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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let me know if you still have that backward Clutch Aid
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OVERSEAS BUYERS UPDATE
06-21-09
I have GOOD NEWS ! ! !
I checked UPS tracking numbers from Kmart.com shipped emails.
I am getting at LEAST 22 boxes tommorrow 06-22-09, and a minimum of another 15 on Tuesday 06-23-09 .
Some tommorrow are goingto be 3 boxes per carton!!!!!!!
Some appear to have been shipped from Kmart.com without getting Kmart.com SHIPPED, “Thank You For Your Order” emails
I will be taking pictures as they arrive !!!.. SO MUCH FUN!!!!
WOW nice day tommorrow and Tuesday!!
Hey PD,
Yes, I did get pulled over during the SWS Promo, but not for speeding. I got a ticket for talking on my phone while driving and not using a hands-free device. Coincidentally, I was reaming a TRU corporate office person when I got the ticket.
PitStopToyShop….LOVE the post…didn’t you get pulled over at the first TRU promo for SWS too? Exclusives and you do not mix!!! HAPPY Birthday Tyler!!!
Got some of the rubber tire cars at the Kmart I was at before I went to work. On the way home stop at another Kmart and got 2 more of the cars. This morning went to the neighboring city and got Clutch Aid, the last one I needed. The only car I didn’t get was Mini. That’s the one all the kids wanted. I noticed one of the Mini’s in the box was mispackaged on the Mario Andretti chase package.
Hopefully, I’ll find MIni or I’ll just cave in and buy it offer of dealer.
Mine was pretty much the same as all of the above. We arrived at the Kmart in Canton, GA around 10:40. We (myself, son and daughter) were second in line to the event. They even had a Mattel Rep there. She set out 2 long tracks and had 4 cars set up for the kids to race them. She also gave away certificates to the kids for playing with the cars as well as giving out Cars stickers. She was a very nice lady!!
By the time event started, there were around 15 people and 2 master Cartons (12 cases). Everyone got tickets but their rules were 3 cars for 5 mins. So my son and my numbers were called first and second. My daughters was called much later but still was able to open a case. Then for the numbers that were not called they hand picked from the tickets that had not been able to open the cases and gave away the posters (2 in the boxes and 2 from the Mattel rep). After that it was the free for all. We of course got the ones we wanted (22 total). So my kids and I were happy!! I definitely cant’t wait for the next one in October!!!
Jake . . . sounds like you were kinda bored . . .
Forgot to mention that Buffalo / Monticello is in Minnesota (about 40 minutes outside of Minneapolis).
Sorry for leaving out that critical bit of info…
Went to the Buffalo / Monticello K-Mart Saturday night about 8:30 PM and they had about 8 different boxes that had barely been touched. Not sure if they are all still there now (as it is end of the day Sunday) but by the time I left I had a complete set of everything offered and there had to have been about 12+ of literally everything.
Kmart Cars Event Collector Day 2 in Niagara Falls, NY:
Comment #2 – Pre-Event & Post-Event Updates:
Pre-Event:
Time of wake up – 6:45am
Time from wake up to out the door – 37 minutes (7:22am)
Time to drive to Mt. Morris, NY to pick up Tyler – 1 hour and 24 minutes
Minutes spent waiting once I got there – 17
Time we left to drive back to Niagara Falls, NY – 9:17am
How long it took before I got pulled over for speeding – ~8 minutes
State Troopers with nothing better to do on a Saturday – 1
State Troopers with absolutely zero sympathy for KMart Cars Day, Father’s Day, and Tyler’s Birthday – 1
My recorded speed by radar – 61 mph
Posted Speed Limit – 45 mph
“Let you off with a warning” Received – 0
Speeding Tickets Received – 1
Minutes delayed due to pull over – ~12
Fine for 16 miles over speed limit in NYS – ~$150
Average speed the rest of the way – ~70 mph
Time we arrived at KMart – 10:58am
(Read previous post for in-store KMart Event results)
Post-Event:
Time of home arrival after event – 12:11pm
# of Puddles in the driveway Tyler jumped over – 3
# of Puddles he miscalculated and in which he landed flat on his butt – 1
Time it took to go through the cars to see what we got – ~6 minutes
# of Cars we opened before I changed his clothes – 4
Time of Arrival at my parents house for Tyler’s Birthday party – 1:38pm
Number of “old” people present to greet us – 2 (my parents)
# of questions they asked about the party – 18
# of times I answered with “I don’t know” – 17
Time of Tyler’s nap – 3:13pm
Time spent reserving the ice cream cake – ~30 minutes
Time spent reserving the pizza and wings – ~17 minutes
Time spent reserving balloons, plates, and napkins – ~25 minutes
Time spent buying chips and pop (or soda for you freaks/non-NY’ers out there) – ~15 minutes
Time spent wrapping presents I just bought plus extras from Christmas that I just found – ~1 hour and 15 minutes
Time of arrival at the party – 5:04pm
Time the party started – 5:00pm
# of total guests – 18
% of guests who brought gifts – 100% – NICE!
