Lightning McQueen is actually not a common release in 2013 so it’s a nice opportunity for newbies to get the original along with Fred.

Thanks for the great photos, “John H.”

This is from the scene in CARS 1 where McQueen tries to hide behind a sign of himself – he’s no super genius. 🙂

The sign accessory is nicely done but they even thoughtfully added a clip element so you can actually clip to sign to Lightning.

That’s a nice touch, they could’ve just lazed out with a plastic standing sign so an excellent design addition.

Believe it or not, this is the 6th version of Fred (Original, resized, with bumper stickers, lenticular bumper stickers, lenticular fallen teeth and now, resized unibody).

Next to the two lenticular releases but he does not look too different from V2. The resizing of him from a gargantuan CAR to one perhaps a little too small but you get a resizing once in the diecast world. 🙂 You can read our really old post on Fred 1.0 and Fred 2.0 – this one is Fred 2.5.

When he was a lenticular, he has dark gray tires – it’s now balck but Fred 1.0 & Fred 2.0 both had black tires so this unibody one is just a regular to the correct color tires.

The main difference is actually a pretty small difference as only his bumper/teeth was plastic so while it’s swapped out for metal, like Darrrell Cartrip, it’s pretty insignificant but he can now be consider the correct release while V2 is now the variant.

Thanks for the great photos, “John H.”