Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Missing Toon Deluxe CARS
The Oversized-Deluxe Toon case listings only shows one more case with one new CAR, “Music Video (Bat) Mater.”
This does not mean a new list is not coming but because we are at the cusp of CARS 2 releases, it would seem unlikely as all the pegs will be devoted to CARS2 CARS … presumably.
So what’s left missing?
From the lists and prototype pics, El Materdor seems most obvious to get a release as he’s out in the UK/EU …
And we have seen prototypes for …
This one is also not too difficult of a release, it’s simply Kabuto with Flames …
And while the Padre has been around a while – it’s understandable that he’s not the most exciting of a release so he got pushed back …
And while Tokyo Mater with Flames is listed and assigned a number – probably since the SDCC one did not sell out – it’s unlikely we will see “regular” Tokyo Mater with Flames released unless Toon Deluxe comes back later in 2011 or 2012 … and finally, the least likely one we’ll see since the only evidence is from the Collector Guide …
Moderfied Mater … BUT we know they are working on more Toons – will we get some new Toons by the CARS DVD release in November or will these make it out in the 2012 wave of Toons shorts and diecasts?
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5 February 2011
39 Comments
I think i recall wiggin’ out a coupla times aboutMattel and the collecting of the Cars line…
But I am still here – These little guys are addictive and sometimes we all have to remember to play the “adult” card once in a while and step back or walk away for a little bit – Just long enough to miss the tellers at the local Walmart – Just long enough to have at least ten Cars that need to be added to your collection for the hunt to be a little bit more enjoyable – Just long enough to have that epiphany that reminds you just how wonderful these little guys are!
PS -cartoons rock!!!
The carstoys.co.uk site also has picture of a dusty ‘El Materdor without hood’ is that not being made either? His teeth are pretty scary looking lol
You forgot:
12 Tokyo Mater with Flames (Non SDCC)
Was in the collector’s guide.
Also, when will Ben Crankleshaft and Oliver Lightload be out?
(MET: I didn’t include a photo but I offered my opinion above … supposedly Ben & Oliver are in the next hauler case but no one seems to think it’s actually real so we’ll see – update if anything concrete is proofed).
Dude, do you really think anyone here can answer that question?
Met is the allllll knowing and alllll seeing leader ….. OOOOooooOOOoooo I bet he knows … its a conspiracy man … 🙂
Oh, he knows, but he ain’t tellin’! (:
I come on this website to exchange with other collectors having the same passion and react to new releases share excitements, deceptions, frustrations, joy, expectations and yes sometimes complaints against Matell for poor distribution and how they treat collectors but not to read users fighting and bitching to each other… There is plenty of reality shows just doing that. Please keep this site the way it should be. Thanks, Carl
Yeah..no more drama please..
Couldn’t agree more… Goodnight to all!
I hear ya, Carl. But there’s also nothing wrong with taking a stand to protect the sanctity of this forum. We’re supposed to be looking out for each other, isn’t that the whole point? I know it’s not to make an extra buck off of our fellow collectors….
Wow,spend the day in Orlando, miss ALOT! Glad I missed it though. 🙂 The purpose of this site is to help others and I am proud to be a part of it. Met and Tiz work there bumpers off to give us a place that we can get together and talk, vent and help each other with this sometimes MADDENING hobby! “Like a good neighbor … State Farm is there … with New FINAL LAP Cars for EVERYONE!!” (let me know if that worked 😆 )
I’m thinking Tru Blue McCrew is the latest Final Lap right? He’s the only one on the pegs for the past 5 months so he’s gotta be the latest right Mattel?
Yes but it was nice of Mattel to repack Antonio, Dexter Hoover with checkered flag(which happens to be the final lap logo ), wrecked Mood Springs and other sought after final laps. Oh sorry that’s right Mattel only repacks are the ones we least need. Never mind I was just imaging Mattel repacked a case they way collectors would want.
The USA cardback for Chuy:
has
#4 Cannonball Mater
#7 Daredevil Mcqueen with flames
#9 El Materdor
#10 Chuy.
I don’t think I’ll feel to torn up about it if they don’t release Daredevil McQueen with flames. You can’t see it from this angle, but the other side has “PEGWARMER” stamped in thick black lettering.
That’s “too torn up about it”. Sorry Mrs. Schutze, I know you’d be mortified.
Please give us Moderfied Mater, PLEASE!!!