Age Tyler is today – 3 years
Tries it took him to blow out the #3 candle – 4
Pieces of Ice Cream cake he ate – 1 1/2 (his plus half of mine)
Time spent tearing through presents – ~25 minutes
Time we finally left for home – ~9:30pm
Time it took Tyler to fall asleep once he laid down – ~3 minutes
Time spent typing these ridiculous updates – ~50 minutes
% of T5ers who will be driven crazy by all of this – ~100%
And you thought you had an eventful day!
Would love to read any comments from people who attended an event close to Canadian border towns. Could not make it down from B.C. into Washington state and would love to catch some stories of any who tried.
Hey I picked up a clutch aid that is Facing the wrong direction. Is this an error card or not worth mentioning.
In Latham NY and Clifton Park NY there were as many cases as people so it was a free for all. everyone got what they wanted I walked out with one of each plus doubles of Lil tourqey and clutch aid and vitoline pitty. My wife got one of each at her store so we are good.
To carsmama, re: ‘McQueen’ cashier…
“Life is a Highway” was the song that was playing at my Kmart when they wheeled out the case of cars.
Met, the reply link doesn’t work…here’s the error code: Can’t find the ‘commentformid’ div.
We were able to find everyone but Todd at 2 KMs … We picked up 2 Elvis though…an extra Mood Spring Mario and Patti
If anyone could find a Todd for us I’ll buy or trade ..loose or opened
Thanks
I had to split 12 cases with another couple…I was so bummed
Hi everyone
I have an extra Kmart case coming if anyone is interested – cost only plus shipping, paypal, etc. (lranslam at verizon. com)
I am looking for one Easy Idle, and does anyone want to trade a poster for last years one? Fliks friend didnt you get like 100 of them?!
Our event was great. They had 3 boxes, so 18 cases. There were probably 20 people there, but they didnt buy much and there were tons left at the free for all. (but I gave away my one easy idle) anyway so I went back today, and there were 3 shifty drugs on the pegs. I wandered all over but did not see the hundred cars I was expecting to see,and no one knew anything about them.
Im glad to here that alot of people had a great time at Kmart. Unfortunately for the Kmart in North Van Nuys California, it was a mad fest. I was one of the first ones there and the turn out was pretty big around 50 people. The event went well with the calling of numbers and opening boxes but once they opened all the boxes it was a crazy free for all. We had people pushing little kids and the elderly. I especially found 2 older males pulling away and elderly woman from New Zealand who was on vacation and getting some cars that they cant get at home for her grandchildren. Later i found out these guys not only didnt want to trade with anyone else there cause some people counldnt get a set of racers, they had a cartful of duplicates. Damn Hoarders and later we found out they were Fleabayers. For the lady from New Zealand a couple of collectors and myself gave her some of our own cars to complete her list. All in all it was a fun event but theres a couple of people out there that just know how to ruin the mood in a great event. Now i hope i get my case from the presale to get the ones i gave away. Cant wait till the next event and im bringing a baseball bat
As a side note…We found out that our KMart cashier’s last name was McQueen. Now that’s good carsma.
so when is kmart.com going to release the last of the cases..
also the next event, will there be 9 more rubber tire piston cup cars?
if so do you think kmart will release all 36 cars in rubber tires.. and if they do will they have a case for sale to put all these cars in, i know it wont be like the hotwheels case but it could happen
How in the world do people think these toys are free? It’s not like going to a baseball game and getting a beach towel after paying your admission!
