All in all, I'm very happy with this purchase. It seems a durable, colorful rug. It's long, providing lots of play space. Its no-slip backing should provide safety on tile or wood floors (though we have it on the carpeted floor of our living room). The best aspect? Our daughter keeps her blocks and cars on the rug--instead of everywhere else underfoot.

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Very Creative  Nov 07, 2004
By apoem "apoem"
I look for toys that inspire creative play and exploration of the world. I want toys that have more than a button to push. I also want toys that are fairly quiet and easy to play with for little kids.

This rug fits all of these requirements. The colors are bright. The rug is very sturdy. My one complaint is that it does not roll up into a very small cylinder thus making it take up some space when it's 'put up'. The small matchbox cars fit perfectly on this rug. However, even the toddler cars that are bigger work fine on the roads. IT is big enough that two kids can play with it at the same time without running into each other too often. IT is longer than it is wide. Young arms can reach across the whole rug while pushing a car.

Excellent choice.

Well worth the money.

Enjoy.

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Good Design  Jan 11, 2007
By Jennifer
I bought this for my 6 year old son and he loves playing with it. He had another car play mat that I bought for him years ago and it was maybe 3x5 feet. He out grew it so I got him this one. What I really like about it is that it is narrow and long. He doesn't have to step over or reach too far across to get to the other side as he would have to if the mat's diameter was too large. Is nice when 2 kids are playing--they have plenty of space wothout knocking into eachother or climbing over eachother.

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Better than I expected and a big hit with our 5 year old.  Sep 29, 2008
By Shanda Hoover
Our 5 year old just received this for his birthday and he wants nothing more than to play with it nonstop. He has used both his Pixar Cars diecast cars as well as his Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars on it. Although the Pixar character cars don't fit exactly within the lanes this doesn't bother him at all.

As picky parents, his dad and I thought the graphics could have been a bit better--there are a couple of places where one lane of the two land road narrows noticeably and it too narrow even for a Hot Wheel to not go over the center line. We also thought the actual road layout was a bit dodgey and could have been thought out better. Details like this don't detract from the play value, but they don't enhance the educational value.

On a positive note, I will say that this rug exceeded my expectations in two areas. First, the carpet is soft and supple. I was very pleased that it rolled out and stayed flat instead of suffering from carpet curl at the ends as I feared it would and like so many cheap and stiff runner carpets will. It is a runner size, long and narrow and our five year old can unroll it and lay it out by himself (a real plus!). Second, I expected that the carpet would smell, I have had unpleasant experiences in the past with chemical odors eminating from the backing material of carpets. There was none of that here. The carpet was absolutely benign in this regard straight out of the wrap. What a relief.

It is hard to say how durable the carpet will be, but it certainly seems sturdy. If we can keep the cat off of it and dirty shoes it should stay nice for a long time.

Overall, I am very happy with this carpet and with how much our son seems to be enjoying it.

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Not for use on carpets, better on hard floor surface  Jan 09, 2007
By Elsie Hollstein "Elsie H."
This is a beautiful road rug, but I have carpet throughout my house and in my childs room. The rug seems to move everytime we play or step on it. Since the rug was in my childs room and next to his bed, the rug would crawl next to the bed and it would be curled up and lumpy and squished next to his race car bed, which has no underspace. The bed touches the floor, so, the carpet has no place to go but be crumpled up next to the bed. Pitty. So, I'm constantly straightening up the rug to play with it. It's hard when he's standing on the rug. hahaha. But instead, I took the rug to Nana's house and she has a much lower carpet... not the shaggy type of carpet we have, and they play with it in the livingroom. The rug is light enough to roll up and put away, so, not much of a problem there.

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