Hauck Malibu All in One Child Carrier Set, Black Review
| Product Code | B0098YXYSY |
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| Price | $249.99 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #25767 in Baby Product
- Color: Black
- Brand: Hauck
- Model: 143940
- Released on: 2012-10-03
- Dimensions: 40.00" h x
21.00" w x
26.00" l,
Features
- Hauck Malibu all in one stroller comes with bassinet and stand, universal infant car seat adaptor, easy to fold, very light aluminum frame and soft foam handle
- Easy to removable front bar, single foot brake break system, 5 point safety harness with shoulder pads and front wheels swivel/lock
- Over size extendable canopy, hand washable fabric, outer material: 100% polyester; filling: 100% polyester fleece and weight 18 lbs
- Length of seat back and recline platform: seat 7'', back 18'', reclining platform 33'', seat width: 13'', wheel diameter: front 7'' / back 7.5'' and front wheels swivel/lock (360 degree)
- Infinite seat recline, from position 163 degree to sitting position 115 degree, shock absorption, 3 position adjustable footrest and large shopping basket
- Hauck Malibu all in one stroller comes with bassinet and stand, universal infant car seat adaptor, easy to fold, very light aluminum frame and soft foam handle
- Easy to removable front bar, single foot brake break system, 5 point safety harness with shoulder pads and front wheels swivel/lock
- Over size extendable canopy, hand washable fabric, outer material: 100% polyester; filling: 100% polyester fleece and weight 18 lbs
- Length of seat back and recline platform: seat 7'', back 18'', reclining platform 33'', seat width: 13'', wheel diameter: front 7'' / back 7.5'' and front wheels swivel/lock (360 degree)
- Infinite seat recline, from position 163 degree to sitting position 115 degree, shock absorption, 3 position adjustable footrest and large shopping basket
Product Description
The Malibu all in one comes with the stroller, universal infant car seat adaptor and the bassinet plus the bassinet stand. As always the ever versatile Malibu offers exceptional quality and streamline design.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
When Engineering Becomes Art.
By MussSyke
When I opened the box and started pulling everything apart, I was first amazed how much stuff was inside. I started putting everything together and realizing the features for myself without reading the assembly instructions, and I became truly amazed how well thought out everything was with the design. I saw the video on Amazon, but putting it together made me realize some other great things about it as well:For one, everything comes back apart easily and folds down smoothly, including the bassinet and the actual stroller frame. You can even easily remove all four casters, which I was not expecting at all, but that will save a lot of room if you ever wish to store this between children.All the fabric comes off - even of the front handle, so you can basically machine wash the entire ensemble.I was able to discover just about everything for myself without the manual, so most people should have no trouble even if they do need the manual. That said, the manual is the type that only has pictures to avoid writing everything in multiple languages. That's sort of a detriment in this case, because those not mechanically inclined might not notice some of the great features.The whole setup only requires two bolts be installed with included locking nuts for the bassinet stand. I feel like they should have been able to find a way to do without those yet, so that that stand could break down further - it does fold up and has a hook to keep it together, but it doesn't save as much room as it could have. I suppose it was done this way to ensure safety, so this isn't a serious complaint.It also has a nylon bag that one can house the toddler carrier when one is still in the phase of using the bassinet, which is a great bonus. And the great way the bassinet locks into the stroller or the stand via hidden hooks is just a fabulous design.There are numerous small design details that were surprising and clever as well, such as how handles are integrated where convenient, fully adjustable everything, a plastic window that can be fully covered with fabric that can be hidden when not in use, wheels that can lock into "straight only" mode, and plenty more.Also included is a frame that can be mounted onto the stroller or the bassinet stand in the same manner that the bassinet can be attached that is said to be a universal car seat adapter. I personally don't see myself bothering to remove the car seat for this purpose, but it could come in handy. I suppose if you just wanted to grab the stand to take over to Grandma's for the evening...Despite the obvious careful packaging, I did have a few scratches on the frame, not noticeable enough to bother me. There will be more eventually.I get the idea that some people even use strollers as a status symbol of sorts. That seems absurd to me as a guy, but if that's your thing, I don't think this set will disappoint: it's good looking and the materials are of obvious quality.This is a great product, especially useful considering it's an interoperable set. And most of all, as an engineer, I'm super impressed at the design and benefits of said design, particularly ease of use and portability. This is by a German GmbH (similar to an American LLC), presumably designed by Germans known for all their mechanical works of art (H&K, BMW, et al.), made in China, but almost assuredly under German supervision. I'm sold.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Difficult collapse mechanism and wobbly bassinette outweigh attractive features; not as good as other strollers on the market
By Scott Schiefelbein
