Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Nitroade – 99% Pure & Hauler Friends to Drink In
Nitroade Hauler is back in black …
Basic black and nitro flames, never out of style …
A hauler’s life is a hard one – Pack it up and tear it down, they’re the first to come and the last to leave … Working for that minimum wage … They’ll set it up in another town …
And one of ’em ninny race CARS calls me Mack? Can you believe it? MORON!
I hate the after parties at the short tracks – CARS are all up on my roof …
BAD A$$ TRUCKS!!!!!! Love them, squeeze them and name them george!!
So which racers will be the first to have a complete pit crew and hauler.
Mattel just dribbles them out, like Easy Idle pitty, Easy Idle launcher, but no crew chief or hauler. Same with Nitroade. Keep dragging it out Mattel. ugh.
I guess RPM will be the first complete set? I need to look back at Mets post with the releases.
Leakless! Leakless had the Pit crew 3 pack and now has a hauler.
Found my answer in Mets post.
McQueen first of course
Leakless second
RPM
Yeah, I wasn’t really counting McQ since I was really thinking more of the team pit crews, but yeah, McQueen with pit crew doc, Mac and Guido.
I would like for Mattel to do a fourth body style pitty and then go ahead and do pitty 4 packs for all the teams.
Are you and Mater on the outs again?
Its Mater and my office computer that don’t seem to get along.
well, I was wondering that too!!!!! So are you regular Mater, Brand New Mater or the hot Rescue Squad Mater’s girlfriend… inquiring minds want to know….. 😆
this is my constant bickering I have with the line. The question is will we ever see all of the race crews finished and how long will it take to get all 36? GRRRRRR!
My guess? Right up to when they start releasing Cars 2, laughing all the way to the bank.
my guess goes a long way past that.
CARS 3? “Mater For President”
Met . . . you are the greatest . . . and I LOVE the Jackson Browne reference!! Now I need to go pop that song in!
Nitroade Hauler is SWEET!! He really looks great with all of his buddies! I cannot wait to add the ones we saw from the CON to that display of HAULING GREATNESS!
Hey Jeff I WANT THEM!!!!! HAHAHA
hay, off topic i know, but…
i was thinking about this the other day…
i saw story tellers brand new mater and wondered why they didnt release him correctly, or why they havnt corrected him yet…
(its regular teal mater with hood, on the packaging and in the book he has no hood, for most of it anyway)
also…what other cars have been released incorrect and which have been corrected?
only ones i can remember are red rims doc, mario andrettis tires and darrell cartrips clown mouth…oh…and LMQs spoiler.
(MET: There is a post).
Hey guys, if this works, my wife sent me on Pirate Treasure Hunt for my birthday!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=111097&id=570105867&l=042a275df0
thats super cute!!
looks like great fun. happy birthday PD!
Darn, I wish I lived near you guys!
I do too!!!
And shortly after my Treeasure Hunt, Met’s Magazine arrived and so did my 2 SDCC RSM. Buzz and LPS stuff! Waht a GREAT birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday!!!! Have a great day… 🙂
Great pics PD!!! Looks like you guys had so much fun.
Happy Birthday!! 😀
TWO !! TWO OF THEM!!! TWO ! TWO OF THEM!!
What you found Two Nitroade haulers? You need two?
NEED NEED !!
Sorry to offend Luca, but seriously your comments remind me of my 2 year old asking for something. How old are you?
(MET: He’s just stating a basic human need in our hierarchy of needs – after McMansion Shelter, a 4×4, gourmet food, electricity, blistering internet and CARS – ME WANTEE … besides, that works much better at the toy store and not so much at the local watering hole on a Friday night … 🙂 but maybe I’m just saying it wrong).
🙂
i’m 1 year old..WHY??
WOW! You type pretty good for a 1 yr old. 😉
yes,i’m an infant prodigy..i have only a faint recollection of my childhood…
Thanks for clearing that up Met – I always understood the primal driving need to secure new Cars asap, but this helps put it into perspective 🙂
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Yeah I can’t wait to find this one in the wild. Great pics of the haulers and glad I decided to jump on that train as they really look great.
