Britax is back on the market with a dedicated belt positioning booster, the Britax Parkway Slide Guard. From the first pictures, it doesn’t look all that exciting, I hate to admit. But I’ve bought one or two of their original ‘boring’ seats and have been happy with them, so I won’t judge a book (er…carseat) by it’s cover.
One thing that is unique about this seat is the “Slide Guard. ” For lack of a better comparison, it’s like a crotch strap in the seating area that hooks to the lap belt and, as it says on the Amazon site, “works with the vehicle safety belt to prevent the child from sliding under the lap-belt portion of the safety belt during impact, thus minimizing the risk of abdominal injury.” These are popular in Australian boosters (from what I gathered in a quick google search). And some of us remember when the Starriser with Anti Submarine Clip was going to be released here, but never made to market. So this is not an entirely new gadget, and I’m glad we are finally seeing it on a seat in the US.
The Parkway Slide Guard also has armrests, unlike the previous Parkway which was discontinued last year.
Now…hmmm… what seats do I need to purge to make room for one or two of these in my cars…?
While the new Britax Parkways are coming out next month Albee website still has 2007 Parkways for sale at $79.99. They have them in blue, navy and cinnabar. http://www.albeebaby.com/brpabocarsei1.html
Our full review can now be found here https://carseatblog.com/?p=2996 .
The official Britax Parkway Slide Guard web page can be found here:
http://www.britaxusa.com/car-seats/parkway-sg
Please note that there is a misprint; the Slide Guard is a booster, not a harness-2-booster model.
We hope to have a full review of the Britax Parkway Slide Guard by the end of June!
That’s it! I couldn’t put my finger on it, but that’s it! It looks like a TurboBooster.
This looks so much like a TurboBooster and not so much like a Parkway…
I would buy it for the Anti Submarine Clip, but the lap belt guides look far back and the SIP is different than the PW. I would loce to see the Monterey and Cybex Solution X-fit have the clip too. Now do I preorder?
Any idea on how tall it will go? Always looking for tall boosters!
Is anyone else thinking what I am? Britax Turbo B510…
The “slide guard” anti-submarine clip is a fantastic safety feature and I’m thrilled that it’s finally going to happen. At least I hope it’s finally going to happen. I was one of those who had pre-ordered the StarRiser/Comfy with this type of feature years ago and it never made it to market. I was so disappointed! I applaud Britax for reconsidering the benefits of this type of feature. Now I just hope they didn’t patent it. This is too good not to share!
Hooray! It’s actually making it to market! (Hopefully!)
It’s nice to see that even though it has an anti-sumbmarine clip, they put a 40 lb. minimum weight limit on it anyway! Right on!