Anyways, I attended the KMart on Addison Street in Chicago, IL on Sat. I left a little later than I intended, and ended up getting their 20 minutes late due to a street festival rerouting the bus line.
I got there at 11:20am, and made my way to the bikes, to see an employee standing alone and beginning to push a cart full of the K-cases back to the toy aisle. When I stopped him, he helped me to find the ones I wanted (The 5 new racers, as well as Todd, Mini, Vitoline Pitty and Patti.
I asked him what it was like before I got there. He said that originally, 7 people were there but 15-20 minutes before 11am, most left leaving only 2-3 people. By the looks of it, this KMart got 6-10 cases. The ones I looked through hadn’t even been touched (and the raffle tickets weren’t even torn)! I got my 9, and then went to the check-out.
The good news is that’s some new cars on the shelves…the bad news is, they were the ONLY new cars on the shelves I’ve seen in the last 2-3 months (I won’t even dignify calling the lenticulars ‘new’). I purchased the racers I wanted, with the mental assuredness that I’d never see them packaged with the ‘Lightyear Launchers.’ Target hasn’t restocked launchers in maybe 4 months.
K-mart Cars Day 2 went well for us too(30 miles away in Chula Vista, CA). Except at the end, when during the free-for-all, these 3 women (who thought the cars were free), literally cleaned the table of Cars…
Which one did you go to Racerguy? I figured you’d go to Ramona.
Just got back from the KMart I was at yesterday – still 3 large rubbermaid tubs FULL of them!!!
Is there something I don’t know????
(MET: Not at my Kmart).
Go Kevin Go.
Our Kmart was 4 cases short of everyone getting one. One man got his ticket drawn, opened the case and said he had “heard” there was a Rusty Wallace car in these cases.
Everyone was like WHAT??? So he gave the case away and left with no Rusty. Another woman saw the gathering and walked up and got a ticket about 10 seconds before they started to call numbers. Of course hers was called. She said thank you and started to walk off with case in hand when the event person stopped her and explained it all to her. The woman said “you mean I have to pay for this?” 
Anyway, HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all you dads out there in Carsland.
Nothing better than the quiet roll of synthetic rubber on the floor.
Happy Father’s Day everyone!!
babychristianscars:
I know people that have cases fairly cheap if you do not find any.
nascarnbroncosfans@msn.com
Our nearest K-Mart is in Shawnee, about 35 minutes away. Because my wife insisted she go with me and the boys, we got there five minutes before they started the event.
There were twelve boxes, and 36 people–30 more people than were there last year.
We did end up getting everything that we needed, but it was difficult. Had to do the lottery thing, and we could only get three Cars each time. Fortunately, one of our numbers came up each time, so we could stay at the same box the entire time. So, we were able to get everything out of that box.
The boys are very happy, which was the whole point for me. My sons are happy, so I’m happy.
Went to the local (30 miles away) KMart last night at 9 PM. They had lots left. If you didn’t get them already, keep trying other stores!!
There were 8 that I wanted, so I was able to get those and two others (they did the 5 in 5 minutes thing). There were 4 cartons and 24 cases; definitely way more people than that. My son got called in the first round, but I didn’t get called until the cases had already been picked through and were going through again. Luckily, I think I got the case that some kid went through, as the good ones were still in there. Pretty nervous until I got called though.
Did anyone get extras that we can buy? No stores near us and my mum in WA refused to go stupid car shopping her words.
FAO LORRI! – Hope you get to see this. I am having trouble emailing you again, my messages keep getting sent back to me. If possible could you please check my case to see if it has the correct contents? I can pay you the money first thing tomorrow, (Monday). Thanks a lot!
Jon
Since I’m deployed to Iraq and my wife had a soccer game at 11:00 for our 2 year old, she didn’t get to K Mart in Niceville, Florida until about 12:30. Lucky for us, only one collector had showed up. Therefore, she got to pick through the cases and get one of everything! So far, Todd is my son’s favorite.
