Matt Connors' photo of a dad pushing a Mamas & Papas Sola stroller down the street on the east side of LA somewhere reminded me of two things: Matt McCormick's awesome 2001 short film, The Subconscious Art of graffiti...
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Category archive: strollers
January 29, 2012
The Subconscious Art Of Shirt Removal
January 28, 2012
Throwback Bugaboo Cameleon At Giggle
In the words of the bard, This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Bugaboo has released what amounts to its first throwback edition, a 2012 Cameleon outfitted in one...
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December 23, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Bears & Bees Edition
It's the DT Friday Freakout! A roundup of headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting to ruin your holiday weekend: The CPSC announced a recall of 7,260 Bugaboo Bees, all manufactured in 2011, to replace front swivel...
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December 14, 2011
Stokke Xplory-Lookin' Doll Stroller
Famosa may not make the Baby Pirulin Pipi anymore, but you know what it does make? A toy stroller that looks an awful lot like a Stokke Xplory. For twins. That folds. Maravilloso! Silla Plegable Nenuco, 38,95 € [juguetespedrosa.es]...
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November 30, 2011
Crazy Folding Robot Stroller Is The 4Moms Origami! Or Will Be. Soon. Ish.
It lives! Last/first seen at the 2008 ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, Crazy Robot Folding Stroller has continued evolving, adapting, and learning our ways. And like Gremlins, the T-1000, or that hot chick from Species, it is using its...
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November 21, 2011
HolySmokes, Who Acquires Who? I Mean Whom? I Mean Orbit Baby??
Good thing I'm sitting down. Because Rachel from DaintyBaby.com just hit me upside the head with a frying pan of news, that ERGObaby, the baby wearing company, has acquired Orbit Baby, the off-the-hook, advanced stroller/car seat transport system company. I...
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November 16, 2011
The Fiat 500 Is Actually A Motorized Recaro Car Seat & Seed Pli Stroller Carrying Case.
I like the Fiat 500, I really do. I want to be friendly to our Fiat guests, not chase them off American shores again, and when I think about getting a smaller runabout for town, I really do consider...
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October 20, 2011
B.O.B. Bought By Britax
Now that all their previous merchandise has been recalled for minor embroidery issues, B.O.B. was free to sell itself to over-upholstered car seat juggernaut Britax. And that's just what they did. "The parties have agreed to not disclose the purchase...
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October 18, 2011
This Is Not Your Mother's Quinny
You know, I started watching Elizabeth the other night, and for a few minutes, I almost thought, "Real princess, big dresses, horses. Maybe I'll TiVo it and show the kids." [Of course, I changed my mind long before the...
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October 14, 2011
DT Friday Freakout: Occupy Sesame Street Edition
Personally, my weekend's already ruined, full of regret for not doing more with the Occupy Sesame Street concept. Or maybe I'll just work in my Photoshop skills. [tauntr] As for the rest of you, here are a few headlines from...
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October 11, 2011
Bugaboo Wanna De World, Chicco, An Everthinisinnit
It's kind of amazing that Bugaboo hasn't made an adapter for Chicco car seats, but there you go. Anyway, there is one now. Frankly, when we were shopping for a car seat, one of the deciding factors was the...
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October 10, 2011
Bamboo Strollers High & Low
While researching the latest developments in bamboo resin concept cars, DT senior minivan correspondent JJ Daddy-O decided it has been way too long since we've had a decent bamboo stroller sighting around here. Coincidentally, it was way back in 2004,...
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September 27, 2011
DT Approved: Dylan's Candy Bar X Maclaren Volo
As close readers [my wife] know, this 2004 takedown of the Maclaren Kate Spade stroller represented a formative moment in Daddy Types history.There's never been a starker tradeoff of features/function and fashion, and I think it's kind of cruel...
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September 22, 2011
The Ford Treasury Of Taylor Tot Living
DT reader John was flipping through his German-language copy of Emil Schulthess's 1955 photobook, USA, when he spotted this picture of a dad pushing a Taylor Tot stroller through the Ford Rotunda, which had just reopened with its new...
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September 20, 2011
GeekDad Investigates The 3-D Printed DIY Bugaboo Part Situation
I always thought Ken Denmead was GeekDad, but it turns out it's more flexible than that, like Marina from Fresh Beat Band, or The Yellow Wiggle. Good to know. Anyway, over at GeekDad, Roy Wood is doing Important Work, tracking...
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September 19, 2011
Is It Any Wonda I've Got Too Much Gear On My Hands?
Wow, a whole stroller/kid furniture world of the past just opened up to me, like seeing color photos of World War II after a lifetime of black & white. Seriously, the Wonda Chair? Who's been keeping this a secret...
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September 16, 2011
It's Breathtaking, I Suggest You Try It
Technofetishistofuturistic, shiny, and somewhat ridiculously dread-inspiring, Jean Nouvel is the Mamas and Papas Urbo of architects. [Ha, didn't see that one coming didja?] Which makes it kind of funny that he was DUMBO's Archduke of Gentrification, David Walentas's go-to...
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September 13, 2011
Ooh Look, Shiny Object! Mamas And Papas Urbo Spotted In The Wild
The wife has long--looong--since gotten used to my strollerchasing ways. Though we both also noted that it had been a while since a stroller actually stopped me mid-sentence. But she understands, and so on Saturday evening [cough, 5:15], she...
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September 7, 2011
Because 'Mom' Was Redundant: The Bugaboo Tattoo
And speaking of crazy Bugaboo happenings, I'm surprised the publicists didn't send this one along. A STFU, Parents reader spotted it on Bugaboo's Facebook page. STFU also has some of the awesome comments Moonika's tattoo has engendered. I would...
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September 6, 2011
9/10/11: It's A Bugaboo Sample Sale
Well this is awesome. Bugaboo is having a sample sale this Saturday, with strollers and accessories up to 60% off. [i.e., the umbrella's gonna be 60% off, and some Paul Frankensttroller.] The sale runs from 1-6PM Eastern, which is...
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September 4, 2011
A Little Short For A Storm Trooper
I suggest you do what she says, and get Kristina Alexanderson's Clone/Stormtrooper photos one a day. Because clicking through them all at once is just too damn adorable. Oh, ok, just one more: CClone-365-2011 project and photoset [flickr via...
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August 22, 2011
Whoa, Nari Ward, You're Freaking Me Out Right Now!
Amazing Grace, 1993, Nari Ward, installed with a painting by Christopher Wool and a poster shitshow by M/M Paris at the Palais de Tokyo in 2005. Amazing Grace is a 1993 sculpture/installation by the US artist Nari Ward. It...
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August 19, 2011
My Other Stroller Is A Porsche
Holy crap, people! You think there could actually be a Porsche Design stroller hitting the streets and I haven't heard about it? I've got freakin' web alerts set up for this kind of thing! [At least I do now.]...
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July 14, 2011
ID This Steampunked Vintage Stroller/Rider Thing
While prowling the playground, Mike spotted a rather insane, vintage stroller/rider/whatsis that looks like it had been given a suitably steampunky spray job:I saw this old timey child's perambulation device at the park the other day and just about screamed...
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July 4, 2011
Phil & Teds & The Recall Down Under
It looks like the Phil & Teds recall of two models that began its home country of New Zealand a couple of weeks ago has spread to neighboring Australia. Kind of. Actually, no, not at all. Not even close. The...
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June 20, 2011
Mima Kids Strollers di Artisti! Personallizato!
Mima Kobi stroller customized by Milanese architect/designer Antonio Pio Giovanditto, ends Jun. 30 In 2009, the Spanish premium baby start-up Mima won the Innovation award at the huge K+J expo for their Kobi stroller, which converts from carrycot to...
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June 3, 2011
Chavs Are Tickety-Boo, Daddy Types Tweeted
You know, I try to put out a site that's useful, relevant. Brings new information to light. Maybe has some decent writing, interspersed now and then with an entertaining picture of a baby, a stroller. But I tell you, if...
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May 13, 2011
Too Big For Stroller, Too Little To Leave Behind
Oh, these kids and their tumblrs! If only I'd had the foresight to start one of these things a year and a half ago, I, too, could've been on Salon.com this week! Strollers, of course, are a tool of...
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May 12, 2011
Maclarens Keep Chopping Fingers, CPSC Keeps Recalling Maclarens
18 months ago, in an extraordinary recall event we've come to call Macopalypse 2009, Maclaren and the CPSC recalled basically all the Maclaren umbrella-style strollers sold in the US through 2009, after the company received multiple reports of the exposed...
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May 4, 2011
Juicy Phooooteur
DT reader Greg and his daughter took the crayons to the 20-page Maclaren newspaper that was inserted in their most recent diapers.com order. He calls this page "a loose interpretation" of Walter Benjamin's axiom, "There is no document of...
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May 3, 2011
Why Not? Bugaboo X Missoni
Let's get this out right up front: the new Bugaboo X Missoni strollers look fantastic. Now I'm normally opposed to fashion designer stroller colabos on principle. On several principles, actually, none of which apply in this case. Let me...
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April 21, 2011
Leggero Ventolino: Eine Kleine Wooden Bike Trailer
Leggero was the first European bike kid trailer like 20 years ago, and then something happened, press releases don't say what, just that "Now, the pioneer is back - with the Leggero Vento," which is manufactured in Switzerland, and...
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April 6, 2011
Greentime For Stokke At Magic Beans
If you've been holding off on getting a Stokke Xplory because you thought the green fabric was just a little too dark, well, spring has sprung, my stroller-shopping friend. Stokke is launching the Xplory in light green, and it's...
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April 3, 2011
Strollers And The City
Tom Scocca's NY Times op-ed/true confession of his kid's strollercentric city life is pretty great. It made me think of two things, though. OK, three: 1) Duh. That just means he's right. 2) When the kid was a few weeks...
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March 22, 2011
Suffering Sappho, It's Amazon Babysitter!
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman's on the way to help the baby T-Rex and save the day She's written like crap, And she's not too buff, But throw some mythological references in the mix, and I guess you've got the...
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Strollers Of The Caribbean
Alright, I'm back. And I've got a small stack of Disney Cruise-related posts to get to, but last things first: we tacked a visit to Disney World onto the [wrong] end of our trip. Despite having once worked for The...
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March 7, 2011
Double Baby Buggy Pimpers: Phil & Teds Deal On Amazon
Maybe it's because spring is in the air, and peoples' (and marketers') thoughts naturally turn to new cycles of reproduction. Or perhaps the news of recent recalls have bitten off a chunk of sales. Either way, there are only...
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February 14, 2011
A Liberal Bugaboo?
Wait, when Rep. Michele Bachmann [R-Crazytown, Minn.] says a government shutdown is a liberal "Bugaboo," does she mean it's awesome and a moneysaver, or expensive and crazy? Or is the other way around in reverse? Is it still liberal...
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February 13, 2011
We All Live In A Marketing Machine: Maclaren Yellow Submarine
In the town where this was born live some branding agencies. After problems with his wife, Paul's old band's now licensing. iTunes first, now Maclaren, Looking for a sea of green, And we marvel at the pimping of their...
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February 11, 2011
Here Are Strollers Made From Russian Submarine Mines.
Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin makes furniture out of salvaged WWII-era submarine mines left behind by the regrouping ex-Soviet army. True, this cowhide number is still a seat belt and a cupholder short of an actual stroller. So how's this? Strictly...
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Disney Is Finally Making Baby Gear
And it won't stop until it sucks up $5 billion of parents' money each year, or until it falls on its face. Do I start with the disclosures? No, I'll start with a blogger's whine. I haven't wanted to...
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February 2, 2011
'Wee Felix' Got His Finger Whacked By A Dash
A 2-yo in New Zealand got his fingertip near chopped off by a Phil & Teds Dash, which is not one of the models that have been recalled [again] recently for fingerchopping.:"The tip of his finger was 90 per cent...
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January 25, 2011
Don't Stick Your Finger In There, Because Phil & Teds Will Chop It Right Off
The Phil & Teds folding mechanism has always been a counter-intuitive, gotta-see-it-to-get-it deal; but that's the genius of it. It's how they manage to stack a second kid underneath like a Pringle. Now, because three parents out of thousands--tens of...
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January 11, 2011
F$*# Yeah Dadswear!
Where does Andy find this stuff?? Freeman's Sporting Club Fall/Winter Lookbook, photographs by Tim Barber [freemanssportingclub via stork bites man]...
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January 5, 2011
Just Don't Fold It
I really do try to keep a cone of silence around the kids' school, but this morning in K2's pre-school dropoff line, I just couldn't resist. I mean, if you don't want me to blog about your natural solution...
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November 16, 2010
So Far, I Count Two Phil & Teds Sub4 Joggers
I've given them some grief, but I've also gotta give Phil & Teds credit: they are totally owning a city double stroller market that coulda/shoulda/mighta been Bugaboo's; their campaigns and products are solidly dad-friendly; and even when it doesn't...
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November 4, 2010
Area Man Apparently About To Trade Bugaboo For A Dinner [Sitter Not Included]
I'm headed to the airport, long weekend in Amsterdam. The eBay auction for our awesome Bugaboo Cameleon ends in a couple of hours, and right now, it looks like I'll clear enough to take the Mrs. to a nice little...
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November 2, 2010
Area Man Selling Awesome Bugaboo
Hey look at that, 2005. That must have been in the first containerload of Cameleons to leave the factory. Hey, look at that, it has the same practically invisible and certainly inconsequential tear on the underside of the foam...
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September 17, 2010
But What's The Car Seat Setup?
Here's a sweet crop from an even sweeter ride, a nicely restored VW Beetle that Todd Lappin spotted recently and dubbed the Surfinstrollerwagen. Check out Telstar Logistics for the full pic and a report that does not, alas, include...
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September 15, 2010
Bugaboo Donkey Looks To Kick Some Double Stroller Ass
Via PRNewswire and the secret Bugaboo media link site that went live at 12:01AM, the world now knows that Bugaboo is finally introducing--the Bugaboo Donkey. It's a double stroller--that they don't want to call a double. Instead, it's a...
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September 10, 2010
Oh Well That's Pretty Awesome: The Orbit Baby Sidekick
Hey, the Orbit now has a stroller board! But it only fits the new-generation Orbit Baby G2 stroller. Hey, the Sidekick's the only stroller board designed for a "skateboard riding position"! But no offense little girl, that's not what...
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August 20, 2010
DT Friday Freakout: Summer Vacation Edition
Some parenting, kid, pregnancy, science, and education headlines from all over to freak you out and ruin your weekend: Despite August not being a good month for launching a new product recall, the CPSC recalled 3,700 Zooper Tango double...
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August 17, 2010
NY Times Writes The Hell Out Of Park Slope Ghost Stroller
Whatever the white-painted stroller chained to the Park Slope street corner mystery turns out to be, it gave Susan Dominus a chance to pause. And to reflect:Many other mothers, possibly used to the sight by now, pushed their own full...
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June 15, 2010
Blackameleon
[Cue passionate, Vivaldi-esque violin music] Hitting the market just in time for Father's Day, the special edition black-on-black-on-matte-black Bugaboo Cameleon says you'd impregnate her all over again. It also says there were some chassis left over from the Marc...
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June 10, 2010
Maclaren Now Chopping Prices!
Watch your fingers, Maclaren's throwing a giant warehouse tent sale this Saturday at the mothership in Connecticut. There are strollers and accessories up to 70% off. And maybe the MacNetto nursery concept is heading in a different direction, because...
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June 9, 2010
People Of Walmart Are People Of America
God Bless the USA, is all I can say. Click through for the full sized images--and so many more--at People of Walmart [peopleofwalmart.com via dt reader rolf]...
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June 4, 2010
Mini Bugawho?
Ohdeeoh posted a handy roundup of toy strollers, complete with links to their earlier posts on each one. Front and center is this awesome-looking, homemade mini Bugaboo, hacked together from an aluminum picnic basket; the extendible feet from two...
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May 31, 2010
Mountain Buggy, Kid, Survive Australia's Second Favorite Contact Sport
When they're not watching footie [i.e., rugby with less gentility and tinier pants], Australians pass the time either rolling strollers down sloped platforms into the path of oncoming trains, or watching CCTV footage of same. Last week, it was...
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May 18, 2010
Roller Buggy 2.0 Keeps On Rollin'
When we last saw Valentin Vodev's prototype for the Roller Buggy at London Design Festival in 2006, it simply had adapters for installing your favorite Maxi-Cosi car seat where the scooter's hood ornament would go. Now [or sometime between 2006...
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May 15, 2010
DC Wants To Be Brookln So Bad
Kid-free bloggers complaining about babies in bars. Stroller bans in twee local hangouts. Message board flamewars over family grocery runs on the bus. Just one train ride to Manhattan! All they need is a sex shop with a changing table,...
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Orale, Vatito! Lowrider Stroller Mod
From Craigslist in Corona and LA, a little something for rolling on the 3-0:CUSTOM MADE TODLER STROLLERS THESE ARE ALL METAL BODY'S WITH CUSTOM PAINT JOBS AND CUSTOM MADE INTERIORS LOOK AWESOME GREAT TO TAKE YOUR BOY OR GIRL...
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April 23, 2010
DT Advertiser Shoutout: Earth Day Edition
A quick shoutout to longtime DT advertisers Vincent, Sweden's favorite brand of kid's shoes, who are celebrating Earth Day with a sale! [I have no idea, either, but it's 25% off across the website, so just go with it.] Use...
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March 23, 2010
PR-my Of One: The Mamas & Papas Urbo Assault Vehicle
Here is the new Mamas & Papas Urbo stroller, a shiny all-you-mini-um travel system that is just a couple of machine gun turrets shy of Shi Jinsong's Na Zha Strollers Of Mayhem. Here is a commercial for the new...
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March 17, 2010
The Word 'Stroller' Appears Ten Times In The Archives Of Spin Magazine.
