Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Your Kmart CARS Day … UPDATE
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Sounds like on the West Coast, there was definitely more action and more people versus the Midwest … and the store I went to had some crazy guy who kept asking for help and then during the free for all swooped in and grabbed 4 cases and ran off – nice manners there guy.
TIZMANIAN UPDATE: So I figure I am doofed as the earliest I can go check out the nearest Kmart to me here in Georgia is around 3:00 pm today but I go. After waiting 20 minutes from someone to have a grip about the CARS Collectors Day I am directed to a lonely card table with ‘what is left’. I couldn’t believe what I saw so I have to share it:
Kmart Collector Day SuperHaul
Now, I have no idea who showed up first at this Kmart but great Googly-Moogly – FIVE TODDS! And a Bumper Save of course. Lots of other stuff I had but I couldn’t believe there were five Todds left at 3:00 pm. Moral of the Story: have a Kmart out in the holler by you. BTW – I like the Synthetic Rubber wheels. Rolls quiet and fast! They were not grooved though and I was expecting that. Interesting.
UPDATE #2 – Here’s Kevin-NascarBroncosFan after his number was called … one of 75 boxes he’ll be seeing in the next few days …thanks to all his hard work.
Later … living dangerously, backed turned to …
There’s never a pallet driver around when you need one.
Separate receipts, please.
metroxing
20 June 2009
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Sorry for the delay, but I left for vacation just after the K-Mart grab in my hometown. And yes, I delayed my vacation in order to go to K-Mart at 11:00 AM.
First, the store was very professional and “organized.” I placed organized in quotes because they were as organized as I can expect from hourly employees who are clueless to the phenomenon. The store does participate in the Hot Wheels promotions so I was surprised that they didn’t seem to understand the interest I had in the promotion for CARS.
Then I understood when only 3 of us showed up at 11:00. Well, actually, I showed up at 8AM when they opened just to confirm that they were following the rules. Then I can back at 10 AM to get in line. I was joined by one other guy.
Unfortunately, he was the kind of guy that you do not want to wait in line with for an hour. I know more about his past then anyone, including his mother, should know about. I brought my daughter just to have a chance at a second ticket. I had previously calculated that I needed 10 cars from the sealed box and with two of us getting a ticket there was a good chance of doing this and keep with my “just one for me” plan.
Fortunately, I did need to worry. At 11:00 the toy manager, who was already restocking the toy section at 10AM went to the closet and opened up two master cartons to reveal a total of 12 sealed boxes. With only three of interested she asked how many each of us wanted. Oh, yeah, she handed out tickets first. This is where I got three boxes.
What happened to “Just One For Me?” No, clue. I got caught up in the mania. Anyway, I decided to sell one sealed box and donate the proceeds to my church and I will sell individuals from the second box to apease my wife who thinks the collecting is, well, silly. The third box I opened, took out the 10 that fulfill the “Just One For Me” plan and allowed my children to open the other 8. I am glad I did. The cars with rubber tires are too cool!
What happened to all 12 boxes? Well, I got three, one took two, and the “My Life Story” Guy got 5. But wait, where’s the other 2? They were opened, labeled with a price, and hung on the shelf!
Todd
Checked out the KMart in Saugus just to see if they had anything left. Just a few Shifty Drug, but
I did notice (this was Wednesday) they still had the Cars KMart day poster at the entrance.
Checked out a few Targets over the last few days. In case you MA collectors are looking:
Saugus -nothing too exciting, but managed to score Red/Stanley (never saw him before)
Peabody -nothing special
Methuen-Grabbed a Tank Coat Launcher and a Vitoline Launcher. They had one Vitoline Launcher left
and a few Shifty Drug Launchers.
(since I am a newbie, please feel free to tell me a better place to post)
Overseas Buyers – Kmart Day Cases Update:
My shipping / box inspector Samantha and I are still at it.
We had and early day and well…..
heres where we started after unboxing the boxes and chasin peanuts across the yard…
Pics start here nd go to the right..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31059714@N06/3655448835/
We are obviously going to run short on boxes until the others come in.
So at this point all “checked cases requests” have been filled and shipped today.
We have a few that we put together tonight that are ready to go first thing in the morning.
nascarnbroncosfans@msn.com
(samantha doesnt have email, NOR NEEDS it, she says, she is too busy, for such vanities)
Greetings All,
This time things went smooth foe me, anyone remembers my post from the last event were I got sucker punched. This time I left my brass-knuckles
at home. My wife and me, our son, two moms and one set of grandparents was all that showed up. Everyone got their cars and left happy, no cops, no damage to the store displays, no ER visits no hurt Pixar cars. It sounds like everyone did well, and happy the the scalpers on EBAY didnt.
