If you missed it, last week, we discussed the new “Cars Die-Cast Collector Guide.”

With photos of … “all single 1:55 scale die-cast in 2009. Includes exclusive Night Vision Lightning McQueen and a spiral bound collector guide notebook.”

And now, the grand plan comes together …

For those that have missed the internet appearance of “Impound Lightning McQueen,”

You may have noticed the nice cool “ticket” nameplate design in the corner … and if you look on the back (right hand corner):

It talks about collecting by color – and it’s all tied into the book. The book pages and photos of CARS releases are tied into the same color scheme.

Guessing by the scant evidence, orange will be for older CARS (#49 is Leak Less) – that seems pretty logical.

The rest isn’t so logical but maybe we haven’t seen all the colors?

(Note – because Disney wants to launch the online world under the World of Cars theme, they have, er, asked? request? sent in the mouse squad? to make sure that World of Cars as a theme stays around? …)  🙂

As you can see, Impound McQueen is #73 and following the numbering of the WORLD OF CARS cards. It’s also a ‘chase’ car and of course, completely new to the WOC banner.

But it looks like Ghostlight Ramone #14 is also a yellow ticket.

While it is part of WOC, it’s not a chase and technically, not really new (released on the WM 8 of 2007), it is however “new” as “regular” release on WOC so that would make it yellow and never orange?

Still with me?

Of course, why does the Dinoco offshoot get its own ticket color when it should be orange & yellow ticket items? Sure, there are a lot of them but wouldn’t it make more sense to have all the Piston Cup related CARS be a certain ticket color?

Of course, we don’t know if there are another 10 ticket colors until we get the book which should be on the shelves before December.

I love it when a plan comes together?