The earliest appearance of the word--which probably didn't cross my mind ten times in the 1980s and 90s--was in February 1986. The last was September 2005. Of the ten, four involve poor women, including two mentions of black girls with...
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Quirky Canada Has Own Laws, Stroller Theft Ring-Bustin' Dads
Toronto really IS New York, only cleaned up. If you lived in New York in the 90s, and you had a bike, it would get stolen regularly, and so you'd have to go down to Alphabet City and "buy" it...
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March 16, 2010
Overimagined Necessity Is The New Mother Of Invention
No idea why I thought of this right now: Adults who become parents are usually challenged by their new role, with its responsibilities and anxieties. New parents also face previously unexplored values and attitudes that surface suddenly upon the birth...
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March 9, 2010
Electron, Stroller-Pushing Robot Of Glorious Soviet Union
I'm not really sure what to do with this 1967 photo of a 7-ft tall robot from Kaliningrad named Electron (электрон), except to put it next to the other photos of wacked out, homemade, backwoods, Communist robots with strollers....
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February 25, 2010
Bee Plus Or Bee Fixed?
Wow, DT commenter FOG lite just posted a link to a new Metropolis Magazine feature on Jaap de Boer, the designer behind the Bugaboo Bee--and the Bugaboo Bee Plus. It's a short, fascinating story, and it's full of frank,...
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Bee Plus: Redesigned Bugaboo Bee Set To Ship In April
There's been some PR hints, and Boston's Magic Beans has already announced a preview party, but now the word's official: Bugaboo is shipping a new & improved version of the Bee in April. The key changes are called upgrades,...
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January 29, 2010
Cybex Strollers Recalled For Maclaren-Style Fingermunching
While it took Maclaren ten years and a million finger-munching strollers to earn a CPSC recall, Feisty upstart Cybex got theirs in less than six months. Cybex was introduced to the US market last fall by Regal Lager, the...
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January 25, 2010
Swiss-Style Stroller License Plates
The problem I've found with stroller accessorizing: it just doesn't work. I'd wanted to do little stroller-sized bumper stickers at one point, but only the fugliest car seat carriers had enough surface area. I'd wanted to do stroller license...
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January 20, 2010
Uh-Oh, Better Recall Graco! For Their 1.5 Million, Non-Umbrella, Finger-Chopping Strollers
Shows what I know. Ever since the Million Maclaren Recall, I've been waiting for the CPSC to point out [sic] the fingertip amputation risk posed by the folding hinges on any/every other umbrella stroller, too. And yet, the next 1.5...
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December 14, 2009
Baby Püppi By Martin Kippenberger
That's a bronze cast of a pig's leg there in the stroller. According to Luhring Augustine Gallery, in Baby Püppi, the late German artist Martin Kippenberger was acknowledging that his work, not kids, would be his legacy. To me,...
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December 13, 2009
Na Zha Gun Stroller By Shi Jinsong
And to think that just a few weeks ago, we were getting all worried about a few stroller fingertip amputations. In 2006, the Chinese sculptor/new dad Shi Jinsong showed Na Zha Baby Boutique, an "outrageously unsafe line of baby...
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December 12, 2009
K-E-Y Why Is He Hanging Like That, Daddy?
The dad in this picture was the hands-down winner of Hyperallergic's Art Basel Miami Beach Parenting Award. I figured it was awesome enough to mention even though I haven't yet figured out the artist or gallery. I'll get it...
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December 3, 2009
Smart Baby Case Concept Study: Wheelie X Stroller Mashup
I'm not a huge fan of unrealizable concept studies, but this so-called Insane Stroller Week is fast coming to an end, and James Frey's Bugaboo is still the craziest thing around, so here goes... Tehran-based designer Pouyan Mokhtarani created...
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December 1, 2009
Here Come The Frey BC's
The Freygaboo auction just went live on eBay. No free shipping. Giving it the Frey sign: Closeup, I think that's Klingon on the left there: Hmm, is the seat fabric painted, too? If only I'd stayed involved in this publicity...
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Customi(ZED) James Frey Bugaboo (RED) To Be eBa(YED)
I think this is going to be a week of stroller insanity, starting right. now. Bugaboo announced a couple of months ago that they were joining (RED), the giant, corporate fundraising effort to fight AIDS in Africa. As part...
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November 12, 2009
Oy, Macopalypse 2009 Now Park Slopalypse 2009
Wow, I miss one day of blogging, and suddenly Park Slope has turned into the hyperventilating headquarters for Maclaren's Rahm Emanuel Appreciation Society:"There's swine flu and Maclaren strollers," said Dara Kass, a mother of two, as she prepared to order...
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Macopalypse 2009 2004! Or, How Not To Sell A Stroller
So we're starting to fill in some of the dates on the timeline for Maclaren's Global War On Future Concert Pianists. When I spoke to Maclaren USA chairman Bahman Kia, he said the amputating hinge issue came to the company's...
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November 9, 2009
Macopalypse 2009: Recalled Maclaren Hinges An 'Industry-Wide Issue'
So clearly, the biggest stroller recall in history, of one of the most popular brands, for amputating children's fingers is a big deal. But then you realize that the actual threat posed to your kid's future as a concert...
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Macopalypse 2009: The CPSC Version
So here's the official CPSC recall announcement for the Maclaren Everythings, for your headline-comparing entertainment:Maclaren USA Recalls to Repair Strollers Following Fingertip Amputations WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today...
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Macopalypse 2009: The Maclaren Recall Press Release
Just got a press release from Maclaren's publicists reaffirming the company's "unwavering commitment to child safety," their "Zero Tolerance policy of safety issues," and that their "umbrella strollers meet all U.S. ASTM & JPMA compliance standards." Oh, also, they're recalling...
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November 8, 2009
One MILLION Strollers! Maclaren Will Recall EVERY Stroller Since 1999 After 12th Hinge-Related Amputation
Me, I would have guessed that the fingertip amputation threshold for a recall would be, say, 10. I mean, ten little fingers and ten little toes, right? As for the fingertip amputation threshold for a re-evaluation of a key element...
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October 23, 2009
DT Friday Freakout: Nuclear Edition
Here are some stories from the science, safety, and parenting worlds designed to help give your confidence a little extra push--over the cliff. Have a great weekend! Actually, these first two are just funny-sad: Do you remember going outside to...
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Busty Meccano Nanny & Pram By Andreas Konkoly
This won't be news to the readers of Pram Watch, the official blog of the Pram Museum, but to the few stragglers and delinquents among us, I say take note: "All nannies have a motherly bosom, and if you...
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October 21, 2009
Bugaboo's Not Just A Mountain Range In Canada, You Know
Bronson Pinchot's Random Roles interview with the AV Club, where all the questions are pretty much just stepping through his IMDb profile really is the best thing you'll read all day. And not just because he uses the word "bugaboo"...
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October 16, 2009
Was That Kid Riding In A Love'N'Care Pram When He Got Run Over By That Train?
So you've probably already seen this video from a CCTV camera in Melbourne, Australia of a stroller with a 6-month-old kid in it, heading right over the edge of the platform just as the train comes. So you know...
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October 15, 2009
Pay By The Stroller
One more reason to break out the sling. Or stay home, whichever. Tea Lounge to Breeders: Put your money where your Bugaboo Is [f***** in park slope, via curbed]...
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October 2, 2009
Bugaboo(RED) Launc(HED) Orde(RED) Ship(PED)
I'm so confu(SED). All this time I thought it was Bugaboo(RED), but now that the whole thing's actually launched, and these limited edition strollers and diaper bags are for actual sale, I find out that it's (BUGABOO)RED, which is...
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October 1, 2009
Apparently, Jogging With A Stroller Is Different
I'm no jogger, so really, I have no idea, but the NY Times' collection of facts and tips for adjusting your technique, expectations, and strategy when you run with a stroller sure seems handy. Still, doesn't everyone just do whatever...
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September 23, 2009
UPDATE: Mima Totally Actually By Europe
See, the way blogs work is that you kind of look at something a little bit, make some pronouncement on it, and depending on how wrong you are, people who actually know will often appear to correct you. And...
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September 22, 2009
HAHAHAHAHA, NO. Hauck '40 Jahre Woodstock' Stroller At K+J
God bless the quirky Germans, who apparently have as much embarrassingly uncritical dress-up love for dirty Boomer hippies as they do for American Indians. This steaming hot psychedelic mess of a stroller was at the Hauck Group booth at...
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Mima + Alma Win K+J 2009 Innovation Awards
Well, the huge Kind + Jugend kid gear expo is finished in Cologne [stay tuned for a quick photo roundup]. A couple of the Innovation Award winners stood out--actually, Maxi Cosi's Innovation Award for its line of car seats...
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September 13, 2009
I Hope A Dad Wins The Hell Out Of That Free Orbit Stroller
For future reference, the weekend our Disposall eats a Pyrex bowl and explodes, I doublebook a parent's party for the kid's kindergarten with the ABC Kids Expo, and we spend five hours at an outlet mall keeping K2 from...
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September 10, 2009
Strolle(RED): Bugaboo Joins Onto Project (RED)
Bugaboo announced yesterday that the company is joining Project (RED), the big save-a-life-through-shopping program whereby companies create campaigns and products to raise money and awareness for the fight against HIV/AIDS and other global health crises. To their credit, Bugaboo is...
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September 2, 2009
Asahi Typhoon 4 'AKA The German Bugaboo Killer' On eBay
An Asahi Typhoon 4 stroller by the German manufacturer Hauck is for sale on eBay, with local pickup in Brooklyn--Carroll Gardens, to be exact. Perhaps you've seen this headturning uber-stroller which the seller describes as:"THE DADDY OF ALL PUSHCHAIRS,"...
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August 21, 2009
Phil & Teds Moves Mountain Buggy To China Right On Schedule
It's as simple as 3+6=9. March + 6 months = September. March was when Phil & Teds announced it was buying Mountain Buggy, its New Zealand competitor, out of bankruptcy. Six months was the timeline floated then for making a...
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July 27, 2009
Judge, Joovy: Baby Trend Angles For Bankruptcy After Court Smackdowns
One post about The Guiding Light and suddenly it's wall-to-wall soap opera around here. In today's episode of As The Stroller World Turns: A court in Orange County The O.C. has awarded $8.4 million to Rob Gardner, formerly the head...
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July 24, 2009
Mallet Time! Break It Down
Yesterday I was firing up the DVD player for the kid, and when I turned the TV on, there was a frustrated white man in a parking lot with a stroller. He slammed it on the ground, then smashed it...
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Pre-P&T Buyout Closeout! OG Mountain Buggy Madness
Like never forgiving the Dodgers for leaving Brooklyn, or Miuccia Prada's scheming husband Patrizio Bertelli for hounding Jil Sander out, I'm sure there are some folks who will never forgive Phil & Teds for buying their awesome-but-bankrupt competitor Mountain...
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DT Friday Freakout: Early Start Edition
Usually, I don't get these science, news, and political stories designed to ruin your parenting weekend together until much later in the day. But given today's freakout roundup, I figured it's never too early to start: "A 16-year-old mother who...
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July 23, 2009
Bugaboo*Dad Will Paint Your Chassis, No Ups And No Surprises
Hey-o! Some dad--not just some dad, Bugaboo*Dad!--in Minnesota's powdercoating Bugaboo chassis and selling them on eBay. Says he'll do 10 of them, in either red or black, Frog or Cameleon. Takes around two weeks. Since he's only selling the...
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Check Out The Joolz Family
A happy, baffling little video for the Joolz stroller from Bloom. Could the kid be any less thrilled? And why is half the video about pushing the empty stroller around while you're holding the kid? And when the dad...
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July 20, 2009
They Giveaway So Fast: Magic Beans 5th Birthday Daily Drawings
It feels like just yesterday when a couple of new parents emailed to say they were opening a cool baby store near Boston. And whaddya know, they're five and giving away amazing stuff every single day to celebrate Magic...
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June 29, 2009
Just Two More Days Until The Bugaboo Price Jump!
That's right, it's only $899 now, but on July 1st, the price of a new Bugaboo Cameleon jumps $80 to $979. And a new Frog hops a whole $130, from $629 to $759. So if you're in the market...
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June 19, 2009
Yeah Maclar-- I Mean, Oh, Poor Maclaren
I can't remember if the question on this lobby poster was "Will you compare each of the sixty dollars you spent on a sitter, taxi, and tickets for Away We Go to a saw-toothed dagger in the groin?" or...
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June 16, 2009
How Do Moms Do It? Stroller Suspenders
Don't you just see an incredible invention sometimes, and you wonder how a mom ever came up with that brilliant idea? And then you wonder, wow, it's so obviously awesome, why has no mom ever thought of it before? Because...
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June 14, 2009
Unistroller? Strollerbarrow? Awesomeness On Wheels
Strollers look the way they do because strollers look the way they do. Japanese strollers are all spindly, floppy little chairs. Jogging strollers looked liked hacked up biketents. Scandinavian strollers are all grocery cart-like, outdoor sleeping tanks. A wave...
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June 13, 2009
Holy Cow, It Was Actually Green Inside
Is that what makes it organic milk? It wasn't a contest, per se, but congratulations to Seth for accurately predicting the location of K2's missing bottle. I swear, I checked the Bugaboo hood five times....
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MacNetto! Maclaren Bought Netto Collection
I think that's called a scoop. I'm hearing from multiple parties that the deal for Maclaren to acquire Netto Collection was finalized Friday, and it will be announced publicly on Monday. After dabbling a bit with portable cribs, and high...
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June 12, 2009
Wow, Price Increase Set To Stimulate Bugaboo's Economy July 1st
After posting about the price increase set to hit UK Bugaboos on July 1st, I've heard from a couple of retailers that a new Bug pricing butterfly will be emerging from its cocoon in the US, too. Sounds like the...
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June 11, 2009
Blimey! Bugaboo To Increase [!?] Prices In The UK?
Fortunately, the global depression is over, and England is back to boomtime. So much so that Bugaboo is apparently having trouble keeping up with demand. Economics 101 says the obvious thing to do is raise prices. Says one concerned retailer,...
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June 4, 2009
Uppababy's Ready To Rumble [Seat]
It's after May 2009, and you know what that means! The UppaBaby [oops, UPPAbaby] Rumble Seat is actually/finally available. The Rumble Seat attaches onto the underseat basket, turning the Vista into a stack'em-style double stroller. Unlike the Phil &...
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June 2, 2009
BeeCall! Bugaboo Bee Recalled For Buggy Brakes
I hope that Bugaboo Bee that just passed by you had a parent attached to it. The CPSC has issued a recall announcement for the 22,500 Bugaboo Bees sold in the US since August 2007 because of a possible brake...
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June 1, 2009
MacNetto?
How many people on how many sides of a rumor do you have to know personally before it becomes awkward to post about it? If what I'm hearing about Maclaren buying Netto Collection is true, then I guess I'm about...
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May 21, 2009
Bad Day At The Sit-n-Stroll Factory: NHTSA Recalls 55 Units For Faulty Harness Straps
Attention SkyMall Shoppers: Or buyers Sit-n-Strolls wherever you are. If you bought one of the Barcalounger-shaped stroller-carseat contraptions in the last year or so, check your manufacture date. NHTSA has just issued a recall for the 55 units made on...
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May 20, 2009
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie & Stokke Cupholder
This post requires some background music, so before you begin reading, just turn up your speakers and click on this link, which will open in a new window. OK. It's been--wow!--five years since Stokke launched the Xplory. Which makes it...
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May 19, 2009
Wow, Graffiti Increases Value 45%--For Stroller Shoppers
No need to lecture Phil or Ted on the impact indiscriminate graffiti can have on property values. Costco.com has graffiti fabric-covered versions of the $489 P&T Sport Buggy with the doubles kit, plus the Lazy Ted bouncy chair conversion...
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May 15, 2009
On The Return Of ______ Drives A _______!
You know what I was thinking we haven't had enough of lately? Those fun, inspiring "______ drives a ______!" where we get to identify with a celebrity dad and [possibly!] validate our own stroller purchase a little. Yeah, maybe...
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May 11, 2009
Daddy Types: Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose
As happens so often here at Daddy Types, I recently received an unsolicited press packet about a revelatory, new baby product being prepared for the market. At the bottom of the email, however, was this restriction which, when asked about...
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April 27, 2009
D'oh, How Was The Bugaboo Warehouse Sale?
I'm such a bad fanboi, I forgot to post about Bugaboo's warehouse-clearing sample sale that went down yesterday in Culver City. If you went, please tell me there were no Geckos....
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April 15, 2009
DT WTF Wednesday: Strollers & Syrup
Some quick, headscratching news stories from around the strollerverse: The Albany Times-Union reports that Miguel Angel Rodriguez, 20, was arrested on attempted [!] grand larceny after an employee at Hollywood Video saw him pack "more than $1,000 worth of...
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April 14, 2009
The Most Famous Stroller In Cinema? Is For Sale
Southern California auction house Profiles in History specializes in movie memorabilia and historical documents and such. Their Spring sale on April 30th-May 1st includes items from the incredible sci-fi collection of the late Forry Ackerman; a whole slew of...
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Heh, Brooklyn Bridge
When I saw this old-timey postcard with a pair of dads pushing strollers, I wanted to write, "See? Brooklyn never changes." Then I thought I'd better wait until I found a postcard of the Great Park Slope Parents Benevolent...
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April 4, 2009
The Family That Bikes Together Can't Steer Together
Found this awesome Family-Cycle in a story titled "Eccentric Cycles," which ran in the September 1949 issue of Mechanix Illustrated magazine. It was right under the French guy who strapped a 56-pound, four-tube radio to his bike so he...
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April 3, 2009
Phil & Teds Has No Triumphant Video!
