Category archive: strollers

June 1, 2013

The Longboard Stroller, AKA The Quinny Jett Concept

The urge to stay young is the father of invention. Peter Van Riet and his fellow Belgian dads didn't see a reason why involved fatherhood had to mean cutting back on their longboarding time. They are hard-to-define creative types...
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May 30, 2013

Parking Space: The Final Frontier

Which is funny, because in the alternate timeline Park Slope, it's the lack of stroller parking that's the dealbreaker. Park Slope Patrick Stewart [tumblr via our man in tumblr, dt]...
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May 13, 2013

Small Child Attends Large Art Fair

The Frieze Art Fair came and went in New York over the weekend. It was in a massive tent on Randall's Island, off the coast of the Upper East Side. Photographer Scott Lynch captured this adorable scene on Thursday...
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May 12, 2013

Bugaboo's Having A Sample Sale Saturday

What do you make of this? A pteradactyl? A brooch? There's a sale at Buggies! The Bugaboo Showroom in LA is throwing open the doors and clearing out the merch with a sample sale this coming Saturday, May 18,...
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May 3, 2013

From Russian Dashcam With Love

Russian dashcams: they're not just for epicfail car crashes and apocalyptic meteorites anymore. It probably won't help, but if you really don't want to cry with joy over this happy Russian dashcam video compilation, I suggest you mute the...
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April 22, 2013

Stroll Your Cares Away With The Mark Maclaren!

So far they haven't taken me up on my suggestion to do a co-branded stroller with BP, but Maclaren is now rolling in style on Madison Avenue. The Mark hotel and residences on the Upper East Side are delighted...
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April 16, 2013

Bamboo Stroller Hack

Here is a stroller turned into a vegetable cart, as photographed by Beatbeatrice at the Anilao Market in the Philippines. [instragram via @beabeatrice]...
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April 2, 2013

Baby Gutai

I saw this a couple of weeks ago, then lost it, and not it's found again. Gallerist NY critic Andrew Russeth calls it "Baby Gutai." It's an audience re-staging of Murakami Saburō's 1956 Gutai work Passage, where the artist...
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February 28, 2013

Brands! Zombie Silver Cross Want Aston Martin's Brands!

To be fair, Silver Cross has been bankrupted and brought back to life far fewer times than Aston Martin has. But of the two historically British luxury vehicle brands, the one most in need of a leg up is...
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February 12, 2013

Wicked Strollah Pahking

When I saw the subject line in Boston DT reader Sara's email was "stroller parking spot saver," I imagined some Southie dad spending 45 minutes digging his stroller out of the snow, and deploying a traffic cone to hold its...
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February 8, 2013

DT Friday Freakout: Teddy Bears Edition

I know I'm missing a bunch, but these reports from the worlds of science, health, parenting, and twitter [uh, three of these things belong together? -ed.] should be enough to freak you out and ruin your weekend. Except for the...
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January 10, 2013

Ja, FRA: Lufthansa Loaner Stroller

I've been busy dealing with the blowback of leaving my kids on the school doorstep at 5AM--YOU AMERICANS ARE SO UPTIGHT!--which means I'm only just starting to work my way through my photos from our recent European Family Vacation....
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December 19, 2012

I Would Steal From Your Parked-On-The-Street Stroller Just On Principle

Oh hi, Park Slope mom who left your stroller parked, unattended--and laden with $700 worth of tote bags, iPhones, wallets, keys, and bougies--on the street outside your home daycare for half an hour. Did you just have a baby? If...
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December 14, 2012

Bugaboo Takes Impending Recall Announcements About Its Popping-Out Handles Situation Very Seriously

Have you picked up your Cameleon or Donkey in bassinet mode by the padded handle and had one side pop out, giving you a momentary shock but not injuring your child, and then you stuck it back in, and made...
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December 3, 2012

Deep Cover

Amazing investigative reporting by @BuzzFeedAndrew finds this conclusive evidence, from 2001, that Barack Obama's whole, "palling around with terrorists, socialist crypto-Muslim past" was all an elaborate ruse to hide his true nature, as a Yankee Doodlin', umbrella stroller pushin',...
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November 27, 2012

Crown Prince Olaf's Baby Cadillac

London Cadillac dealer Frank Bennett created this electric-powered "Baby Cadillac" in 1912 as a promotional stunt. It caught the attention of Queen Alexandra, wife of Kind Edward VI, who bought it for her grandson, Crown Prince Olaf of Norway....
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November 15, 2012

The Ultimate Strolling Machine: BMW Licenses Self To Maclaren

Are you gonna let a shady bankruptcy, corporate shell games, and offshore intellectual property shenanigans get in the way of a brand licensing deal? Not when you've got xDrive! That's right, BMW has done its first stroller cross-branding deal--with...
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October 10, 2012

We're All Jackasses Now.

