Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart Piston Cup Racers 9 – Here & Open
9 Simple CARS …
1,700 comments on TakeFiveADay.com (including taking down one webhost 🙂 ).
4,000 text messages
39,000,000 visits to Kmart.com
38,156,000 visits to a error page at Kmart.com
11,523 emails from or to Kevin NascarBroncosFans.
13 Heart Attacks.
563 Full Fledged Panic attacks.
0 Emails from Kmart.com notifying us the cases were on sale 🙂
67,452 Phone Calls.
54 Productive Phone Calls.
1 Attempt to Order 1,200 cases from overseas.
24,567 Extra Miles Driven.
11,145 Trees Chopped Down on the Amazon.
278 Calls to relatives you haven’t spoken to since the wedding in 1997.
1 Divorce (Kate & Jon but who didn’t see that coming).
But hey, they are nice CARS.
Okay, there is one special CAR only available one to every 18,000 cases 🙂 … or by emailing a certain artist-creator.
It was a nice box … but I think there was less man-hours spent building the Panama Canal than the burning of an oil tanker of gasoline, underseas cables, satcom time & interwebs in the past weeks in figuring out how to deliver 800 boxes via UPS and another 19,000 to the stores …
Too crazy 🙂
Yep, I have cracked them all open and the rubber tires are nice …they feel nice and they roll nice.
In comparing the CARS to the “regular” re-releases, there seems to be no real difference in the quality nor are there any obvious variations to the normal design. In other words, no eye color changes. There are some slight differences in the weight but strangely, some of the ‘rubber tire’ versions weigh less and others weigh more than the plastic tire versions.
For those playing at home, Bumper Save goes from plastic to rubber (1.543 oz to 1.443 oz) but Mood Springs gains (from 1.512 to 1.538 oz) … Tow Cap loses from 1.522 to 1.511. Re-Tread gains the most from 1.453 plastic to 1.539 rubber. No Stall drops from 1.447 to 1.430 and Shifty Drug from 1.463 to 1.435 but hey, you knew that just by looking at them, right? 🙂
Of course, my scale cost almost $5.00 ($4.99 to be exact) so you know you can take that to the bank, well as long as your bank is the New Frontier Bank, of Greeley, CO.
The main difference besides the tires is the production stamp on the bottom is now some oddball new tiny size …(right side – plastic tires).
So, if someone tries to take the WM Car Carrier Bumper Save & slap some rubber tires on it to try and sell it to you as a Kmart 9 CAR … now you know …
The two Piston Cup racers with the FIRST ever non-MSOS release are Clutch Aid & Lil Torquey Piston – both coming as launchers also later in the year. The Clutch Aid design is very GT Racing Series-ish – nice.
Nice … 7 more with rubber tires coming for Kmart CARS Day III … we might need to mobilize the National Guard for that … so after CARS Day III, we should have 16 of the 36 racers with rubber tires … don’t forget to come back for the CARS riots in 2010 🙂
Additional small notations. There are NO codes on the back of the name plates (an of course, the CARS are not part of the numbering sequence) and the included mini poster is poster #3.
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24 June 2009
81 Comments
Mine still haven’t shown yet 🙁
Me neither. First day pre-order.
I did, however, get two more order confirmation e-mails from KMart yesterday…
WHAT IS GOING ON?
Yes, I have the same question and since I started late in collecting,
what will the next 7 racers be?
I now have the rubber 9 gang, and want to pass up the plain wheel shooters
and hope to get the same cars in rubber.
I only bought one shooter which was No Stall and rubber tire No Stall
loves to now sit in his shooter instead of Mr. Plastic wheel guy. 🙂
Rich
Anyone else preorder the first day and get this:
Dear Kmart.com Customer,
Thank you for shopping at Kmart.com. Unfortunately, demand for the item(s) that you ordered was so great; we do not have any more in stock. Consequently, we are not charging your credit card and canceling the order for the following item(s):
(MET: I don’t know if it’s still true but the first batch of emails like these were in error).
Yea computer error…….. this is why everybodys order is on “Manual Input”
Thanks guys. I’ve haven’t been able to read all the comments everyone has been leaving. I guess I’ll hold off on going to the trading forum for a few days.
7 more rubber tire cars–so does this mean they will release them all–36 through kmart in the rubber tires, or will it be 16 in rubber and then change all over to moving eyes or something else to drive us crazy AGAIN!!!!!
sorry, will the next 7 be alot of the same already out, or will they release a couple not out, like rev-n-go, apple tach-o-mint, or the promos n20, faux wheel gask-its or sidewall
The rubber tires are nice unless you put them on Tokyo Mater and Dragon Lightning McQueen, then they would NOT be able to drift.
Drifting is so much easier on plastic tires!