When DT published the news last week that Phil & Teds was buying its bankrupt competitor Mountain Buggy in an all-New Zealand deal, I came off sounding too harsh about Phil & Teds owner/CEO Campbell Gower's earlier gloating about MB's...
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March 31, 2009
Stokke, Chicco, Chicco, Stokke?
One of the many things I learned from Pamela Paul's book, Parenting, Inc.: Chicco's pronounced KEE-koh. Because it's Italian, obviously. Also, they're huge. The parent company Artsana has like EUR 1.6 billion in sales for three business lines, only one...
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March 25, 2009
Click Here, Or Some Other Baby Gets It
An important part of being around pregnant people is knowing when not to ask questions, and just do as you're told. So I'm posting this photo and telling you to all go vote for this nice pregnant lady's belly...
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Doubling Down: Phil & Teds Buys Mountain Buggy Out Of Bankruptcy
Rachel at Dainty Baby just emailed with the scoop: The National Business Review reports that Phil & Teds is acquiring the other offroad double stroller company in New Zealand, Mountain Buggy. Mountain Buggy's parent company Tritec went into receivership in...
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March 19, 2009
Bugaboos On eBay: A Price Analysis
On March 1st, Bugaboo dropped the US retail price of its original model, the Frog, from $759 to $629. Since one of the key arguments people make to justify the Bugaboo's premium is its high resale value, I was...
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March 11, 2009
And They Shall Beat Their Jogging Strollers Into Gun Haulers
Jason Calacanis, I can understand; I'm sure he was always practicing piano when his friends were out shooting. But the boys at Jalopnik act like they've never seen a shooting cart made from a jogging stroller frame before. The...
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March 7, 2009
The Single Most Notorious Surrealist Bugaboo
From the discussion of Meret Oppenheim's Object on MoMA's newly designed website:Oppenheim's fur-lined teacup is perhaps the single most notorious Surrealist object. Its subtle perversity was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and the photographer Dora Maar...
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March 1, 2009
Bugaboo Frog March: Price Chops And Closeouts
UPDATE: just heard from Bugaboo's publicist, who informs me the Frog is NOT being discontinued--it's just an even better value than before! I'll be looking into how this "Frog discontinued!" rumor got started. Stay tuned. Last November, after word leaked...
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February 27, 2009
Jenny From The Docket: J.Lo Sues Silver Cross For Unauthorized Promo
God bless Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. The couple and their company, Nuyorican Productions, Inc. have filed a $30 million copyright infringement suit against fusty prammaker Silver Cross for using a photograph of them pushing some prams to, well, push...
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Uppababy RumbleSeat Reaches Press Release Stage
Unless there's a hands-on editors' preview involving muffins and gift bags which I didn't get invited to, the Five Stages of Web 2.0 Product Launch are as follows: I. Purloined phonecam shots II. Trade show attendee's flickr stream III....
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February 25, 2009
Father And Child And BRIO. And Afro.
Suffice it to say if BRIO were still running ads like this, they would be in the precarious financial situation they find themselves in today. 1974 Ad fathers [brioflickr's flickr via dt reader sharon] there's a mom one, too...
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February 19, 2009
Unidentified Local Moms Selling Their Stuff Online
Turns out celebrities really are just like the rest of us! Like you and me, they get so much free baby gear and clothing from publicists, it piles up around their houses, too, and then they, too, have to...
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February 10, 2009
The Bugaboo Cameleon As A Work Of Art, And Vice Versa
In late 2007, Thomas Brauer curated a group exhibition titled, "A Muzzle of Bees" at 33 Bond Gallery in NoHo. Brauer focused on work that "depicts the black moment after a great loss and the suits of armor we...
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January 29, 2009
Unidentified Local Menudan Just Happened To Be Sitting There
Alternate title: Some Guy From My Gym Drives A Peg Perego Duette [cbb via (other) andy] Peg Perego Duettes run from $745 to 970, so shop around [amazon]...
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January 22, 2009
Why Does Consumer Reports Want To Kill The Used Bugaboo Market??
The March issue of ShopSmart, the no-ads shopping guide published by the Consumer Reports folks, includes some tips for figuring out which used baby gear is still considered safe to use. [Get the pdf of the article here.] Though the...
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January 15, 2009
Dude Made A Coffee Table From A Stroller!
And by dude, I mean Dutch artist Tina Pireira Filipe. And by stroller, I mean the chassis of a big old pram. And by coffee table, I mean glass-topped coffee table of death for any kid that gets near...
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January 13, 2009
Two Down, Thirteen To Go! Unidentified Local Family Drives Extremely Identifiable Bugaboo
Does the sender of the first photo of a Little Marc Jacobs X Bugaboo in the wild still win a 'daddy type' t-shirt if she's also a Bugaboo publicist? Yes she does, but I'll keep the offer open for...
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December 17, 2008
It's Official: Phil & Teds Recalls The First Dash Batch
Back in September, just as the first shipments of the new Phil & Teds Dash were hitting the streets--and then collapsing when you pushed down on the handle--distributor Regal Lager suggested that customers not use the strollers, but instead return...
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December 8, 2008
Have You Seen Me? Stalk The Marc Jacobs x Bugaboo, Get A DT-shirt!
Alright, people, how long will it take for a Marc Jacobs for Bugaboo Bugaboo to turn up in the wild? I've got a sweet, sweet daddytype t-shirt prototype in a never-produced color [red, orange, navy, pink maybe?] for the...
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December 7, 2008
Let The Flipping Begin! Marc Jacobs Bugaboo On Marktplaats.nl
Will the Marc Jacobs For Bugaboo Bugaboo be one of those collectibles like the original mail-in offer Boba Fett, which only retains its resale value if it stays mint-in-box? Or will the sheer scarcity of the strollers [fifteen sold...
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December 2, 2008
No We Can't! Strollers Banned At Obamafest09
Longtime DT reader Buck sends word that infants and kids may have a rough go of it at Obama's inauguration next month. The US Capitol Police have banned baby strollers, backpacks, thermoses and large bags from the secured audience area...
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November 26, 2008
'Quirky' Phil & Teds To Have Own Sales, Distribution
It looks like Phil & Teds will be setting up their own US sales & distribution network soon. I just got a note from Regal+Lager saying that as of May 2009, the veteran distributor would no longer be handling the...
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November 25, 2008
Baby Gap X Maclaren: Mashup Or Mujun?
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Baby Gap X Maclaren mashup?, originally uploaded by daddytypes. The Japanese word for "contradiction" is...
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November 24, 2008
Michael Bloomberg Drives Er, Drove A Maclaren!
Long before he switched to Mike and became the mayor of New York City, and before his info terminals made him a billionaire, Michael Bloomberg was just another ex-Salomon trader/d-bag on the Upper East Side with a couple of...
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November 22, 2008
The Hand That Pushes The Rear-Facing Stroller Changes The World
Sheesh, can't believe I missed putting this one into the Friday Freakout. Researchers at the University of Dundee have published a report titled What's Life in a Baby Buggy Like? which is based on two studies. The key finding: all...
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November 21, 2008
Strolling Thunder: The Oakley Roddler
The Oakley Custom Roddler has been sitting in my browser tabs for a week, ever since I found it on Kid Kustoms' blog. It was apparently designed as a one-off showpiece for Oakley's headquarters. Though I could never quite...
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November 19, 2008
Marc Jacobs For Bugaboo. For Real.
Well that's something. I just got a press release about the Marc Jacobs for Bugaboo. It's a special all-black Cameleon with a canopy and bassinet cover out of Little Marc signature fabric. To be honest, though I'm not a...
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November 18, 2008
To Life! Orthodox Hipster Dad Strolls Through Promised Land
Another sweet find from the archives of Life magazine: John Phillips' 1949 picture from Israel of a hip-looking Orthodox Jewish dad out for a walk with his kid: Full size image: Orthodox jewish man pushing a pram with his child...
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November 17, 2008
Rumor Leaking 2: Electric Bugaboo
OK, now I'm hearing from a second retailer that in fact, the impending extinction of the Bugaboo Frog is a sign of a new Bugaboo model on the horizon. So what's up with that? Has anyone seen a camo'd up...
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WHOA, Bugaboo Frog On Its Last Legs??
A baby gear retailer just emailed me saying they've heard that Bugaboo will be discontinuing the Frog in "early 2009." The retailer speculated as to whether that meant there'd be a new model coming out, or what. I have no...
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November 13, 2008
Solar-Powered Stroller At Tokyo Design Week
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Design Week - student's exhibition, originally uploaded by pingmag. Somebody from somewhere showed this concept...
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November 12, 2008
Stroll In A Circle, Stroll In A Circle Now
Apparently dissatisfied with the performance of the current offerings on the Neglect-o-matic market, Evan Staul decided to take matters into his own hands. And so with little more than a cordless drill, a cheap-ass umbrella stroller, and an extra...
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Bu-donk-aboo: Airborne Mini Wants To Be The JC Whitney Of Strollers
I was pushing the Volo down the street the other day, listening to the hard, plastic wheels clacking along the sidewalk. That one inside wheel looks a little wobbly, is it cracking? Wonder if I should take it to the...
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October 23, 2008
Orbit On The Office: You Can't Buy Publicity Like This
So after posting about the Orbit Baby System's appearance on The Office last week--and the ensuing discussion of the suckage of product placement, I got an email from Joseph Hei, the co-founder of Orbit. As you can see from...
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October 18, 2008
Orbit On The Office: "$1200? That's What I Spent On My Whole Bomb Shelter."
In this week's episode of The Office, Michael's throwing a baby shower for Jan's anonymous sperm donor baby. It's pretty hilarious front to back, but Dwight's test drive of the Orbit Baby System just might be the best stroller...
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October 6, 2008
Phil & Teds Peanut: The Last Shiny Metal Bassinet Of The Day
"Pimp your ride" this and "graffiti homies" that, get some "adapt-itude" so you can deal with "those little mother suckers!" The Phil & Teds website is so busy being so damn edgy in every possibly edgy way, you'd think...
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October 4, 2008
Many Of You Feel Bad For This 1966 Maclaren Stroller
That is because you are crazy. The new one is much better. [1] And if you really want one like this, you can get a Kolcraft for $12 at the drugstore. O.F. Maclaren, Baby Stroller, 1966 [moma.org] 1966 and...
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Ljus Krön: The Sound Of One Hand Strolling
Alright, so it's the Ljus Krön by Christian Rancati [1]: only slightly more pronounceable than Gitta Gschwendtner, but a hundred times more eyepopping. When I saw the Kron among the Kind + Jugend press conference photos, I was sure...
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October 3, 2008
Kind + Jugend '08 Stroller Rally
How about some good, old-fashioned strollerporn reveals from the kind pressefolk at kind + jugend? There were several new models from well-known--HOLY CRAP WHAT IS THAT THING, AND WHERE CAN I GET ONE WITHOUT THE VELOUR???...
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September 24, 2008
Iran So Far Away
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } lotfollah mosque, isfahan oct. 2007, originally uploaded by seier+seier+seier. Two Danish architects took their daughter...
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September 17, 2008
Maclaren Wheel Covers: Are We Really A Nation Of Stroller Whiners?
As most Maclaren press releases are careful to remind us, Owen Maclaren, a former fighter plane engineer, changed the parenting world over 40 years ago when he invented the folding umbrella stroller. Which means that for at least the...
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September 15, 2008
What Happens In Cologne Does Not Stay In Cologne, People
Non baby industry types may wonder why have two giant trade shows, ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas and Kind+Jugend in Cologne, back to back? Aren't they pretty much the same thing? As David, our man in Cologne, shows,...
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September 11, 2008
Hello, Crazy Folding Robot Stroller!
Welcome to Earth, self-folding stroller! What planet are you from? Do you really need to be propped up on that giant electric plug-looking thing to work? Did your creators run out of R&D money before they got to the...
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Breaking, Literally: Phil & Teds Dash Going Back To Starting Line?
9/12 UPDATE: I just got off the phone with a spokesman from Regal Lager, confirming that they are "asking consumers" not to use the Dash and to return it to the retailer. Details below. Just got an email from...
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September 10, 2008
With New RumbleSeat, Uppababy Makes Room For Lowababy
Though the details are still shrouded in flash glare--or cropped out of the photo entirely, Pish Posh Baby has the scoop from ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, where Uppababy debuted a poster of a removable underseat seat for...
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September 8, 2008
More Anniversaries To Commemorate: The Maclaren Grand Tour LX
Are there such things as stroller news embargoes? Or is its appearance at ABC Kids Expo all the excuse I need to mention the new 2009 Maclaren Grand Tour LX? How about the fact that some other blogger already...
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We Are The Mods! Spitfire Buggy Takes Off In Las Vegas
I'd planned to go to the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas for one day, yesterday, and then red eye it home in time for the kid's first full day of pre-school this morning. Instead, I spent Saturday with...
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September 5, 2008
DT Friday Freakout: The Vacctivists Aren't Gonna Like This Edition
Somehow in the din of CPSC recall and safety warnings last week, I missed a formal Friday Freakout. But don't worry, here's some news from the worlds of preliminary studies you can freak out over this weekend: The connection between...
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September 4, 2008
Ausgezeichnet! Concord Neo Carbon, Deutschland's Schwarziest Stroller
Labor Day's over, there's all this politickin' in the air, the kids' heads aren't getting any rounder. You know what this place needs? A good, old-fashioned dad-friendly strollerlusting! So wilkommen to the Concord Neo Carbon, the jaw-dropping, all carbon...
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August 29, 2008
Big Phil & Teds Recall: Better Get That Folding Joint Fixed Chop-Chop!
Hey, is the CPSC muscling in on my Friday Freakout action? Regal Lager, the US distributor of Phil & Teds strollers, has issued a voluntary recall in conjunction with the CPSC covering a whopping 44,000 strollers. They're not a threat...
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August 26, 2008
Matte Black, Raindrops, Penguins In The Forest, Spinners! Holy Smokes, It's Quinny X Henrik Vibskov!
Dude. They have Blackout aluminum frames! Rainbow hoods and linings. Penguin sleepsacs! Wooden dangly toys that look like the venison drying rack in a Dali print, or the display window of an Icelandic puffin butcher shop. Spinners that look...
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August 24, 2008
Ghetto Phil & Ted's
And I don't mean no disrespect, Detroit. My heck, Juney is getting so grown up... Parents too cheap to buy a double stroller? Sick of walking? Improvise. [sweet juniper's flickr stream]...
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August 22, 2008
AWE.SOME. Vintage Go-Cart-To-Stroller Conversion At Hemmings
Hemmings Motor News, the bible of the classic car world, just launched a new title: Hemmings Fifties-Era Midget Race Car Into 21st Century Hot Rod Stroller News. There's only one issue so far, but I'm hereby signing up for...
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August 17, 2008
Rolls Royce Station Wagon Back On Daddy Types, Still On eBay
I guess it is a small island, so how far could they go? DT's family car man in London Wesley first crossed paths with this 1976 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow wagon on the street, in front of the V&A....
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August 12, 2008
DIY Sun Canopy Mashup: Phil & Teds & Jeep
Once the euphoria of stacking two kids into one strollerspace wears off, many Phil & Teds users start thinking about improvements: like figuring out a sun canopy for the rear seat so their other kid doesn't fry. Some track...
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August 5, 2008
Then You Close The Trunk! Unfolding The ABC Triplet Buggy By Ted & Phil
Whoa. Triplets stacked like flights over O'Hare, or like Stokke Xplorys on top of Mountain Buggies. Though I'd like to see my multiple stroller revolution-instigating inventors rolling in something sweeter than a 1995 Accord. Assembling ABC Buggy [ABCBuggyNZ's YouTube...
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August 2, 2008
Baby Hulk Hungry, Want Carrots
Chris Wass spotted a She-Hulk feeding a Baby Hulk at Comic-Con. It's not clear whether they're rolling in the Bugaboo Bee up there, or in the smudgy green umbrella stroller to their left in the bigger picture. She-Hulk and...
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August 1, 2008
Sith Baby At Comic-Con
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sith baby, originally uploaded by bonniegrrl. Here's another Star Wars costume from this year's Comic-Con,...
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July 29, 2008
Kids These Days And Their Spiral Jetty Roadtrips
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bugaboo @ Spiral Jetty, originally uploaded by daddytypes. Hey, it's not sparkly white crystals surrounded...
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Free Baby Strollers And A McConaughey
In addition to an Orbit Baby system and a Bugaboo Bee, Matthew McConaughey also has a manny who looks like Woody Harrelson. [images via splash@trent and bugaboo's in-house paparazzi, apparently] Previously: Three McConaugheys and a Baby...
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July 23, 2008
Irasshaimase! Maclaren Store Opens In Minami Aoyama
High-touch Maclaren stroller service centers: they're not just for SoHo anymore! Nomura Premium Products, the importing agent for Maclaren in Japan, just opened the company's first storefront in the Minami Aoyama neighborhood of Tokyo, or as the publicists prefer...
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July 18, 2008
You Have No IDEA
First off, kudos to Skip*Hop and Scott Henderson: the awesome Splash Bottle Rack won a Bronze in the Home Living category of the 2008 Industrial Designers Society of America's IDEA Awards. Besides being extremely practical, I love the way the...
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July 17, 2008
Bugaboo "Event!" 2007 Cameleons 20% Off At Amazon/Right Start
Here's something you don't see [from a company that's not going bankrupt] everyday: a "sales event" from Amazon and Right Start, where "select Bugaboo Cameleons" are 20% off. So instead of $859 or $899, they're just $719 or $749....
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July 15, 2008
Phil & Teds' Publicist: They're "The Apple Of Juvenile Products"
NY Times columnist Joe Nocera was tickled pink to receive a random, slightly rambling, and over-the-top press release from Phil & Teds' publicist trying to connect the brand somehow to the birth of the Brangelina Twins. Suffice it to say,...