Colin Furze is a British stuntyob who looks like Ze Frank, but acts like Steve-o, and whose schtick is that he collects WTF Guinness World Book records on YouTube. His next target, on Oct 14: World's Fastest Pram, for...
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October 3, 2012

And I Approve This Cup Holder

Cup holder, Mercedes G Wagon style. #mamafallrallyinstagr.am/p/QVFCKUIVQG/— David Thomas (@DaveLikesCars) October 3, 2012...
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September 29, 2012

Did You Leave Your UppaBaby At The Zoo?

Because it was still there at 8 o'clock. I'm trying to figure out the scenario that could explain how an $700 stroller gets left on the street by the National Zoo, for hours, into the night, unattended and unlocked....
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September 12, 2012

Silver Cross Surf's Up! Unidentified Local Mum Wipes Out On Sidewalk

My favorite part of this paparazzi photo of Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen's Silver Cross Surf pram and car seat getting stuck in a gap on the sidewalk and pitching him to the ground is his little feet. So cute....
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August 27, 2012

Area Crown Princess Couple Happens To Buy Custom Stroller

So apparently Brio did not go bankrupt, it went private. And according to DT trainspotter Nelson, it has returned to the US market it had abandoned in 2008 after the financial crisis and the newer, stricter toy testing regulations...
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August 24, 2012

Marlboo Man

"Rodeo dad drinking a beer at the annual Carbondale rodeo in Colorado. @edkashi" newyorkermag's instagram via @wyszniewski]...
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August 23, 2012

Quinny X Maxi-Cosi X Britto Colabo Whosi-Whatsi

Hey great! Maxi-Cosi and Quinny have partnered with a world-famous artist I've never heard of to decorate a stroller, car seat and accessories collection. Romero Britto, who I'm going to guess is the Peter Max of Brasil, and the...
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August 14, 2012

Here Be Python & Ostrich Skin Strollers

Maybe there are people who want a random middle-of-the-road Japanese stroller upholstered in exotic skins like python or ostrich. And maybe there are people--I mean, it's at least theoretically possible--who would be into paying $22,000-$37,000, no haggling, PLUS $1,200...
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July 29, 2012

For Sale: The Gothamist Bugaboo

They grow up so fast. And then there's another one, and you push'em around in the bassinet for a while, but then you need a double stroller. Gothamist's own Jake Dobkin is facing such a situation [mazeltov!], and so...
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July 4, 2012

All In The Family: There's A Maclaren Shell Company For Every Rastegar

The other day DT regular Seth wondered who else besides Daddy TYpes was covering the financial and offshore corporate shell game shenanigans of the Maclaren USA bankruptcy mess. Fortunately, the Huffington Post's Alice Hines is on the case, too. In...
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June 28, 2012

Maclaren Would Like You To Kindly Stop Mentioning Their Bankruptcy

So I just got a press release from Maclaren's new, what, branding crisis management consultant, I guess:Please find the attached announcement by Maclaren, the world's leading brand in children strollers, to honor product liability claims affected by the liquidation of...
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June 15, 2012

Shady, Baby! Buy THE 2009 Maclaren Quest Today!

It's true, a piece of dadblogging history can be yours today. Or probably tomorrow, since it's late. I bought this 2009 Maclaren Sport stroller as part of the big Macpocalypse 2012/ Shady Baby/ Secret Maclaren Factory Outlet investigation a...
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Ba-Bum! David Netto Sues Farzad Rastegar For Fraud

Law & Order, baby, and this time it's personal. I was doing my periodic check of the docket on the Maclaren bankruptcy case, when, whaddya know, a new lawsuit showed up under Farzad Rastegar's name: he's being sued by pioneering...
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June 10, 2012

Bring Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Bugaboo'd Masses

Yearning to be free to keep holding their church services in public buildings like schools and community centers. That's the good Reverend Dimas Salaberrios of Infinity Church in the Bronx, reminding NY State Speaker Sheldon Silver that "The Poor...
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Awkward Twitter Juxtapositions Of The Day

ART DECO BABY STROLLER GAUDI BABY STROLLER WICCAN BABY STROLLER ALL GLASS MODERN BABY STROLLER MOSS STROLLER KVLT BABY STROLLER— GRAEYALIEN (@graeyalien) June 10, 2012 This is weird: ring of baby skulls found in an ancient peruvian tomb ow.ly/brqfZ— Dadding...
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June 6, 2012

This Is Serious.

via @peterlattman...
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May 22, 2012

