing with situations such as avalanches and stoned snowboarders. Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker comes "dressed" (all clothing is painted) in an outfit that is sure to net him an appearance on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: mustard yellow ski suit with day-glo orange trim, red accents, and bright blue belt and gloves. He wears huge grey ski boots with the orange, blue, black and silvery trim, and his face is mostly covered by molded silver goggles with blue trim. His ski jacket has a hood with white fur trim worthy of Zsa Zsa Gabor, and he appears to have a silver microphone projecting out of the hood toward his smirking mouth.
Also included with the Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker set are two dogs, Snow and Winter. Oddly, the mountain cats and the dogs in the Rescue Heroes collection all seem very similar in design, but one dog is grey and the other white, and their tongues are lolling in different spots. One has a black with blue harness, and the other blue with black, and they attach to a long black plastic harness via square slots on their backs, which look odd when the dogs aren't attached to the harness.
The harness attaches to a grey "rescue sled" with the red Rescue Heroes logo, which can be used to pull one of those baked snowboarders, or Al on his neon orange snowmobile. The snowmobile is actually fairly realistic looking, but I'm still trying to ascertain when you'd have sled dogs pulling a snowmobile EVER. The snowmobile snaps on and off the sled easily.
::: Boring Al :::
The first thing that Buster noticed when we unboxed Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker was Al's lack of backpack. The Rescue Heroes are nothing without their enormous physics-defying, high-tech, Inspector Gadget-like packs. We have packs that make them speak, packs that shoot out water, and packs that just look pretty. But Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker has no pack! What good is a Rescue Hero without his pack? He does have the usual protrusion on his back for using a pack, but the Mission Select folks are NOT sharing. They may need a time-out.
Next up is the cheesy harness. I looks cheap because it is cheap. Buster is a fan of collecting various and sundry toy-type items and taking them to bed with him. In ONE NIGHT the harness was bent nearly beyond recognition, and I can see it snapping with very little play. These toys are recommended for ages three and up, and three-year-old boys are not usually gentle with toys in my experience.
My final beef with this set are the dogs. Perhaps it's because our first Rescue Heroes familiar was a mountain lion that looked similar, but these do not look like sled dogs. They look like cats. Or at least mountain lions. And for some reason, they have a very hollow-feeling mold, with feet with no bottoms, which not only makes them look strange, but also feel far too frail to be pulling big old Al and his snowmobile. They are in dire need of a sammich.
::: This Stud's a Dud :::
At the ridiculously high retail price of $14.99, I'd have to say that Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes Al Pine with Arctic Tracker is a dud. You'd be better off spending your money on eBay to score a Mission Select Billy Blazes. At least he comes with a backpack. And a cuter outfit.
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Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 14.99
Type of Toy: Action Figure
Age Range of Child: 3 to 5 Years
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