Little Tikes Lightning McQueen Roadster Toddler Bed

We purchased this car bed at an amazing price 168 for Christmas 2008 for our 2 1/2 year old son. He had a toddler conversion crib which was fine, but is really into cars and with a third baby on the way we wanted to make his new room feel special. Well, he loves it. I can actually now fit in his bed and read to him and even take a nap or two which is helpful, and at the same time the bed does not take up a lot of room in his bedroom. The twin version of this bed is huge! My husband pieced the car bed together using a drill to enlarge some holes, a rubber mallet and some of his own butterfly plugs to mount a spring crib bed frame for it. Some people recommend using plywood but my two kids love jumping on this bed and with my weight on top of it, we felt better using a spring platform underneath. The stickers need to go on carefully. Start slowly as you can not pull on and off. My husband did one side the right way with the giant lightening bolt coming up and over a little bit on the side and I did it with it a little lower on the other side. The point of this story was that even though I did it wrong on my side, we found that it is not peeling from our son getting in and out of the bed while my husband's side is. That is the only thing that worries me is that we would love the stickers to stay intact so that we can resell it down the road.

OMG first of all I have to say this is so adorable! you won't be disappointed! The only thing that little tikes doesn't tell you is that you need to be prepared to buy a slab of wood when you purchase it. you have to dial little tikes toll free # to get the measurments of the wood. I paid about $17 for the slab of wood that I needed cut. I think it was about 51 X 29 and 3 inches in depth. anyhow, after I got the wood cut and wraped it with a blanket cause you have to expect about a 3in gap from fram to mattress to be exposed so no splinters. and that's about all folks. Other than that what I've found is that a lot of ppl are putting pillows on one side to compinsate for the space between. but all n all it's a fun bed and so is the bigger twin size lightening mcqueen bed. although the gaps are not fun use pillows and later I hope this nothing that ends up getting recalled because those gaps, to me, just shouldn't be there. it's easy to c how a little one might hurt him or herself in the process of playing or jumping from bed to bed. Gotta protect out children. It's nice to have but you as a parent have to make it safe enough for them to play and sleep on it even though the Makers don't.

While our son loves this "big boy" bed, it was quite the pain to put together. Holes were in the wrong place, stickers were not as difficult as everyone makes them out to be. The pieces would not fit together because they were all different sizes - had to call and get a replacement side panel. It was a huge inconvenience and fight to get them to correct it. The plastic was sticking out too far and would not fit the other notch. PURCHASE PLANKS OR USE OLD CRIB SUPPORT BARS for the bed. As it does not come with any. The crib bed is not big enough to fit so be prepared to roll up some sheets for one side or the other so child doesn't fall between the bed and mattress.

WOW is this hunk of junk made poorly. Thank goodness my dad was in town to put it together for us. The pieces didn't align properly and ours didn't even have holes for goodness sake, so Dad had to McGyver it with a knife and a drill. Naturally, once my son saw the box and the pieces, I couldn't just send it back or saw it into little pieces and throw it in the dumpster like we wanted to do. He was too excited. Once the thing is put together (be sure to have a handy person, a drill with a long bit, a knife, and a TON of patience), it looks cute. However, putting it together was a nightmare and I am resentful that this company can get away with creating such a poorly made product. PLEASE LITTLE TIKES, TEST YOUR PIECES BEFORE BOXING AND SHIPPING! Ugh. So frustrated.

I received the bed yesterday. I found it fairly easy to put together. I only had one issue of misalligned pre-drilled holes. So I simply redrilled myself. Thanks to everyone warning about the difficulty putting the stickers on, I was very careful. They did not turn out absolutely perfect, but overall look pretty darn good. Just a couple small wrinkles. I did have to purchase a 10 foot 2x4 and had it cut into 4 29 inch pieces to support the bed. This cost about $3 at Lowes. What is important is the look on my little boys face when he came home to see his new surpise. He loved it!!! He jumped up on the bed and rolled around with a huge smile on his face. We came down for dinner, and he said I want to go see McQueen again and kept running up and down the stairs to look. I am completely happy with the purchase, and I would have paid a lot more than I did knowing how much joy and happiness it created for my little boy. He fights going to bed every single night, but last night he wanted to go to bed! He will always remember his first cool little car bed for the rest of his life!

We bought this bed for my son's 2nd B-day. He was very excited. Be very careful when applying the stickers. Once you apply them you can not remove to adjust them. I am sure this is typical with decals on any toy. One thing that was very frustrating about assembling this bed is that there are holes that are drilled out on the sides of the bed and you align them with the male end of the side panel to secure them. I spent a good 1.5 hrs working on getting one side panel on with no success. My husband came home and discovered that the hole was drilled in the wrong place. He had to drill the hole to make it larger in order to assemble the bed. It upset me that I was shipped a bed that could NOT be assembled and I spent so much time working on it. Once we finally got it together, my son loved it. Its very sturdy.