Big Gulp, Son Of Clone Trooper

Here is a photograph of a Clone Trooper pushing a gun and a Coke in a stroller at the Maker Faire. Really not much I can add to it at this point. Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire...
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Buy These Bugaboo Maxi-Cosi Adapters For Practically Nothing

Regular DT readers know I love nothing more than leaving money on the table. From all the ads and sponsored content we don't sell, to all the giveaways and tweetups and shilling contests we don't run. And now I've...
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April 29, 2012

The First Rule Of Maclaren Bankruptcy Club

So on Wednesday I was all excited because it looked like at least somebody still cared about the reports of financial shenanigans in Maclaren's stealth bankruptcy liquidation. And I figured I'd get around to posting about it, because that somebody...
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April 27, 2012

How's This Folding Wagon Look To You?

I've now seen a couple of people hauling their kids around in one of these folding wagons. Mostly on daytrips from the suburbs to the zoo. It sure makes more sense than bringing one of those giant red plastic...
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April 6, 2012

'An Emotion Stroller.'

How do you top sponsoring a Gender Reveal Twitter Party? With the world's most oddly affecting PR contest giveaway email blast subject line! And so Boston area baby store Magic Beans invites us to: "Meet Babyhome & win an Emotion...
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April 2, 2012

DT Giveaway: Swag-Filled Bugaboo Organizer

We don't do PR freebies around Daddy Types, and no giveaways. Except sometimes, when some sweet PR swag slips through the cracks. Like the fine-looking Bugaboo Universal Organizer that showed up unannounced a little while back, which was stocked...
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Shady Baby: Maclaren's Secret Outlet Stores

Alright, here's the short version of this post: Farzad Rastegar's basically got two front operations in random condos in Norwalk, Connecticut to unload recalled Maclaren USA strollers online. Some of those strollers come from Maclaren USA, the subsidiary Rastegar put...
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March 22, 2012

There's A Sale At Buggies!

Because "strollers and accessories will sell out fast!" Bugaboo recommends arriving early for their sample sale next Saturday. And if you're late, you'll be stuck buying, um... What else would there be at a Bugaboo sample sale besides strollers and...
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March 19, 2012

Protect Ya Neck & Fingaz: Maclaren Volo Amp Carrier

It's not all darkness and gloom for Maclaren, guvnuh, not when you've got artists like Lewis Floyd Henry out there every day, on the streets, representing the brand. Though you'd think that a guitar player of all people would...
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March 18, 2012

Maclaren's Holding Pattern

Still trying to figure out what's going on with Maclaren's main website, Maclarenbaby.com, but DT commenter DD pointed out that the company's retailer website, B2BMaclaren.com, is still up and running and doing fine. Which I thought was unusual, because even...
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March 17, 2012

Maclarenbaby.com: Nothing To See Here, Move Along

Just when you think that nothing's happening this week on the Maclaren bankruptcy and PR smokescreen front, the company's global website, Maclarenbaby.com, goes down for two days and counting. As [so far] only Daddy Types has reported, Maclarenbaby.com, is...
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March 14, 2012

DT Customer Service

We interrupt this stream of quick & dirty posts culled from Twitter with this important announcement: If you have one of the 15 Marc Jacobs Bugaboos, please contact Melanie, she "need[s] one urgently!" Oh, we've all been there, Melanie....
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March 9, 2012

Maclaren 'Regrets The Recent Confusion In The US Media'

No, Maclaren, I'm sorry. It's not you, it's me. Though they won't actually talk to anyone live, or answer any questions, Kids Today, the longtime trade journal for the juvenile products industry, reports that Bevin Gove, Maclaren's director of public...
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March 8, 2012

I Have No Idea What To Expect From What To Expect

Good gravy, I've been at this thing for years now, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell is going on in the trailer for What To Expect When You're Expecting: The Movie. A...
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March 7, 2012

A Brief History Of Maclaren, The Folding Stroller Company

As I was saying the other day in the New York Times [ahem], "The corporate behavior here seems out of step with my perceptions of the Maclaren brand as a parent." Which really got me thinking about what I actually...
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March 6, 2012

Huffington Post Reports On Maclaren Bankruptcy Bafflement

I would have gone with, "Maclaren Bankruptcy Leaves Finger Amputation Lawsuits Hanging," but otherwise, Alice Hines' report in the Huffington Post today is pretty solid--and very well-illustrated. Hines interviewed one of the moms of a kid whose finger got...
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March 2, 2012

Traction: Maclaren Bankruptcy Story Hits NYT, WSJ

Well, that's a relief, to know that the Maclaren USA bankruptcy filing story is as unexpected, confusing, and confounding as I'd thought. The Wall Street Journal's Bankruptcy Beat blog has a post about Maclaren tonight, which is nice. And in...
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