Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart CARS Collector’s Day 3 September & October 2009
Well, not much more to add beyond this banner …
September 27, 2009
Online pre-ordering starts at 10 AM (presumably Central Time), 11 AM Eastern, 9 AM Mountain, 8 AM Pacific.
They have NOT finalized maximum orders or maximum orders per address.
October 17, 2009
In store event. Kmart CARS Day 3 – begins at 11:00 AM – YOUR local time depending on your time zone. Here is nearly everything you will want to know from Kmart CARS Day 2. Obviously the CARS will be different in Kmart CARS Collector’s Day 3 but the process will be the same.
There are 24 CARS in the case – with 19 of them Piston Cup racers including:
– # 34 Trunk Fresh
– # 52 Leak Less
– # 58 Octane Gain
– # 68 N2O Cola
– # 73 Rev-N-Go
– # 76 Vinyl Toupee
– # 84 Re-Volting
There are no specific case assortments but clearly 7 does not divide into 19 evenly 🙂
Of course, ideally, there would be 2 of each one with 5 of the 7 Piston Cup racers with a third one in each box (totaling 19) but that might be too logical and normal so don’t be stunned if there’s 1 of one and 4 of another racer. You do want 4 Octane Gain’s? One for each hauler?
This will be the FIRST time these 7 Piston Cup racers are released with rubber tires.*
*Legally, they cannot call them rubber tires as they are not vulcanized rubber but plastic masquerading as soft rubber-like tires but honestly, at 3mm and on a tiny diecast CAR, who really cares if they are plastic or real, real rubber? It’s not like they are diamonds where we could trade them in …
So, including the 9 released on Kmart CARS Collector’s Day 2, there will be 16 (of 36) Piston Cup racers available with rubber tires.
The original quote is:
Each 24 pack case* contains 19 Kmart exclusive racer vehicles with Real Synthetic Rubber Tires (7 different characters), 2 new to market vehicles and other highly demanded vehicles as well. The Kmart exclusive vehicles with real synthetic rubber tires include
*Quantities are while supplies last, and the assortment may vary.
So, the “2 new to market vehicles?”
Well, clearly N2O Cola is one as he has never been released to the “general public,” only available as a TRU promo CAR and in the Motor Speedway of the South Set.
Truck Fresh, Leak Less & Octane Gain have been released in multiple and various configurations.
Rev-N-Go was just re-released as a Lightyear Launcher so technically, not “new” and while Vinyl Toupee & Re-Volting are also technically “exclusive” releases only – it would seen ONE of the FIVE remaining non-Piston Cup racer CARS in the case (of 24) is a never released CAR … the most likely candidates being one of the CARS listed in the Collector’s Booklet but not released yet so my guess is N20 Cola Pitty or Mood Springs Pitty?
And hopefully the other CARS in the case include some of the townies not yet out on ROR cards to complete our collection? Though if there’s 24 in a case, it means they have switched to the shorter cards?
I will go out on a limb and predict there will be more posts on this topic 🙂
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16 September 2009
119 Comments
I wanted to get this thread back up on top….
Well I might have Case contents coming…..maybe prices too
maybe today????
I know Dev and his team are still working on overseas order capabilities.
I have scoured the Kmart website but every time I click on the banner it takes me to the store finder. Not very useful as I am 5700Km away from the nearest Kmart. Can anyone help? How do I get to the preorder link?
Thats because its not available yet
Thanks I’ll wait until Sunday then!
LAST!!!…Boy I am on a roll…
Thats ok! It was funny anyway 🙂 Should say CONE-View-Zeen though, at least that is how my little conehead things! 😉
How are people on evil bay already selling kmart day 3 cars ????
maybe my lady will be on time this year and not yelling at all the people who were there on time and wouldn’t give her any!
(MET: Well, it’s funny now … :-/ ).
i wonder when we will know the exact assortment with quantities
OCTOBER 17TH IS MY BABY GIRL CHASE’S FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!