Maybe this was a short model year, and everything we’ve been waiting for will be released sooner than expected. I remain optimistic.
IN NOMINE PATRIS ET FILII ET SPIRITUS SANCTI. AMEN
Requiescat in pace
Ite missa est
Or so it seems
Let’s hope they do release them all. Those are some pretty cool cars mainly.
I don’t know what this says about me as a person, but all of these gaps in the collection cause me angst. If you’re not sure you’re going to release something, please don’t put a number on it and put me at risk of having a collection that feels incomplete.
Okay. Thanks.
I could not agree with you more. Not only about assigning #s to cars not released or showing cars in collectors guides and other places that don’t actually cone out but also releasing cars in other countries and then not here in the US. The country that made the line what it is and where the first movie was set.
The horrible distribution has me really bummed lately. Mattel is pushing me closer and closer to calling it a day.
I love these cars and love collecting with and for my son but the distribution is making cars so hard to get lately.
If not for Take 5 and other collectors who have helped me getting all the new cars would be nearly impossible.
I live in the heart of the tri state area too. Surrounded by many stores and it’s still too hard to get new cars lately.
How much time and effort does Mattel want us to put in just to get these toys? It almost seems to me collectors are of no importance to Mattel.
I have seen an increasing number of people disgusted with how hard it is to collect. What a shame. Having a line so many want to buy but can’t because the new releases are too far and few in between and it just takes too much time to go searching so many stores just to find a few cars. That’s if your lucky and find anything at all.
I can’t do it much longer Mattel. Either get your act together and make more releases readily available or soon I will tell you to take your cars and shove them. I will take the time spent searching for cars and take my son golfing and other things instead.
I am not into abusive one sided relationships and that exactly what I feel like I am in. Either please me or I will find satisfaction elsewhere.
There is simply too many other thing I can do with my time than fruitless searches for car toys.
I want to be rewarded for my effort or I won’t keep making one.
Jack, I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve moved on. I was an avid collector of “Cars” up until six months or so ago. I got tired of going to my local stores and not seeing anything new on the pegs or checking the online auction sites and seeing something that I’d like and not buy because I didn’t want to pay and arm or leg for. But what really got to me was all this “non-canon” stuff coming out: you know, the various Mater and McQueen characters that weren’t in the movie. Sorry, but this stuff is not to my liking. When I kept seeing Mattel release more and more of this stuff and not finish out the original product line, it was time for me to move on. I have quite a collection that I’m proud of, but I’ve stopped. The magic is just gone for me. Sadly, I don’t see “Cars 2” doing anyting to lure me back. What was a sweet coming of age story in “Cars” will now be an explosion filled summer pop corn movie that Mattel will use an excuse to market more cars. I know others reading this don’t agree and may consider this blasphemy in the Cars world, but it’s how I feel. I just don’t know Jack, if you will ever be rewarded in your effort, but I wish you continued luck.
Thank you for your supportive words and for taking the time out to write your Cars collecting story.
I don’t think as many will be bothered by your words as you think. I talk to many cars collectors regularly who all feel very disappointed by Mattels distribution.
Only someone in complete denial can argue that these lines are distributed fairly or well.
Perhaps if you are retired or don’t have much else to do and don’t mind devoting Many hours a week hunting online and in stores for Cars, then you just may find some new releases here and there. However for many including myself it’s just too time consuming lately. It’s the distribution that’s killing me.
I don’t mind the non-canon lines myself but I do agree the mainline should be somewhat completed. Again it’s the distribution of almost every line that is the problem. They put out lines like the storytellers that so many collectors want and need but put them out at Target only for a short time and then gone.
The new deluxes of both the toons and mainline released overseas but not here. Great Releases like Bessie in short supply and the list goes on.
Of course repeated cars with google eyes and color changers most don’t want are readily available at all stores. Mattel has a habit of selling the least liked releases everywhere but the releases everyone wants are either store exclusives or in shorter supply.
Simply put I just want more new releases more readily available.
It is bad enough that we have to support a communist regime and buy made in China cars in the first place if we want to collect. Now making us jump
Through hoops to find cars just may be the thing that makes me
say enough.
I strongly suggest that Mattel start making it easier for collectors because if they force me to stop collecting due to frustration I will never buy anything Mattel again just on principle.