Not that I’m not already collecting these haulers, of course, but if I had any doubts about getting them, these pictures sure would change my mind. GREAT pictures, Met!!!
BTW, looks like they’ve used the same hauler type for Mack and Chick’s hauler (see the two “bumps” on top), but every hauler after that has another type (no “bumps”). Anyone know why that is? Was it like that in the movie too?
Thanks for my NEW Avatar, Dragon Pirate MQ, I love him!!! AAArrrrrrr
Happy Birthday!!
No, the Mack hauler and Chick haulers are NOT the same.
Lightning’s trailer only opens at the rear door, with a slide-out ramp.
Chick’s trailer is the more common “sides flip open” design that most of the haulers have come out like.
Look closely, you’ll see that the Chick trailer has hinges, the Mack trailer does not.
I wasn’t talking about the way they open, but thank you for playing. I was merely wondering why those two haulers have the two “bumps” on their roof, while the others do not. Met explained a long time ago that they all open in different ways.
GGGGOooooonnnnnNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!
Only us OLDer ones will get that!!
I wonder if they discontinued putting them up there because they were interfering with the graphics on the top?? Just my hypothesis… That or save $0.02 per hauler….. 🙂
My bet would be that those bumps, simulating roof vents I would guess, were found to interfere with the operation of the “gullwing” doors on those haulers starting with Chick. Dinoco hauler was probably the first to “lose” those vents in it’s design, but since they’re all molded in their respective colors, Chick hauler has yet to be corrected.
Sound plausible? That’s my theory and I’m stickin’ to it.
The bumps are air conditioners. I guess some teams had more budget than others.
They were not “discontinued” if you look at the pics of Mood Springs and Sidewall Shine.
Maybe Mattel will make variants (with and without)?
Good eyes!!! No Stall has the air conditioners too. It will be interesting to see if they come to market like that, or if they are only on there for the prototypes… Good catch Daniel!
Met I can definitely tell you get on the floor and zoom your Cars around at playtime. Which is your favorite scene to reenact? 😉
(MET: I’m stuck in the All-CARS-Parked in the Speedway of the South config and I Can’t get out of the room 🙂 ),
So would a 1:55 scale Speedway of the South fit in my backyard? Has anyone ever figured how big that would need to be?
I don’t know on which oval the track from the movie is based, but let’s take Lowe’s Motor Speedway as an example: the front stretch of that track is 1980 feet, so if you want to make it in true 1:55 scale, the front stretch of your model would be 36 feet long. That would fit in my backyard! 🙂 However, if you take Bristol Motor Speedway, which is a short oval, the front stretch is 650 feet, so your model would only need 11.8 feet for the front stretch in that case. Anyone got room in their basement?
(MET: I believe Speedway of the South is based on Lowe’s so 36 feet it is! 🙂 ).
It does look a lot like Bristol. More high banked oval than tri oval like Lowe’s, which the name is going to be changed when the contract is up. How about TakeFiveaDay Motor Speedway! 😉
(MET: If I can swing that deal … I hope they see through the windshield with eyes painted on 🙂 ).
Cool, but what about the stands and the parking lots? I want it all!
So you’re saying you Cars’d yourself into a corner?
(MET: Good thing I can climb out the window to get UPS & FedEx boxes …).
Very nice photos, you are so creative Met…did you make the pppssshhhhhhttttt sound when you parked them???
And the “BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.” when he backed them up.
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Sweet. They are goood looking. There is something about black vehicles that just makes the look good. Looking forward to getting my hands on these!
W A N T ! ! !
LUCA?????
WHAT? did you find something for me??
Sorry, I thought that this was your post!!!!
No,i write only NEED..
Who else is picturing the seagulls from “Finding Nemo”? Mine! Mine! Mine!
Happy birthday big guy!
And aren’t you the one who pays more attention to the avatar than the name? Honestly PD, what are we going to do with you? LOL!
Anyone out there want to send 2 of these Nitroade Haulers my way and I’ll send you an Impound Snot Rod WITH confetti? I have one left….
Teal048@aol.com
Is there anything else you need for that? 🙂
Done deal.
Ummmmmm So you do not need the other ones?
Done deal with YOU, Nascarfan!!!!
First?
Are those the only haulers out so far?