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July 3, 2008
The Bugaboo Car Seat Is Here! And Other Things To Say When You're In Europe
"Wow, so many diesels!" "I prefer a $1=1EUR exchange rate, please." "Does it come in gold lame?" OK, so you'll only need that last one if you're Gwen Stefani. But otherwise, if you're paying $9/gallon for gas, showering with...
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June 24, 2008
Ja, Teutonia IS In The US Now
A few people saw a comment by the North American representative for Teutonia strollers in the tire gunk post yesterday and were all, "Whoa, Teutonia's in the US??" The answer is a definitive ja. Teutonia is the original Mercedes...
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June 20, 2008
DTQ: Stroller Detailing Tips?
I've been wondering about the fine art of stroller detailing lately, and how little I do it. Does anyone actually read the manual and follow the maintenance instructions, and clean their stroller? I think the last time I actually washed...
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The Relationship of Neo-natal Stroller Hurdling And Your Becoming A Doctor Like Your Father
In order to bring a more people-y focus to what is by definition more of an "inside people" publication, the editors of the American College of Physicians' Annals of Internal Medicine invite readers to submit photographs. Of people. I'm...
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June 17, 2008
Iowa City Bugaboo Daytrips, Anyone?
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Iowa City Flood 6/10/2008, originally uploaded by onanov. DT reader Carl emailed:I was just searching...
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June 14, 2008
Ratha Yatra 2008: This Is How Hare Krishna Roll
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hare Krishna dads celebrating Ratha Yatra on Fifth Avenue, originally uploaded by daddytypes. So we...
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June 12, 2008
Phil & Teds: The Real Slim, But Not Shady
It's the city parent's dream: a double stroller the size of a single. Just not if you use it when the sun's out. While the sun canopy on the Phil & Teds has certainly improved over the years, it...
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June 3, 2008
Whoops, More Store Closing Sales At Babystyle
That's what this blog needs: secret shoppers. One of Chris Moseley's blog operatives has learned that the North Park, TX location of Babystyle is set to close, making it the seventh store to close as part of the company's Chapter...
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June 2, 2008
SPY SHOTS: Unidentified Local Engineers Test Next-Gen Bugaboo Bee
The sweet spot for spy photographers in the auto busines is Death Valley, where manufacturers from around the world converge for high-temperature testing. For professional strollerspotters, the place to go is the Los Angeles Zoo. There's been no official...
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May 30, 2008
Miami Nice: Limited Edition Bugaboo For Genius Jones
Wow. As of next Saturday, June 7th, Genius-Jones joins the likes of Neiman-Marcus and Stefani-Rossdale by inaugurating their very own custom Bugaboo model. The Genius Jones Limited Edition Bugaboo will be unveiled at a full-blown "Bugaboo Event," which involves...
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May 27, 2008
DTQ: What's Under Those Bugaboo Hub Caps?
DT reader Mark has a problem. He lives in a brownstone apartment, and his Bugaboo Frog is about 1/2-inch too wide to fit into the phonebooth-sized elevator. So they have to fold the stroller every time they go in or...
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May 19, 2008
'Quirky' Garmento Dad On Bowery Drives Orbit Stroller
Entertaining family stories and crazy New York real estate stories go hand in hand. Andrew Gluckman and his family live in a throwback Bowery St apartment: no lease on two crooked floors above a lighting store in a building...
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May 13, 2008
Stroller Flats In Brooklyn? Connect The Dots, People!
The NY Post reports that the new strollers--BOB, Mountain Buggies, Phil & Teds, and Bugaboos and the like--have air-filled tires, which sometimes get flats. Which need to be fixed at the bike place in Park Slope. Which is just the...
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May 8, 2008
Removed: The Last Two Reasons For Not Getting A Bugaboo
Did you not get a Bugaboo because you're too chintzy or because you're not chintzy enough? Well, Bugabooyeah, my friend! Today is your lucky day! Twilite Moon is collecting information on people who like free stuff, and they will trade...
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May 6, 2008
Daddy Improvises: The Ikea Stroller
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ikeahack: Car Seat + Ikea Bag + Cart = Stroller, originally uploaded by daddytypes. Here's...
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April 22, 2008
Bugaboo Logo-Poaching Building In Tribeca Is Not To Be Truffled With
On the left, the logo for the enigmatic new apartment building going up on the northern edge of Tribeca. The building name: Truffles, as in, "hard to find" and "expensive," I guess. On the right, the Bugaboo logo, which...
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April 16, 2008
DT Clearance Sale Scoutabout
If sales are what interest you, here are some interesting sales I've heard about in New York, Miami, and around the whole world on the Internet: Sweet Dutch Designers Sample Sale, Apr 17 (9-6) & Apr 18 (9-3): "SPRING 2008...
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April 14, 2008
Bugaboo Blanket Schmanket, Check Out This Bugaboo USB Drive!
"For information and images on the Bugaboo micro fleece blanket, please insert enclosed flash drive." You mean this sweet, Bugaboo flash drive, complete with a lanyard?? Anything you say, Madam Publicist! OK, so it's only 512Mb, it's still pretty...
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April 11, 2008
Incredibly Authentic New NASCAR Baby Gear
This new Jeff Gordon umbrella stroller is so authentic, half of NASCAR fans already hate it on principle, and half of them think it's gay. Fortunately for the home improvement industry, there are Tony Stewart [#20, Home Depot] and...
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April 9, 2008
Aprica X Fendi $1600 Stroller Colabo, W & T Versions To Follow Shortly
Ho. Ly. Smokes. Aprica's gone all Via Montenapoleone on us again. This Aprica for Fendi stroller is just what it looks like: a $300 Aprica reupholstered with $1300 of WTF. But here's the kicker: Fendi is owned by LVMH....
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April 8, 2008
From The Phil & Teds Vibe Unboxing
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Vibe with rayshade on double seat, originally uploaded by sibergirlblue. DT reader Kristina took delivery...
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Waiting Over For Godot's Stroller? The Phil & Teds Vibe
So the most elusive stroller on earth--or at least Middle Earth, as played by New Zealand--is finally here, I think. The all-aluminum Phil & Teds Vibe was launched last fall at the ABC Kids Expo, but the P&T folks...
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April 4, 2008
Now That's A Fire Sale! Strollers ARE Included In BabyStyle Store Closing Liquidations
As the cherry blossom delights in the Spring, only to quickly wilt and fall, reminding us of the ephemeral nature of all material things, so, too we watch as the captivating light in Mission Viejo's maternity and infant retail firmament...
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March 31, 2008
Hmm, BabyGap Home Seems To Have A Daddy Gap
Well, that didn't take long. BabyGap Home went live on the gap.com site today, and first impressions: not bad, for a total chickfest. It's definitely a small, tightly edited collection of brands and stuff; the BabyGap flagship product seems...
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We Are Freaking Living A Bugaboo Daytrip, People
Thanks to everyone for the tips and suggestions for our Los Angeles trip; we made it safe and sound, with an entirely uneventful, if gear-heavy flight. Over the weekend we had family visits down in O.C., and a trip...
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March 28, 2008
Whoa, Get Ready For The Launch Of BabyGap Home
And where six babystyles close, more than a dozen BabyGap Home stores take their place. Fourteen, actually, starting with existing BabyGap stores in CA, NY, Chicago, and Dallas. Seems The Gap is getting ready to launch BabyGap Home, a...
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March 26, 2008
Sunday In The Slope With Dad
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Park Slope Parking Lot, originally uploaded by br_5530. via dt reader sara...
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March 25, 2008
DT Link Roundup: PC, ABC, APC, RR, HR Edition
Some headlines and links from the DT browser tabs: One WSJ dad knows he's ruining his 5-yo son's future by not teaching him more about computers. but dammit, we didn't need Webkinz when we were that age; we blew our...
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March 20, 2008
"Tako Kinderwagen Mit Extra"?? Is This Germany's Pistol-Packin' Stroller?
If there's anything Americans love more than a loaded handgun, it's a concealed, loaded handgun. And if you get one for free, all the better. From Reuters: BERLIN (Reuters) - A stroller sold in an Internet auction in Germany...
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March 14, 2008
Steco Bike Accessories For Your Baby-Filled, Car-Free Life
As if you needed any more proof than the folding process of a Bugaboo that the Dutch are just not that into cars [seriously, I ended up putting the bassinet in the front seat the other day because I...
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February 24, 2008
For Sale This Second: 1986 Rolls Royce Station Wagon, Bugaboo Not Included
Alright, for some inexplicable reason, it's Rolls Royce Station Wagon season around here. No sooner do I post a random photo from the streets of London, than DT reader JJ Daddy-o turns up a 1986 Silver Spirit, custom converted...
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February 23, 2008
This Is How They Rolls: Silver Shadow Station Wagon + Bugaboo Gecko
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I was slow to pick up on its minimalistic charms, but I miss the Bugaboo...
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February 15, 2008
Wow, Toy Quinny Zapp, Complete With Mini-Cosi
DT reader Kim just linked to this in the Miniboo post below. It's an honest-to-goodness toy version of the Quinny Zapp. To make up for the fact that it doesn't have the same folding mechanism as the full-size Zapp,...
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February 14, 2008
Ay Caramba! Behold, El Miniboo
Though I've blocked the pain from my mind, longtime readers of DT may be familiar with the trials of the original Mini-boo, the toy-sized Bugaboo I tried to make one Christmas from one of those Riesenthel picnic baskets at...
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February 12, 2008
Movietone Presents The Prams Of The Future Of The Past--Also, Wonderbaby
Andy Baio found the Movietone Digital Archives, a collection of over 48,000 newsreel stories dating from before the 1930s to the mid 1970's. With a free, instant log-in, you can see all the clips in Quicktime; ordering broadcast quality video...
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February 8, 2008
StrollAway Giant Stroller Hook Fits "Most Models"
[Now about that stroller of yours:] It's huge, it cost you a fortune, and it's a neccessity. But where do you put it? The neighbors scowl if you leave it in the hallway (illegal they say, as it's a fire...
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January 29, 2008
Problems Setting Up Your Stokke Or Bugaboo? Call Now, Publicists Are Standing By!
Did you know we live in a "Post-Bugaboo world"? Me neither, but it's in New York Magazine, so it must be true! Writer Faye Penn put nine "status strollers"--ok, technically, there were eight, plus the somewhat Bugaboogish Fisher-Price--through the city's...
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January 24, 2008
Short Trip? Secret Files Show Stasi Attempt To Drive Mom W/ Two Toddlers Crazy
Unbelievable. Wired has a story about using mesh computing to piece together hundreds of tons of shredded files left behind by the East German secret police, the Stasi. After gaining access to her 60-volume [!] file, one former peace activist...
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January 9, 2008
Alright, Great Ironies Of Life, You Win. 150 Wooster Now A Maclaren Showroom
When I moved to New York, 150 Wooster was the glowing hot sun of the celebrity restaurant scene. People were almost freaked out by how instantly hot it was. [We mostly went to Odeon, Brian McNally's other restaurant, but still.]...
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January 3, 2008
Baby Carriage, 1964 By Yayoi Kusama
You know what they say: sometimes a stuffed fabric phallus-covered baby carriage spraypainted silver a couple of years later is just a stuffed fabric phallus-covered baby carriage spraypainted silver a couple of years later. Yayoi Kusama rapidly became a...
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December 21, 2007
This Week In Airline Coming To Their Senses News
Can someone please explain what's going on here? Are airlines actually paying attention to what their passengers and potential customers are saying? Are they actually updating their policies even as we type--and wait on hold for the next available agent...
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Checkin' Out The Family Joolz
It's been too long since we had a good, old-fashioned stroller gawking around here. As it turns out, a new Joolz Bloom was recently delivered to a dad-to-be in the midwest, who we'll call G Dawg. Because that's what...
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Bugaboo Bee Nest For Christmas, Graco Adapters For St. Patrick's Day
I swear, I was going to do a Bugaboo Bee unboxing post, but the reality is, opening the Bee is the diametric opposite experience of unlocking the mysteries of the Frog, et al.: you just open the box, pop the...
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December 18, 2007
Hotlanta! Now With Shopping Outdoors, "Stroller Parades"!
ceci n'est pas un posed photo of a stroller parade. image: ajc.com When some company from Atlanta was trying came to business school for their recruiting visit, they spoke excitedly of how much "Hotlanta" was like New York. The only...
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December 12, 2007
Quirky 'Air Canada' Has Own Umbrella Stroller-Only Gatecheck Policy, Laws
Wow, if you're flying on Air Canada anytime soon, heads up. It's apparently not enough to have two separate official languages; in order to make clear that they're an airline from an entirely other country, Air Canada has its...
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But Why Does Baby Jesus Need A Double Stroller?
Just as graphic design is the art of fitting everything on one page, stroller design is the science of stuffing as many features and as much functionality as possible into one rig. And so it is that the wise...
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December 5, 2007
Also, A Vibrating Cup Holder
All of Kiaohsung, Taiwan-based Je Mey Corp's R&D investment in simulation technology has really paid off. The sex toy manufacturer's new Bugaboo knock-offs look amazingly similar to the real thing, you might even say life-like. I haven't seen this...
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November 30, 2007
Hell, Yes! The View Of, From The New The New Museum
The kid and I were stuck at the DMV yesterday, so I missed the press preview of The New Museum. [I was just there last week, though, because I had to pick up a new counter for our steel...
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November 26, 2007
DT Checklist: Fixing Torn Bugaboo Foam?
H is for Holy Crap, we're gonna have another kid in a few weeks. My wife's now solidly in the Alien stage, where you can see her belly writhing from across the room. Superficially speaking, we're ready for the new...
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November 24, 2007
Babyhood Camo And/Or Lace Bugaboo Canopies From Holland
It's one of the darnedest things about the Netherlands. On the one hand, the country's pumping out more edgy furniture and product designs than sea water. And yet when you tool around the country, like 80% of the houses...
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November 16, 2007
And In Other Amazingly Chic Skate News...
Whenever I see a Peg Perego stroller on the street, I say to myself, "Gee, I haven't written anything about them lately and/or ever. I wonder if they'll ever snap out of that traditional pram-like legacy design funk they're...
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November 13, 2007
Korn's Jonathan Davis Has Three Kids Now.
Somehow I lost track of Korn, not that I followed them or anything, just what Kurt Loder told me. But offhandedly riffing on Mr. Rogers lyrics in that scary toilet post reminded me of Jonathan Davis's own issues with Rogers...
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November 3, 2007
Strollers In The News: Rancho Bernardo Edition
From Dan's thoughtful City of Sound post about the implications of suburban planning on the California fires, there's this wire service photo of a young couple and their BOB Ironman. The city as destructive system: wildfires, Dresden and the...
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November 2, 2007
DT DDW Watch: Whoa, That Bassinet Thing Is A Gazelle Bakfiets
This photo from Core77 appears to show a bike company's booth at Dutch Design Week, and I wondered in print if that bassinet-looking thing was a bike sidecar. Turns out it's a bike frontcar. As you can see from...
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October 26, 2007
Gold Lame Stroller Spotted In NYC!
From Gawker Stalker, a local website in New York City which reports on the local Czech ex-pat scene:Kingston [hello! spellczech! It's Ringsto.] Rossdale, madison ave and 76th st, 11:15am. Being pushed by a nanny. Recognized him by the gold lame...
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October 22, 2007
Gold Mamas & Papas Stroller Now Amortized In 4th Quarter, Too
Ah, the changing of the seasons, and the quarterly amortization of publicity stunt-stroller expenses. A young Czech lad was photographed over the weekend riding in one of the ten Mamas & Papas Ziko Gold strollers rumored to exist. The...
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October 20, 2007
DT flickrfind: Parisian Dad Watching Tirailleurs Drives A Maclaren!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } army and papa, originally uploaded by toog. The blue, red & gold kepis on these...
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October 17, 2007
Micralite Toros In The Wild?
Has anyone seen Micralite Toro strollers in stores yet? DT reader Eyelet posted earlier today about trying to try one out in person [in NYC]. I know that Euro-Baby, the US distributor for Micralite flagged the first shipments for...
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October 14, 2007
"Baby On Board": The Vienna Museum Is Alive With The Exhibition Of Strollers
DT reader Scott and family were just in Vienna, where he saw this poster for what will be--let's face it--THE MOST IMPORTANT STROLLER EXHIBITION IN AUSTRIAN HISTORY. The Vienna Museum opens "Baby On Board" next week, which gives a...
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October 11, 2007
Pakistani Publicist Takes Wide Stance On Diaper-Changing Stroller
The BabyDeck is a changing station built into a stroller seat. It folds out like a La-Z-Boy footrest [actually, it folds out like the footrest on a Delta Business Elite seat, which is the opposite direction from a La-Z-Boy.]...
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October 9, 2007
Special Collection Metallic Silver Bugaboo Cameleon. At Neiman Freakin' Marcus.
Neiman Marcus, I wish I knew how to quit you. Here, I just this morning promised everyone I'd stop posting about your 100th anniversary and your nonsensical Christmas catalogue items, and then the Bugaboo publicists drop this in my inbox,...
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October 4, 2007
DT Headline Roundup: Keeping Up Edition
A few quick items to clear out the browser tabs: There's a party in my tummy tuck! Can't quite figure out what the takeaway is on the "Mom Job" post-pregnancy plastic surgery package article in the NYT, but Karen's quote...
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October 3, 2007
The iCandy Pear Will Have Another 200 Configuration Options By November
DT reader Colleen asked about new double stroller coming soon from iCandy, the Pear, almost three days ago; I've had the iCandy site open in my browser since then, and I still haven't seen the animation of all the...