Well if you’re thinking about hanging it up this just might push you over the edge:
I received a letter from Mattel stating that after March 31, 2011, there will be a price increase across the board for all Fisher Price & Mattel product lines. They attributed the price increase to a rise in both the cost of resin and packaging, and additionally in the “cost pressures due to the government mandated wage increase in China”.
So did Mattel give a percentage increase? %
Everything commodity wise has been going up. Now with the economy seeming to improve, manufacturers who have held back on passing along materials and labor increases are feeling they can now start.
Look for everything to start going up this spring and summer. Cotton, energy costs, transportation costs.
Nothing specific, it only states that over the next several weeks we will start finding out what the increases will be on a product-by-product basis. I think Met will do a post within the next day or so.
You know Steve, I just love it when people who make absolutely no contributing efforts to the Cars community pop up just to bash me and others like me who attempt to make an honest and legitimate living by selling toys online. You and others like you have no idea the amount of money that gets shelled out to make any profit at all, yet you think you have a right to bash those of us who are doing it. You can call it whatever you want, the fact of the matter is that anyone who sells can charge any price they want for products that they own and anyone who buys does so of their own free will.
Are you also writing letters to Exxon-Mobil complaining about the $3.50/gallon price of gas and their $44 Billion Net Profits from last year? Have you written to Wonder Bread to complain that their $2 loaf of bread is overpriced because it only costs them $0.10 to make it? Or have you complained to your local heating & cooling place and asked them why a $900.00 furnace costs $5,000.00 to have it installed? It’s in everything you buy; food, electronics, and even toys.
No one is forcing anyone else to buy their products — consumers choose to buy them. And if you don’t it’s no big deal because there are millions of others right behind you that will gladly pay for something they want and/or don’t have.
So if you actually have any intelligent remarks I would be happy to read and reply, but I suspect you don’t so I bid you good day and good night.
(MET: EDIT … If anyone wants to launch a discussion on CARS, retail, distribution without finger pointing – you are free to do so here … as long as it’s not personal, as long as you stick to your main points of contention and you frame it around your points you wish to argue for or against. We try to keep it open ended here – you are free to buy or sell to whomever you choose or choose not to … we do not set a price ceiling or a price floor – thanks).
Wow you opened up a new can worms here. When one drives 200 miles in a day to search items down and finds and sells for a profit is their choosing. It cost a lot of money to do this and would like to get cost back, not to include time invested. People like you are real jerks to call anyone a gouger as some people love to pay others to do their shopping for them and pay good money so they dont have to do all the work and cost. Steve you go to work and then tell your boss, oh well I really dont want to get paid today for working for you so I will do it for free. Steve if you don’t like the price or idea of what we do move on and get out and look and find out how much money is invested to do this. I sir are one of what you call gougers but when my truck gets 10 to 11 mpg I am not going to run for you and give to you so you can lay on your butt and have it shipped to you. You really are irritating. Go find something to do with your time instead of complain about resellers. 🙂
Well I thought at least if there were going to be a response it would have been intelligent. I was wrong. I find it hilarious that you think that all I do is spend my time running from store to store. Not that I feel any need to defend myself or explain anything to you or anyone else, but I find this entertaining. I wish you could talk to the local collectors in my area. They would tell you I have not been to a Target or Toys-R-Us in over a month. I have a full time day job, a part time night job, and in addition to both of those I sell online. As for the newest 4 Final Laps, anyone with half a brain has already contacted me about them and they have all received the exact same response. The Final Laps are not mine and are being sold for someone else. I have not even found a set for my own son’s collection and don’t really care what anyone on any trade board or forum thinks. I happen to know for a fact that the person who actually found the newest 4 Final Laps has at least 10 hours and and over 300 miles invested in a total of 5 1/2 sets; and you want them to be traded at cost. Let me tell you something you are obviously to ignorant to figure out: Cost is not the price you pay in the store. Cost is the total out of pocket expense to obtain something. Gas, time, wear and tear on a vehicle are all a part of cost. I can tell you that if I did have any there is no way I would be trading them at store prices, especially when nearly every other board member wants more than that for their Cars.
As for legitimacy, it’s unbelievable to me that you actually think you know what is legitimate. Empty insults mean nothing to me, especially when they come from someone like you who has does nothing but try to embarrass me and commands absolutely no respect from anyone. You must thinks it’s free to sell on eBay. You must think it’s free to receive payments through PayPal. You must thinks it’s free to be an Accredited member of the Better Business Bureau. You must think that the IRS just ignores my Federal Tax ID number and doesn’t want their 20%. You must think it’s free to ship items at the Post Office (btw, I spent nearly $10,000 last year on postage alone). You must think it’s free to own a website. You must think that boxes and packaging materials are free.