… SHE’ S DEFINITELY ONE OF A KIND…
… TOOK HER FIRST TINY LITTLE STEPS TODAY TOO!!!
(Pretty soon she will be askin’ for the keys to the Rolls Royce! (More like a Rolls Canardly – Rolls down the hill, Can ‘ardly get up it!!!
(MET: Congrats!)
PS – Thanks Dude-Met-Dude
PPS – Does anyone know a good mechanic in Toronto? LOL! Cry out loud too!
The last event, I arrived 20 minutes late due to bus rerouting, and there was noone there. They had unused rolls of raffle tickets, and almost all the cases had not been touched.
This time, I’m just going in, grabbing Rev-n-go, and blowing on out of there. KMart can wake me when they get the foreign releases (Gask-its, Faux Wheel Drive) in ‘synthetic rubber tires.’
I can see a few UK Promo cars being traded for Kmart III cars.
Deal, Steve! I hope I am at the top of your list…
2nd in line?? 🙂
where do preorder – the KMART website?
Yes as stated above:
See Preorder Online Banner
Kmart.com
amber -thank you for that offer – I just sent you an email. No KMART’s in Houston – or anywhere within 100 miles . .
Yeah, who cares if we have these with plastic tires already? This is a hot looking assortment of cars (with the real “fake” rubber tires)!
Depending on how they pack them out, I will guess that will be 19 racers, 2 pittys, 1 McQueen (maybe wet or muddy whichever one isn’t slated for Final Lap), and a chase car or 2??? I would be hard pressed to believe that any of the 5 “high demand” non-racer cars would be lenticular or Final Lap as others have suggested. Since we have all but confirmed that 2 of them are Mood Springs and N2O pittys, that sort of confirms my suspicions there.
That leaves 3 unknowns (or the possibility of multiples). We have to see a Chase car. Daggum! There is always a chase car! So, what’s left in Chase? King w/cup will be a lenticular case relase. So MET, what’s left on the chase release schedule? (going to find my collectors guide right now!)
Yeah! What do we think the chase cars will be hmmmm? I just looked through the collector’s guide and did not spot any more Chase Cars. So maybe it will be one of the new Rans versions, ohhhhh, I hope so. Athough I would not be too surprised if it was a Chase that has already been released like they did with the stickers McQueen and Fred.
CHASE King with Piston Cup? I have not been able to find any language of the next lenticular case, so he is my guess
Hey all, if you want someone to get extra cars – email me at umass_rocks@yahoo.com. I will try to get what I can, for the last one I was the only one there so I bought about 7 complete sets… and left the rest. I can hopefully get quite a few extra full sets. Let me know what you want and I will charge only cost plus shipping however you prefer. That way you don’t have to purchase the extra cars in the case with a preorder.
email again:
umass_rocks@yahoo.com
I would love to help you all!
Amber
No kmart near me so if someone gets an extra set I will purchase it.
I HAVE SOME INFO NOT SURE IF IT GOES WITH THIS. BUT A BUDDY OF MINE JUST CAME BACK FROM CHINA AND HE SAID THEY HAVE FLEA MARKETS OUT THERE WHERE THEY SELL THE NEW UPCOMING STUFF. HE TOLD ME HE SAW A MOOD SPRINGS PITTY (blue) AND N20 COLA PITTYS (PURPLE). HE ALSO SAID CARS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE OUT THERE. $10 FOR AN OLD CAR AND $25 FOR NEW ONES. SO MET YOU GUESS JUST MIGHT BE RIGHT.
sorry for the caps earlier everyone. My keyboard at work was on the fritz and I could not get it off of caps mode. A few swift hits and wallah it works again. sorry
No worries I didn’t really feel like I was being yelled at
🙂
I’m in for the preorder again. I still have the 2 cases I got from the last event presale sealed. It’s killing me to not open the cases to find out if the assortment is correct but the suspense of not knowing adds a little thrill 🙂 I think the idea of releasing the rubber tire sos cars is awesome. My Kmart was busy but controlled both times out and there were plenty extra to go around with no major ebay buyers on hand. The racers with the rubber tires roll really nice and my son still plays with them because they roll better than the other cars/hotwheels. I’ve finally come to terms with the way Mattel is stringing out this line. I guess they have been able to walk the fine line pretty well. Yes just like everyone else I wish they would dump all the cars on us at once but what fun would that be a month from now.
