Post edited 4:50 pm – October 1, 2011 by John
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Post edited 4:51 pm – October 1, 2011 by John
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Three versions of Raoul ÇaRoule in 1:55 so far:

Official Pixar Portrait

Track set car is plastic but reasonably heavy and is the only version to have the black band over the windshield. The only obvious decal is across the top of the rear spoiler. At the rear the body should be light blue, the track set car is dark blue; none of the versions does a good job of repesenting the vertical rear window in the tail.

Single car and puzzle car seem to be the same diecast car with silver paint having been substituted for white on the puzzle car. The two have different serial numbers but the numbers are in the exact same place on the chassis, this could mean both cars came off the same assembly line.

Nice summary …. and now I am glad I passed on the the one in the Track set … plastic is not for me.

Ordinarily I don't go for the plastic cars either. We have a Lightning McQueen from a Cars 1 set that is more peeling stickers than anything; really awful.

But most Cars 2 cars seem to have plastic chassis now. The Raoul ÇaRoule in the set may be plastic, but it has the same heft as the other Raoul ÇaRoules and only the one sticker. I think it has the better paint job so for now at least it is my favorite of the three versions.

For the record, the big 1:24 (maybe, I'm not good with scales) RC Raoul with the moving eyes has the black stripe and 6 instead of 06.

Just FYI.

No Chargers of Raoul… as of yet.

I also left out the 1:55 pull back Raoul. We have one and it does have the black windshield band.