Two cases are in the mail as well.
Happy hunting!
My kids and I opted to visit the Chehalis, WA Kmart again this event.
In October there were 6-7 people at most, and one master case(plus two mini cases). Everything was great.
It was a bit of a nightmare this time around.
The local hoarder’s whole family showed up with a ‘shopping’ list. So, with them, there were around 18 people. And again just the one master case.(No minis) They also had staff running it this time that had never run an event before, and I had to give them a lot of tips on what to do. They did pretty well after it finally got started.
The daughter and I had to wait until the third round to get our turn, but remarkably did manage to get the cars we needed. Thankfully since I pre-ordered I was only looking to complete an extra set.
It was great to see a fellow TFAD member get to do his case early before the jackals picked everything else through. And many thanks to him for helping us out during his son’s turn when they were done picking out theirs.
When everyone was done and it was time for the remains to be put out on the table there was next to nothing left of the exclusives. Just lots of McQueen, Patti and Todd. Strange enough, the most popular items were Mini, Chase Mario, and Vitoline pitty. Two of which you know are going to reappear in a regular case sooner or later.
I ran up to the Lacey Kmart an hour later and they had the table sitting there that still had lots of the exclusives. Which is funny since some of the people at our event decided to come down from that area after things went so poor for them in October.
So Dev if you’re reading this, the Kmart in Lewis County, WA definitely needs a second Master Case next time around.
She was actually the greedy one, demanding that people hand over their Cars to her, when she did not arrive on time
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ok……so I thought I was feeling lucky, so I decided to head to WM to see if they had anything new… hmmm, let me see……nope, not a stinking thing on the pegs except for a sea of LMcQs, 1 Chick and 2 Stacys….no more luck for me today….
Dev had a conference call with all the store managers and district managers, to make sure that they understood and followed the rules. Better than the miserable free for all that so many talked about last Oct.
Things went well here in Kalamazoo MI this morning. There were 18 cases for the 3 or 4 of us that were there. We thought it was funny that they still made us draw numbers and go through the whole pick 5 process.
Interesting to note: The Synthetic Rubber Tires CAN be taken off from the wheels. The Lightyear logo on the tires does fade quite easily and right away from the rubber tires to the point of having the tires all black. As Luigi would probably point out, how boring. I think Im going to “whitewall” them to make Luigi proud. I think I might also remove the rubber tires from Bumper Save and add them to McQueen so he could be done just right as he should have been. After all, he IS one of the Piston Cup Racers too.
* John in Missouri
June 20th, 2009 at 2:11 pm I’d like to know who spent the most today. Anyone want to admit this? *
by the looks of it…. it is between you and NascarFan…
Too bad no one captured her antics on video — that would make for some great YouTube viewing!
We were at a Kmart in Phx, AZ today. The event ran very well. They had 12 boxes of cars on the table. They did tickets. They pulled 5 tickets and let those people pick a box to open. You could pick 5 cars from the box you chose. After 5 min the rest were put on the floor (still in the box). Then 5 more were called and they got to chose a box (same thing happened). During third round there were only two boxes left that were unopened so the first two tickets got to pick from those and the next three got to pick from the previously opened boxes for 5 cars. After 5 min the gal who ran the event asked if there were any other tickets that weren’t called. She then let them come up and pick 5 cars from the opened boxes. Afterwards it was a respectful free-for-all. I ended up with one full set of racers, a few Marios, and some extra LTPistons, ClutchAid, and Re-tread. My son LOVES Todd.
The event was over in 20 minutes (free-for-all included).
I was handed a poster by the gal that ran the event but I heard that my grandmother in MI had gotten one for my son already, but thought… ah, what’s another? And then I heard an older gentleman asking the gal if there were anymore. I turned around and handed it to him. He looked like he wanted it for his grandkids.
