Disney Consumer Products & Disney Stores Diecast CARS Set Contest!
We know you’ve eyed this ginormous set at the Disney Stores and wonder how you can hide it from your significant other to sneak it home … 
Now you can win one FREE courtesy of Disney Consumer Products and the Disney Stores!
CONTEST RULES:
You may enter once every 12-hours.
Enter in the COMMENTS below.
Write in your favorite Disneyland-Disney World memory*
*(or any Disney international resort-theme parks – Paris, Tokyo, or Hong Kong)
Can be long or short – an esteemed panel will pick 10-20 of our favorites and then we will activate the randomizer to give away FREE not one but TWO of these fabulous sets of 1:43 scale diecast metal CARS cars!
Make sure your contest entry starts with the words CONTEST ENTRY so we can tell it apart from your general random comments
Contest starts RIGHT NOW and ends at 11:59 PM PST Sunday, November 15, 2009.
Better bring your storytelling A game …
These 1:43 Disney Store CARS are not only huge but old-school solid hunks of metal diecast … Wall-E will be digging these out of the ground in a couple hundred years
It’s the 20-CAR box set – even the box design is nice …
The hard plastic covering is held down by three flaps which you can open to remove the top covering and still have the nice base to display all the CARS.
Back cover showing all the CARS that are in the set including the hard to find Fabulous Hudson Hornet.
The scale is about 1:43 … it’s hard to get a direct comparison without opening the box itself but here is a Snot Rod I have along with the Mattel 1:55 Snot Rod so you can get a sense … about 30-35% wider, longer & taller.
Thanks to Disney Consumer Products & the Disney Stores for such a great prize!
And good luck all!
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7 November 2009
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We have winners!!
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Two memories about of lost kids at Disneyland:
My little brother was probably about 4 at the time, we turned around and he was gone. Of course my parents panicked and we were running around yelling for him. We were so worried that he would be scared and upset, poor little guy. After searching for a while we decided to check the lost children area and there he was, happy as can be, coloring.
Another time I was at Disneyland with my husband (before we had our little guys). We were standing near a little pond area close to Big Thunder Mountain where water spurts up here and there. There was a little boy standing near us, watching the water too and giggling, cute little guy, all of maybe 2. I though he belonged to a young couple sitting on a bench near us, but they eventually got up and walked away. I asked him where his Mommy was and he looked around worriedly. I told him it was ok and I would help him find her and held my hand out to him and he smiled and took it. We were walking with him to find the lost children’s area and ran into Brer Fox and I asked the cast member with him where to take the little guy. She said no problem, she would take him and held her hand out to him, and he took off running! Although he never spoke a word, I have never forgotten his cute little face.
Oops, that was a contest entry.
Should I stay up till midnight to call LAST!
CONTEST ENTRY:
My favorite Disneyland memory was when I went on splash mountain for the first time.
I had no idea what the ride was about,so I was pretty worried.When I got in the ride
and entered the cave with all the animated characters,I thought this is a kiddie ride.
But when we came down the first drop,I said oh yeah!I got all exited when we were about to do the biggest drop.This was a very happy moment until I got wet.That ended it there.
When we came out of splash mountain,I cried because I was wet.That’s my contest entry.
CONTEST ENTRY
I just want to say that one of my favorite memories was reading around 70 or 75 stories from our Take5 friends on their trips to Disney Land / Disney World. Those are some amazing places with some amazing memories!
Thank you Walt, Met, Tiz, Disney Consumer Products, and the Disney Stores!!
Suck up!!!!
contest entry.
I was never lucky enough to visit disneyland as my mother struggled on her own for years when my father passed away, My dear old mum still feels guilty for this, I am at the moment saving so my mother can take mine and my sisters kids and give them the memories that she so wished she could have given me and my sister. Also my mum is the biggest disney fan herself, as she keeps saying disney has a magic that modern characters and films dont have.
Several years ago we had the opportunity to have breakfast with Santa at Disneyland. We went with a bunch of friends and had a blast! The event was well planned out and gave the kids a unique chance to visit with Santa.
My favorite was at Disneyland many years ago. Jaws attacked the tram (on my side of the tram). My kids loved it. I nearly fainted! Awesome time!
Contest Entry
I have been a Disney fanatic all of life and still am at age 50. I collect Disney figures and have an extensive collection. As a kid in the 60s and 70s I always dreamed of going to Disneyland or Disney World, but the closest I ever got was the ViewMaster reels that my parents got for me. I must have looked at them thousands of times.
In 1981 I was touring as a keyboardist for a gospel group and we happened to be in Florida and decided to go to Disney World since we had a 4 day layover between concerts. This was long before there was an Epcot Center, MGM Studios, etc. The only attraction back then was the Magic Kingdom. I couldn’t sleep the night before knowing that I was FINALLY going to be able to fulfill my dream. I made the others in my party crazy because I was acting as a tour guide because I knew about every ride and attraction from years and years of looking at the Viewmasters. It was one of the best 2 days of my life!
