Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Shop Carefully, It’s All Good …
The nice thing about buying and collecting CARS is that someone is always buying something … as evident from a recent “buy ’em” listing …
That’s about a 22% return on Bug Mouth even including taxes for a CAR most investors or collectors would rank as a “junk bond,” or below “investment grade.” I think most investors would take a 22% return for the past two years … and that’s the ROCK BOTTOM return for something many might deem not “worthwhile”?
Not too shabby.
Though you might not want to buy cards from the endcap bin of cage death …
Though the j-hook might not be pulled up … that’s worth an extra 10% – never mind the soft as jello corners … rack ’em, pack ’em and stack ’em …
Thanks for the pics, “Nikko.”
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6 February 2010
22 Comments
looks like a free-for-all dig in!!!
Had the pleasure of goin’ through one of those myself back in 2007 when we first started to collect them all…
Walmart had everything in there – even the exclusives! Quite the score at the time since they were all in good condition…
But boy – Two weeks later!!! NO WAY!!!
To quote Sam Sparks from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: “Now thats what I call poultry in motion.”
Only chase cars to me are the once no longer produced!!
Like Fabulous Hudson Hornet with white rims!!
Full metal Mater!!
Mario Andretti with brown Rims!!
Dinoco helicopter (Small Size)!!
Fred (Big size)!!
And A few others!!
Don’t forget Al Oft the Lightyear Blimp (small size)!!
And I guess while you’re at it, since everything is Lenticular these days, how about every non-Lenticular? Heck, I still buy Tumbleweed McQueen when I see them on the pegs.
me too!!
And just to be sure why not take an original 1 piece McQueen without spoiler stickers!!
As I noticed,whatever McQueen you now see exists out of 2 pieces!!
Even the lenticular cruisin McQueen is now made out of 2 pieces!!
Let’s save some money on metal I would say!!
And Barney Stormin with plastic wings!!!!
are you looking for these?
I have a spare of these.
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I’ve never found a treasure hunt on the pegs in my lifetime. I like that Cars “chase”cards are possible to find. Makes them much more fun to collect. I agree certain final lap cars are the true “chase” cars
Just wait until you find a $uper Trea$ure Hunt! 🙂
Been there! 2 1969 Camaro Super T-Hunts! 🙂
You should all move to Europe if you want to collect these!!
Best haul ever for me was in one big store were 15 fresh cases had just arrived I got 12 regular and 3 $uper t-hunt!!
The fun thing is these cars are for sale in all kinds of stores that are not regular toy shops so the people who work there do not have a clue!!
They do not even look up when I buy the same car 10 times!!
But they just can not understand why I always empty the complete Hot Wheels tower going tru about 400 cars!!And nicely putting them all back in!!
Even in regular only toys shops employees do not care or don’t know!!
In the past 2 years I found about 200 regular and 20 $uper t-hunts!!
And believe it or not this is only in the area surrounding Antwerp cause I do not have A car!!
Very small area only 50 kilometers diameter!!
And we have about 15 other major city were the same thing is true so I have experienced when I take the train to go further!!
It is TREASURE HUNT paradise!!
Actually to be honest it is no longer A real hunt you just have to know where and when!!
Keep at it everybody!!
We haven’t seen that kind of picture here in Columbus, OH but what we do see alot of is the WalMart endcap shelves with the short blue retaining bins with soft corners and bent forward/creased cardbacks, or alot of blister cover scratches, which doesn’t matter to those who are openers. Then there is also the employees who haven’t figured out that the j-hook needs to be bent at the proper location so it goes on the peg correctly. Instead just the top of the j-hook is over the peg which bends the top of the cardback to a not fixable state, which also doesn’t matter either to openers.
But to the collectors, you soon understand what you will find in such a store and quit checking for new product in those stores. It’s a sad situation for the retailer and the collector, as product moves slower keeping the pegs or bins full so no new product being ordered. A true lose/lose situation!
These types of damaged product are generally not found at Target stores but then depending on how many of the Targets actually order Final Lap vehicles you get one shot as they order one case per store. So if you are lucky enough to be there right after the case goes out, you will find collector grade product.
We just got Chase Bling Bling and DJ, DJ at Lancaster Walmart (only one WalMart in Lancaster) and Bling Bling at 1 Columbus Walmart (seven in Columbus), but only 2 out of 8 stores with Chase cases. (What?)
Still have not seen Mood Springs or Sidewall Shine haulers here, had to get them from eBay and Amazon. Has been before Christmas since seeing new product with the exception of Skyline lenticulars and latest Final Lap cars in January, and February only Chase vehicles and Toon 4-packs. Do any of you take5ers know what happens when a Cars vehicle collector can’t get his Cars vehicle fix?
It would be nice to get some Final Lap cases around here.
# total cases since the change over.
That picture is just sad. Poor Cars. 🙁
I should show you A picture of they way they do it at MAKRO in Belgium!!
They throw them all in A steel cage about 2square meters!!!
They threw 20 new cases with 30 cars in each all in it everything on top of each other all mixed normal,lenticular and final lap lenticular!!
Could do nothing about it and was not allowed to look in A fresh case simply had to wait!!
took me over an hour to go tru it all and ended up with 3 ransburg darrell cartrips and 2 ransburg dj’s!!
Worth it cause they still looked okay!!
But when I came back about 2 weeks later about a gaziljon people had plowed tru it crushing just about everything in it!!
Some blisters were allready scratched so much you could barely see the car inside not to mention crushed,opened up and completly missing ones!!
I was lucky to be at the right time
There is a collector somewhere rumbling through that in vain for a chase car.
CARS Chase cars lately are a joke compared to an actual chase car like a Treasure Hunt or a super treasure hunt or JL White Lightning. I have seen so many chase CARS left on the shelf much longer than expected. Chase packaging and slight variations of a previously released car is not as desirable as a totally new release.
Actual chase vehicles would be the new ones in Final Lap Cars, especially case B, around here– NE(MA and NH)– anyways.
Nikko’s pic is interesting because most Walmarts in MA+NH are moving away from sidecaps as well as aisle dumps like shippers and/or cages, which is a good way to ruin a portion of your inventory, IMO.
Any chase vehicle will probably at the bottom with a nice, mangled card–oh joy…
😆
That is exactly what I was thinking. I would estimate a 0.0% chance of a chase car being in there.
Also, don’t forget that there are still prayers going up by that collector, that the car being searched for will be found and it will be a car that can qualify as a purchase. Happy Hunting!