Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Quality, Meet Control, Control, Meet … Hey, Where Did He Go?
Again, that old saying – sometimes you want to spell it all out …
Factory: “We need to cut costs – you, inspector #1 … and inspector #2 and well, all you guys wearing the inspector jumpsuits, take 10 days off …”
Hey, look, it’s S’not Snot Rod …
It’s Snot Hank.
Both are organgy …
It’s Jumpy Octane Gain …. The variant un-hitched version …
Some unknowing kid will think – hey, I got a free manhole cover!
Of course, what happened was the lock latches were not twisted into the lock position – hey that costs extra …
But these are not isolated incidents – earlier posts HERE and HERE.
Thanks for the pics SlicePie & Camlgt
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metroxing
3 April 2009
Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV
33 Comments
I’d have to say Leakless and Wally haulers have been the worse Cars items I have seen so far. It always looks like there is fuzz in the paint, and the stickers have bubbles or are peeling. Surprisingly, only a handful of Octain Gain haulers I have seen were in rough condition. And those ‘pink’ RS Lightning McQueens are just annoying. Why would they even release something so obviously flawed?
I found Jerry hauler at TRU today; they had 10 of them. I came around the corner and stood there in disbelief; I’ve been waiting for months for my order from CTC so I didn’t get any. They had a bunch of Octane Gain too. Darn Mattel!
What were they priced at?
I finally broke down and did some looking today. I WILL NOT CALL IT HUNTING, cuz I cannot buy anything, but it has been almost 3 weeks since I last “hunted.”
I was pretty shocked when I saw Leakless and Octane Gain at my TRU today. They were priced at $14.99, OUCH!!
Otherwise, Walmart, Kmart and Target has the Nada, Zilch, and Jack $hhhh-it 3 pack!! They were sweet, but I did not need them anyway!!
Did you find No Dice at all?
I found 2 Elvis! Or is that Elvi? Elvis’s? At Target
STILL have not found him or Tank Coat or Impound Wingo in person.
It would be Elvis’. The “I” rule does not apply to names and adding an apostrophe “s” to a word that ends in “s” is redundant.
And in case you are wondering, yes, I can run grammatical circles around most.
(MET: I go by the rule – what’s more fun to say … like ‘mices’ (funny) … just ‘mice’ (not so funny) 🙂 ).
You guys are so funny 🙂
Well, for the sake of being funny, all grammatical rules are completely optional.
I think, like moose it would remain
Elvis in the plural.
As in “Look… there at the water’s edge.
There is a heard of Elvis feeding on the
sedge grass.” 🙂
Heards? How about herds?
That could be true, but Elvis(‘) travel in packs, not herds 😉
Is window hunting as satisfying as you hoped it wood be??
Ooooh burn 😉
My window shopping is better than ANYTHING you can find up there in CANADA, otherwise know as the SUPERCHARGED WASTELAND!!
What, you don;t collect Dinoco McQueen by the hundred?
Not my style . . . btw how is the SANDING going?!?
Very satisfying… my wood has never been smoother!
Only about 3 hours ’til the first showing of “Tokyo Mater”!!! CARS starts at 5 PM Eastern on Disney, DISXD Ch 174 on Dish Network. 7:25 first airing, 9:55 second airing. Both follow the CARS movie.
I saw two Octains that had ripped stickers going along the length of the trailer. Looked horrible.
I guess the master craftsman in charge of the unauthentic Blu-Ray McQueen’s is working for Mattel now!
I just found a Doc Hudson in a Ghostlight Ramone package at Wal-Mart. It’s on it’s way home, my husband is as bad as me about looking now. I’ll post a pic later.
same at mine…there were 2 tat way.
This is a case g thing everywhere I’ve found case g I’ve found this
Recently I’ve had to detail three
different singles. To repair chips,
bubbled paint, and other “quality” issues.
Now I get to add the factor of avoiding
the prescrewed-up ones to the hunt.
To quote Darth Vader “YIPEE!”.
It’s a very simple explanation:
Octane Gain is hauling HELIUM, which explains why the trailer is elevated to the top of the package!
Don’t you see the surprised look on the faces of the RVs in the background, under the trailer?
That is great!!
I love the part about the free manhole cover! That really cracked me up!
Hey I think we should step back and realize that Mattel is doing the best they can…they are under alot of pressure lately, ever since He-Man got that diaper rash, things have just not been the same!!
The Octane Gain Haulers are the worst I have seen. All scratched, bad paint, not latched. I searched through about 10 to find one that was the least bad….. great, thanks Matty!! Was he throwing a tantrum about getting a new Shetland pony in the factory while these were going down the assembly line?
Our nearest WM had the Mega Size RPM Semis the other day. I had to scan over all 3 to find the best 2….one had a HUGE paint run on the sleeper section of the cab, which looked like they’d tried to correct it with a paint brush. It was really bad, amazing it made it to packaging looking like it did.
They HAVE to be shipping 100% of their output — regardless of quality — to keep their margins intact during these trying economic times. I don’t know if we should blame Mattel America or the Chinese plant manager (or both).