I’m sure we all agree……………… P.S. anyone see the guy on EBAY selling the empty boxes (NO CARS) from the event for $15 plus shipping???
Umm..RPM64 do you think you could narrow it down to which KMart you visited??
In any case, stopped at the KMart at the Assembly Square Mall in Somerville, MA (minutes outside Boston). They still had a bunch
of Shifty Drug, some Bumper Save, one Vitoline Pitty and one Mood Springs.
Hope this helps some BostonArea collector.
I went to the same Kmart each time in Jasper,IN.
Just got back from Kmart. They had 2 Clutch Aids 1 Lil’ Torquey Pistons 1 No Stall 1 Shifty Drug 1 Bumper Save 1 Todd 1 Mood Springs 1 Chase Mario 1 Todd left over and today is Tuesday!
I am heading to Kmart again today to see what cars they have left over. They will probably have around 11 Lighting Mcqueens(one sold during Cars Day) and maybe some of the other cars(which would be the Shifty Drug, and Easy Idle that I retured and exchanged)The Kmart cars day cases are the fist cases that my kmart has put out since Case B of Race O Rama back around November 2008!
I had no trouble at all getting the cars that Needed. Their was at least 9 of each car left over. There was not a crazy free for all. There was only 3 people looking at the leftover cars. The 2 other collectors had a shopping cart and was filling it up with cars when I left. I forgot to ask kmart for one of the posters. My kmart had the event posters up about a week before the event(one at the front and one in the back where they were selling a huge Lighting Mcqueen car for kids to drive around)and the turn out was still low, which is good for me!But next time I hope that my Kmart will keep the cases sealed untill the event, and get the same amount of cases or more!
I do not know how many familys were at my Kmart,but not as many people as there were last year.my dad came along and case picking began but me or my dad did not get picked just like last year but when the first case was dumped in it was a mad house we grabbed everything we could and in the 2ed or 3ed round a lil,torquey pistions apeered in my bin so snaced it up and at least wanting lil, torquey.all went well!
four people goes in between and and at.remember that!bye!
Kmart Cars Day 2 from Jasper,IN
I got to the Kmart around 10:30 to find that all of the cases were opened anwere sitting under the poster that they had up. I ask the manager if I could go through them but he said they were doing the ticket thing. I waited around until 11:00 and when It was time there were only 5 people their and there were 12 cases to go through!I got to go 4th and got the cars and got 5 of the new Racers. My sister went next and she got the other 4 that I needed. After that one of the 5 people left with only 1-3 cars(one was a Lighting Mcqueen).The other two people were collectors and started to go through the leftover cars.There was one big red tote full of cars and about 6 cases that were not touched! In all I got 10 cars, but 2 were damaged(Easy Idle, Shifty Drug) so I retured them around 2:00 and all of the cars were still their! In all it was a Good day. Can not wait until the next cars day! I hope they have Apple next time!
bhutsell,
I got that email as well. I guess we have to wait and see, and be “patient”. Right Nascar
Is Kmart going to do anything about the error cases some are receiving?
I grabbed all the empty cases and Master Cartons that I could, and in the Master Cartons were instructions for the event. They explicitly state in underlining that there is no age restriction for tickets, so I’m shocked that some folks are reporting that their Kmarts prohibited younger kids from getting tickets. Our followed the rules to a “T” as usual, and gave a ticket to a little guy who was maybe 1.
My Kmart tried to deny my son (3yr old) a ticket. I asked the woman why she would give a ticket to a husband and a wife with no kids. And give me one for me and my son. I had to quote her the rules and with a little logic was able to convince her to give him and I both tickets.
Then the woman who was running the show warned me that my son had to pick his cars on his own. I explained to her that isn’t this event for the kids? And I assured her that he would pick his without my help. His ticket was pulled 2nd in the 2nd go around (before me) and he was able to get Mood Springs, Lil Torquey Pistons, Retread, Easy Idle and Shifty Drug. A good haul considering it had already been open.
All in all we came home with 9 of the 10 new ones from the case that we needed. Mini was pulled from every case in the first go around.
Only 2nd or 3rd post for me, but i’ve been watching in the bushes for months
Kmart Event on Long Island NY about 30 people including a fair amount of kids and 18 cases.
the person running it started by asking if we should vote on the 5 car max, or go unlimited. my sister almost lost her mind when she saw that nobody seemed to care. (i recently transformed her into a Cars addict
she spoke up that there MUST be a 5 car limit and that the people could not just buy 3 cases and walk out. After they confirmed she was correct, everything else was smooth sailing. And there were even enough leftovers that we were able to do the free-for-all. Found a Torque Pistons, 4 Vitoline Pitties and 1 Easy idle in the free for all!
