Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 2: Walmart Cube is Back
The Walmart Cube is back … thanks for the great pics, “JestrJef,” and “Manifold Mike!”
Sporting the next WM exclusive 2-pack … Fred Fisbowski (along with Holley Shiftwell)
Fred is an exclusive yellow Pacer … as is Tyler Gremlin … I hope all the other Gremlins are surnamed Gremlin’s – much easier to remember.
Are his glasses foggy? Or clear?
Now, everyone practice the evil laugh? Mwahahahahahaha …
And the mass arrival of Stephenson the Spy Train.
And the checklist of 2-packs (looks like they decided to change Red Grem Tyler’s last name … and from the CARS 2 Essential Guide, kind of diminishes the evil family of Trunklises if they name changed everyone to “Gremlin.”)
Thanks for the great pics, “JestrJef” and the CARS on card pics, “Manifold Mike.”
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16 June 2011
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Found wallmart 2-pack Fred Fisbowski/Holly Shiftwell ERROR CARD- Fred PACER/Holly shiftwell on front and back of card.
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Found same thing here today. Fred Pacer/Holly.
Comparison pictures
found the same thing here in Des Moines, IA today
One Super Wal-Mart…no new 2-Packs. Regular Wal-Mart…tons of Fred 2-Pack, none of Tyler. I’m thinking these are shipped in their own case. That would explain why some are getting all Fred, and others all Tyler. Makes sense from the cardback as well.
My guess is that the cubes are assembled at the factory as the items are coming off the line, so I doubt the cubes will match any specific case contents. Your Wal-Mart got all Freds, while Quixotequest reported almost all Tylers, and I’m sure some will see a nice 50/50 mix.
I wish I could find a Walmart with Tylers. So far all just Freds. Has anyone out there besides Quixotequest found Tyler/Prof. Z and where are you?
Went to Walmart and found fred fisbowski with holley shiftwell with a blister card of mater with spy glasses and pacer. Manufactoring mistake. Is it worth to sell for a lot of money or not?
According to very knowledgable sources like John in Mo. No and I agree. A mistag or error cards aren’t worth much.
It’s the actual car errors that error collectors tend to like. Like wrong rims and missing eyes etc.
Yeah, I think the most common error (and least valuable) is a Car with the correct card but the wrong name. Wrong cardbacks like this one are a little more rare. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 3-in-1 error, where the Car, the card, and the name are all different. Next on my list are wheels put on backwards, misapplied decals, Cars facing the wrong way in the bubble, missing decals, incorrect wheels, and finally Cars with no eyes.
My local Wal-Mart has three cubes.
The Sunday newspaper has a Target ad. The basic Cars 2 castings are $3.00 each. Walgreens’ ad has buy one at $4.49 get one free. That makes each $2.25 whne buying two. Our newspaper no longer carries a K-Mart ad, so I do not know what they are offering.
My W-M has PILES of 2-packs, with oodles of Z/Tyler sets. And among the mass today I only found one Fisbowski set. I was thinking it may be short-packed, but other posts make me question whether that’s so. Plus, thanks to the Cube, nice to have my Carla single, plus Petrov and Miles! And King Nobunaga and Hydrofoil Finn!
Plus it was a nice pleasure to find the Prof-Z in the Tyler 2-pack has a different mouth and eye expression given that the W-M exclusive 2-packs have tended to just have an expression change for the re-packs.
Well none of my Walmarts have had the Tylerand Professor Z 2 packs yet. I can use a few if you wouldn’t mind.
Please let me know thanks. Jack sijack1@aol.com
Actually at my WM in Manahawkin, NJ it was the exact opposite. Tons of Fibowski 2-packs and no Z 2-packs. Hopefully they put them out soon.
Found Fred Fisbowski at Wal-mart plus a mis-labeled Finn McMissle with Weapons and Grem labeled as Mater with Spy Glasses and Acer. I now have Grem as shown in this posting above plus an Orange Grem with eyes like Tyler’s (bottom eye lids). The one as posted in this article is in my 2 pack with Damaged Rod Torque Redline. I know we are looking for an Acer with angry eyes but I don’t think I have seen anything about Grem with different eyes? Yes or No!
Yes, Grem has what 2 or 3 different expressions already? The loose cars pic above has Tyler and Fred from the Walmart exclusive 2-packs, Acer is from the 3-pack, and Grem is from the single. They were just the only loose ones I had for the picture.