Contest Entry
My girlfriend bought me tickets for Disney for my birthday back in 2001. She loves Disneyland (world) like a little kid, and I guess her gift to me as much as a gift to herself. So we flew down to Disneyworld in Florida in early September and had our first official trip to Disney together cut short by terrorists. I mean we are in the Happiest place on earth and we are being evacuated. The next few days were spent on the phones trying make sure all the family back home was safe. I have an Aunt who works on Wall St and was on the PATH train when the first plane struck the towers. She was able to make her way back home sometime around midnight that night. The walk out of the park was surreal, it was very orderly and none of us had a clue as to why we were leaving. We had our suspicions that it was some kind of terrorist event and that they were trying to disperse large crowds. I still remember making eye contact with an elderly woman on our way out of the park and she was crying and telling me the World Trade Center was on the ground. I didn’t believe her until I got in the car and we heard the same voice talking on every radio station on the dial. Everything around the park was shut down for the rest of the day. No place to eat nothing to do to try and take your minds off of what has just happened, just us in our hotel and the television.
I remember hearing my parents and grandparents talk about how they know exactly where they were and what they were doing when Kennedy was assassinated and when we landed on the moon. Until 9/11 I couldn’t relate something in my lifetime with that kind of power. We were sitting down in Animal Kingdom waiting for the Tarzan Rocks show to start when at 10:45 Am we were asked to exit the park.
Sorry for the long prelude but my best Disney World experience was when my WIFE and I went back to finish our vacation from 2001 with our almost 2 year old son in 2007. Just watching his face and the joy and wonderment of it all still chokes me up.
I am now looking forward to my next best Disney World experience when we take Ryan and his little brother Cole back to Mickeys house so I can relive the joy of watching another son of mine seeing it all for the first time.
CONTEST ENTRY
my favorite Disney World moment was when i took my son to the back of the MGM studios park to where they have the life size Lightning and Mater on display for photo opportunities.
i had bought for my son the three pack of pullback plastic cars, LMQ Sally and Mater. the line for photos was so long, i let him open up his new toy right there on the street and he was so excited he grabbed them and was running around to each kid on the line saying ” i got lightning mcqueen, i got mater!!!!! aaahhhh!!!”
he was only 25 months old at the time. so his english was very rough, but he knew how to say his Disney Cars character names at a VERY young age!
Cutest thing i’ve ever witnessed!
Entry No. 1!
My very favorite memory was taking my daughter to meet Mickey for the first time. There was quite a long wait getting into his house, and there was a lot of noise with so many people. They took a few of us at a time into a private room to meet Mickey. As soon as we stepped through the door, everything changed. There was a hush that fell over us, and it truly felt like a magical moment. It’s something that I’ll never forget, and remember it everytime I look at our photo.
Contest Entry:
At Disneyland I was riding the jungle cruise and I got the boat driver to sing Lonely Island (fet. T-Pain) – I’m on a boat!!!! It was when everyone was boarding and he sang a few lines it was awesome
sorry didn’t mean to spam but it was for the contest =/
At Disneyland I was riding the jungle cruise and I got the boat driver to sing Lonely Island (fet. T-Pain) – I’m on a boat!!!! It was when everyone was boarding and he sang a few lines it was awesome
Contest Entry:
I don’t know if this counts or not. We were planning our trip to Disneyland in Florida. My son, Logan, is four years old and has Asperger’s Syndrome (a type of autism). He had all his Cars lined up on the porch and would chime in excidedly with what he wanted to do when he got there.
All of a sudden he came over and laid his head down on my shoulder and sighed “It’s good to be us, Mom, isn’t it ??”
*tears* It kind of puts it all in perspective
I hadn’t been back to Disneyworld since I was 7. Like a rite of passage, now it was time to take my kids who were 4 and 6. As you know traveling these days is kind of a hassle, especially with two little ones in tow. By the time we made to our hotel everyone was exhausted so we went to bed early to get a jump start on our day at the Magic Kingdom.
The day there itself is worthy of a story on its own, but I will summarize it with my wife’s tears of joy when she got to ride the Tea Cups with our 4 year old daughter and I even rode Magic Mountain with my son who has all of a sudden become an expert of roller coasters. It was an extremely full day and we were all exhausted. As we were leaving the park, waiting in line at the monorail, my four year old daughter looked at me and said “Dad, this was the best day of my life!”
I am 6’2″ 280lbs and consider myself a man’s man, but when she said that, I pretty much broke in tears like a little school girl! It was one of those “payoff” moments that parents don’t get enough of, but at that very moment, it also become the best day of my life!
