Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 2: It’s a Puzzle of a Variant
All those who are wave one complete, step forward … wait, not so fast says “Kevin. T.” & friend …
Collect & Connect Puzzles (2 of 4) are out. Each with an exclusive diecast CAR that is a variant.
These are from the Mattel Puzzles & Games group and these are Mattel diecast CARS included.
Raoul looks the same as the other releases (same eyes position and face plate expression) BUT he is sporting a SILVER paint stripe under the letters GRC versus the normal white.
Mater’s main difference is that the rims are silver-gray and it’s an “exclusive” eyes expression … he also does not sport the 95 logo as all current CARS 2 releases of him have so far …
Otherwise, the same weight as normal CAR. He comes with a Radiator Springs puzzle. Raoul comes with a Tokyo puzzle.
I did not assemble the puzzle – 24 pieces?! Who has the time?! 🙂
You do have to cut the perforated line above to get the CAR out, but otherwise, you can keep the box intact. The puzzle is not canon (see box art) as clearly they figured kids would prefer a winding road versus the accurate street grid.
The next two coming are UK & Italy. The lazy guess would be a Finn & Francesco variant but Raoul for “Japan,” is not exactly anyone’s first guess … but collect them all?
Not available online yet but found at TRU & Meijer. At TRU, it’s in the puzzle section, the box is small so it’s easy to overlook.
The next two are UPC codes are: 0-27084-95133-2 (Italy) & 0-27084-95134-9 (UK).
Thanks for heads up Kevin T. & friend!
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20 May 2011
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Number 3 of 4 & 4 of 4 can be made to look nicer. Many people myself included are finding these with the cars all topsy turvey loose in the package. If you use the double sided scotch tape that is about 1/4 ” wide (scrapbookers use this stuff) it works good to return the packaging to presetable collectable look. The round sticky dots sealing the package come off nice if removed carefully. Make sure you remove excess glue and super glue and hot glue do not work well I tried that on the boxes that will be played with after Christmas.
Found these at my local CVS. . . .
Got mine tonight… I am guessing these puzzles won’t fly off the shelves very fast so #3 and #4 should not be available before couple months…
My TRU has already been cleaned out and restocked with these. Granted, there’s only room for about six and I got four of ’em, but still….
On a related note, there’s a sorta cheesy looking loose McQueen with silver number and accents on Ebay so, chances are, there’s your #3 or 4. Surprise surprise.
My son and I saw these at Meijers the other day and were thrilled (he’s a puzzle enthusiast). They rang up $9.99 each, though, so I’m glad we waited to find we can get them for 7.99 elsewhere.
If the Radiator Springs one comes with Mater and the Tokyo one comes with Raoul, what cars do the Porta Costa and London ones come with?
Rip Clutchgonski and Lewis Hamilton?
How much are they???
They are $7.99 😀
I’m looking forward to getting the ones my friends in Indianapolis picked up for me… I’ll definitely want 2 of each – one to open so we can work the puzzle and I can put the Car in the display case, and a second one to keep sealed… I’ve got at least 10 puzzles from the first movie… I like Cars… I like puzzles… and I like Cars puzzles…
Your the best Chris! That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are!
Thank You for the heads up as I picked up a set at lunch!!! I should have picked them all up but I did not!!!
Dan, did you go to the Toona at lunch? I had a friend pic up two for me as he works near a TRU!
Yea as my wife thinks I’m nuts
The art on these looks like a nice way to see how the landmarks and scenery have been rendered for the movie. And speaking of variants, I just noticed Tomber with oil can has a slightly less arched left (our left) eyelid than regular Tomber. I had thought he was the same but with can attached.
P.S. Is there a reason this post isn’t showing up in the normal, major list of threads? I found it in the listing at right.
It’s there, under “Recent Posts”.
Right…that’s where I found it, but normally the most recent are listed with images on the big news feed at left. Now it just shows the soundtrack post and then ones from last Sunday 8^
Love this one. Perfect for my son’s birthday this Saturday. My son love puzzle and I love cars, ooppssss…eerrrr…I mean my son love puzzle and cars.
Thornton, CO,
Happy Birthday, HOOKEDonMATER’s son on Saturday. Enjoy your day.
Does this Mater have the broken roof marker light of the other Cars 2 Maters?
All my rusty Maters have a broken roof light.
clever, Mattel, clever.
Any bets the other 2 cars will have silver paint too?
Blah! Not going to meddle in Mattel’s affairs this time around.
Neeeeeeeeeeed them!!!!!!
Help meeeeee!!!
I didn’t think these were diecast until I opened the Mater one, and compared them side by side. If you’d like to see comparison pics with a Race Team Mater, I posted some here:
http://carsthetoys.yuku.com/topic/16750/NEW-Exclusive-Raoul-and-Mater
It’s kind of sad that it took so much to make sure these were diecast like the main line. I don’t know what that says about how much plastic is really in these Cars now compared to the beginning.
Where will we find more diecast next??? I knew what I was looking for in the puzzle section at TRU, and they were still a bit of a challenge to find! Gives new meaning to the word “Hunt”!!!
Checked out your pics, thanks.
I went back to TRU today and picked these up.
I saw these yesterday at TRU. I thought the Cars looked smaller than the 1:55 diecast. Guess I was wrong. I’ll go back and check them out again today.
Cool!! Might have to check them out. 🙂