My stomach is already in knots with the fear of not getting all of them!
I’m CERTAIN that the 2 “new to market” cars are the Mood Springs Pitty and N20 Cola Pitty.
I’m calling it here first! =-D
SWEET! I would love it to be two new pitties. It completely makes sense to include these with a pack of racers. I am just glad that Mattel is keeping up with the release of racers by also releasing the pitties and haulers.. and hopefully crew chiefs. I want them all!
Me too 🙂
EXACTLY!! We are short a NUMBER of pittys . . how hard can they be to shoot out of the factory?!??! 🙂
It will be a different ‘landscape’ this time around here in Mpls. 2 of our KMarts are in the processes of closing. It will be interesting to see if that affects ME on the 17th.
great!
more chances for the americans to get new cars!
hardly seems fair to me
Aahh Roswell, don’t sound so bitter man, we’ll do our best to hook you up!
Are you forgetting the non-U.S. promo’s for Vinyl Toupee, Faux Wheel Drive, Gask-its, and ______________?
yes, one of the promotions (with the blue tickets) i forked out buying a load of cars i didnt want, just so i could enter them on the website to claim my prize and never get anything from it!
(2 of the tickets i had had already bee used, so i had to buy 2 more) and then i never recieved an email from mattel saying what to do next…
and to think, some people just opened the tickets and copied the codes and got the promo car and people like me get screwed over!!!
why cant the promos be international???
probably the same reason half of the stuff says the company is in canada and they dont get them either .. lol
This time around I’ll be doing the pre-order only and skipping the in store event. It was far too crowded and mismanaged last time for me to go through that again.
We will again attend Cars Day III, I told my 3 y/o the assortment today and he said ..”they will have the rubber tires again won’t they dad”.. have I created a cars-a-holic or what !! L8rM8r see you in Ports?
won’t be able to attend this time if anyone wants to help me out please email me
ridahgraphix@gmail.com
Thank you
who you gonna call, Charles?!?!?
GhostBUSTERS!!!
NO . . . jestrjef!! 😆
BTW, how you doin’?
Crazy back to school stuff…. Some great guy told me parent volunteers are really needed, so I listened.. 😉
Woohoo, can hardly wait. I looooove collector day at KMart, such fun. Not overly excited about the racers available since we already have all of these sans “real” rubber tires, but still, love the event and will buy the rubber tire versions.
“new to market” makes me think they would more likely be Final Lap series rather than ROR. still excited either way!
I was wondering the same thing. Lets see if Target holds onto their “Final Lap” exclusive. lets hope they aren’t lenticulars!!
I’m pretty sure these will be lenticulars. I don’t think they can mix long cards and short cards in the same case and still fit 24.
The chase vehicles are on short cards and are not lenticular. If you remember what we have been told, no car will be released as a lenticular, without it first being released as a normal car. These will be normal cars on the short cards.
No…my math is right….I think
19 racers
2 new releases (non-lenticular, probably a pitty and a chase car)
that leaves 3 more spots that I am guessing will be re-releases…lenticular.
I got the donuts…you wanna put up some dollars?
😉
yay! i cant wait! i want to know these mystery cars!! i hope that the case asst gets fixed! 🙂
Interesting that the pre-order day appears to be a Sunday.
Conflicts with my sitting on couch, eating chips, drinking pop, and watching football schedule….
See that sounds perfect. Sitting on the couch w/laptop, setting up fantasy football lineup, purchasing Cars on great Kmart pre-order, and watching football…
ooh im so excited!! we missed the kmart day 2 because we were in Europe, and when we got back there were very few left on the shelves 🙁 cant wait!!
did you get the ones you needed??? if not i have extra and i know some others that do too if you need them!! 🙂 aaronjeannescriven@gmail.com
Time will be as Met mentioned. 10 am CDT.
