217 New Cars diecasts?

[Volksdragon]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlmcEsAoj-A

2aday.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/mattel-pixar-cars-checklist-new-sealed-boxes-holiday-2007-2008/

I'm not sure what this is all about..

Some of the info is carried over from our 2007 post but it started to get too unweldy so I decided to start a new post.

First, get out your wallets and start looking around your house - whatever is not nailed down should go on eBay to feed the monster that is the Mattel Pixar CARS.

Build a new edition to your house because we are losing track of how many releases and in what configurations are coming for 2007 & 2008.

The new singles and shipment assortments have been announced for 2008 and those are covered also.

Keep in mind that over 21 Piston Cup Racers were announced at Comic Con 2007 along with eight Wal-Mart exclusives (now starting to appear) … so it should be a busy next couple months.

The good news is that the Wal Mart exclusives look like they will be available to other retailers by Spring 2008 so this holiday season can be a little more neighborly - if you don’t land the eight immediately, you can wait a few months and there should be plenty to go around.

The end of 2007 and 2008 shipments look to be more intelligently planned - there are lots of new products in each shipment. And it seems they are doubling on a shipment with a new CAR so that’s nice - and a much better situation than just tossing in another SALLY...

Read the rest and see pictures at the second link I posted.

Here are some screenshots from the Blu-Ray. It amuses me that RPM #64 has a name, and that it's Winford Bradford Rutherford. XD

[Neo53]

I'm fallin' behind!! LOL

[pookydoc]

i wish they'd pop out here! it's torture! XD

[Evangeline]

Oh, cool. I was amused that they finally assigned a given name to the Dinoco helicopter, and I had already cooked one up ages ago, but wasn't too far off with the somewhat Polish feel of the surname. At this rate, I'll never run out of names for my Equination.net horses, watch out for Not Chuck to be burning up the track at some point in the furture, muhahahaha!

Now, how am I gonna retcon that name they assigned RP-wise? Turbotsky is going to be the alternate helo, I think, of the same general type.

[Tracker89]

They also gave "Meepie"(the mattress minivan) a name...and I'm guessing those '50s cars/trucks are from 'Our Town' flashback? Very interesting...I love those carsified Quattroportes!

To be honest Eva, I prefer 'Buck' to 'Rotor'...it actually sounds like a real name rather than just another vehicle pun/reference. I'm ok with those as surnames, but as first names, I've never really liked them.

[pookydoc]

you know? when i look at some of those toys..it's like the same ones except certain stuff on them...gaw i wish they'd give fillmore and sarge a different expression! and doc too...at least they gave mcqueen a diff one with the cactus job..it would be more interesting..

[darkdemonwithin]

Holy hell that's alot of cars! I'm gonna be broke after buying all these! *faints*

[Thunder McQueen]

Now that is an awful lot of Cars. I'm gonna explode when they all come out.

[Evangeline]

That doesn't really change the way I'm going to do things in the RP. I like the identity I came up with for the big blue guy and if I HAVE to use the name they come up with, it'll be for Buck's successor who's gradually taking over his role as he's being "kicked upstairs" to the head of the company helo fleet, whose duties are mainly administrative. Not my fault they were slow in finding a name for him.

[RedFan]

Maybe, Evangeline, there could be two Dinoco Helicopters who work alternate shifts, you character and the 'officially named' character. Just a thought of how you deal with a situation like this.

[Evangeline]

That would work, and it's quite consistent with the way that corporations deal with "key people" situations.

[dynamicequilibrium]

Three words: HOLY FREAKING CRAP. You know, if they really have this much of a push for new dye-casts, then I'll be darned if they don't turn out a sequel to Cars. I mean, that's everyone!

It looks like I'm gonna have to snag a couple of these before they sell out ;D

Ugh... and I really want the Blue Ray version of Cars. But, I don't have a player or a PS3

[Tracker89]

Didn't Pixar make more money on merchandise than the movie itself? They're going pretty crazy with it, even here in Bahrain I see tons of kids with Cars shirts, schoolbags, etc.

[ebonyviper]

They got the Piston Cup Pace Car! Or, as I call him, Edison Axle. If they ever decide to give him a name, and I doubt it because he's such a lesser-known character, I'm keeping the name that I gave him. I won't call him by any other name.

[Insane Pirate Dragon]

tracker89 said:

Didn't Pixar make more money on merchandise than the movie itself? They're going pretty crazy with it, even here in Bahrain I see tons of kids with Cars shirts, schoolbags, etc.

And with the next game coming out next month, we'll probably be seeing more.