A Ridemakerz Father's Day

I strayed away from our more normal/homemade presents and sur­prised Brian & Andrew with a fun expe­ri­ence for Father's Day! Ridemakerz was having a Buy One, Get One Free special for Father's Day! Perfect! :)

We hadn’t heard of Ridemakerz until recently and Andrew was imme­di­ately enam­ored. It’s basi­cally like the “Build-a-Bear” expe­ri­ence, only it’s all things cars!! We’re very lucky to have one here in the Phoenix area, as there are only 5 around the coun­try (2 of which are at the Down­town Dis­ney areas in Ana­heim and Orlando)!

As part of the expe­ri­ence, you start off by pick­ing the car body and there are LOTS of choices!! It’s a tough decision…do you get a “real car”, or Light­ning McQueen, or Mater, or a firetruck?!

After much delib­er­a­tion, Andrew ended up with a flashy green Dodge Viper and Daddy picked him­self out a sleek black corvette!

 

After you’ve selected your car of choice, you can select upgraded sound chips (all cars comes with a stan­dard chip), pick out your tires, and even fancy rims if you like! There are even all kinds of cool acces­sories & decals you can add on! In fact, there are appar­ently at least 649 mil­lion pos­si­ble combinations! 

 

Once you’ve made your basic choices, now comes the really fun part–getting to put together your own car!! This is SO cool! They have lit­tle sta­tions and use func­tional lit­tle drills rem­i­nis­cent of the pneu­matic wrenches that real pit crews use! Super cool!

 

You can choose to make the car remote con­trol (which we opted for) or leave it a stan­dard push car. Either way though, the lights and sounds are so fun! Andrew's Viper even has red hood lights!

After every­thing is assem­bled (and you’ve added on any addi­tional acces­sories that you want), then you’re done! You even get a fun car­ry­ing cases to bring them home in, plus a lit­tle screw dri­ver that looks like a key to open the bat­tery areas when needed!

Look at the excite­ment on Andrew’s face!! He absolutely loved it and couldn’t wait to try out his new ride! There was a nice open space right in front of the store and there weren’t too many peo­ple around, so we had to try every­thing out! Some friends even joined us for a few minutes! 

 This was definitely a less than tra­di­tional Father’s Day present around here, but one that was SUPER fun and I think will be remem­bered (and enjoyed) for a long time!! The “boys” have loved play­ing with the cars since we’ve got­ten them!