Not known yet is how many cases per address/credit card on pre order.
Not determined yet.
We don’t know yet what the new cars will be in addition to the rubber tired racers. Met has some ideas about N20 Cola pitty or another pitty. I read the email from Dev as 2 new to market cars in addition to , the 7 racers, so I was thinking 9 new cars. wasn’t thinking of N20 Cola as new to market. Guess we will find out soon enough.
Or maybe the last 3 cars in the 24-pack will be randomly assorted? so we know we’re all supposed to get the same 21 races and 2 new-to-markets, but then the other 3 are whatever Mattel pack in?
Its obvious, the other 3 have to be Lightning McQueen 🙂
Correction:
# 34 Trunk Fresh
I see Met has made the same mistake!
It sounds like one of the new releases will be Truck Fresh! LOL! 😉
Which Truck? Point me in the right direction and I’ll just follow that truck..
😀
And his Pitty! “My Name Is Not Truck”
(You ain’t kiddin’ your name’s not Truck :D)
Oh and lets not forget the Octain Gail pitty…
Toto
To go with the Octane Gail hauler available on the Target website…
I worked for a Vietnamese couple couple whose names were Truk and Tran (pronounced Truck and Train) great couple, funny names!
!
I hope to order on pre-sale as well as pick up more at the event… If only the rest of the 24 count cases had this kind of assortment. If Mattel can get it right for Kmart, surely they can get it right for the rest of them.
They will be on the same type of shortcards that the look my eyes change are on.
Someone had them on ebay a while back ago and i noticed the new packaging.
Someone has an N2O Cola on there right now with this packaging.
http://cgi.ebay.com/DISNEY-CARS-PRE-SALE-N2O-COLA-RUBBER-TIRES_W0QQitemZ180408424269QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2a012e174d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_500wt_1182
Happy forv the presale since i will not be able to ake the cross border raid that day!!
Long Live Kmart!!
There’s a border?
It’s more of an EDGE!
A razor sharp edge which cuts to ribbons anyone or anything attempting to transport CARS northward!
Actually, it’s a lot easier getting back into Canada with Cars, than it is getting into the US telling them you’re going for Cars. LOL
Pre-sale available to us?
(MET: They’re working out overseas shipping so it’s either yes or no … :-/ )
We’re not overseas! We’re next door!
(MET: Technicality – St. Lawrence … :-/ ).
Now THIS is the post I’ve been waiting for! Thanks Met! I’m going to go out on a limb and say one of the “highly demanded vehicles is Lightning Mcqueen without real synthetic rubber tires.
perhaps Muddy Lightning McQueen?
So, everyone knows they’re going to throw Lightning McQueen in all those cases too.. why not make someone actually WANT one, and throw the “Rubber” tires on Lightning, as well? He’s a race car, too.
I think I will be doing the same a last time. I will pre-order a case and STILL attend the event! The kids LOVE the event!!
Me too Jeff. Plus, you have a chance to win a poster and stuff at the event. I may try a different store though, mine is super crowded.
might not need to do that, I have asked about Forum promotions for our forum friends
Yep that is the route I will be taking.
No pre-ordering for me this time around…..the stores had so many CARS at the event and so few people that the pegs were full for days, if not weeks, after the event was over. They opened 6 cases, with my wife and myself being the only people there.
Yeah, but if EVERYONE thinks like this . . . the store will be a MOB SCENE because of the problems with the last pre-order!!! 🙂
A mob scene would be 3 people at that store.
HAHAHAHAHA – sounds just like my KMart
I think I will preorder two cases. The fleabayers descended upon my store at day II so I don’t want to take any chances. I’m still going to the event, though, but my expectations will be low. Unless…
Hey, met, any thoughts on how to tell kmart to allocate more to a particular store?
