Mattel Disney Pixar CARS 2: Blessed It Are the Diecast Collectors – The Pope & The Popemobile
The Pope is coming AND the Popemobile is separate!
And the two Sumo guys, of course.
These should appear in the next 2-3 Deluxe (oversized) cases.
And the next two-packs …
Lightning – how many rims can the dude go through?
A. At least 3 so far, I guess.
Finn McMissile as Security Guard & Acer with a different eye position from other 2-pack.
And Mater with Sal Machiani (aka: Ape)
You can find these from the CARS 2011 poster – available for download at the new Mattel CARS 2 site.
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19 May 2011
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i asked chacha now i want to go back, cause i couldnt find them before!
are the lfe size cars movie cars still in disney world?
Yes, the life size cars are still in Disney. Star race car Lightning McQueen and pal Mater from the original movie are parked on a grassy knoll near the D-Street shop. In between them is a brand new character making his debut June 24 in “Cars 2” – a master British spy named Finn McMissile.
What???? I was just there and thought I missed it by a day! I’m so upset 8^( How long will they still be there???
Picked up Sumo Nabunaga today at an Oz Big W. He was sitting with Finn with Hydrofoil and a bunch of other deluxes.
Awesome Mat!
I went to my Target tonight and was looking at the C2 line and was checking out all the other cars stuff they had out and looked down to see the Cars Blu Ray DVD with a gold cruising LMQ and Rescue Mater both with Ransburg paint jobs and a free pass to the June 24th Cars 2 movie. Anyone else see this?
Yep!!
Just unbelievable Cars in this movie. That’s all I can say with my jaw agape in amazement at all the delectable releases coming and coming quick. The days of drought are long gone. Our hobby is back and bigger than ever!
The days of wine and roses are here.
The 2005 to 2010 original Cars 1 era was great and all but The 2011 to 2014 period is going to be The best. Even if they do make a Cars 3 someday.
Off topic, but I found a Target with about eight or ten of the 9-car speedway packs for $7.48, and they also had a bunch of Gils for $3.47 and a couple of singles for $1.24. But…the best thing was I scored two Ninja Knockout playsets for $5.02 each! That crane is really cool! Even rolls on its own little wheels. (The two ninjas don’t roll and are attached side-to-side, but they can be unscrewed easily from their base to display.) The crane is all I wanted that set for, and now I have two 8^) It’s the final 75% off clearance…but there’s not much left. Get ye to Target!!
That’s it…I’m done until the next wave!!
Since I am a Catholic, the Pope will be MINE!! =D But I will not be happy if you can’t fit the Pope into the Popemobile.
You will be happy.
Pope & his Mobile looks great. But unfortunate — though hard to tell for certain with the low resolution — that they are not using a Cars-i-fied version of the Vatican symbol of crossed keys. Say, two crossed ignition keys.
That’s what they are, keys… And his hat is made up with wheels. Hello…this is carsland.
I thought the miter decor looked like gears instead of wheels, but it’s all good. Like I said, hard to tell for certain from the the low-rez image but pleased to hear they’ll have a Cars-i-fied Vatican symbol, too.
These are going to be AWESOME!! 🙂
Met I clicked on the link for the poster but I get the Oops page instead
Never mind, seems to work now
The URL needs to be in all lower case: “CARS2” doesn’t work, “cars2” does. Mattel needs to fix it.
Or just click this link:
http://www.mattel.com/cars2/diecast
Anyone know of the release dates for these….MET?
If you go to the Mattel website it lists release dates under each car. Some are locked. Looks like A. Petrov is supposed to be released on June 1st. Although I know some people are already finding him and Miles Axelrod.
My first impression was not a lot of cars for 2011. This should leave room on the pegs for more Cars 1 releases? (hopes)
It shows June 1 for Rod Torque Redline, so maybe we’ll see the others sooner than indicated.
Anyone else catch the pic of the Ferarri Pit crew chief that will be part of what sounds like several K-mart 2 packs? I would like to know what the other “and exclusive vehicle’s” are.
(MET: Better pic coming tomo).
I have an RTR already and have seen in WM – June 1, idks.
That’s what I meant — I got Rod the other day, so the June 1 date is about 2 weeks too late.
Aah, I see.
Sal is cool. It appears that I’ll be getting a Race Team Mater after all.
sumo #1,sumo #2 & security gard finn w/acer were available on TRU.COM last week.I ordered them & now they are all on back order. Hope they come soon !! POPE & POPE MOBILE ARE AWSOME .
does the papa fit inside the papa mobile?
Looking at the open top, and considering how small some of the new cars are and how huge the double-decker bus is, I’m betting he fits inside, though maybe not in the same scale-relationship as on the poster, and sticking out of the top. (The height may be what qualifies him as a Deluxe; the Pope car itself may be more Professor-Z size.)
Like the Finn…I hope people take to him as a character and as a diecast, as I’ve seen a million of him over the last few days, plus all the RC and other big versions.