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September 24, 2007
Collar-Up Stroller Mashup: Izod Lacoste X Maclaren
Unfortunately, my Preppy Handbook is in New York, so I'm unable to confirm if the upcoming Izod Lacoste edition Maclaren stroller is all-new, or a reissue of a vintage 80's model. I considered not posting at all, because the...
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Well, I Love Trash [Can Costumes For The Stokke Xplory]
This auction ended a couple of weeks ago, unfortunately, but it deserves a shoutout: eBay seller and master craftyperson nimbus8895 [update: who only now comes out as DT reader and frequent tipster/commenter Melissa] made an Oscar the Grouch Halloween...
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September 19, 2007
Bill Amberg Leather X Silver Cross Dazzle Stroller Colabo
Patty's still posting finds and reports from ABC Kids Expo on Baby Chic 101. If she's not the new Stroller Queen yet, she's at least the Stroller Crown Princess. One thing that grabbed my eye: a collaboration between the newly...
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Victoria Staten X EasyWalker Sky Stroller Mashup
And speaking of Victoria Staten, the Staten-on-Safari tent at ABC Kids Expo apparently contained a few new products, the most eye-catching of which is the Staten Edition of the Easy Walker Sky stroller. Easy Walker's a popular Dutch brand [Seriously,...
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Gear Of Son Of Crunchgear
Gearblogger extraordinaire [and onetime DT guestblogger] John Biggs posted some highlights of his son Kasper's inventory at Crunchgear. There's a Quinny Buzz, some select Ikea, a few annoying plastic toys, and my favorites: actual obsolete gadgets and Polish-language toys from...
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September 18, 2007
Les Savy Fav Frontman Tim Harrington Drives A Bugaboo!
From the silly- and hairy-as-it-sounds Village Voice photo series, "The Back Tattoos of McCarren Pool Park": Don't know why Maclaren Guy's hiding; after all, he's the responsible one with the baby headphones. Must be the drummer, Harrison Haynes. On a...
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September 17, 2007
Baby, Remember My Name: The Roddler By Kid Kustoms
I've been surfing the coverage of ABC Kids Expo from the likes of Baby Chic 101 and Babble, and so far, the biggest news seems to be the glitzy debut of The Roddler, Kid Kustoms' pimp-sweet stroller with the...
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September 16, 2007
Ausgezeichnet! The Bugaboo Car Seat??
Here's a picture from the just-ended Kind+Jugend expo in Cologne that seems to show some Bugaboo Bee-matching infant carriers. Either that, or Bugaboo and its car seat-selling expo neighbors drove around Cologne at night, stealing wood from construction sites,...
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September 13, 2007
ABC The Pink Bugaboo Bee. Be. The Pink Bugaboo Bee.
We had a plumbing catastrophe the day I was supposed to leave for Las Vegas, and so my weekend was spent making sure it didn't turn into an art, book, bookcase, and carpet catastrophe, too. I've been getting some reports...
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September 12, 2007
City of Sound: A Birth, In 13 Places, On One New Dad's Architecture Blog
One of my favorite architecture and urban space bloggers, Dan Hill, of City of Sound, is a new dad [mazeltov, Celia & Dan, hi Ollie!]. [Which means he helped put on the awesome NYC symposium/happening Postopolis! in May just weeks...
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September 2, 2007
Mia Moda's Euro Styling Easy As ABC
So I'm gearing up for a quick trip to the ABC Kids Expo this weekend in Las Vegas. Last year at ABC, I realized that a whole host of the flashy, new stroller brands popping up in the US were...
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August 17, 2007
The Harmony, For Pinstripe Prep: Zed's In Bed, Baby
The Limited Edition Harmony. A convergence of Pinstripe Prep, upstart purveyors of fine baby and kid gear ["country club couture without the snobbery"], custom car guru Joe Iacono and the mastermind Jason Albert, whose expert hands bring each custom...
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August 15, 2007
Dude's Selling A Maxi-Cosi CabrioFix On eBay, Also That Ikea Trofast Cradle
Now one of the basic rules about car seats is that you don't buy them used because you just never know for certain that they haven't been in an accident and had their structural integrity compromised somehow. That said,...
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August 14, 2007
DT Drawing! Win A Micralite Toro Newborn From Sparkability
To celebrate the launch of the new Micralite Toro Newborn stroller, longtime DT advertiser Sparkability is giving one away. And Daddy Types is helping to increase your chances to win. Complete details about the stroller and the drawing are on...
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Let A Thousand Strollers Remind Me Of Bloom
Spot The Bugaboo Knockoff used to be just fun, but let's face it; Bugaboo's original, innovative design has been around for almost eight years now, and on the market for six. The company has something like 30% market share...
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August 8, 2007
Bugaboo Bee Ride Doesn't Cost 50 Cents, Doesn't Play "It's A Small World After All"
Some knucklehead left his brand new Bugaboo Bee on the street in front of Two Boots pizza, a known den of lactivist agitation in Park Slope. Then he took a picture of it, folded it up, parked it inside,...
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August 4, 2007
Vintage LA Strollermodding: Ladera Park Baby Show
From the Prelinger Archive, we learn that parents gathering in parks to show off their kustom strollers didn't start with pinstriped Bugaboos or AT-AT Walkers. But since the only mentions of the Ladera Park Baby Show are to this...
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July 31, 2007
Bee List
The Bugaboo Bee has left the building. Here's a report from Joah, a dad with some foresight--and a new babywhip:I just picked up my Bee at Babystyle yesterday. It was a good thing I was on the pre-order list because...
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July 27, 2007
No, Wait, I've Got It: Bugaboo Banzai
If they can stand to stick around that long, regular readers will know that my awakening to the minimalist awesomeness that is was the Bugaboo Gecko can be pinpointed to the Spring, around the discovery of the Gecko with...
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Bugaboo Has Snow Tires??
I guess I've been too busy dreaming up ways to smuggle 1,500 Bugaboo Bees into a Philippine prison to notice, but DT reader KS points out that there are snow tires available for all the Bugaboo models [i.e., the...
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July 25, 2007
And Then They Put Their Kids Into Their Bugaboo Bees And Drove Away
The extraordinarily limber Ross Sisters singing about potato salad in a 1944 MGM Musical [youtube via foryourentertainment via boingboing] previously: Bug Bee Berkeley: Bugaboo Bee Music Video Now Online...
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July 23, 2007
Bug Bee Berkeley: Bugaboo Bee Music Video Now Online
Praise the Lord, and pass the Cirque du Soleil extras, people: the Bugaboo Bee music video is now online, and a chance to see the Bee in motion is the least of its offerings. Whether it's too [check all...
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July 18, 2007
Mein Stroller Hat Zwei Wheelen
After the war, the Germans discovered that all their leading two-wheeled stroller designers had fled the country. Rebuilding the two-wheeled stroller industry would be hard, but they were determined to make a go of it, even if it meant...
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July 12, 2007
TRU CSR WTF? Fisher-Price Stroller Box Full Of Legos
A mother of three bought a boxed Fisher-Price Stand 'n Ride Duo Stroller off the showroom floor of the local Toys R Us. Street value: $150. When they got home and opened the box, eight boxes of Legos Bionicles...
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July 11, 2007
Holy Moses! Wicker & Chrome Pram On eBay
Not a lot of info on this pram, just that it says, "Presty, Made in France" on the label. Oh, and it's made of airy wicker and heavy chromed tubular steel, it's in mint condition, and it's FREAKIN' AWESOME....
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DT Retail Scoutabout: Bugaboos And Space Shuttles Edition
image: Space Shuttle tray from Pecoware via superlocal's flickr stream Some news, sales and rumours from the retail wing of the Baby Industrial Complex: First, the bad news: DT reader Ndele reports that when he and his wife tried...
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We Need More PVC-Based Strollers, Please
You can keep your snooty French Riviera beach strollers, eBay. Because here in US of A, when we need wheeled mobility on the beach, we have everything we need, thanks to our good, old-fashioned American ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit....
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Ooh La La! 80's Beach Stroller From The French Riviera?
What better way to celebrate Bastille Day than by buying an insane, vintage beach stroller from the French Riviera, courtesy of HM The Strollerqueen? According to the eBay description, that's what this is, "Made in France, Les Ateliers," a...
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July 6, 2007
AT-AT Stroller Dad Interview: The Thingamababy Strikes Back
What, another interview with the AT-AT strollermodding dad? Thingamababy's got a sitdown with Florida Star Wars fan and new dad Rick Russo, and it's just like ESB vs. SW: the sequel is definitely better. I'd go so far as...
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July 2, 2007
Use The Craft Glue, Rick! Star Wars Stroller Modder Speaks
After his son's AT-AT Imperial Walker-modded stroller made the Internet rounds, Star Wars fan dad Rick Russo finally stepped into AJ's Thingamababy spotlight. And now he's given an interview with the Star Wars Blog, explaining his inspiration for the...
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June 27, 2007
DT Retail Scoutabout: Bugaboos At Babies R Us Edition!
A few random retail links that came across my--HOLY SMOKES, THEY'RE SELLING BUGABOOS AT BABIES R US???!! They showed up on the BRU website a few days ago, and in Union Square. I asked a Bugaboo source what's up: 22...
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June 25, 2007
Bewildered Brits Stare At Park Slope Parents
All the editors at BritLit journal Spiked Online asked for was a Those Crazy Americans! article on these so-called Park Slope Parents they'd just read about three weeks ago in the Telegraph. Is that so hard? Instead, Nancy McDermott's critique...
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Geckos At Glastonbury
Keep this scenario in mind before you a la carte your Bugaboo. Because it totally could happen!: You decide to take your four-month-old kid to the Glastonbury Music Festival. Though you planned ahead and got his little ear-protecting headphones, a...
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Buying A Bugaboo From Parts A La Carte? What's The Catch?
Just when I think I've heard every $900 stroller angle there is, a DT reader who asked to remain anonymous emailed--maybe "e-gloated" is the better word--about how much money he saved buying a Bugaboo a la carte. Is this...
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June 22, 2007
Gov't Tips For Leaving Your Baby Nightmare-Free
Silly mums with their Munch-like Screamfaces. This nightmare would never happen to dads. We don't have purses to drape over the stroller handles, so when we leave the kid on the street, there wouldn't be anything to grab for....
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Scandinavian Pram Antics
So a few months back, this guy from Holland emails and is all, in Denmark and Sweden they put their kids out on the terrace in their strollers to sleep until they're like 13 or whatever. And I was...
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Whoa. The Man Pram Concept By Mamas & Papas
How It Starts: "In a recent poll by Yellow Pages relating to 'pram envy,' Mamas & Papas was voted the most popular type of pram at 26.6%. To publicise the survey Yellow Pages would like to illustrate the story with...
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June 21, 2007
Whatever Happened To Rosemary's Bugaboo?
So the Bugaboo roaming the streets on its own picks up the other stroller, they start humping, and then it starts getting weird. For what it's worth, the Bugaboo appears to be the active partner. Bug-a-boo by Jacco Musper...
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I Be Dazzled By Silver Cross's New Strollers
It's too early to say it's a renaissance, but Silver Cross is definitely in some kind of turnaround. When we were entering the stroller market, the anachronistic, governess-centric brand was trying to sell middling umbrella strollers by giving prams...
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June 20, 2007
Chewbacca Drives A Maclaren!!
By 1979, Star Wars was in its third theatrical release in LA, and theater owners were cooking up promotions for luring people in. Like offering free admission to anyone who showed up in costume, even if it was the...
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DIY AT-AT Stroller: Who's Luke's Father?
AJ's the Jedi Master of stroller detective work. He tracked down the origins of the awesome AT-AT Walker stroller mod that's been making the rounds on the net recently, and he's deduced quite a bit of the DIY that...
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June 8, 2007
Whoa, Stokke Xplory Complete, $450 This Weekend AmEx Wishlist
I've never quite gotten into American Express's My Wishlist program, partly because I'm not a big random impulse shopper. And also, I kind of assumed that offering a small number of products at a HUGE discount was just a...
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May 25, 2007
Daddy's Not Typing For A Few Days
Daddy Types, Daddy Packs, Daddy Eats Popsicle At Kid's Pre-school Class Party, Daddy Drives To North Carolina. We're heading out for the weekend, and early reports from the Outer Banks reveal that none of the neighbors have their WiFi set...
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So Chicks DO Skate. In Germany. On The Mama Board.
A bit of friendly, unsolicited advice to the makers of the Mama Board: If you're gonna go and do something as awesome as engineering and manufacturing and marketing a skateboard that can latch onto a stroller, DON'T give it...
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May 24, 2007
Actually, I Would've Expected A Stokke
Dateline, SEATTLE: Shouldn't there be an adapter for this? This is What We've Become: Woman Pushes Baby on Segway [gizmodo via dt reader antoine]...
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May 18, 2007
Bugaboo Bee-utiful: The Daddy Types Sneak Preview
So I was having breakfast the other morning with DT reader Max, who was in town for work. And as we're eating bagels in the sligthly humid hotel lobby that smells a bit like a swimming pool--because there turns out...
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May 16, 2007
How About "Pennsylvania Dutch"? Mia Moda Terra Gets The Thingamababy Workout
image: thingamababy Wow. Over on Thingamababy, AJ does a comprehensive review of the Mia Moda Terra stroller, the four-wheel model from the new "Euro-Style" stroller company I mentioned here a little while ago. In the intervening weeks, Mia Moda...
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Ellen DeGeneres Induces...Mayhem! By Giving Away 300 Bugaboos?
Let me lift the burden of uncertainty from your lives right now: you will never need to wonder, as Kerrie did in an email yesterday, "Did you see Ellen on [DAY OF WEEK OR REALLY, ANY MOMENT IN TIME BETWEEN...
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May 15, 2007
Babies R Us R So Stokked!
Look who I saw in the window of the Union Square flagship of Babies R Us this morning? It's Norway's favorite stroller for keeping your kid up above the dirty streets and exhaust pipes and closer to you: the...
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May 14, 2007
The Raleigh Dreamline RD2 Pushchair
I've placed information vital to the survival of the memory of this RD2 unit into this blog so fathers will know how to retrieve it. You must see this stroller delivered and realize it's an older one. This was Raleigh's...
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May 13, 2007
Some Joker Drives A Maclaren
I tell you, Maclaren's getting their money's worth from that new logo they came up with. Subtle, but not invisible. TMZ, meanwhile, could spend a nickel and hire a freakin' caption writer who does more than string stale movie...
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May 10, 2007
Das Ist How We Roll: c.1967 Proto-Travel System
Yeah, I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of vintage Form Magazine posts the next little while. You have been warned. In 1967 at the Montreal World Expo, three students from the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung [Folkwang...
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May 3, 2007
Euro-Baby Prexy Cuts Through The Bull About The New Micralite Toro, Fastfold
Nothing like posting a bunch of anonymous Korean webchatter about a company's new flagship stroller to get a CEO's attention. I just got off the horn with Bill Jacoby, president of Euro-Baby, the US distributor for several premium baby gear...
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Think Fast! Micralite Fastfold System Just $329 On Amazon. Today.
If only because of the hassle of accepting and returning giant, 40lb packages, I like to take my time before making a major purchase like a stroller. But if you've got your heart set on the Micralite Fastfold in...
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May 2, 2007
Orbit To Save Planet One Green Edition Bassinet Cradle At A Time
If seeing Tori Spelling pushing her stolenhusbandspawn in an Orbit stroller system had you worried about the coming Apocalypse, relax. Through their series of product design, recycling, and corporate-level initiatives, Orbit is also busy--even busier, really--saving the earth from environmental...
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May 1, 2007
Micralite Toro: Sweeter Than The Micralite Maguro
Here's another JPMA Innovation Award Finalist product that got zero PR bang for its manufacturer's payola buck: the sweet-looking, new stroller model from Micralite called the Toro. DT reader LT spotted some photos of the Toro on flickr, of...
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Eyes On The Bugaboo Bee Prize: First Candids Hit The Web
Well, hats off to Patty, who braved the drudgery that is the JPMA Convention in order to score about the only thing worth scoring down there: a hands-on encounter with the new Bugaboo Bee. Her first assessment: "super lightweight!"...
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April 26, 2007
Here Comes The Sun Canopy
Call me slow on the uptake, call me crazy, but I'm liking the Bugaboo Gecko more and more. With all that extra aluminum real estate, its design is the kind of clean that gets Fleurvillians excited. Now that sunny...
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Who The Hell Left This Stroller In The Hall?
I was just thinking about this, and now it's in the New York Times. When the elevator door opens on a floor below ours in NYC, there's a Bugaboo Cameleon parked right there, where the hallway widens just a bit....
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April 23, 2007
Wheelchairs, Dance Troupes & Peacocks: Bugaboo Bee In Blueprint Mag
More coverage of the upcoming Bugaboo Bee, this time in Blueprint Magazine [the UK design mag, not the Martha Stewart one]. Big news is the price, and the picture of the effortlessly folded Bugaboo [never thought I'd see those...
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April 20, 2007
Mia Moda Strollers Kickin' It Euro-Style? Or Brady-Style?
Mia Moda is a new line of affordable [around $350], high-design, European-styled strollers that launched last fall. When I saw the press release yesterday for their new model, the Atmosferra, I thought it looked nice, if slightly familiar. Those...
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April 16, 2007
Time Waits For No Bugaboo Bee
So the buzz--let's just get that pun out of the way right now--has been building for a few weeks, but the Bugaboo Bee debuts for reals at JPMA, where it's gonna bring down the house. Now the underground hipster...
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April 11, 2007
I Love Quinny In The Springtime
Word on the street--or from Spilling The Beans, the shopblog for Brookline, MA's Magic Beans, anyway--is that the US models of the Quinny Buzz will drop in May. The Maxi-Cosi car seats will drop in June. The Zapp drops later...
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Antonioni Rides The Chung Kuo Express
I just/finally watched the first part of Chung Kuo - Cina, Michelangelo Antonioni's amazing 4-hour documentary of life in China in 1972, which he shot at the invitation of then-Premier Zhou Enlai. When it was shown, the film was...
