Dollox 1/30 RC School Bus, 2.4G Remote Control School Car 4 Channel City Classic Bus Toy Electronic Vehicles Opening Door for Toddlers with Lights (School Bus)

This is the perfect remote control toy truck for a seven year old boy.

My grandkids love this!!

I would give it zero stars if that were an option. This was a celebration gift gone wrong. Upon opening, none of pieces were in plastic protective packaging. After charging batteries for ambulance and inserting batteries for controller, discovered the car does not work. Very disappointing! Replacement ordered. Hopefully that will give me ability to compose a positive review, should replacement work!

So this tractor is very powerful the motors are strong enough to pull 2 8” cinder blocks that I put on a skateboard it didn't even hesitate I was astonished I wasn't expecting to see it pull so efficiently I checked the tractor and the motors didn't even get warm I used my non-contact thermometer they stayed cool I pull the blocks about 10 feet so if you want a quality built toy in your home buy from Dollox I'm very impressed and their customer service is number one I asked for some advice and spoke with the friendless person on earth and we got everything working properly so you can't go awry buying this toy and any other toy from this company I really would love them to send me a dump trailer/hopper to see how it performs I think it would be a great addition to my collection and I can do a killer review of it also. I love the fact you can start and stop the tractor with a push of a button which keeps the better life longer than most toys in this category The remote is kid friendly you don't need a degree in engineering to figure it out. The tires truly grip the sand and rocks and will pull through any condition I love this toy and the company they will be getting business from me and all my rc companions

I purchased this as a gift for a 10-year-old. He opened it in front of me and was so excited. He read the features and could not wait to get it home to play with it. That is all I can say at this point.

Fun little toy when it worked. Very loud. Charge didn’t last very long. Stopped working after a few months but I think that was more of my kid’s fault than the actual toy.

The best thing about this tractor is its looks. Although not a detailed model, the molding is sharp and the finish is great. There is no "glass" in the cabin, and that looks fine. The material is durable, especially the rear view mirrors which can fold out of the way. Each wheel/tire is like a single clever molding so the black 'tires' are the same stubborn plastic as the yellow wheel. The model is rear wheel drive, not 4WD like the prototype. It does feature a differential to help cornering. The steering is full left, full right, and straight, while the throttle is full forward, stop, and full reverse. "Full" here is not much; the turning radius is large and the tractor is slow. It can handle carpet but not grass and it labors going up grades. All this adds up to an easy to control tractor for young drivers. Be sure to press the 'start engine' button or else you'll be sad thinking your model does not run. The sound chip is overused but you can hold down the horn to mute all sound. The headlights are nicely done. Overall I wish it moved a little quicker and steered sharper, but I am glad to have it to display with my 1/16th die cast tractors.

Review: Update: Increased to two stars; I figured out that the bus refuses to drive and steer unless the "driving" sound is currently active, at which time it operates just fine. That's unintuitive and unfortunate, but the bus does function so one star is no longer appropriate. The bus still begs to be "hacked" so it can be used without that obnoxious noise. Prior review: One star. Period. I hope the manufacturer doesn't need to sell many of these to feed their kids, because this is a hard flop. We ordered one, figuring the tinies could give it the acid test. The tinies never got a chance to see it; we charged the lithium battery (goes in the bus) overnight, then installed it. Side note: what sort of product engineer would close a battery cover on a toy... with a screw... into plastic? We also installed (our own, fresh, because they weren't supplied) AA cells in the remote control. Good batteries. Side note: what sort of product engineer would close a battery cover on a toy's remote control... with a screw... into plastic? Ahem. We then switched on the bus and tried everything out. We were impressed that the red / blue lights inside the bus flashed gratuitously when we turned on the power. Good start, right? We pressed the "sound" button and were regaled by ... sounds that... well, really nobody would associate with a school bus, exactly... except there was a horn sound. Roary noises, but they didn't sound like a bus. That was the left button. The right button was supposed to turn the sound on and off... but oddly, it just triggered the horn sound. The middle button, which was supposed to turn on some sort of demo... did nothing at all. Zilch, zero, nothing. The bus just stood there, its lights flashing, waiting. The left joystick, front / rear... also did nothing at all. No motion from the bus, even lying on its back with its wee widdle wheels wagging in the air. There was no motor sound, there was no hint of motion, The wheels turned freely, as if not connected to any motors or gearboxes inside the bus. Hmmmm, sez me. Not any great sign. The right joystick also did nothing at all. It was supposed to be for left / right steering. The steering apparatus at the front of the bus didn't wiggle. Didn't feel like it was connected to anything internally, even. So... dang. That bus was clearly defective, and badly so. So... we returned it for replacement. The replacement arrived today. We went through the whole initialization process (screws, batteries) with this one, same's last 'un... except that we never even set this one on its feet; we just let its wee widdle wheels wag in the air right from the start. ...and it steered. For One. Second. Flat. Then it stopped steering. The driving wheels never jerked, never twitched, certainly never spun. Oh, the lights (red and blue? in a school bus?) flashed gratuitously and the growly horny noises did their thing. The demo button, exactly like on the first bus, did exactly nothing and the joysticks just wiggled. One star. Because it's yellow and has four wheels and it can be pushed around on the floor as a "dumb" (non-electronic, inactive) toy. It's not worth doing to recharge that little lithium battery just to flash red / blue (???) lights and generate growly noises. Oh, and the AA cells, too. No, not just for that. The lights and noises just aren't impressive enough to warrant all that. Not even to the tinies. One of these days when I have exactly nothing else to do and I'm fork-in-eye bored, I'll tear it apart and figure out why it doesn't do anything but flash lights and growl... and maybe hook up an Arduino with a transceiver pair to it to control it for real. Not today.