Disney Pixar CARS: Watch the Blu Ray CSI Style …
Apparently Blu Ray High Definition 1080p resolution is just not good enough. We need ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION Stat!
“Albert Hinkey” has sent in his report …
“First of all, I think this is the final word on whether or not canon Sarge should have the USA stencil on his hood. The answer is no. My hypothesis is that in 2005 Mattel was designing their first run of toys before the movie came out…well just for arguments sake, maybe the artwork from Pixar wasn’t 100% complete and they later decided to remove the USA. So the Bootcamp Sarge with larger numbers and no USA is actually an effort to improve Sarge and make him Canon. Good job Matty!”
But then Albert Hinkey and family got up close and personal with their HDTV …
These pics were taken from Doc’s garage. I noticed sponsor’s names on some of the boxes. Including No Stall, Clutch Aid, and not Shiny Wax,…. but WAXY Wax? On the version of Toy Story we have there is a preview of Cars with what looked like real movie footage from Radiator Springs combined with unpolished generic race footage that isn’t anywhere close to what was actually in the film. So between that and these pictures, it seems obvious that they completed the Radiator Springs animation before the Race sequences and then never went back to fix the sponsor name change from Waxy Wax to Shiny Wax. Although hypotheticaly Waxy Wax could have been the brand name before it was acquired by their new parent company Sidewall Shine:)
Clutch Aid Energy Bars are the best – when they say ‘Now with Zinc,’ they aren’t kidding.
Here, I flipped the letter – maybe it’s secret coded instructions – what does it say – who’s got the 120″ TV?
Or who doesn’t remember the Shiny Wax hostile takeover of Waxy Wax … Or maybe they realized customers really wanted wax to shine and not appear waxy … 🙂
Oh yes, there are numbers on the box – please decipher the cipher.
More Waxy Wax …
Nice work Albert Hinkey …
And David V. also sends us an anomoly …
If you recall, there was an “ad” within the movie CARS for Rust-Eze featuring Jonathan Wrenchworths … in the “ad,” his license plate apparently reads EVILLE … but in the Blu Ray Finder, you can see a higher resolution of the shot of him in the ad but his “enhanced” license plate resolution now reads EMILLE …
Visual Reference at the CARS DRIVE IN GALLERY.
Thanks David, Brandon & “Albert Hinkey.”
We still have a 18 months to start looking at the sides of each frame of CARS: The Zapruder version 🙂
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3 January 2010
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If you notice, in the right hand side of Lizzie’s curios shop you can see a “Waxy Wax” sticker (and the old logo of Dinoco!).
those numbers are the DPCI for Target’s exclusive “BOX O’ WAX”
Actually, as any Army veteran and military modeler will tell you (I was both of these in my checkered past) it is not at all unlikely for any military vehicle to have unusual markings. There may be perfectly legitimate reasons for this, such as the wishes of the unit commander, the lack of stencils when painting was being done, oversight, damage, changes in regulations, etc., etc., ad nauseam. Minor changes in paint and markings were the least of the liberties taken on the versatile Jeep.
Differences in markings were much more likely to occur in a war zone where, of course, there was a lot less emphasis on spit and polish (unless you were under George Patton!)
Of course, the question here is not whether Sarge’s markings match those of World War II Jeeps but whether he matches the character in the movie. Judging from the photographic evidence above, it is obvious that the Sarge’s without the USA match the character in the scene above.
Are there other scenes, shorts or books where this situation might be different? I don’t know, but the movie people hire outside experts and continuity reviewers to catch just this sort of glitch. Sometimes things slip through.
(MET: This was my last post on the subject but keep in mind there are two different points of accuracy. There is the “real world” accuracy point and yes, technically Sarge is a US vet as he is a WWII Willy’s Army Jeep (1942 to be exact) in the MEET THE CARS listing – there is a also a brief note about his courage during the Battle of the Bulge so he is definitely a WWII vet … that is POINT #1 … POINT #2 – yes, from the research last time, Army jeeps at that time was supposed to say USA but there was no specific regulation where it should go – as from the last post, there are links showing it in various places and in various sizes … so there are four additional points. POINT #3 – during the film, it is inconclusive based on what I saw – there seems to be lettering above his number but as AH points out, in the clearest shot of the film during the BOOT CAMP sequence, no USA … POINT #4 – what are rules-regulations in our world may not apply to CARSWORLD and POINT #5 – as a retired soldier, or for instance if you had bought a surplus jeep 30-40 years, were you required or did they scrub out the words USA? And lastly, point #6 – perhaps he adds and subtracts medals, etc …much like a soldier may or may not be fully in his/her dress uniform versus “regular” wear … and – or conducting business at Sarge’s Boot Camp, perhaps he fet it would imply he was an active soldier so he covered that up? okay, discuss … 😉 ).
Good points.
Army Regulations of 1942 required the U.S.A. markings.
http://www.jeepdraw.com/images/AR-850-5.pdf So its still surprising that Pixar missed such an obvious point. And Mattel did not in the original Sarge. He is correct to the WW 2 jeep, except for his grille which is a later jeep grille.
If Pixar used outside consultants, they missed the obvious U.S.A stenciling. the original Mattel Sarge is canon to the Jeep, if not all frames in the movie. But we don’t have pics of Sarge in all movie frames, as you pointed out, so only Boot Camp Sarge in the box set matches the scene above.
…it’s….just…a…cartoon…
I know, we’re starting to sound like Star Trek fans at a convention here… 🙂
if the non USA is canon to the movie, it is surprising to me that Pixar would mess up that important detail. The WW 2 Jeep is iconic, the most recognized vehicle in the world.
My Dad is a veteran of the Korean War, a retired Army Major and I have a picture of General MacArthur and several other 5 stars sitting in a jeep, from my Dad who took the picture in 1951. You can see faintly the U on the jeep and its number which was 20. There are tons of pictures of WW 2 jeeps on the internet that show the stenciled USA on them.
I could be wrong, but I thought all original WW 2 jeeps had the USA initials on them.
Sarge – the original Desert Sarge, SC Sarge, Lenticular , Saluting Sarge have the USA symbol. Boot Camp Sarge is missing the USA insignia on his hood and so is Pit Crew Sarge. So the first Sarges issued by Mattel are definitely correct, if not to the movie, at least to the original Jeep.
Maybe in the Cars world when you retire they remove the U.S.A.
so they can identify you as a retiree. Instead of active duty.
Or maybe people may have thought that Pixar was indoctrinating kids to love the US army so they dropped it to it wouldn’t stir up controversy (little did they realize.)
or to better appeal to foreign markets.
Or maybe the lettering would have added $200,000 to the budget.
Waxy Wax could possibly be one of the secret 7 racers
Looks a little TOO much like the Shiny Wax logo.
Eh it’s Just like umm burger king and McDonalds 🙂 ❓
Of course, Waxy Wax might just be a really old box in a old man’s err.. old car’s garage… Doc is an older racer isn’t he??
I’m just waiting to find the footage in that garage of the Cars World equivalent of some Vitameatavegamin or the Handy Housewife Helper…
Hey, I’ll take a case of that Vitameatavegamin 🙂
nice call…
In frame 123… we see
What! Tell us! please …
Back…and to the right.
frame 232
thats back and the the left….back and the the left….back and the the left….
(just checked JKF)