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April 4, 2007
Bugaboo Calling Cards. You Know, For Playdating And Stuff
Uh, ok. So right after the kid was born, I ran into a friend from business school at the playground. She was actually running the little kids while the older one was in soccer practice. They'd just moved to Westchester,...
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April 3, 2007
Bugaboo's Max Barenbrug on Babble
I'm doublebooked all day with work stuff and won't be posting until later. In the mean time, Definitely head over to Babble and read their interview with Bugaboo designer Max Barenbrug, the tall dad who had his [and your] tall...
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March 15, 2007
Young Milan: Chicks Go Crazy When Dey See My Wip
Freaky freaky freaky freaky freaky Freaky freaky freaky freaky The WIP Metro was designed by the Milan-based Edoardo Perri in conjunction with WIP, historically a manufacturer of aluminum and alloy sporting equipment. [They created the first all-metal tennis racket...
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March 14, 2007
You Will Gladly Pay $30 More On Thursday Than For A Bugaboo Today
If you're considering buying a Bugaboo for your nanny, then $20 or $30 means nothing to you. The cost of a bowl of granola at your power breakfast at the Regency, which you never see the bill for anyway. For...
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Neiman Marcus Shoppers Are Very Good To The Help
Very, very good. See the closeup below. The fullsized add is in the daddytypes flickr pool....
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March 11, 2007
Chavvy Galore Drives A Golden, Carbon-Fiber, Black Leather & Lacquer Maclaren!
Holy crap, British stroller people, what the hell is wrong with you? The Maclaren GB Type Au is a limited edition blingwreck based on the otherwise tasty CF6506, the black carbon fiber-and-black leather stroller the company introduced last year....
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March 9, 2007
Strollers, High Art & HiArt
One of the shows the kid and I saw yesterday was by the German sculptor Isa Genzken at David Zwirner Gallery. Genzken has something of a signature style, which involves using deliberately artless-seeming techniques on commercial/industrial/pre-existing materials. The result's...
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March 8, 2007
Wha Wha Wha? They Allow Strollers On Buses Now?
The kid and I were making the rounds of some galleries in Chelsea, then we had to go meet my wife and some of her former colleagues for dinner at Columbia. So with a little time to kill and no...
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March 7, 2007
Yum Yum: Chair, Strollers From Bloom In The Spring
Bloom Baby, the Hong Kong-based gear company whose reclining, rotating, pneumatically raising, podaliciously curving Fresco high chair scooped up an award at last year's Kind + Jugend expo, is finally hitting the US this spring. Bloom is debuting at...
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March 6, 2007
Strollers In White Satin, Never Reaching The Minimum Bid
It's hard to have an auction when one of the most likely bidders was just buried in the Bahamas. Are you the other? This "standard Evenflo" stroller has been customized "using creme satin and gold lame...but you can customize...
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March 2, 2007
Skywalkers Art Blimp Parade Phollow-up
I don't need anything! All I need is this modded Scion. And this art blimp parade. This Scion, and this art blimip parade. And this Bugaboo. This Scion, this art blimp parade, this Bugaboo, And a week at the...
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March 1, 2007
Ja, The Bugaboo Cupholders Are In
* The end of your, long, parched agony is in sight. I just got the first word from a retailer that they have received actual, official Bugaboo drink holders. So hit up Jon at Pacifier in Minneapolis if you're...
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February 28, 2007
The Pinstriped Bugaboo, Part 2: The Driver
After spotting the pinstriped Bugaboo Gecko online a few days ago, I tracked down the owners to hear their story. They turn out to be friends of Vanessa, who had published the rig and a link to the annual Blessing...
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February 27, 2007
All Hail The Kustomized Bugaboo, Part 1
A customized Bugaboo has been a backburner obsession of mine almost since the beginning of the stroller era. There was a time when I wanted to get the Bugaboo engraved, like a trophy or a piece of jewelry. But the...
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February 11, 2007
Dutch Design Icon Stamps Piss Off Vegetarians, Commies
So the privatized Dutch postal service, TNT, issued a 2007 series of stamps commemmorating nine modern icons of Dutch design [plus tulips]. Silhouettes of both the Bugaboo and the Heineken longneck were included in the set, which was designed...
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February 7, 2007
Elvis Costello Drives An Orbit! Has Orbits Driven
The Orbit: it's not just for unidentified woodsmen anymore. [via gawker stalker] Previously: Unidentified Local Object Actually First Orbit Baby Car Seat Spotted In The Wild...
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February 6, 2007
Park Slope Barnes & Noble Bans Strollers
Something had to give, people. The strollers were getting in the way of the smelly old geezers sleeping in the armchairs and the cafe-ful of magazine-thumbing freelancers. Park Slopers fight for the right to shop and race Maclarens [curbed]...
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February 1, 2007
Unidentified Local Dad Now Identified. As The Guy Pushing The Gold Lame Stroller.
Uh, this is exactly the kind of unnecessary dad stroll-pas Daddy Types was founded to prevent. Reportedly, there were ten of these things made, and they cost 500 pounds, 330 pounds more than the non-gold-lame' version. I'd like to...
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January 26, 2007
Now Soon You Can Put Toddlers Into Orbit
Word on the net is, the Orbit Toddler Seat attachments are finally out. After a hairy tense-plus, stroller dealers can once again walk across their parking lots at night without fear of being hounded by Orbit early adopters whose...
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January 19, 2007
The Maclaren Volo Leaves Its Mark
It took me a while, but I finally figured out why the backs of my pantleg was always getting these big black streak marks. I thought it might be from oil leaking from the gearshift console, maybe grease from the...
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January 18, 2007
Q: Strollers On Escalators?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sucking up to the Baby Industrial Complex. First, Consumer Reports blows it, so the kid's riding around in a European deathseat; the shady phone store can't unlock my new,...
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January 16, 2007
The Gunslinger: You Can Pry My Cup Holder From My Cold, Dead Hands
I've got a full-blown review of the new Bugaboo Cup Holder in the works. But before we get to that, I want to make sure the newest dads in the audience fully understand the seriousness of the Bugaboo cup...
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January 10, 2007
Unidentified Local Couple Score Customized Bugaboo Cameleon
When a working mom who was still breastfeeding after more than seven months contacted Bugaboo about getting her Cameleon made with some Rasta fabric she had lying around, the company hopped to. And delivered some very nice craftsmanship. Her unidentified...
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Heyo, ModernTots The Website Now ModernTots The Store
I met Sarah and Bruce, the ModernTots.com folks, in Las Vegas last year at the ABC Kids expo. They were super-cool and surprisingly nice to me, considering the hassle Daddy Types' "Sure, it's custom-tinted, super-dense, has sweet bamboo veneer,...
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January 4, 2007
Bugs Vs Crips In Clinton Hill
The barrage of comments on Brownstoner's 2007 Market Predictions thread cover every possible conversation topic you'll need for living in New Brooklyn: real estate prices, Atlantic Yards, and Park Slope sidewalks clogged with "doublewide Bugaboos." Yes, Virginia, Brooklyn is a...
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December 21, 2006
Celebrity Pregnancy Industry Has A LaToya, Too
Tori Spelling driving a freakin' dog stroller around that Old Navy-to-the-stars, Kitson. [image: flynet/popsugar, thanks trent]...
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December 17, 2006
Introducing The Bugaboo Stamp
For its new, 2007 stamps, the Dutch post office, TNT Post, commissioned the Amsterdam firm ...,staat to create a series of Dutch design icon stamps. Not like windmills or wooden shoes or anything [though tulips did make the cut]....
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December 1, 2006
Bugaboo Or Soloflex? The New Dilemma
The Bugaboo's been in the trunk for a few days, now we don't have anywhere in the hall to throw our coats....
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November 20, 2006
I've Never Seen A Creative Playthings Plywood Carriage
The Hobby Horse is in a museum and gets knocked off nationwide, but this beautiful Creative Playthings plywood carriage disappears into oblivion, with barely two Google mentions to rub together? How is that? Wolfgang Sirch's bentwood doll stroller, I...
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November 16, 2006
Peg Perego & Bugaboo: What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate
A DT reader who we'll call Matt Damon [not his real name] writes about a problem they've been having with their Peg Perego SIP, one of just two US car seats available with Bugaboo adapters. Turns out the seat won't...
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November 9, 2006
SkyMaul Stroller Mower Looks Like A Stokke
Unlike most stroller mowers where the child rides down near the ground, and is exposed to a stream of grass clippings, deafening noise, and, oh yeah, whirling blades of death, the DANGER Stroller Mower places the kid up high,...
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October 26, 2006
Ewok In A Bugaboo
I am slammed with work, just as we're ramping up to that crazy Halloween season, that brief, brief window where parents are able to their kid up in whatever they want with no input or grief from the kid....
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October 24, 2006
Here, Here: World-famous Designer Decries Cupholder Culture
Jessica Helfand is a designer's designer, and she plumbs deep meaning from the little things in our world the rest of us didn't even notice. This time around, not a moment too soon, she peers through the windshield of...
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October 20, 2006
Unidentified Local Object Actually First Orbit Baby Car Seat Spotted In The Wild
Daddy Types has confirmed that what was mistakenly identified in early reports as "that crock pot" and "something," turns out to be the first known sighting in the wild of an Orbit Baby Travel System. The incident occurred this...
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October 19, 2006
Returnsforsale.com: Strollers So Nice They Sell Them Twice
Very interesting concept. Thanks to Niche Retail's Advanced URL Deployment System, it's always pretty clear what's for sale on a given site: JoggingStrollers.com, EliteCarSeats.com, ReturnsForSale.com, etc. You may recognize the first two from their flashy advertisements on Daddy Types. That...
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October 17, 2006
Laser Print Your Bugaboo
Wow, with this special metal marking ceramic spray-on glaze, you can laser print any design you want onto a metal surface in no time at all. Alls you need is: the spray [$65 a can] a Bugaboo [Frog and...
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October 11, 2006
Because Sometimes You Gotta Kiss A Lot Of Frogs
I've been emailing about strollers with DT reader and dad-to-be Kevin [due in December, good luck with that, oh, and GO OUT EVERY NIGHT!]. He writes:I originaly started the search a while ago and had put the Bugaboo on my...
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Mommy War Surplus Goods
Except for uncovering several choice quotes from Caitlin Flanagans' apparent flameout on The Colbert Report [ed.: youtube much?], everything you need to know about James Wolcott's hey-where's-the-party? review of some Mommy Wars-related books, you can learn from the title,...
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October 6, 2006
The BuggyPod Is A Sidecar For Your Stroller.
Ever since [1] I saw Bedknobs & Broomsticks, I wanted a motorcycle with a sidecar. Which is why I'm so stoked about the BuggyPod, a detachable stroller side-car that clamps easily [we're waiting for the tests to come back on...
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October 5, 2006
Super-folding Quicksmart Stroller Spotted In Maine
We generally give the Baby Industrial Complex a thorough drubbing around here, but when they get a product right, I'm happy to give it the credit it deserves. In such cases, we then redirect our drub toward the siloed bureaucracies...
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October 4, 2006
Aspiring Filmmaker Jogging That Stroller All The Way To Hollywood, Baby
OK, this is so wrong in so many ways, it might just be right. After tasting all the success Syracuse has to offer a young filmmaker, Ryan Feaster decided it was time to make his talent available to the folks...
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October 3, 2006
Sweet Japanese Stroller-Bako Wagon
Check this out: Keruna snapped a photo of this daycare center special in Kurashiki in southern Japan. It's an aluminum-framed stroller-bako*/wagon with big Bugaboo-style tires and wheels, with a handbrake, and light cloth side panels. No matcha cupholders, I'm...
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October 2, 2006
Nice Hood Ornament: Roller Buggy At 100% East, London Design Festival
I've seen this rig in several giant photosets from last weekend's 100% East, part of the London Design Festival, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it was exhibited, or who made it, or what...
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October 1, 2006
The Man With A Camera. And A Quinny Buzz.
The man's clearly taken by his new stroller. That, or he's practicing for the day when he snaps 37 shots per minute of the kid. "37 photos": Cimac's new stroller photoset [flickr]...
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September 29, 2006
Look! It's Bugfoot! Mysterious Bugaboo With Bears
A DT reader with a sharp eye and a blurry phonecam [stop fighting it, buddy, just get the upgrade] sent in this photo of a Bugaboo covered in bears:...at least they looked like bears. I was in a cab...
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ABC Kids: Orbit Stroller Video-palooza
We're just hitting the road, but I wanted to point you to Coochicoo's video preview of the Orbit stroller from ABC Kids Expo. Orbit was out in in-production force at ABC, with a sweet, rich brown mocha-colored blend of products...
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September 28, 2006
"Invisible Baby" By Ze Frank
It's apparently not the normal babies that freak Ze Frank out at street fairs: it's the invisible ones. Ze Frank's The Show [zefank.com]...
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September 26, 2006
News From The Stroller Wars: Skirmish Breaks Out At Apartment Therapy
There's a survey--just a simple question, what could be the harm in that?--at Apartment Therapy about which stroller Maxwell--the Apartment Therapist himself--and his due-soon wife should get for their NYC apartment lifestyle. For the "first ride" category where, clearly, a...
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P&T Update: Survival Of The Hippest?
Uh, yeah, so I thought I'd dig around a bit to see what the "Phil & Teds: Survival of the Hippest" things were I saw in Las Vegas and, well--it's currently on the splash page of the P&T site....
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September 25, 2006
The Bloom Bloom Room: More Stroller-vation From The Far East
Here's a find from the Kind+Jugend expo: Did someone mention high-design high chairs? A new company called Bloom introduced some rather sleek-looking designs at K+J last week, including the Fresco--a European take on hot-in-Asia baby chairs from the likes...
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ABC Report: Phil & Teds & Steve & Jobs
It was evident at JPMA, and again at ABC Kids: in two short years, Phil & Teds is really &ing up their brand presence and their offerings. I first heard of Phil & Teds when I walked into a...
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Mutsy: All That And A High Chair, Too
I still have posts from the ABC Kids Expo and there's already big news stacking up from Kind + Jugend in Cologne, the sehrgrossekidgearfair so big it makes Las Vegas look like Cactus Pete's. I think I'm just gonna push...
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September 22, 2006
Q: Fixing Bugaboo Foam?
A DT reader just emailed in:Thought i would try your opinion on options for repairing the foam handle on our bugaboo. while shoving the stroller into the back of the car, the foam handle was torn. add to that the...
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Freak Show's Primi Probably Not Appearing On The View, At KB Toys
Though our country may be the poorer for it, something tells me that Primi, the premature baby in the rolling incubator, whose superpower is pinpoint projectile vomiting, will not be this year's Tickle Me, Elmo sensation come Christmas time....
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September 21, 2006
Unidentified Local Paper Towel Spokesman Drives A Bugaboo
[image: splashnews via trent] In completely unrelated news, I have received reports that a certain unidentified Cheetos spokeswoman has actually purchased a Bugaboo at Fred Segal. So even though it's unlikely, brace yourself for photos of her unidentified backup...
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September 20, 2006
Ultimately, We Have China To Thank For The Baby Bling Stroller
two things before I get to this, the most eye-popping ABC [Actually By China] strollers: 1) I really regret ordering my Moo MiniCards before I dropped this photo into the daddytypes flickr photo collection, and 2) An obligatory bow to...
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This Is How We Roll: In Chinese Strollers
Bugaboos are Dutch, Maclarens are British [or, in the case of the Starck line, Franglais], Gracos are, um, American. But with a few exceptions like Stokke, whose strollers are apparently made in Norway by melting down new Audi A8's, no...
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September 13, 2006
Rock Star Baby's iPod Canopy Sets Off Strollerazzi Frenzy
On the first day of ABC Kids, Rock Star Baby, the stroller company fronted by Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres, and backed by German stroller giant Hauck, had a tantalizing tip: an officially licensed iPod stroller, complete with a...
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September 11, 2006
Finally A "Scoop." Quinny & Maxi-Cosi Are Coming To The US In 2007
As befits a leader of the Baby Industrial Complex, the Dorel booth here is one of the old-school, enclosed, "do you have an appointment?" variety, not the wide open, "PLEASE PLEASE look at my little invention and help me pay...
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September 6, 2006
Jon Stewart Pushes Unidentified Local Stroller
The grand NYC tradition of dads taking the kid for a walk at a once-unthinkably early hour on Sunday continues. From Gawker Stalker: 28 W 23RD ST Sep 3rd, 2006 @ 8am Jon Stewart with his 2-y-o son at Home...
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September 5, 2006
HRH Haakon Crown Prince Of Norway Has Not, As Yet, Confirmed His Attendance
But a company called Mutsy USA, Inc. is on the exhibitor list for this weekend's ABC Kid's Expo in Las Vegas. Stay tuned. [via dt reader mark] Previously: Mutsy coming to the US, Crown Prince Haakon still checking his calendar...
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September 4, 2006
New Stokke Xplory Car Seat Adaptor
See? Everything you wish for in the baby gear industry will turn up, it just takes two years. The folks as Stokke are introducing car seat adaptors for the Xplory. There'll be both Graco and Peg Perego adapters for the...
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August 23, 2006
Mamas & Papaas: All The Skoot Is White & The Fabric's Grey
The connection between UK megababystore Mamas & Papas and Peg Perego go way back; it's an Italian family thing, capisce? M&P sells Pegs in the UK under its own brand umbrella; traditional rigs like the Pliko P3 Pramette are particularly...
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August 18, 2006
Copenhagen Airport: Except For All The Free Strollers, It's Just Like US!
So you want a free stroller but you're not a celebrity? No problem, just fly through Copenhagen, Denmark. The airport provides free strollers for use in the transit areas, so you can shuttle between the giant children's play area and...