I don’t think my Wal Mart has ever had a Cars cube :/. Right now they have a ton of what they released originally, don’t see them squeezing in new stuff 🙁
At least your Wal-Marts have different cars. Last night mine only had five characters. 🙁
McQueen, Finn, Mater, Francesco, and who else?
Why is Finn squinting the wrong eye?
He is not squinting the wrong eye if he happens to be left eye dominant.
Well that would be okay if the weapon was on the left-hand side.
Actually some of the best shooters I know, shoot right-handed but keep their left eye open and close their right. I still agree with you though, they probably messed up but would still give you the same lame excuse I just did.
Some real good shooters even keep both eyes open, eh?!
You would for anything inside of 25 yards but past that, good luck trying to focus on your front sight with both eyes open!
Guys, guys, guys! Think about this a minute — Cars do not have brains, so the optic nerve (or optic tract depending on which side you’re on) does not “reverse” the image like our eyes do, so that is why it would appear he’s squinting the wrong eye.
I just figured that Cars have an engine that functions the same as a brain and heart.
So…is the Z and Tyler two-pack showing up in Walmarts? I’ve been to a few and seen lots of Fred/Holleys but no Z’s. Also, is that set a Walmart exclusive or should we be looking at TRU also?
Came across Hydrofoil Fin and the sumo guy at Walmart and TRU too. Wood Cars 2 supposed to be out now but didn’t see them today. (Still lame but a couple look cute…also a Tractor one now.)
hey chick,mcqueen and king rubber tires in ebay
yeah…I saw the entire lot on ebay…wanted to see the card back…MAN I HOPE THAT BIG KMART LOGO IS A STICKER!
Should be a sticker like PIT CREW MATER.
Went to 4 Walmarts this morning trying to score a Fred and Tyler. All the Walmarts had either partial cubes set up or just stuck the cars stuff out in one of the seasonal aisles in the front next to the new Transformers stuff. So after checking both the front and the toy sections there were no Freds or Tylers but plenty of Miles Axelrods, Trunkovs, and Kingpins though. Oh well, we have all summer to find a yellow and red version of cars we already have.
I have not found Miles, Trunkov or Kingpin at either FRNK WM (or TRU). Have you been to either of these lately and seen anything? I see evidence of the big set-ups coming, but no PRODUCT! I am jonesin’ bad for Kingpin! There was a cube at the North FRNK location, but it was full of pull-backs. Also had an aisle dedicated, but again, no new product.
Does South Frederick have the cube set up yet? I will be checking Sunday morning on my way to work. All the Walmarts between Hagerstown and Winchester seem to have these three but no Freds or Tylers. I have extras of all three if you want to trade. (save some gas)
I WANT A WALMART IN MY COUNTRY!!!!!!
No you don’t, trust me!
Yeah…once you get one they’re like cockroaches…hard to get rid of.
I have a Walmart and they barely get any of the new Cars items. I am still waiting for the Miles and Petrov singles and the Kingpin and Finn Deluxe cases! It is really a lot easier to get the stuff off eBay. At least you know you are going to get it sometime in the year it was released elsewhere. Walmart really sucks.
WM in Watertown, NY had just put out the cube this morning. Found Holley/Fred but no sign of Prof Z/Tyler. This WM has Cars in about 5 different sections and I searched them all. Did find Kingpin Nobunaga though!
Went to Target afterwards and found the Ronnie del Cooper box set too!
WM is killing me with keeping product in so many different places. It is bad enough having to be in the store, let alone roaming around like a “Person of Walmart” looking for stuff.
There’s nothing wrong with being a Walmartian as long as you’re hunting for Cars!
Nice score! I found the “cube” at 2 Wal-Marts but almost barfed when I saw what was in them both. Ready for this? 4 sides of Shake and Go Cars and Cars shaped flashlights… Let me repeat, 4 sides of Shake and Go Cars and Cars shaped flashlights. That’s like finding an oasis in the desert only to find the water is salted.
Fortunately one had placed the holley 2 packs in the aisle, but no spy train or red gemlin…
I think Kmart.com is selling 24-bottle cases of salted drinking water if you need some.
Ordered 2 cases of the salted water last night. Just went to go pick them up at the store, and they substituted a couple cases of bottled urine. Something about “it was a super rare incident that they were out of the product I ordered”, but my personal shopper had spent the last 12 hours trying to “personally” fill a similar order. I gave him credit for going above and beyond the call of duty but promptly got my money back.
(MET: 😯 😆 ).
You crack me up guys with salted water and urine…. That’s good, I like it. But how many more time you need to be fooled to still order on line at this store??? Unless, like salted water, you like it.