Anyone have any Kmart Cars Collector Day horror stories?
Here’s mine:
Got up early Saturday morning to make it to my local Kmart by 10am. Upon wandering into the store, I found a sign for Cars Collector day, but no other signs of Cars. So, I cruised on to the toy section where I quickly spotted a short card Mario with red wheels. While I was looking back there, one of the employees asked if I was looking for anything in particular. I told him I was waiting for the Cars Collector event at 11:00am and he informed me that he was the one in charge and that they had not received their shipment the day before, but were supposed it have it delivered by FedEx by 11:00am. So, I bought my red wheeled Mario, and sat in the front of the store waiting for 11:00am to arrive. 11:00am came and went with no sign of new Cars, so I found the guy I had spoken with earlier and asked him what was up. Apparently, they still had not received their FedEx delivery. So, I waited another 30 minutes and finally got fed up. I asked if I could leave my cell # with them for when the shipment did arrive and they cordially accepted my proposal, promising to call me as soon as the Cars arrived and telling me that I would get first pick, since I had been there the longest.
I NEVER got a call from them.
However, there is a happy ending to my story. On my way into work Monday morning, I decided to stop by a Kmart close to my place of employment, and low and behold! They had 4 cases that had been LIGHTLY picked over! So, I was able to get everything I wanted!
So, I guess I now know which Kmart to go to during the next Cars Collector event — and it won’t be the one I live closest to!
maybe you can help out those that are missing some items form their collections? cases?
nascarnbroncosfans@msn.com
not exactly a horror story….
Glad you got what ya needed…
5oclockshadow, is there any reason why you are ignoring my posts/emails?
didn’t know I was ignoring you….
haven’t seen an email yet… will check again..
🙂
11,523 emails from or to Kevin NascarBroncosFans.
And that was just from me!!
I hope he’s got one heck of an “anti-virus” program set up, or those emails could really wreak havoc.
I think a FEW of those MAY have been from me… 🙂
I can not wait until the next cars day!Also all of the rubber tire cars are very nice.
My kids said the rubber tires come off, but what is under them? Is it just wheels, or is it the regular plastic wheels?
will your kids not show you?
I’m hoping that before it’s all said and done, there will be a release of the “BUGS” that we see on the windows at the “Wheel Well” and at the end of CARS when Van and Mini are wandering about out in the desert.
I’d like either a “set” of smaller bugs, or a non-scale larger version, offering more detail.
Moving wings would be a nice touch.
Hey T your right, forgot about them pesky things
That would be perfect!
that’s exactly what I want!!!!! 😉
I always thought someone could make a custom bug out of a mini Luigi. I just don’t have the skills.
I think the biggest motivating factor was the fact most folks were hoping these would bring $$$ like the first series….
This can be evidenced by the 3,000+ eBay auctions so far….
that’s really interesting i like it very much this is a nice collection of cars y want o keep it mby myself
Woo hoo we just got one of our cases and it’s correct!!!!
And it was from the 2 ms pre order day!!
So just got an email from KMart saying my two cases from the first day of pre-orders are “Processing”, even though the order has been “Processing” for a week already…
Funny how this year all the Kmart days body types are Nitroade. Last years Kmart exclusives mixed the different body types together.(i.e. Nitroade=Shiny Wax, Leakless=Sparemint, RPM=Viewzeen) Can anyone, (Met), with a SOTS set give us a breakdown as to the count of each body type? I think I read that Jr. is Nitroade in that set.
To answer my own question from a pic I have, Nitroade=15, Leakless=9, RPM=9, 1 king, 1 Chick & 1 McQueen = 36.
We’re still waiting for Racers 37 to 43!!
I think it’s our “Finding Nemo” DVD, but we have an earlier preview of “Cars”, where Lightning is #57 and has a different sponsor than Rust-Eze. Similarly, the other racers are a lot different than the actual movie. Has anyone ever tried to pick-off what other sponsors there might be from this preview?
(MET: In the queue of posts – have to clean up 35 screenshots …).
I remember watching that preview, thinking it had potential with the characters, but couldn’t imagine wanting to watch a NASCAR cartoon…
It started off hilarious, with a bumblebee gently flying from one flower to another, as the music from “A Bug’s Life” played. And then Mater smashes into it, and Lightning catches up to him before getting splattered by a whole bunch of bees. What’s weird is that Mater and Lightning are both ‘normal’ in that part, but the racing scenes show what I guess was a preliminary test of how the race would look. The pitty’s exchange the customary ‘low-fives’, but it is like a bizarro world of “Cars”.
Here it is, thanks to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rZUq1-4o40
The preview is also on the Incredibles DVD.