Some older lady came barrelling down the aisle with a small boy in her shopping cart (who I swear must have hit is head a few times as she whipped the cart around) and asked “WHERE ARE THE CARS?!” We told her that they were pretty much all gone and she stomped her feet and started yelling at me and another family (who had a bunch of race cars in their shopping cart) at how greedy we were and how we should just give her some since she has a little boy. (yadda yadda yadda) I told her that we were all there prior to 11 and I’m sorry that she missed it. She kept telling us that we were “greedy, greedy, greedy.” And stormed off (she actually got about 5 cars from the table). I kinda felt bad for the little kid for not getting cars, but that mother/grandmother was so rude that I didn’t feel like I should help her. Had she asked nicely, I would have helped her out. I was checking out when she was leaving the store and she wanted to let me know one more time that I was greedy… thanks! At least I’m not rude!
Our Kmarts seem to be dwindling here in the valley but I am looking forward to October’s date. Hopefully the one I went to will still be open.
(MET: That same woman probably showed up today to yell at someone in gardening buying two bags of fertilizer).
I believe Kmart Day 3 will have these guys with Synthetic Rubber Tires:
Leak Less
N2O Cola
Octane Gain
Rev-N-Go
Re-Volting
Trunk Fresh
Vinyl Toupee
Will there be a Fall Kmart Day? If so what can we expect to see. Storytellers, MegaSized, Mater Tall Tales. More exclusive Singles?
(MET: There’s one tenatively scheduled so don’t plan anything yet, let’s wait until at least after SDCC
… more Piston Cup racers – rubber tires).
I forgot, did Case D of the launchers come out before Case C? If so, I might have a shot to find it in a store.
Yeah I did see him he was very chill, and a nice guy. He did mention something about his daughter going nuts over “these” things. It was a good time and everyone was very cool there. I couldn’t believe that they were not going to even let me help him get the cars out of the case so he could pick.
I can’t believe I missed the error car. It was a little chaotic and was having trouble focusing during the free for all.
I wasn’t going to go since I bought a case, but after seeing some people end up with the wrong assortment I of course panicked. I was out of town during the event for a meeting. So when I got home, I had to go to KMart, around 3pm PST, here in Modesto, CA. At first I couldn’t find anything, I thought they might place them on pegs, but they didn’t. They were at the end of the toy dept near garden on a table, all lined up. I am not sure how many cases the got, but I counted at least 6 Marios. I was able to be picky and look for cars that weren’t chipped. But the 2 cars that were really short were Retread and Easy Idle, only 2 left of each. Lots of Todd/Patti/Vitoline Pitty (I think non-collectors don’t like them) and a lot of the other race cars. Even 4-5 Minis. So I picked up one of each just in case my case doesn’t work out. Not many people in the area were interested. One lady looked at them, asked me how much they were and put them down. I won’t be paranoid about the next K-Mart day there. Also found Retread launcher at Target yesterday, lenticulars at WM today-no Sarge, only 9 McQs, Doc and Fillmore, & a Tank Coat launcher. I found Frank at a different WM last week. Still trying to find Sarge, Sven, No Stall semi and the case C launchers, haven’t seen those. Just have seen case B & D launchers. Sounds like most people did well!
Wow, so much fun! Thank you so much for this website. I check it every once and awhile because my 3 year old son and I love to collect Cars! We were both so excited about the KMart event. We went to the KMart in Ramona, CA. They had 4 large boxes and only about 6 groups of people there so we had our run of about 5 cases apiece (though I didn’t purchase as many — left some for those who came later!). It made everyone so happy. We just don’t seem to have any luck trying to time it on our own when looking for cars so I am so appreciative to KMart (and this website!) for doing this and telling us about it. It was so much fun!!
(MET: Thanks – glad it was fun!)
Hey L8rm8r -
You probably saw my dad in Portsmouth – I was in Rochester. He was a big guy, nicknamed “Bear”. He won one of the posters. He mentioned how ridiculous it was that little kids were going to have to go pick on their own but that everyone there agreed that it was fine if parents went with their kids.
I couldn’t resist – and DID go back out tonight. I hit the one in Portsmouth and that is where I found the error Vitoline pitty (or guido as my nephew calls them!)
Oh and one other thing all of the cases were correct there was not a single case that was not what we were expecting.