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If You're Keeping Score At Home, There Are Now 12 Planets And One Orbit
Magic Beans in Boston just received their first Orbit Baby System, a display model, which is at the store, ready for your test driving pleasure. Magic Beancounter Sheri just posted her first impressions on the store's blog. The verdict: it's...
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August 17, 2006
Unidentified Man Drives Catalogue-Ready Maclaren Easy Traveller
That Mac looks just like in the pictures. [image: x17 via cbb] The Maclaren Easy Traveller is $89 [amazon/babyuniverse, which is currently offering free shipping with "AMZFSHIP" promotion code] previously: Launched: Maclaren Easy Traveller...
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August 10, 2006
Eddie Izzard Drives A Barbie Kolcraft With A Pink Parasol
At least that's who/what it looked like yesterday on Broadway. Wild....
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Whassa Uppa With Uppa Baby?
Maybe this is more a question for the retailers in the audience: Where'd Uppa Baby come from? I saw they were at JPMA, but I confess, I don't remember seeing them. From what I can gather, it's a US-based,...
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August 9, 2006
Once You Have Mac...The Carbon Fiber & Leather Maclaren
Warning: excessive-praise-for-a-$1,000-stroller alert! Contents may be hazardous to anti-consumerists, easily offended Marxists, and the principled poor. The carbon fiber and black leather Maclaren is out, and it looks awesome. Maclaren introduced the black frame on their Burberry edition, but...
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July 31, 2006
Mad Max Drives A Graco!!
Let's see, the world's coming to an end, gas is worth its weight in gold, Mel Gibson is a raving lunatic, and some punk dude's blazing down a Brooklyn hill in a soapbox derby racer made from a tweaked out...
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July 26, 2006
The Stokke Xplory: One Dad's Love Affair
Here's one dad Aaron's account of life with the Stokke Xplory. There are some ups and downs besides the ones afforded by the adjustable-height seat, but it's most definitely love:Max was born in February 2005 and the Xplory didn't get...
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July 21, 2006
Hellooo, Glorious Advertisers: The Micralite Ed.
I tells ya, you learn the darnedest things from the advertisements on Daddy Types. Like that Sparkability is taking pre-orders online for "late August" delivery of the Micralite stroller for $449. And the newborn system with the carry cot attachment--"Excuse...
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July 20, 2006
Stroller-Pushing Park Sloper Beans Car In Crosswalk
Beyond, "Lady's lucky she didn't get a cap in her ass, BAM!" I have no real opinion on this, so I'll just throw it out there and see what happens:I saw one woman struggling across the street with multiple bags...
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July 18, 2006
Unidentified Man Drives A Stokke Xplory, Is Famous In Canada
And apparently, his wife has giant black spongy nipples. [youtube via cbb]...
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July 12, 2006
Where All The Non-Toxic Strollers At?
All that PVC in the raincover traps the carcinogenic off-gassing from the flame-retardant nylon fabric. But then cotton cultivation accounts for a third of all the world's pesticide use. Besides a hemp sling, where's an environmentally conscious parent to turn...
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NO $800 Strollers In My $100,000 Car, Dammit
Thanks to Google, a few of the stroller posts take on a life of their own, attracting advice seekers, firsthand accounts, and some rather excited reactions. For example, a fellow named Too Much Money just posted this on a Stokke...
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July 10, 2006
Tribeca Stroller Pushers No Like The Cobblestones, Landmarks Hearing No Like The Stroller Pushers
The residents of 44 Laight St, a converted loft condominium building in Tribeca are seeking to have the cobblestones in front of their building replaced with something a little more...stroller-friendly. The Community Board all but chased the petitioners straight into...
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July 7, 2006
How Sweet Is The iCandy Apple Stroller?
Besides the fact that it will never be sold in the US with a name like iCandy Apple--and I'm surprised the Beatles and/or Apple haven't gone after them already, never mind the Bugaboo folks--I don't know much about this UK...
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CEO's Nanny Drives A Phil & Ted's
Well, the crisis in childcare continues apace. USA Today reports that even some CEO's are feeling the pinch as the cost of quality childcare spirals out of control. Seems that nanny agencies who specialize in placing background-checked, multilingual nannies with...
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Unidentified Local Man Looks For Garbage Can, Wonders Where The Bassinet Went
image and a lot more stalking at justjared...
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July 3, 2006
Running The Numbers: Micralite's US Invasion Starts August 1
In the global logistics industry, quantities are often discussed in terms of shipping containers. The volume of a 20-foot container [about 39 m^3] is called a Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, or TEU. A 40-foot container is two TEU's, or one FEU....
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Unidentified Man Drives Eddie Bauer Stroller, Checks Out Famke Jansen
image: via goldenfiddle [correction: dt reader/stroller shark points out that the stroller is an Eddie Bauer Standalone, not a Quattro Tour as originally posted. DT regrets the error. That is still Famke Jansen, though.]...
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June 29, 2006
Bugaboo Rocks Rad, New, UV Mesh Canopies & Rain Covers
I saw these at JPMA, but there weren't any images available, so I've kept kind of mum. But now that I've been sweating like a madman the last couple of days, it makes me think global warming's made it...
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June 28, 2006
The Mercedes B-for-Bugaboo-Class
I like to check in on Mercedes Benz Canada every once in a while, mostly because they have the Smart and the B-Class, and I want them. According to their own marketing--specifically, the new B-Class microsite, theanswerisb.ca--the B-Class is...
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June 24, 2006
In The 'Burbs, The 3-car Garage. In The City: The 3-Stroller Foyer
A dad-to-be from NYC emails with a gear questionLiving in the city with space limited-my wife says we need three strollers: a snap & go, a jogger, and a pram. I am all for the jogger and the pram but...
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June 22, 2006
Mutsy Coming To US; Crown Prince Haakon Of Norway Still Checking His Calendar
If you thought that Mutsy strollers were reserved solely for future Scandinavian kings to push around on Spanish beaches, think again. The stroller that Haakon Crown Prince of Norway made famous [around here anyway, never mind that Mutsy's been in...
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June 12, 2006
Celebrity Dad Gets New Whips
Guess that Element was too loud after all. And according to Matt's comments in his flickr photostream, even with its vaunted hose-out-ability, it's not as convenient as the Ridgeline for hauling dirt. In any case, it's good when a marketing...
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June 8, 2006
Bugawho? BBQ Pit Made From Vintage Stroller
Is there anything a Bugaboo can't do? Uh, yes, now that you mention it, you can't slow-cook a side of ribs in one. Unlike this 1906 Allwyn Pramelator, which does'em up just right. Seems that over three weeks "and...
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June 7, 2006
Brooklyn: This Is How We Roll, Part 2
Looks like someone in Brooklyn didn't get their renovations finished before the baby arrived. "My architect assured me that the changes had been made" [justinyc via curbed & gothamist's flickr photopools] Previously: pregnant lady in the house helps the projects...
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Why The Bugaboo? The Movie
I don't know what rocks better: A) this dad's enthusiasm for his new stroller, which prompted him to make his own live-action approximation of Bugaboo's own animated demo. B) the sweet lofty real estate that is the setting for...
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June 5, 2006
Fisher-Price Active Gear: Strollers For Where You LIVE--The Mall
Time was when Fisher-Price was happy to make strollers just for the roundheaded Little People whose faces you'd gnawed off as a child. But you're all growed up now with a kid or two of your own, and corporate counsel...
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May 19, 2006
Whoa, Nelly! Stroller Archaeology
AJ went on a vintage stroller bender at Thingamababy, digging up enough 19th and early 20th century baby gear--and one from ancient Egypt--to fill an entire Ye Olde Babies R Us. Check it out, including this editorial cartoon engraving...
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May 15, 2006
Vintage Stroller Dealers
For people who like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing you'll like. Ouderwetse-Kinderwagens is Dutch for "Old-fashioned Strollers." These vintage rigs from the 30's to the 70's are either in amazing original condition, or have been...
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May 11, 2006
Whoa. Unidentified Red Sox Fan Drives...A Gecko??
I have to admit, on the rare occasions when I see a Gecko in the wild, its clean, simple lines and understated, old-school color scheme really stands apart from the pack. I have to say, I like it. And...
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JPMAWatch: Stroll-Smart Hands-Free Jogging Stroller Adaptor
When I saw this in the New Products pen at JPMA, it freaked me out. Why would you lash yourself to a stroller with that thing, I thought. And thus, I unwittingly outed myself to the world as a non-jogging...
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Apparently They Can Give Them Away. To Women.
You have until May 22nd to register for Savvy Mommy's giveaway of a Stokke Xplory. Whether you enter the contest in your baby momma's name or using one of your female personas on AOL is totally up to you. Because...
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May 9, 2006
As NOT Featured At JPMA: The Cardboard Box Stroller
While everyone in the Baby Industrial Complex is chatting each other up in Orlando, talking in funny strollerspeak about the smoothness of "the fold," this stroller is making the rounds of the blogworld. It's a combination of a computer...
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Just Flew In From JPMA, And Boy Are My Arms Tired
All the flushable diapers and organic crib sheets in the world will never be able to make up for the sheer amount of paper waste produced for a trade show. I have easily 25 lbs of press kits and news...
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May 4, 2006
Finally, Someone Does Some Decent Strollerstalking
Well it's about damn time. Except for that one unpleasant incident involving Geraldo Rivera [which we all agreed never to talk about, right? Right?? So whatr'ya doing clicking on this link, then?!], none of those lazy-ass Gawker Stalkers could be...
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April 28, 2006
Mutsy, Michael Schumacher, & Maneuverability
You may have noticed that in his appearance at the opening ceremonies of Mutsy Week, Haakon Magnus Crown Prince of Norway was pushing his Urban Rider across the sands of Mallorca in a straight line. This is no accident....
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I Forgot To Tell You: There's No Thursday In Mutsy Week
Yeah, sorry. Non-stroller related travel kept me from my Mutsy duties. I see that Danielle at Celebrity Babies has taken note of Crown Prince Haakon's Mutsy Week festivities, so thanks for the shoutout [and, of course, for being the heralds...
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April 26, 2006
Mutsy: Hold The Mutsaert
In accordance with the will of HRH Haakon Magnus Crown Prince of Norway, who recently used the same hands that will one day hold the sceptre of power over that Nordic land to push a Mutsy Urban Rider across...
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April 25, 2006
Mutsy Mutsy Spider Is Waiting To Come Out
In accordance with the wishes of HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, who demonstrated for the whole world the proper way to push a Mutsy Urban Rider across the sands of Mallorca in sweater season [although if you think about...
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April 24, 2006
Crown Prince Haakon Of Norway Drives A Mutsy!!
I get emails from time to time asking why there isn't more info on DT about Mutsy strollers. After all, the emails go, Mutsy is Dutch, like Bugaboo. And they make fine-looking, rugged all-terrain strollers like Bugaboo. And they're flexible...
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April 20, 2006
Unidentified Suburban Man Goes For The Upgrade
People Magazine shows this photo of an unidentified man pushing a Bugaboo Cameleon. With his unidentified suburban child about to tumble right out without a seatbelt or crossbar. [to which I say, eh, it's the suburbs. Grass is soft....
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Maclaren By Starck: Don't Get Your Skirts In A Ruffle Just Yet
They may have turned up on display at Colette and in the goofy stylist fantasies of Vogue, but don't look for the Starck + Maclaren gear to turn up in any actual stores for sale for any actual, set prices...
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April 19, 2006
Truth Be Told, This Is How They Roll, People
We interrupt this TomKat moratorium to bring you this important update: Photographers take a picture of Baby Jogger delivered by the publicity firm Truth Be Told representing their client Baby Jogger in front of the house of actor Tom Cruise...
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April 13, 2006
Wagonboo: Coocaroo, Where Are You?
I'm still a Bugaboo believer--we're heading out on the town as soon as I finish posting this, in fact--but I can't fail to notice that there are times when we use the Cameleon as a glorified wheelbarrow. Every time...
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April 12, 2006
Stroller Locks: This Is How We Roll In Brooklyn
A reader at curbed.com snapped this photo of a fine-looking Maclaren Quest chained to the planter yesterday in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. What looks at first like street smarts--as any furniture-starved New Yorker can tell you, that's the "I'm throwing this...
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April 9, 2006
B is For Bugaboo, Basquiat & Brooklyn
Basquiat Show Originally uploaded by daddytypes. DT reader and NYC at-home dad Jon McGrath took this picture of his well-behaved son Emmett at the Jean Michel Basquiat show at the Brooklyn Museum last year. It's part of the daddytypes...
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April 7, 2006
George Washington Hosted Playgroup Here
What can I say, I'm a sucker for the artfully composed stroller photo. This one is from JGregor. It's from Mt Vernon, where strollers must apparently wait outside. Parents Mt Vernon [via JGregor's photostream on flickr] Related: David6of7 [?]...
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Japanese Stroller Shoppertainment On Flickr
IMG_2159.JPG Originally uploaded by JulieBoo. In January, flickr user JulieBoo went a little photo-happy in the stroller section of Jusco, a Japanese department store. The results are on flickr, in the form of a 30-photo set. What's interesting is...
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Vancouver, BC: Home Of The Stroller-Eating Goats
Those goats...! Originally uploaded by Tzatziki. You have been warned. The sign reads: "The goats here may eat strollers, etc. Please leave strollers in this area. Thank you." Those Goats!... by Tzatziki, via the "strollers" tag on flickr The...
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April 6, 2006
Stokke-Palooza Powerpramming
Which is blowing your mind more right now? The fact that they call Strollercize "Powerpramming" in England? Or the way that 50 Stokke Xplorys look when they're headed straight for you? "We road tested the STOKKE XPLORY pushchair at...
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April 5, 2006
First Of All, It's Pink: Quinny Zapp vs. Maclaren Quest
front view Originally uploaded by daddytypes. In a continuation of yesterday's flickr side-by-side photoset fun, here is a collection of Mr. Vasquez's real world comparisons of the surfboard-tastic Quinny Zapp and the Maclaren Quest, who you may recognize from...
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Brooklyn Stroller-Free Movement Gets Stuck On Curb Of Life
For a while there, The Stroller Manifesto Movement, the attempt to take Brooklyn back for the adults, one bar at a time, was looking really good. They had nice coverage in the Post, on Salon, in BKLN Magazine, They got...
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April 4, 2006
Maybe The "Daddy Wars" Are Really Just About Quinny vs. Bugaboo...
If that's the case, then maybe I'll be Jane's Defense Weekly or something. Of course, if I actually sold strollers on the site, I could be an old-skool arms dealer like Adnan Khashoggi, selling to all sides and hoping the...
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Flickr :: Blogger, Espresso :: Baby
2005-09-28 005 Originally uploaded by superbad. Wow, maybe it's a good thing I didn't get all into flickr when I started the daddytypes tagging last summer; this stuff is like crack. Or a venti mochalatterazzmattazz or whatever appropriately non-Starbucks...
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April 3, 2006
But Can Your Bugaboo Do This?
Did you know the Quinny Buzz can help prepare your child for an exciting career in the off-shore oil rig operating and/or wheatgrinding industries? Senna Pushing Stroller in Circle [youtube]...
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'Ello Guv'nah: Quinny Zapp For Sale In The US
The awesomely tiny-when-folded Quinny Zapp, which is typically only sold in Europe, is available online in the US via Baby Dealz [everyone with the "Z" these days]. The Zapp's frame unfurls into a surfboard-shaped [or, if you don't like it,...
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April 2, 2006
I-- Wow. Ultraman Drives An Aprica.
Taking me out . Originally uploaded by My Ultraman Daddy. When we were in Japan last summer, I tried to find some books from Tatsuya Miyanishi's Otousan wa Ultraman/ Daddy is Ultraman series, but only ended up with Daddy's...
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April 1, 2006
Unidentified Local Couple Does Not Overload Bugaboo Bag Clips
Glad to see they arrived safely. [image: us via cbb]...
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March 26, 2006
It's A Stroller. It's A Backpack. It's A Stroller. It's A--
Seems like the bike people have always been at the head of the line when it comes to baby transport. One of the earliest jogging strollers, B.O.B., was developed by cyclists, along with bike trailers for kids, for example. Well,...
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March 18, 2006
Unidentified Local Tough Strollercizes With Maclaren Quest
The first dad ever to participate in a Central Park Strollercize session--see the other stroller in line behind him?--was apparently interesting enough to get his picture in People Magazine. It's obviously a publicity stunt, though; a regular would know...
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Unidentified Local Man [Poss. Michael Moore's Manny] Drives Mountain Buggy
I'm assuming People Magazine ran this photo because in this pose, the kid bears an uncanny ressemblance to angry, baseball-cap-wearing filmmaker Michael Moore. The stroller, meanwhile, bears an uncanny ressemblance to the discontinued black 2005 Mountain Buggy Urban Single,...
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March 2, 2006
Where Have You Been Hiding, Weber Ritschie^2
When I first came across the Weber GoGo Trekking, a two-wheeled stroller/sled/backpack combo, almost 18 months ago, I could barely find any information on it at all, just a spotty writeup on a defunct German shopping site. So when I...
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February 27, 2006
Brooklyn Baby Store Bankruptcy Auction: Everything Must Go! Tomorrow, 2/28
MB Furniture Discount Store was in business for over 50 years in Brooklyn, until it went bankrupt. Now, all the contents of their retail location AND their warehouse are being sold at auction TOMORROW, Tuesday 2/28 at 11:00 AM....
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February 18, 2006
Local Man Drives Bugaboo, Dares You Not To Look At His Crotch
Uh, wow. Dateline Los Angeles. An unidentified old man was seen driving a yellow and blue Bugaboo Cameleon along the boardwalk. In another incident, the same old man was spotted on La Brea or someplace with a Graco SnugRide...
