“Born2Collect” and Kids were nice enough to donate two prize packages and select the winners – “What should the story of CARS 3 be?” (Original post & entries here).

GRAND PRIZE WINNER!

JOHN IN MO! (CARS 2 T-Shirt & Pencils!)

Question: If you had the opportunity to write and direct “Cars 3″, what would you base the movie on?

Answer: It would start off at Mater’s place, with Mater sleeping and snoring and talking in his sleep…

Mater: “Rrr rrr rrr Francesco, rrr rrr Airplane, rrr rrr rrr McMissile, rrr rrr rrr Holley, rrr rrr Lemons, no no no a Bomb, rrr rrr yes yer Majesty…”

Lightning: “Mater? Mater?”

Mater: “Huh? What?”

Lightning: “Mater are you…”

Mater: “Hey Lightning, you’re OK!!”

Lightning: “Of course I’m OK. …were you dreaming Mater?”

Mater: “Wellllll, I guess so… See, you were in this World Grand Prix, and the guy running it was good, but then there were these spies, and they asked me to be a spy just like them, and then a bomb was stuck on me, and then I saved you from some Lemons, and did I mention I was a spy, and then I saved the Queen from me and the bomb that was stuck on me, and then the guy who was good was really bad, and then the Queen knighted me, and then…”

Lightning: “Ha ha ha! Maybe I shouldn’t have let you ride on the Dinoco Helicopter yesterday! It must have made you dream all that spy stuff.”

Mater: “A dream? So none of that there stuff I told you about was real?”

Lightning: “No buddy, of course not!”

Mater: “Well, what about your four Piston Cups?”

Lightning (laughing): “FOUR?!?! I need to start working on the FIRST one Mater!”

Mater: “Well then you suppose I could go for another ride on the Helicopter?”

Lightning: “It’s already gone Mater, that’s why I came to see where you were this morning. Doc already took off to go help the folks at the Piston Cup design their new race track.” …OK, so that’s how I would start “Cars 3″ — “Cars 2″ was just a bad dream!!

• Doc wouldn’t be in the movie because he flew away in the helicopter, and we didn’t have to see him fly away, so there’s no further need to explain where he is.

• As word spreads that Lightning set up his headquarters in Radiator Springs, a lot of the former townies come back to reopen their shops. Some of these include Wimpy (owner of Wimpy’s Wipers), Johnny Butte (owner of the Radiator Springs Garage), and Miss Suzie (daughter of the previous owner of Mrs. Piston’s).

• Another returning townie is Big Al, who left 15 years ago to attend college on a Tireball Scholarship. He majored in Dentistry, and after a career as a Professional Tireball Player, he decided to come back to Radiator Springs to open up a Dentist Office. And his first customer is, who else but Mater!! During most of the movie, Mater is wearing braces and winds up spitting a lot as he talks (usually on Miss Suzie who he seems to like a lot).

• About 30 minutes of the movie would be racing highlights from the next season, and we see how Lightning McQueen wins his first Piston Cup, with Chick Hicks dropping down to 11th place in the standings.

• Realizing how he achieved his victory, Chick Hicks decides to set up HIS headquarters just a few miles down a gravel road from Radiator Springs in a town called Sludgeville.

• Meanwhile, Mater gets his braces removed to reveal a perfect smile, which soon — BOINNNNNNGGGGG — revert back to their bucktooth ways, which makes Miss Suzie yell out “You are so CUUUUUUTE!”.

• But strange things start happening to Lightning’s headquarters, but all the townies help Lightning replace missing parts and fix things. One night Sheriff catches Chick Hicks cutting a hole in Lightning’s fence, and assigns HIM to pull Bessie to pave the gravel road from Sludgeville to Radiator Springs. Chick Hicks is mad, dirty, and covered in sludge!

• Lightning McQueen goes on to win three more Piston Cups, bringing his total to four. Mater says to Lightning at the end of the movie, “You see buddy, I guess dreams really DO come true!”.

One more idea I had that I forgot to include — EVERYONE in Radiator Springs is a Lightning McQueen fan, even the little VW Beetles that fly around. They are such fans that they changed their paint to red with lightning bolts, and now they are called Lightning Bugs.

2ND PRIZE (CARS 2 T-SHIRT)

MAN-I-FOLD!

If I had the opportunity to write and direct Cars 3 I would base it on one or two of the Boom Comics stories. They could do the Rally Race storyline, where Chick comes to a race in Radiator Springs and through his interaction with a disabled-kid-car, learns the value of helping others, and combine that with the prequel stories (Radiator Springs arc), where the townies tell their own stories of how they came to call Radiator Springs home. We would get to see all of the townies from the epilogue of Cars (1) a lot more, and get to see the Storytellers favorites, like Mater’s cousins, Bubba, and the Showstoppers on the big screen. We would get to see more of Holley and Mater interacting as well, as she quits the secret service in favor of charitable work based out of RS. There will be a heavy emphasis on Chick Hicks and his current and back story so we’ll see lots of him. The new Mattel diecast line will please all of the parent’s of kids who are just now turning 2, 3, and 4 and watching Cars (1) for the first time, as well as long time fans and collectors who can’t wait for Storytellers reissues and the new castings of the townies seen in Cars 2.

3RD PRIZE (KMART POSTER)

BUCKLAND BLOWOUTS!

Could it be as simple as a Take-Off of Cannon Ball Run?!!?

I think so… More to come…

Da-da-da!!! CARptain Kmart!!!

Great entries ALL – and thanks Born2Collect for the contest & prizes – winners, email me with your mailing address and I’ll send prizes out to you. Thanks!

And in our Disney Store Vinylmation Giveaway …

Nick W. is the winner! Congrats!