| | |  | Furniture | Home » » » Sunshine Kids Radian Car Seat Travel Bag, Black | | | | | | | Description: | | The three way travel convenience can be wore on over the shoulder, as a backpack or as an in hand travel bag. It features washable waterproof fabric, wide shoulder straps for comfort, and a locking zipper. Its shoulder straps remove for easy packing. The waterproof fabric keeps the seat dry during travel and this durable fabric is rip resistant. It comes with padded carry straps and converts to a backpack for hands free carrying. The locking zipper will not unzip during travel | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 30.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 18.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 8.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 19 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Love my current one, but leery to buy another nowJul 07, 2010
We have owned the seat and the bag for about a year now (bought in 2009) and we fly quite a bit. The bag has a couple of small holes, but straps and zipper remain intact and we LOVE the compactness. However, I just bought our 2nd Sunshine seat for baby #2 and saw these reviews for the bag and realize that maybe we just lucked out. Thank you for all who posted. I don't think I will chance our luck again. Perhaps they have fixed the problem, but I will head to Wal-mart and find a sturdy duffel bag, like one reviewer suggested.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Great idea, cheap construction, bad designJan 12, 2009
When I saw this, I thought, FANTASTIC! I travel on planes with my radian carseat, and also am a member of a community carshare, so I have to carry it, and my child/stroller to and from the car each time. I had been using an over the shoulder strap, but the Radian is heavy, and it was very uncomfortable.
This backpack works well, in that it puts the weight on the two shoulders, as it should. However, the straps hook onto the main bag on a D-ring behind your neck, with big plastic hooks. These hooks grate on your neck/back vertebrae. Badly placed. There must be many other comfortable ways to attach the straps to the main body.
The bag only fits the Radian one way, as it is totally fitted to the Radian's shape. No loose space, no manouvrability. It fits well, but exactly, which is a hassle when dealing with putting it on and taking it off quickly on planes and transferring from car to stroller. Extra space would allow to put some other items into it as well: a blanket, stuffed toy etc. As wearing this precludes carrying another bag on your back, it would be nice to have a wee bit of space, a couple pockets etc. As is, it will ONLY fit your Radian.
I have only used this to transport the Radian to and from the car on foot, and on one trip in the plane, ie to the taxi, from taxi to luggage cart, to plane and off again, and where the D ring is to attach the backpack straps, the fabric has totally pulled away from its backing. It is no longer waterproof there, and not solid. There is no reinforcement of the rather thin material at the point of attachment, and I fear it will give out completely soon. I only owned it for perhaps two months when this happened: perhaps 4 car trips and one round-trip plane ride. I would expect something made for travel to be more solid.
The zipper is also very small and not solid, and has only one slide on it, so you cannot open it from any angle, only from the end and zip it all the way around. As it fits so tightly, you have to tug to make it fit perfectly to close the zipper.
So 5 stars for the idea (what better thing for a portable folding carseat than a backpack?), 3 for the design, and -1 for the materials and construction.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Incredibly great car seat - TERRIBLE CARRYING CASEJun 05, 2008
I wish Sunshine Kids had put as much thought into their carrying case as they did the Radian Car Seat. It seems someone miscalculated the measurements of the car seat when creating the cover. The cover is made to fit so very snuggly that it takes my husband standing on the folded car seat while we wiggle it into the case...and forget putting the rear-facing base in the case - they simply didn't expect you take that along. The car seat has traveled with us on about 8 trips (16 flights) and the bag is already pulling apart at the seams. If you bought the folding car seat, just go buy a duffle bag with wheels to travel with the car seat.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Buy a duffle insteadMay 28, 2008
We've been through three of these for the two Radian seats we own. Not one of them has has lasted more than two uses before a seam rips or a zipper breaks. The fit is impossibly tight and if you don't get the seat in perfectly, the zipper will not close without breaking. I finally bought a couple of $12 duffels at Target which did the job and look much sturdier. To quote another reviewer, "Nice idea... terrible quality".
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Form-fitting nightmareDec 18, 2007
While I looked for this product exhaustively and was so excited to find it, I'm sorry that I spent the extra $60 now (I had to buy 3). This product is form-fitting and has no markings or instructions to tell you which way it fits over the car seat. If, like me, you just think you can tug the zipper up over the carseat, you'll find that you are not only wrong, but you'll blow the zipper and the seam, leaving you with nothing. Skip it and just check the carseat in with your luggage if your taking it on travel....
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