I tried to get a message into Dev about this….I think I was successful. We had 18 cases at our local Kmart for 40 people, children were not allowed to draw numbers either. There were probably 30 fleabayers and 10 parents with a couple of kids each. There were almost fights…I’m not kidding. there is no need for that. They easily could have sent 32 cases and sold every one. I think the answer is getting feedback from managers at each store about attendance and basing your distribution decisions on that feedback. That still might be too complicated though.
Met, would you post the “Rules” flyer I sent you after Kmart Day #2? It specifically states ANYONE can have a ticket.
(MET: It’s in the link).
If anyone would like a scanned copy emailed to them, please email me: JohnJurgovan @ aol.com
I have a copy that if someone wants it, pay mailing and its yours
I know it was in the rules. I told the manager that and I got the old *eye roll* apparently the rules are all out the window when faced with a store full of ebayers foaming at the mouth to tear ever car they could away from each other, with no consideration for the kids in attendance. I was seriously told “This event is for adults only. Kids can’t draw tickets”
Needless to say I am relying on the presale and trying to research another SoCal Kmart to attend.
That is just sad . . . truely sad . . .
You send me the store number and or address I WILL submit this and get this to “the man” Mr Dev
[WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ‘0 which is not a hashcash value.
You send me the store number and or address I WILL submit this and get this to “the man” Mr Dev
I will look this up and send it to you.
Kevin, I can’t find the store number but the address is
2200 Harbor BLVD
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
I sent this to Dev.
Where I went was full of kids..and every little one got a ticket, I went with my little bundle of joy and he was excited when the guy called his number!
It was crowed as I told you..I was hoping to go to Orange County this time..but it looks all the same!
Definately the same story in Orange County.
I hate to keep harping on it, but I was shocked when the lady looked my son in the face and said kids can’t draw tickets. My wife and I were both there and she gave us each a ticket, which of course we put directly in my son’s hands. You might be saying ‘what does it matter you got tickets?’ It is the principal. I already had a case at home from the presale….To me it wasn’t about the cars. It was about the excitement for me son to get to participate in something fun! When you were kids how often do you remember getting to go to the toy store sit in front of a big box of toys and pick out whatever you wanted. Pretty cool thought huh? Probably didn’t happen that often…
Ok, great post, but I can’t help but pull a quote out :”It was about the excitement for me son….” Is that Pirate-ese slipping out??? LOLOL! I feel suddenly like I am on an episode of SpongeBob. Damn those squirrels 😉
I agree, kids should get tickets. I am excited to take my little boy this time!
ARRRRRGH MATEY…These be CARS not Krabby Patties.
I think I meant my son… not me son?
College football + Several concussions = typing anomalies from time to time
🙂
My husband and I, as well as my 2-year-old, and our twin girls went to the 2nd K-Mart day and they offered me tickets for my girls (whom were 3 months at the time.)
I was thinking the same thing. Since it says “assortment may vary”, you can’t be sure that all the Cars will be in each case. So, as last time, you’ll have to scramble to get all the Cars you want. I will definitely go to the KMart Day but will probably skip the pre-order this time around.
I have messages going to Dev about the cases issues and how to fix it and or if they plan to ensure a better consistency this time.
Who is Dev?
Dev Mukherjee
SVP & President Toys & Seasonal
Sears Holdings
I was going to ask that..haha!
how about overseas orders? Mr. Dev get that fixed yet?
refer to 3rd post from the top
haha….. how the heck did I miss that…..
blind in one eye…… can’t see out the other….
oops… blew right by that one…..
Ahhh… notice it states “assortment may vary”
Was hoping they might ship overseas. There was talk previously but it appears not. Pity our Kmart in Australia is not owned by the same mob. If it was they might be able to hook up and do a collective worldwide Cars Collector day.
I know that they are working on overseas order issues
“”we’re still working through the challenges of Internationalcredit cards and shipping – it’s proved to be much more challenging thanI’d expected to be able to reach everyone who asked after the lastevent. Hopefully we’ll have something by the pre-sell.””
The challenge of international credit cards? That has got to be the lamest excuse ever!
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