So many dupes 8^P I’ve been switching them out among the cars in two five-packs to give my 3-year-old nephew. Plus I got my Tomber with oil can (fave Mattel so far, though I do like Petrov)!
When are these new ones coming?!
The Pope looks to be about the size of Ito San, and the Popemobile looks like a derivative of the Elvis RV.
It would be cooler if the popemobile had clear windows and the Pope could fit inside…..
Well, it looked to me like he’d just barely fit in there, but I suppose there’s no precise consistency in scale between the images of each car. So Pinion might be bigger than the space in the Popemobile, but that would be pretty lame…not to mention a wasted opportunity.
You’re exactly right — those photos are not to scale. And who knows if the windows are clear or not, as these could just be spec photos.
Those frosted windows are just for photographic clarity — imagine how weird it would look if they took the photo of the vehicle with clear windows — you’d get reflections off the “glass”, the lines of the rear of the vehicle would look odd, and the background would appear wavy.
My wallet is groaning and the first load of stuff hasn’t even hit the shelves’s in the U.K. yet!!!
I have the Sumo guys on order at Toys R Us, I want the Pope and pope mobile now too.
***Spoiler Alert***
If you don’t want to know anything about the movie, do not read any further.
I bought the Essential Guide to Cars 2 and on page 32 it give a hint about the Trunkovs.
“Did you know?”
“Lemons are divided into four families named Gremlins, Pacers, Hugos & Trunkovs.”
So it appears there is more than one Trunkov.
Don’t know why I’m so obsessed with the Trunkovs LOL. Can’t wait to collect them all 🙂
Lightning already has three different rims on the two currently released versions. Look closely at LMQ w/ Party Wheels… Those which were part of the TRU Porto Corsa Welcome 5-pack have deep dish silver rims with very subtle difference in design. The TRU exclusives are HOT! Get’em while you can!
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It’s a bad photo but the one in the middle is TRU 5-pack LMQ w/ nicer rims. Maybe MET can get a better quality comparison photo posted to highlight the difference. It TRUly is a much better version of rims than the other. It shines much more side by side. Take a look you will see what I mean.
Maybe we will display the Pope and the Popemobile with Padre and El Matordor and the bulldozers. I think the sumo guys would make a good tag team against The Tormentor and Frightning McMean. Looks like we’re going to get stuck with another Race Team Mater and Acer. Oh well it looks like its going to be a fun summer.
Alter boy and the senoritas would be a beautiful addition… Common Matell pull them out from you magical hat please!!! 🙂
I bet they will when Mater’s Tall Tales returns.
Finn McMissile as the Security Car reminds me an awful lot of the Mini Adventures line. Let’s just hope Cars 2 doesn’t jump THAT shark again!
Oh c’mon, the Mini Adventures Cars were awesome! You know you miss them! My kids love those, still play with them every now and again
Mini Haulers — yes.
Mini everything else — no.
🙂
Mini Jerry Recycled Batteries was going to be awesome, too bad they canned the line. They were starting to get some good ones. I wish they did more of the racers too, it would’ve been nice if they released regular Chick Hicks stateside instead of just overseas
Yeah, the racers were cool too — I remember some TakeFivers wanting a Mini Speedway of the South set.
I just never got into some of the themed Mini’s like Sheriff Mater or Fire Department Lizzie.
Might we possibly get a list of confirmed eye position differences so far? I realize it’s still a bit hectic, but it would be ideal to get that sort of thing straight (to the extent possible right now) while the first wave stuff is still fairly easy to find. So there’s Acer…Lightning McQueen with Party Wheels also, right? What else?
Oh, and Pope Pinion IV (teehee) and The Popemobile are pretty much the best thing ever. Pinion can fit inside, yes? (Though it looks like his miter would stick out the top.) But here’s a thought: shouldn’t he really be a significantly older model, like something closer to the Queen?
The Pope’s body shape appears a hodge-podge of inspiration from 1960s-70s era Alfa Giulias, though the grille and headlights are much too modern looking. I agree a Cars Pope seems it should consistently look older (bug eye headlights would have helped); however there have been a handful of Popes elected at sub 50s age. While a WW1 era Alfa Romeo would make the age seem to fit much better, as an “Italian Car Shape” a post WW2 era Alfa is more likely to be easily recognized as an Italian car.
McMissile, the master of disguises? As am I…
Where’s the ‘Like’ button? 😛
Both tumbs up!
I love the Popemobile – just seeing cars like him, the sumos, and so just makes me want to really see the movie, just to see how they all fit in to the Cars universe. Only just over a month away now!
Off topic but for any Oz collectors it seems that Deluxe and normal singles are available at Woolworths stores.
Looking forward to the Pope, Popemobile, Sumo wrestlers, and Sal… not sure about the new Finn as a security guard… I’ll see if my resistance gets stronger if I see any of the new 2 packs with one new Car and a change in rims – come on Mattel.
The Pope appears to be based an Alfa? I guess that maybe kinda makes sense?
The Pope…that is so funny!
But only new rims on McQueen as a variant….
aww…come on Mattel…
Awesome! I’ll be first in line to get these ones!