Event Details:
Total Cases – 18
People – Not sure exactly but ~30-35 (including children)
% of People Receiving Tickets – 100% (including all children, even those under 1 yr old)
Duration – ~27 minutes from start to finish.
Cases with errors/incorrect assortments – MINE!
(i was the 16th person selected, and was sweating big time about not getting into a fresh case. i got my case and went huh? no Torquey’s? wha? i snagged a pitty, clutch aid, andretti, easy idle and mood springs and sobbed) Later i was able to trade for a torquey and find another in the FFA so it was all good.
Happy Kids – 90% (they love the Pizza Trucks!)
9 kids that were there had a blast. my son Joey (2.5 yrs old) got a bad fever on friday night and was still in bad shape on Saturday. had to leave my wife home with my son… dropping my chances from 3 to 1 getting a fresh case – but turned out ok, and my son was happy to get his vitoline pitty and clutch aid when i got home!
Master Carton Posters Obtained – 0
(had 4 tickets between my sis, her hubby, myself, and a guy who gave me his ticket. 6 tickets pulled out of 12, and i didnt win a poster!)
Total Cars Obtained – 20
- oh and got about 30 more with my spies across the globe
KMART CASES ARE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overseas people they are coming to YOU
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I WILL NOT OPEN ALL 71 cases
I DO NOT have control over what was sent to me.
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I will be getting these ready Today, Tonight and Tommorrow.
but……
Chris Durrant, another local Salt Lake City, Utah Disney / Pixar collector Club member, stopped by to help with the Kmart Cases coming in today….and I, checked 9 boxes that came in today of 22 to 30 some coming today and tommorrow. (2nd truck coming today maybe?)
2 out of 9 were ERROR cases.
pics sent to Met, BMW, Greg of France forum and Cars The Toys forum.
There was some that had green labels and some without, But out of 9 boxes, it was clearly 2 out if 9 had error case mixtures.
Green labels DO and DO NOT have correct cases.
Same with White labeled boxes.
No way to tell which is which without opening them
Kevin / Chris
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Materlover:
I wish I was working
First-time poster, although I’ve stopped by previously for news.
At our local Kmart, we had six cases and about twice that number of participants, all but three from one family (me, my friend and another collector I did not recognize were the nonfamily members). The Kmart representative restricted us to three cars during the initial opening(which I thought was fair) from the case before the free-for-all. The family got to go through four of the cases, and my friend and the other nonfamily member each got a case to open. I got to go through a case second. When all was said and done, I got Todd, Mario and Mini, plus seven of the nine exclusives (I didn’t get Clutch Aid and Lil Torquey Pistons; my friend lacked Clutch Aid). I did find a Clutch Aid at another store, but still am looking for the Pistons car and a second Clutch Aid for my friend. I did get some duplicates of the exclusives.
And before I went to Kmart, I stopped at Wal-Mart and found the Saluting Sarge (times two; the duplicate went to my friend), plus a Chase packaging pieces and The King with the lenticular eyes (I could have had the rest with the new eyes, but restrained myself).
I had a great time at Kmart and was glad to get what I got. If anyone knows of any stores in West Central Ohio with the two pieces I still need, let me know.
By the way, this is a great site. Thanks.
Bill
Nascarfan,
I still have it. I can take a picture if you want.
send me an email
dkajenks@yahoo.com
My Story:
16 cases. Three, yes 3, people. Not nearly enough money.
At the last event, there were 8 cases and 12 people. This one was better.
Hi all,
It has been awhile and I admit I haven’t been visiting Take5aday on a regular basis since I lost my job, car, and computer. Been kind of depressed, but things could be alot worse.
It is great to hear how well the K-mart collecter day went and I was even able to attend as my daughter and grandson invited me to join them for the day. Like most of you we did get most everything we wanted and like a few of you, I really need to watch what I spend for now.
I did finally get an old computer and a telephone hook-up, so I should be good for awhile.
Nascarfan, Did you get back to work yet? It sounds like you have been pretty busy with getting CARS to a lot of different people. Is this maybe a new pursuit?
Monica, I am glad to see you are still active. It seems like so many have quit communicating. (including me)
Met, Sounds like things are going well – Congrats and a belated happy BD
Well, enough rambling – It’s good to be back and nice to see PirateDad, FuturePixarGoddess, Flik’sFriend, John in Missouri, and so many others picking up the slack.
