I have been looking for a picture of Fatwheels for over 10 years. WOW, TY From what I remember the Jeep ran on 4 C batteries, and a 9 volt for the controller. Because of the inflatable tires the Jeep had a lot of drag, I remember the running time was about 40 min. before the batteries needed to be swapped out.

I have been looking for a picture, commercial, or even the opportunity to buy a Fatwheels model for over 10 years also. I never owned one. But I am a big fan of RC.

Damn thing kept getting flat tires! Ruined my Christmas.

I would love to find one of these, just to play with one more time....

I remenber getting one one these for Xmas one year and it came with instructions on ordering extra tires in case of flats because they were rubber. We ordered extra but ended up returning the Fat Wheels car because I wasnt able to control it.(I was prob too young for it)

I remember getting one of these for Christmas and crying because it was the only thing I got. I feel really bad now because my parents were haveing financial problems at that time. I have appolizied to my parents several times about that day way back when. It quit working a few weeks after I got it. We gave it to some guy to fix and it was never returned to us.

I had one that I also got for christmass when I was a Kid. I remember my parents ordering extra wheels because they were always going flat. I think I buried it in my back yard with the rest of my matchbox cars when it broke, I should go and dig it up

I too got one for Christmas. My mother looked all over to get it, and finally found a display model that was tucked under a chelf. We had shag carpet at the time, so I couldn't play with it in my room. I decided to run it on my desk, and it flew off and the axle broke. I had it for less than a day, but always remember it with fondness.

OMG!! I loved this thing and HAD to have it for Christmas. I took it outside Christmas day, in the New Jersey cold, and the greese froze up and got all thick. It never worked again. I had it for a total of 4 hours!

As a kid I wanted one of these SO badly for Christmas, but it was the only thing I wanted that badly but never got. I've been looking for years for one, but with no success. After reading some of the horror stories it's no wonder; it was a piece of crap. That said, I'd buy one today in a heartbeat if I could.

WOW! I had one. I got it for Chirstmas or my birthday...anyway..it looks WAY different than I remembered. My dad set it up for me...I went downstairs and tried it out. In about 2 minutes I crashed it under the elevated foot of the piano. It was wedged under there and the force actually broke the wheel off. We glued it but it came right off again. I dont know if we returned it or not. It seemed cool for that first two minutes!! Again, wow, that looks SO different!

I remember the TV ad for the Fat Wheels with kids driving it through dirt and rocks. It looked like it went 40 MPH on TV. I wanted one so badly that I must have driven my poor mother crazy for months before Christmas. When Christmas came and I did get it, the front axle was broken right out of the box. Disappointing to say the least! We took it back to the store (Two Guys in Union, NJ)to exchange it but they were sold out. I was too impatient to wait for more Fat Wheels to come in so I wound up taking another, what turned out to be very lame P.O.S. RC truck instead. Funny, but after almost 30 years, if ever I take a trip down memory lane, I still think about that damn broken Fat Wheels and wish I had waited for another one to come into the store!

Fat Wheels was the bomb! I had mine for years. I must have crazy glued the roll bar a dozen times. Seems like everyone got it for Christmas (including me). It was that damn commercial that made it look so freakin cool. It was really quite slow especially when the tires were low on air.

Here's the TV commercial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvOTpVoNME&feature=related

I wanted one of these so bad! After I got it, we took it back because I couldn't get the wheels infleted. Brought the 2nd one home, same thing. Got a little air in them, put in batt's, and away I went. Remember how bouncy it was in the commercial? Yea, if the tires would inflate. U think it looks different? Thats because they used a promo in the commercial. The retail version was not as good as the promo. Took #2 back for a refund. Tried to find one on eBay. They are all probably burried in back yards like Johns. Thanks for sharing.

I was like many of you who seen the commericial as a youngster. That damn fat wheels was all I thought about that year. I asked for nothing else. After opening all the presents under the tree there was no Fat wheels. I was broken... But there still was a chance because we always headed to grandma's after. My older brother of two years knew how much I wanted it and on the way there he said that my uncle bought it for me. I could not wait to get there. Once inside I headed for the tree and seen a good sized box under the tree with my name on it. A damn football. I still think about that christmas and laugh. I had a great childhood and had more gifts than I ever deserved but I never got the one I would have traded everything for. Fat wheels. I typed fat wheels in today because I was thinking about that christmas. thanks for the laughs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvOTpVoNME

I bugged my mom like CRAZY for a Fat Wheels for Christmas... thinking there was no way she would waste her money on such a stupid toy. I got extra copies of the Consumer Distributing catalog and bookmarked the page... circled it... ripped out the page and left it lying where she could see it. I was obsessed! It was that TV commercial that did it! I must have drove my mom insane. On Christmas morning, every present I opened I was hoping! We'd always get like 20+ presents. Mom always went overboard. I opened and opened and opened. No Fat Wheels. Then finally... the very last present I opened was a Fat Wheels! I FLIPPED OUT! Then me and dad were setting it up and discovered that one of the tires had a hole in it. It wouldn't inflate. So we went to Consumer Distributing the next day but they were sold out. We tried other toy stores. Everyone was sold out. So she got the money back and took me to a toy store at the Mall and told me to go nuts. I got a bunch of crap but I don't even really remember what it all was. All I remember from the shopping spree was some lame velcro tennis kit thing. Lame. It all sucked. I never played with any of it. 30 years later and my Mom still feels bad! LOL. I'm 40 now and she told me that a couple of Christmases ago she thought about getting me a real RC truck. LOL. Would have been a cute gesture. But really... the "damage" was done. LOL. It makes me feel better reading all these stories now about how it was a piece of crap though and how other people had busted ones of the box or had theirs break within a few minutes of using it! I wonder if it's too late to file a class action suit for emotional pain and suffering. hahahahahahaha :P

Awesome, was just looking at an old school Toyota Land Cruiser and remembering my childhood playing around with the Fat Wheels. I wonder what ever happened to it, it's not like I recall wrecking it like I did with some of the other RC cars I had when I was a kid. Kinda wished I still had it :)