Hahahahaha! John & Eric both, thanks for the laugh!
For everyone rushing to their Wal-Mart(s) to find this, let me remind you that there are three types of Toy Managers working there:
1) Professional marketer who keeps the department up-to-date, including this cube (15%);
2) Wal-Mart lifer making the departmental rounds who will eventually put this cube out (35%);
and
3) Minimum wage worker who didn’t really want this assignment and whose last personal appearance in the Toy Department was a few days ago; meanwhile this cube will sit for several more weeks and will eventually be put out when the next Toy Manager takes over (50%).
(MET: John is on a roll today. 🙂 I hope no one at work utters the phrase – Kmart … 🙂 ).
Does the cube have to be assembled and loaded at the store, or is it flown in from Sheng-Dong province ready to go on the floor?
(MET: Most ‘pallet drops’ are just that – they are pre assembled and the store (WM mostly) just cuts away the outside cardboard and some shrinkwrap and they are good to go … of course – if someone drives a forklift into it or it’s stacked behind 300 other pallet drops … then the odds grow dimmer).
The cube must be assembled here because no one in West Virginia has figured out how to put a complete one together yet. I have only seen partial cubes set up and total give ups by putting the Cars stuff in the seasonal aisles near the front of the store.
Found this at my local Wally World last weekend. Picked up the Finn w/weapons set, but didn’t notice the Prof. Z variant, Fred Fisbowski or Tyler; either they were already gone, or I looked too quickly and assumed they were the same Acer, Grem and Z that I already have.
And they should’ve stuck with “Tyler Trunklis;” that was funny!
(Interesting side-note: Acer, Grem, Fred and Tyler are all AMC products. AMC was formed when Nash and Hudson merged in 1954. Therefore, the principle bad guys in CARS 2 are all distant relatives of Doc Hudson! Can you say “awkward?” Good, I knew that you could!)
(MET: Nice trivia!)
Weird. Got Tyler’s eyes wrong too. If Doc appeared in Cars 2, he’d be really dissapointed what his relatives turned into. And, Trunklis was funny. And, when I told my son about these, at first he thought that Tyler didn’t even have a trunk.
But that’s why it’s funny; Tyler doesn’t have a trunk. The AMC Gremlin was a hatchback created by essentially lopping the trunk off of the AMC Hornet(!!). Ergo, “trunkless.”
Yeah, I know. But I think what my son thought is that the back of him would be open, showing his seats. And, I remember, the Gremlins did look like Hornets without a trunk.
Same for Sarge and Rod (and Fillmore by marriage).
A lot of “begatting” in the auto-biz.
I’ll give ya Sarge and Rod — and Snot Rod, too, for that matter. But the Mopar/VW thing was more of a one-night stand…
Cruz Besouro the beetle must also be a distant relative of Fillmore.
seems like someone isnt playing fai and waiting till the kmart day. why do people open cases early??
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Why? Well Pink Floyd released a very popular song about it many ages ago, MONEY!
Going to be on the lookout for these. Love the AMC’s. Maybe they renamed Tyler to make it easier to remember. And, Tyler should have browm eyes. I noticed on the packaging, and I even saw him with brown eyes on a photo. I wonder how they’ll mame the next round of AMC’s. Looks like Fred kept his surname. Anyway, could you do pics of Fred and Acer next to each other/ I can’t see much of a difference.
It appears that all details between Tyler and Grem, and Acer and Fred, save for the eyes and mouth and paint color are the same. They even have the same license plates. I was having technical difficulties with this old camera so I couldn’t get their pic side by side.
Race Team Fillmore
Lightning McQueen with Travel Wheels
So Z has a closed mouth! Be sure you check the garden area! Got my Fred but no Tylers. Definitely will like getting a variant Z (an obvious one) over another Holley. Thanks for the pics!
No new goodies on the cube at our Walmart… Filled with… nothing but Pull-backs… Dadgum…. case E singles in the Cars area but my friend had gotten all the Miles Axelrod and Petrov Trunkov… at least he left a couple of Carla for me… No new Deluxe… no new Walmart 2 packs… Dadgum… Cars2 toys have been for sale for 1 month, and we’re already back to the inconsistent product distribution…
I saw the Walmart cube two days ago. It was brand new, noone had been through it until me. But, alas, there was no Professor Z and Tyler Gremlin! Fred Fisbowski and Holly were well represented though.
same here & found the spy train, but no red gremlin… GUESS THE HUNT IS ON!!! BooTs