So, I’m crazy late for my camping trip to PA with the kids and I’m sure that I’ll be pitching our tent in the dark tonight but who cares! The Britax 
Marathon 70 is here and there was no way I could leave after I saw the UPS truck pull up as I was literally backing the van out of my driveway. I promise more info, measurements, installation comments, etc., when I return on Monday. I hope this is enough to tide you over until then. Oh, and while I was waiting for youtube to load the video – I skimmed through the instruction manual and discovered:
- There are now 3 recline positions (fully reclined #3 position MUST be used when the seat is installed rear-facing)
- The harness height can be adjusted from the front of the seat without un-installing it. Very nice! You just squeeze a lever at the top of the adjustable head restraint and voila – it moves up and down!
Check out Part I and Part II of the MA70 Review which are now posted!
How did I miss this?!?!?!?! WOW!!!!!!
Very exciting!!!! Can’t wait to see one irl!
Thanks for dropping everything and making this video, Kecia! Your boys deserve an extra treat for waiting the hours that it took off their vacation to make it ;).
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The new seats have so many neat, new features I’m excited about, like the in-the-belt-path lockoffs (so we don’t have to worry about breaking open arms off anymore), the one-handed harness height adjustment, the easy change buckle, but I’m disappointed that the harness height isn’t any taller. I was hoping the headrest moving up so much higher than the seat shell would mean that it could be used for rear-facing, but no, the instruction manuals still say that when used rf, the head must be within 1″ of the seat *shell*.
Thank you for the quick overview! I’m impressed thus far:)
disappointed to hear the strap height won’t be much different, since the seat looks so significantly taller… maybe, like the new frontier, they’ll revamp it for the next year and do better?
Dying for more! I need to know RF’ing leg room, how outgrowing that seat by height is measured since the headrest goes up so high, etc. But I do think I drooled a little. lol.
I was wondering if the symbol for the seats’ demos was indicative of a 3 postion recline. So far it looks like they made some great changes!