Like I said previously, you and those like you think you know so much, yet you know nothing!
i guess the old adage applies here “if you don’t have the facts in your corner then scream, rant & rave” if you are so confident that your position is right and just then why such a long soliloquy?
Yes Jake is a good seller and usually charges a very reasonable markup. With the effort, gas and time it takes to find these darn cars lately you can’t expect someone to lose money while helping others.
Also I have always been curious on why people like to bash EBay or people that sell on it?
Long before Cars I always liked EBay. I have bought from EBay for many years and have gotten many bargains and found products I couldn’t even get any where else.
Dwarf Japanese maple trees for instance. I have a double lot of property and have planted several dozen rare Japanese maples in different areas of my yards and gardens.
I bought most on EBay as 2 year old trees for 10.00 to 30.00. Varieties not even available at any local nurseries. Now they are older, really beautiful and would cost up to 500.00 each if you could even find them. Just one example of why I just don’t get the hatred of EBay.
I also recently bought some iPhone accessories on EBay for literally 1/10 the cost of what major retailers charge.
I would love to hear what it is exactly about EBay that some people look down on. Also why someone would look down on or be mad at a little guy EBay seller making a few bucks?
Why wouldn’t you have a problem with a billionaire team
Owner charging a family 1000.00 to see one ballgame? Or being charged 60.00 for a video game that cost 1.00 to make.
Why in a world that rich people are overcharging us on everything does a little person making a couple dollars trying to survive bother some?
As for the buying all the good releases you see-whats wrong with that? Mattels distribution and prices cause that. When I collected baseball cards no one bought them all because there was more than enough to go around. Mattel should make all releases available everywhere. Then there would be no reason for reselling.
However as Matt points out without people buying extras, trading or reselling we would never be able to get them all.
Regarding the bashing of prices on another site- who cares? No matter how many people do something it doesn’t make it right.
I know one thing. People who think they are better than others, name call and judge are much worse than someone asking for a price you think is too high.
One of the main problems in our society is that the little people point fingers at each other and focus on things so insignificant. Meanwhile the important factors and bigger picture goes unnoticed and not discussed.
I just wish more regular people would wake up and concern themselves with much more pressing issues. We tax payers are being robbed everyday for billions but most people are more concerned with such little nonsense. No wonder we are sinking.
Maybe someone can explain to me the mindset of the whole EBay bashing thing, because I just don’t get it.
“Or being charged 60.00 for a video game that cost 1.00 to make.”
Bit of a wrong example there, champ. I happen to work for a LARGE, well-known videogaming company, and I can tell you that it costs quite a bit more than $1.00 to make a game. I’d like to know where you got that figure from. But anyway, I guess it’s besides the CARS debate going on here.
Without slicepie and a few others who make an amazing effort for us all some of us would have nothing.
Thanks to all like Jake who go the extra mile to be accepted by Mattel as an authorized retailer who actually cares about the guys and girls of TFAD and helps us get what we need.
You guys rock!
Matt
Very kind words Matt. Many thanks to you!
Sadly the price increase has hit the UK. Today I
Noted mega sized now at the equivalent of 16 bucks. Not quite as expensive as the mainland Europe, but getting there!
Seems Mattel can demand the consumer pay to get them through this recession despite none of us getting a pay rise to deal with it and everything else in life that keeps getting more and more expensive.
I almost passed out when slicepie offered the new case of megas in the US for only 45 bucks. Around half the price of the UK store prices. This forces us Europeans to sometimes want maybe a car extra as part of a trade. Makes the hobby so much harder to swallow and carry on with. 🙁
Matt
Diecast155, I may also be in the minority of collectors who is not enthused about Cars 2, at least based on the story line shown in the trailers. Cars One had a great story line. Cars Two seems to fall into the all too often cartoon violence. In Cars One I enjoyed the developing love affair between McQ and Sally, the wise old sage of Doc, the big race scene. I just don’t know about a plot to blow up something. Race Cars and missiles?
As to selling toys. That’s the name of the game. Crank them out with the shortest shelf life possible. The snow in Chicago stays on the ground longer than the latest case assortment hangs on the pegs.
PS: Steve AKA: Poppa is not related to the on going commentary following.