I had forgotten about that! 🙂 We had tossed in The Incredibles dvd a few months ago, and lol, remember seeing that for the first time ha ha ha 🙂
Thanks John (wink, wink)
LOL where’d your Avatar go??? 😆 🙂 😉
test :~)
Good to know the stats! One divorce, that’s sad. The straw that broke the camel’s back was Jon not using his $5 off coupon when purchasing his cars.
AND he did not buy two cases to get the FREE shipping..plus he could not keep it in his pants!!
1 Calm & collected
(because NascarBroncoFan has bought a case for me)
uhh oh….. and this is who?
this post is great!! i love all the info haha which is why we are addicted!! lol 🙂 cant wait til cars day 3! … i hope our 2 preorder cases are the right ones because if not it looks like the ones that people are missing are the vitoline pitty ahhh!! i hope our case is right lol .. we went back to our kmarts just in case to try to find one, lol and of course all of them were gone! lol sooo we will see 🙂
Nice post Met! Great information as always. I got them all on Saturday. Pre-order cases haven’t shown up yet. Hope they come soon as I have some friends waiting for some. What about taking orders for the TakeFiveADay Car, say for the Christmas season, and doing something good and charitable with a portion of the profit. Or would it be impossible to produce that many without a Mattel production line? 🙂 Just a thought…I know you could sell a ton of them. Or maybe do a T Shirt with the TakeFiveADay Car on it. That would be cool.
I’d buy a few!
Racers, that is…
im totally in for the T5 CAR!!!!!! we want one!!
OOOOOOOO put me down for at least 2!!!!!! Me likey!!!!
Question……
If I open my ‘rubber tires’ racers and put them into my collect one of each opener collection…..and I opt NOT to get the hard tire counterparts……does that run the purity of the collection?????
Yeah, yeah………I know collect them all! Just thought I would throw this out there and see what came back.
You just need to get……another set!!!
AWWWWWWWWWWWW……come on!! Isn’t it enough that I am having a second wing added to the house?!?
The non rubber ones will multiply and thin out the Oil Lines, but the Rubber ones are safe!
My idea was to hand down the duplicates to my son, but as hard as some of them are to get I’m having second thoughts, leading to a second set?! I’m having a hard enough time collecting them all for the first set, oh, the humanity!
Oh the humanity is right!! What to do………what to do!
So after picking up a spare set of racers yesterday morning, and leaving three or four sets, I went back last night to get a set for a Take5er, and the store was nearly cleaned out. 7 racers and a lot of Lightnings and Pattis were left.
Went to another K-Mart this morning, and they said a guy (same guy, I’m assuming) had bought all they had yesterday.
Ebayers….
than you again bhutsell for your 9 racer set. Can’t wait to play with them.
and hope my pre-order case is ok too….
Nice I have not opened mine up yet as I am looking for more space to display them properly. I need more room. It is time to buy that bigger house so I can expand my cars collection and display them properly.
We will have to rent storage space together LOL..and my wife floored me when she said wow those cars are nice, you should display them LOL ..just itching to get rid of the playroom to transform to the man-cave
Yeah my wife jokes about what my office will look like one day. I think she has a pretty good idea with a basement full of Cars and Transformers.
Sorry this is not cars related 🙂 I saw tranformers 2 last night at 12:01 and man what a sweet movie!!!!!!!
I am going to the Drive In with FIVE kids tomorrow night to see Transformers II and Star Trek…YEAH Summer Holidaze!!!
Star Trek was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I thought it was the best one yet!!!!! My son saw Transformers tonight and said that it blew the first one out of the water!! Have fun with all those kids!
What is the difference????? 😀
oops this was supposed to show up right under “change the playroom to a man cave”
LOL so true for me. I think my mancave would have as many toys as my sons 🙂
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree….
Met, you bought a scale that measures to 3 decimal places to weigh cars? That’s one heck of an excuse in case there is a police raid!
Will the Tfad car come in a “real” rubber tires version, too?
Good Question…collect them all…new idea for you Nathaniel!!
To late. My T5AD racer had real rubber tire on Saturday 🙂 I’m going to send a pics to Met. We can call it the chase version (LOL)
NICE!!! I am ready for mine btw…you still up for it??
Shoot me an email.
Hey Met,
Maybe the weight change has little or nothing to do with the tire change and more to do with the thickness (or lack thereof) of the paint on a particular car? Thoughts?
(MET: Yea, in some cases, a .XX of a gram change is pretty insignificant …).
They are very nice… I’ve filled 3 display cases with singles and am now going to have to get another one… There’s no space left on the wall either…
Now if I can just get delivery of my pre-order cases…
Piston Cup Racers with rubber tires… collect them all!
Very funny post, Met! But was the “priceless” punchline too easy, and therefore not used?
your right Met would never be “predictable”
1st! 😆
the way that was written I thought you actually wrote it Slicepie!