The wheels do smell like toxic chemicals, but only if you put your nose directly to them.

Just a horrible, foul, overpowering chemical rubber stench that made us gag and permeated the whole apartment

I took it out off the box and the weird chemical smell is so overwhelming, it stunk up my whole upstairs

Just a horrible, foul, overpowering chemical rubber stench that made us gag and permeated the whole apartment

However, it broke as soon as we took it out of the overhead bin

We were desperately looking for the gogobabyz travelmate but it was sold out on Amazon as well as on the gogobabyz

My husband cut it off and it works just as we need!