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February 13, 2006
Target's Giant Baby Sale Not Big Enough To Include Fisher-Price's Wha??-gaboo
Target's running a sale on baby stuff through 2/18 that offers 10-20% off their regular prices. If you're in the market for some gear, consider adding Target to your comparison shopping list. One item that is not included in the...
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February 10, 2006
An Interview With MoMA's Paola Antonelli
I'd been stuck on a comment I read last fall by MoMA Architecture & Design curator Paola Antonelli before her exhibition, "Safe," opened about children's product design, and so I decided to get her take on the Baby Industrial Complex....
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February 9, 2006
Somehow, I Must Have TOTALLY Misunderstood This TMN Headline
"The Park Slope of the future is a techno-wasteland, at least according to Freejack." Because the link doesn't mention Technos at all....
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February 8, 2006
Starck Maclaren Goes On View At Colette
According to the Colette newsletter for February, the Philippe Starck Maclaren stroller went on exclusive preview in the store starting Monday. As Colette puts it, Les poussettes Starck pour Maclaren, allient merveille la puissance visuelle du design et...
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February 7, 2006
Wow. Macl-- Wow. Maclaren Septuplet Stroller on eBay
If you have septuplets, and some local merchant didn't donate a stroller after you appeared on the 6 o'clock news, you should definitely check this out: a custom [hah, as opposed to what, a standard production?] Maclaren septuplet stroller,...
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February 6, 2006
Sakai Stroller, Suitcase In Disguise
Never heard of this Sixties-era collapsible stroller before. It's called the Chummy Dream Stroller, by a company called Sakai. It's pretty pink, and looks like it should come with an equally "portable" hair dryer attachment, but hey. It's only...
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February 3, 2006
"The Slope: How We Roll" T-shirt
A Subaru Outback. A Bugaboo. And Clogs. It was only a matter of time before The Park Slope Lifestyle was available in T-shirt format. Wear'em to the Co-op! Collect'em all! Trade with your friends! Or not, since your friends...
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February 1, 2006
Winning Brooklyn Over, One 'Boo Hatah At A Time
Just got this heartwarming email from a new dad who, at one point thought that, if it weren't for all the celebrities and Bugaboos crowdin' up the joint, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn might be an alright place to raise a kid:Back...
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January 30, 2006
M.U.D. [Modded Urban Detour] on eBay UK
Huh. The Urban Detour is an all-,3-wheeled stroller available in the UK through Mothercare. The current model is called the Urban Detour Xtreme, and it's heartily priced at about 265, on sale. I have no opinion, except about the...
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January 23, 2006
Ben Affleck Drives A Buga- Oh, You Know The Rest
People Magazine via CBB Be like me and get a dark grey Bugaboo Cameleon with a red canopy. Ben Affleck did. [babystyle] Or to really be like me, take a shower, then get a Bugaboo....
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The Buga-WHAT-boo of Fisher-Price
Yo, stop at Target, Bugaboo's overpriced! Fisher-Price dropped a stroller and they Frogged it up nice. Don't want the Dutch lawyers to get litigious. Air-filled tires, aluminum frame, forward- or rear-facing seat, extra infant padding, big canopy with a parent...
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January 18, 2006
Man Overboard At Maclaren
Never mind that I love our Volo, and that there are plenty of strollers that are totally pushable by both dads and moms. But whether it's the forced, gender-coded, fashion vs. function showdown of their Kate Spade {&c.] models, or...
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Maclaren By Starck: "Children Are The Future." Dads, Not So Much
Wow, the Maclaren 2006 line is up on their website, and there are big changes and announcements afoot. There's the Easy Traveller, of course; Volos are no longer monochrome; there are new fabrics and such, blah blah blah, but the...
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January 17, 2006
Car Takes Out Pram In Front Of Takeout
"Outside the Mamma Mia takeaway" in North Yorkshire, a Ford Escort jumped the curb and plowed into a mother and her two kids. Mom and a scooter-riding toddler were thrown clear and left with just some scratches. The stroller, meanwhile,...
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January 16, 2006
Expensive Rear-Facing Strollers Impair Child's Shoplifting
According to this headline from the UK's Daily Record, pushing your kid around in a rear-facing stroller can significantly delay his taking. Fortunately, the only strollers that have this rear-facing seat option--Bugaboos, a BebeConfort, and the Quinny Buzz--are for rich...
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Badass Wheelchairs
As I narrate the world for the kid, I've always been particular to point out and explain wheelchairs to her; what better time for her to identify with someone in a rolling chair than when she's riding in one...
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January 15, 2006
Bugaboo Carseat Adapters: Out With The Old...?
A concerned DT reader in the Bay Area writes: Any scuttlebutt on when (whether) Bugaboo will make carseat adapters for the new 2006 Peg Perego SIP carseat? Or the new Graco seats for that matter. The baby stores near me...
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January 13, 2006
iBaby: $50 Stroller-shaped iPod/Baby Case From Kolcraft
$50 might seem like a lot to pay for a run-of-the-mill umbrella stroller, even if it does recline. $50 would seem a bit steep for an iPod case, even one with a little speaker built into it. But what if...
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January 12, 2006
About That Bugaboo Logo
Who knew? The splashpage animation on the redesigned Bugaboo site shows where that logo came from. Anyway, it reminds me of this photograph by Gabriel Orozco, by artist (and new dad, congratulations!) Titled Extensions of Reflection and made in 1992,...
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January 11, 2006
Ziko Frankie Goes To Hollywood
UK baby giant Mamas & Papas is both a retailer and a product company, and though they were founded by parents 25 years ago who couldn't find well-designed, high-quality baby gear then [What is this, people, just the latest...
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January 9, 2006
Launched: Maclaren Easy Traveller Car Seat Carrier
I'd heard about this a while back, but I hadn't seen any pictures or product information, but now it's out and on sale. Maclaren has introduced a stroller carrier called the Easy Traveller. The Mac family ressemblance is immediately obvious;...
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January 7, 2006
Come On Down To Big Joe's Strollers Today
"This. Is A Child. Children. Sit. In These Things." This. Is A Dad. Making A Cheesy Stroller Dealer Commercial. In A Home Movie. In The Seventies. Big Joe's Strollers, 1m19s, posted by MD Davis [google video]...
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January 4, 2006
From Our Man At The Front: The Quinny vs Bugaboo War 2006
Ahh, it's a new year, but some things never change. Like the Quinny Buzz vs. Bugaboo debate, for example [Buzz? Still squeaky, but now there's a place to put your bag. Cameleon? Still expensive.] and the Maxi Cosi Cabrio Isofix...
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January 3, 2006
3-in-1 Stroller/Tricycle/Massagelounger at Hammacher Schlemmer
What's that, the third function is "push cycle"? So not everything at Hammacher Schlemmer is also a massagelounger, a folding kayak, or a home popcorn machine? I guess 2006 ushers in a new era at the venerable what-not retailer,...
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December 28, 2005
Chris Rock Drives A Maclaren!!!
This is how Chris Rock rolls, in a Maclaren Twin Traveller. [us via cbb] The Maclaren Twins are available in Rally ($289) or Techno ($359) at babystyle. [babystyle.com] Babies r Us only has Techno at the moment....
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December 19, 2005
I.D. Mag's Intriguing Baby Products Of 2005
I was doing a last-minute Christmas gift run at Barnes & Noble, and so I stopped to read me some free magazines, including I.D. [Now, I like I.D., but most major designers--and hence, design media--aggressively ignore baby-related products, so I've...
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December 18, 2005
More Expensive Than A Bugaboo, But Per Child? It's A Bargain
True, this stroller costs $989, $1,124 with the three canopies shown here. That's way more than a Cameleon, even. But if you look at it on a per-child basis ($164/187), the Bye-Bye Buggy is one of the best deals...
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December 12, 2005
From Our Man On The Street In NYC
1) It's butt cold. So you bundle the kid up for the street, only to have her meltdown in every sense of the word in the line at the post office. 2) I was surprised by how good the Sand-colored...
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November 29, 2005
Also On Flickr: A Unicyclist With A Stroller
I'm guessing he MacGyvered that handle extension and remote brake himself. The picture's from early June. I hope they're all right. Circus Dad by alwayscurious [flickr]...
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Pimped Out Graco With Decals, Ground Fx
Just found this picture on flickr of a Graco Quattro Tour that a dad pimped out for his son Max. Sure, the ground fx and the decals are the most immediately obvious mods, but check out the silver-painted wheels. And...
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November 22, 2005
Ryan Phillippe Drives A Maclaren!!!
So his kids--and their Maclaren Triumph--came to visit Ryan Phillippe while he's shooting a movie in Toronto. And apparently, Phillippe kept getting stopped by people asking for directions. To stores that sell milk in bags. The Phillippe family visits...
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November 15, 2005
Art: Picasso's Stroller
Apparently, Bugaboo did not invent parent-facing strollers after all. Picasso did. This 1950 sculpture, Woman With Baby Carriage, is currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC....
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November 10, 2005
Quinny vs. Bugaboo: Which One Is Best For Men With, Um, Big Feet?
Men with big feet drive Bugaboos, if you know what I mean... Brakes. Brakes. I'm talking about footbrakes, what did you think I meant? Anyway, Anna from Amsterdam swears that she isn't "on a mission to promote Bugaboo over Quinny,"...
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November 8, 2005
Strollers: What Does Your Cookie Say?
ookie magazine's first issue isn't all about losing the baby weight. It's also has articles about which most expensive stroller to buy [See? I love it already.] The preview shows three top picks in Cookie's own categories, with a couple...
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November 2, 2005
Beastie Boys Stroller-spotting, Cont'd
When it comes to stroller-stalking, the child-free readers of Gawker are pretty useless; they email all excited, "I saw Mike D. pushing a stroller!" but then they leave the real news--the KIND of stroller--out. So I did some digging, and...
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October 30, 2005
Seal Drives An I'Coo Pico 4!!!
I have to say, I've got nothing but respect for the man, his music, and his inspirational family ways. BUT. After seeing this picture on GTBaby.com, the home of the Rock Star Baby stroller, I can't go on pretending...
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October 29, 2005
Brussels Invaded By... Who?
Never before seen! That high-tech aluminum frame, all that rubber, that black thing protruding from it? If only that gas-detecting, video-surveillance robot wasn't in the way, we could get a clearer shot and see what kind of stroller that...
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October 27, 2005
And In Other Exotic Stroller News...
You know about the discovery of Japanese Macplorys. But did you know... ...about Torck, a Belgian stroller maker whose Bayamo stroller has a wheel stance and rounded-square seat frame that looks just enough like a Dutch Bugaboo to make you...
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Stroller-spotting On Flickr, Vol. 1?
Kid's still asleep, so I started surfing through the "stroller" tag on flickr. Here's a brief online exhibit [the photog's name is in brackets]. There were thousands of photos, but I just looked at a few hundred; add your...
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Xplory Has A Posse (In Japan)
While I've only seen a handful of Xplorys in the wild here in the US, they're apparently keeping babies out of range of car exhaust and wheeling up to cafe tables all over Japan. In the sidebar on the blog...
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October 26, 2005
Japanese Stroller Mashup: Xplory Footmuff In A Maclaren
Having a Stokke Xplory in your house must just get the innovative juices flowing, because, as two Japanese moms discovered (independently and simultaneously as far as I'm concerned; I don't want to get dragged into the middle of any...
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October 25, 2005
She Asked For It
From the comments on Geraldo's alleged Bugaboogering:Sound off on BIG strollers (LA's South Bay) Tell me what you think of the pricey ($700), supersize of strollers these days. With names like Bugaboos and Stokke Xplorys - some are calling them...
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Phil & Teds & Jon & Stewart
Check this out. It is important to know that Marjorie, the DT reader who sent this in, was into Phil & Ted's waaaay before Jon Stewart made them cool:a fellow phil & ted owner in downtown manhattan reports being stopped...
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Stroller Smackdown: Daddy Typed For Slate
My years of fawning over Ann Hulbert's writing has finally paid off. Slate has published the first chapter of my dissertation on stroller-buying. It's about 10,000 words, and--I hope you're sitting down for this--less than half of them are "Bugaboo."...
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October 24, 2005
Your Bugaboo? How Much For Your Bugaboo?
I hear people say all the time that high resale value is one reason they bought a Bugaboo. But then, I never hear of anyone actually selling. So I took a quick tour of craigslist to see what a good...
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October 20, 2005
Pimp Thy Stroller
I think we may have uncovered the reason the West Coasters of L.A. Rush went with the lame, faux British "Pimp My Pushchair." Because "Pimp My Stroller" was already taken by the East Coast crew Rhett and Link, who Crusade...
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Pimp My Pushchair? Sure, But First A Spot Of Tea
"It ain't the buggy, it's the driver." That's how our hero, little Trikz explains his cheap-ass umbrella stroller to Lidell, who's just pulled up next to him in a, well, I guess it's supposed to be a streetracing stroller so...
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October 16, 2005
Gozo Jogging Stroller: How Goes It?
My now-largely sedentary life has more benefits--easy access to Google, Aeron chairs, don't need a cordless phone, um, a new-found appreciation of elastic waist pants--than drawbacks. In fact, the only downside I can think of is my general ignorance and...
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October 14, 2005
Bugabusted On The Subway
So we've been mostly in the Cameleon these days (it's the only stroller we have in NYC at the moment), and I love it. More later, when I get some breathing/writing room, but I had a problem I've never even...
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October 10, 2005
Philippe Starck Maclaren: The First Online Photos
Finally, the first online photos of Philippe Starck's stroller and changing bag for Maclaren have surfaced. The snap judgment: not a jaw-dropping surprise, but worth a closer look. The Starck Maclaren won the Innovation Award in last month's giant Kind...
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October 7, 2005
Bugaboo-hacking: The $99 Cameleon?
If you could make a Frog look convincingly like a Cameleon by dressing it up in a $99 fleece of your choosing, you could save $779. How's it look? Because it was so overcast today, my cameraphone pics didn't...
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NYC Under Threat From Stroller-Pushing Terrorists?
If you see a menacing, Geraldo-looking guy pushing a stroller on the subway, CALL THE COPS IMMEDIATELY. IT IS NOT GERALDO. HE DOESN'T TAKE THE SUBWAY; HE HAS A BENTLEY AND A DRIVER. On the other hand, if you see...
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October 6, 2005
Meanwhile, Sir Paul Drives A, Well, A Stroller Of Some Kind
Right after the disastrous Geraldo Bugaboo sighting, another Gawker reported seeing Paul McCartney " pushing a stroller (with blond kid in it) down 57th St. across from Carnegie Hall" on Monday. [No brand/model mentioned? Come on, anonymous blog readers, what's...
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Umm, How Else Can I Put This? Geraldo Drives A Bugaboo
Some days you win, and some days you lose. And today, I have to admit it, the Bugaboo team lost:Tonight (10/4, good buddy) on a flight from Cleveland to Newark, saw a trim and relaxed Geraldo Rivera in coach(!) with...
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October 5, 2005
And To Think That I Saw It At Yoyamart
Last weekend, I checked in at Yoyamart, the sweet, sweet kid-centric store in EMePa (East of Meatpacking District). The highlights, some of which are available on Yoyamart's online store, too, are below: - the smurftastic Bugaboo By limited edition stroller...
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October 4, 2005
Strollers For Porsche Drivers
And all these years, you thought those license plate frames and stroller bumper stickers were just a joke. British DT reader Paula's vexing circumstance proves otherwise. Can anyone help her out with the info?Checking out this website, as the 'mummys'...
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October 3, 2005
Bugaboo-Hacking: Bag Clips For The Cameleon
I've gotten several emails from people asking the same question about the Bugaboo Cameleon: "Is it true there aren't any bag clips? Cuz that'd be a dealbreaker for us." My short reply is "Relax, it's true, but not that bad."...
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Salon Goes Stroller-crazy
So a new mom goes to her pediatrician's office in a "trendy neighborhood" in Manhattan, and everyone there has the same "trendy" stroller except her? The thing is expensive--$900--but they can afford it. She wonders if the money couldn't be...
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September 29, 2005
Seal Drives An Urban Jungle! Leni Drives A--Huh? An Eddie Bauer?
Here are some highlights from the latest installment of the Seal-Klum Paparazzi Ambush Hour: Seal's definitely rockin' the Euro Mountain Buggy, aka the Urban Jungle. [tiny brunopress pic here] Mrs. Seal can be seen driving the Mother of All Wagons...
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September 27, 2005
Seal's Station Wagon Can Kick Your Station Wagon's Butt
The Klum-Seals hit the town last week, where they got ambushed by paparazzi hoping to score a photo of the new kid. Meanwhile, Seal looks to be toting Henry in a carrycot that's part of a stroller; that thick...
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Mountain Buggy Adds A Car Seat Adapter
If the only thing holding you back from buying a Mountain Buggy was the inability to lash a butt-ugly American car seat onto it, your wait is over. Mountain Buggy has introduced a car seat adapter for its strollers, which...
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September 25, 2005
Hell Is Other Bugaboo People
So after I finished giving directions to some Frog yesterday who couldn't find Columbus Avenue in his Guide Routard ["because it's nowhere near here, mon vieux, this is Lexington Avenue."], I tried and failed to warn him about the Frog...
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September 22, 2005
Strollers And The City: Get Out Of My Way
Like Democrats meekly questioning John Roberts, a bunch of self-justifying child-free people take a break from contemplating their loserdom to whine to the NYT about our inalienable right as procreating Bugaboo owners to drive where and how we want (which,...
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September 18, 2005
Stokke Xplory At MoMA
A show called "Safe" opens in MoMA's Architecture & Design department Oct. 16 which features over 300 products and objects that take risk and safety into account. Among them: a bulletproof face mask, a purse that lets out a shriek...
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