May each and everyone of you have a car in hand and two on the track!
(MET: Hope things are better soon!)
How do I post a pic here?
Thanks,
Rich Divizio
richarddivizio.com
mortalkombatactor who loves CARS.
Thanks fellas.
Chris I recieved several Shipped Thank You For Your Order emails about 30
I wouldn’t call it a “shipped” email, unfortunately…
Dear Valued Customer,
We want to thank you for your recent Kmart.com order for the Disney Cars Collector Event 18 Pack (item number 004W025571110001). We want to assure you that we will be fulfilling your order as soon as the shipment from our supplier arrives at our warehouse. We are expecting additional product early next week, and upon receipt, our warehouse will promptly ship your order. You will receive an email when your item has been shipped. Thank you again for your order.
Kmart Customer Support
Has anyone received an email from kmart about their case being shipped?
I received a second conformation email on the 18th.
Hi Lorri, it was my Dad’s birthday on Saturday too! That was a coincidence. We went over to France for the day, picked up a Trunk Fresh hauler and a Fiber Fuel launcher. I can deduct the cost of 3 magazines from what I owe you, they are £2.25 each. Do you need anything else? We have Storytellers over here now if you missed any of those. Or ROR Flik and Flea? I saw a few of those last week.
Do you want any more stickers for your album? Originally I bought a whole box, but I didn’t need to open all the packets, so I have some left if you want them? They were 40p each, and I might have about 10 packets left? If you do then I can work it all out cost wise, then convert my pounds to the almighty dollar!
Jon
Email me Ray…….
nascarnbroncosfans@msn.com loud mouth
Some LOUD MOUTH
Ray Hondaz….said I went to ebay with my cars.
WRONG apparently this joker hasnt read anything about where or what I have done for this commuinity.
and oh Ray…….KMA
DEREK AILES ,
If there is any way you can find that Mini in Mario packaging again I will buy it from you. – service@PitStopToyShop.com
BigYeti,
I’m in Niagara Falls. We should meet up sometime.
West Seneca, NY 12 cases and about 40 people. Luckily my brother-in-law and I had 8 tickets between our families. He got 2 called for the first round of picking the 5 cars. I told him to get the set of real rubber tires and we will worry about the rest later. I got 3 called the 2nd round. between the cases we were able to get a complete set together(mood springs package is beat up bad). It was a good thing that some kids picked from the 1st round and we got one of those cases. We were able to get 6 extra cars then nothing left other than McQueens. Without kids I drove to 3 other Kmarts, 75 miles later and nothing. At least I got 1 set and my son is happy.
GeorgeHP,
Email me about the extra Mini that you have – service@PitStopToyShop.com
Jestrjef,
I was actually looking around the car for something to do while he was writing up my ticket. Finally settled on a couple of text messages.
Hey Lorri,
1 1/2 trays (36 slices) of pizza and 48 wings gone in less than 20 minutes.
Actually Tyler’s birthday was Sunday the 21st – yep, an actual Summer Baby – (now Monday here), but since it landed on Father’s day this year I figured nobody would show up for a birthday party on the same day, so we did it on Saturday. We planned for rain so no burgers or hot dogs, but you know how we do in NY. Pizza and authentic Buffalo Wings –
Here’s a poster on The Bay right now, less than an hour to go, pretty cheap so far: http://cgi.ebay.com/Disney-Pixar-Cars-2009-POSTER-New-Release-KMART-EVENT_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ65Q3a1Q7c66Q3a2Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a1Q7c293Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem2301c3a471QQitemZ150353454193QQptZLHQ5fDefaultDomainQ5f0QQsalenotsupported
(MET: How many wings did Tyler plow down?
HB not-so-little dude! 
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oops lranslam @ verizon.ne t
Did I mention my son REAAALLLY was upset he didnt the poster? Anyone get an extra they wanna trade for?
Hey Jake! Was Tylers actual birthday yesterday? Cuz my daughters is too!!!
We also did the Kmart day and her party on the same day. Who’s idea was that??!!!!! And we were having the party at our house, so had to have it all ready before. Came back from the event and get ready for 15 kids and assorted adults. Guests come, go in the backyard as planned. Rain comes. All those people inside. I say honey what about the pinata? He says do it in the living room……15 kids and a bat.
PS she is 6 and opened Mini first in the car on the way home.
Once again I have some extra Mini’s and Patti’s. If you need one, I got you…cost + shipping.
MET~~~EDIT
WOW
How do I add my pics to show you guys?
Kmart Day case Owners
If you have extra cases that you want to sell I have been getting people asking for them.
lorri and others I can help