Mattel Disney PLANES: Factory Sealed Case A, L, M, & N
The first 4 announced cases for PLANES (12 to a case) certainly seems odd – why the strange lettering pattern – jumping from A to L, M & N.
CASE A is easy – it is available to all authorized resellers (ChildrensToyCloset either just got the case or it’s on it way from the warehouse).
But why are CASE L, M & N listed as shipping and of course, they essentially mirror CASE A … I believe these other three cases will only be available to a certain retailer – most likely, Target, Walmart & TRU.
So, each retailer gets a slightly different mix outside the 4 main characters: Dusty, Ripslinger, Skipper & El Chupacabra. Two of the retailers will get Bravo while it’s not in CASE A or CASE M. Everyone gets Leadbottom but only CASE A buyers get Ishani on card.
Remember that Target will get 4-packs so perhaps their Bravo & Ishani comes in a 4-pack? Maybe they get CASE M … of course, that theory depends on logic. 🙂
Here is what the PLANES diecast “singles” will look like. This is the international card (photo by Anthony C. – thanks!), the only difference is the US cards have the name of the character on the side vertically – in this case, it’s Ripslinger.
Yes, there is a CASE B but I don’t think that’s shipping until August.
UPDATE – Rob (My 6 Kids) sends along more photos – thanks Rob!
Here is CASE A.
If you look carefully, their names are on the right side of the card.
You can check out larger photos of the diecasts here.
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9 June 2013
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Maybe cases B, C, and D will be out when the movie is released on August 9th.
My TRU had several cases on their stock cart today. The guy said he wasn’t allowed to put them out until 6/28 (date on the case). He said he had a bunch more in the back too. Not sure what case they are but the numbers on the side of the diecast cases I saw were “X9459-999A”. I assume that is Case A. Then there was a box marked “Planes Sky Track Challenge Track Set” and another marked “Planes Yorkie Aircraft Carrier”.
Interesting news!!
Any store only has so much peg space allocated to diecast. My fear is the Planes are going to share resources with Cars, so stores that get hardly any new Cars stock in now may get even less.
* PREMIUM DIE-CAST *
I was going to say the same thing!
They also have to share space with Mattel’s Turbo Snails!
So, unlike Disney Stores, we won’t be seeing Rochelle, Echo or Chug anytime soon.
At 12 only per case the real questions are “How many cases each store will get ?” and “How much the price tag will be?”… then we can easily speculate on the peg warmers…
oh look
racing dusty
the first new pegwarmer
So the first Dusty to be released is “Racing Dusty” and not “Dusty.”
These look nice! Should be interesting to see them at retail soon … and find out which stores start leaking first lol
2011 all over again… terrible assortments, leading to terrible sales numbers.
Amen! Hopefully Met is right that each store will get a different Case, because if every store gets A, L, M, and N we won’t be seeing Case B until this time next year.
The sad thing is that Case B, C, D, etc. are actually really good Cases with really good assortments.
Terrible Assortment + Terrible Pricing = September Clearance