With so many high-end and feature-loaded strollers in the market today I expected this new stroller to be better than the competition or offer something innovative. The easily removed bassinette is a nice feature for transferring a sleeping baby from stroller to home but unfortunately that's where this stroller stops impressing.The most important negative for me is also the reason we won't be keeping this stroller - the folding mechanism to collapse this stroller is exceptionally difficult. You must depress and hold a release button on one arm of the handle and at the same time slide up a release tab on both arms of the handle. This process is made even more difficult by the fact that the release button is extremely tight and takes a lot of effort to get all three things accomplished together. It's so difficult to collapse that I called customer service to find out if I was doing something wrong or if my stroller was defective. I was dumped into voicemail without an option to stay on hold and talk to a customer service rep. I decided to e-mail instead of leaving voicemail and received a reply the next day. Their reply was that I was doing it correctly and that it would be tight at first and get easier as I broke it in. I suppose it's good that the release can be broken in over time, but even if the release process went smoothly I still find this type of collapse cumbersome. I often have my toddler by the hand while I open or close a stroller and can't imagine how I would accomplish keeping my toddler safely next to me while using both hands to struggle with this collapse. Our prior stroller, the Britax B-Agile, is a similar stroller that collapses by pushing in and releasing one button and then grabbing a stroller handle on the seat that collapses the stroller with one pull and the handle you're holding is the same handle you use to carry it around - very easy and logical!Another negative is that the bassinette stand isn't as useful for us as it first appeared. We have a couple of older kids and a dog (border collie - not exactly a bull in a china shop) and I quickly realized that any of them could easily knock the stand over, even if the stand was against the wall, because of how top-heavy it will be once the bassinette and baby are on top of it. In the past we always put sleeping babies in car seats or bassinettes in the middle of the dining table which is a much safer base this folding stand and that's what we'll do with this bassinette. (The bassinette itself is fine.) If this is your first baby and you don't have dogs then the stand could be quite useful though.There's more - the stroller's basket is smaller than many other strollers, the highest setting on the seat is still reclined quite a bit so infants who want to sit up and look around will be stuck reclining until they are able to sit up completely on their own, and the assembly instructions are terrible and don't include written or illustration instructions for assembling several parts of the stroller. For example, it took me half an hour just to figure out which straps and framework attached the different openings of the basket before I finally had it attached properly. I've assembled a half-dozen other strollers over the years - this was by far the most complex.As for positives, this stroller does many things well, such as: it's easy to steer with one hand, feels solid and rides well, has a great canopy cover, looks stylish, has a universal car seat adapter, and has a washable cover. Of course, many other nice strollers have these same features which means for me that the negatives far outweigh the positives.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Tries to do everything and fails to be great at anything... and overpriced!
By W. Munro
Pros- seems to have compatibility with a range of carseats- easy 1-handed OPENING from folded position (but NOT closing)- nice big canopy- nice to have the versatility of the different add-ons (pram, stroller, carseat connector), but it requires effort to change between them so you probably want to pick one and stay with it for a while- decent folded dimensions with the stroller and canopy on (though not as good as competitors' single strollers):20" H x 29" L (handles to wheel) x 21" W (wheel to wheel)Cons:- horrendous assembly experience (4 hours later) - they left out several key steps... almost like the instructions sketcher had no idea how the parts would actually be packaged up in the box! Definitely watch the YouTube video first so you get a sense of how it generally works- overall the versatility of this requires a lot of levers and pulls that do not feel very robust, get easily jammed (fold-up mechanism, teeth that pop up to enable pram add-on)- DIFFICULT two-handed folding - requires you to push a safety button with your right thumb and pull back on two levers with your index fingers SIMULTANEOUSLY otherwise they get off track from one another and you have to begin again- the stroller seat is only held up by two pins on each side - feels a bit unsafe as I have easily dislodged the pins when removing the canopy which could send the kid sliding backwards to land on his head!- carseat adapter faces FORWARD only - so can't make eye contact with your kid- canopy cannot be used with the carseat for that `cocooning' affect that keeps a kid sleeping on a sunny day- canopy is not designed to work with the pram and the pram only faces one way so if the sun is behind you, you're out of luck- pram stand doesn't add any value for me- the break is a little jenky - and you kick the storage bin when you lock and releaseFor $399 I would recommend instead the Britax B-Agile ($188 currently on Amazon) and buy the pram ($118) and save yourself $100! It's much better designed, robust with easy open/close and better versatility of seat orientation with cocooning sun shade option. It does require you stick with the Britax family and a B-Safe carseat however.
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