John P. Kelly
CONTEST ENTRY:
When I was a sophomore in high school, my concert choir was invited to perform at Epcot Center as part of Disney’s “Magic Music Days” summer event. After months of fundraising, the whole choir got on a plane for a long weekend spent in Orlando. The entire trip was a blast, of course. We spent a couple of hours each day rehearsing for our performance, and the rest of the days were spent wandering the Disney parks and some other local attractions.
When the day of our performance arrived, we piled off the bus at Epcot in the early morning with a plan. We were going to perform on an open-air stage at 2:00, so we could enjoy the park until 1:00, and then we had to meet near the stage to warm up and change into our formal wear (yes, we were THAT kind of choir). We all split up for the morning, and at about 12:30, groups of us started to trickle back to the meeting place.
At about 12:45, it started raining. POURING. The kind of spontaneous afternoon downpour that Florida residents take for granted, but seemed like a freak weather phenomenon to a group of teenagers from Indiana. We all gathered under an awning while we waited for the rain to stop, and as the rest of the singers arrived, we all ended up huddled under that awning, watching it come down. “Don’t worry,” our director said, clearly worried herself. “These showers stop as fast as they start. As soon as it’s over, we’ll head to the stage.”
1:00 came and went without a break in the rain. Then 1:30, 1:45, and 2:00. We clearly weren’t going to perform at Epcot Center that year.
Then one of the seniors spoke up. “All right, everyone!” she said. “We’re doing Fa Una Canzona!” She hummed a starting pitch, then started singing the first song from our set. The song started off haltingly as people figured out what was going on, but soon we were all singing with gusto. When we finished the song, the other people gathered under the awning applauded.
Our director took over. “Ok! Let’s keep going!” she said. She gave us a starting pitch, and we launched into our next song. We performed our entire concert in the rain under an awning at Epcot Center, partly for the small crowd seeking shelter from the rain, but mostly for the sheer joy of the music. When it was all over, our director felt really bad for us because we didn’t get to perform at Disney World, but I think she was wrong. I can’t imagine a better Disney World concert than that spontaneous performance in the rain, and I wouldn’t change a thing about it.
WINNER!!
I’m glad you liked it
Contest entry:
Growing up I dreamed of going of to Disneyland, but my mother could not afford to take my sister and I to the happiest place on earth. As a little kid I did not understand how hard it was for my mom as a single parent. I just thought she did not want to take us. As I grew older, I realized what our “economic” situation was really like and it wasn’t that she did not want to take us….
I was lucky enough to go back in the early 90′s as part of grad night with money I had earned while working part time. I had an awesome time! But it wasn’t as great as it was a little over two years ago.
Moving ahead, My wife and I had the pleasure of taking our son to Disneyland while my wife was expecting our daughter. We did not only do it for the experience, but also to load up on “cars” stuff. You see, his 2nd birthday was coming up and the theme was would you guess it? Cars! So we drove over to good ole Anaheim.
He was only going to be two years old at the time, but when we got there the look on his face was priceless! He had that look that I wished I had as a kid. But I am thankful that I was able to give him that! I guess you could say I was living the moment with him that I had wanted as a kid, and I thank god for that!
But what I was really looking for to was the meet and greet with Mater and Mcqueen over at California Adventure. So I remember we exited Disneyland and went over to California adventure one hour before they were to be brought out. As the time drew closer, I had this feeling of hapiness but to a higher degree. I don’t know how to explain it, but those of you who are parents who have had the pleasure to share the same experience with your children probably understand what I am talking about. Finally the moment arrived and the area was ropped off and cleared of people. When both Mater and Lightning Mcqueen appeared in the distance, his eyes just lit up in and kept telling “look,look,look! It’s Ka-chow!” (This is how he refered to the cars characters at the time, and still does when he refers to Mcqueen, thus my screen name) He was so excited, so as I! He did get scared a little of Mater when they sounded of his horn. We took plenty of pictures! This whole “Cars” experience has been awesome!
Later that night as we stood on Main street watching the fireworks show, most people admired the “show in the sky”, but I spent most of that time admiring my son’s face as he gazed at the show…awesome! Just plain awesome!!
Sorry if it’s a little long, but I tried my best to keep the experience of our 1st visit as a family as short as possible.
CONTEST ENTRY
My wife and I flew out to Los Angeles with her parents back in 1999 to visit her aunt, who was a nun in San Pedro. We decided to go to Disneyland, and at one point the women went their way, and my father-in-law and I went another way.
He and I shared a ride on the Jungle Cruise. It was a pretty neat ride, but what made it so memorable was the college-aged tour guide. You could tell it was his 100,000th time doing the routine and/or his last day before heading back to school, as he totally made fun of everything while still sticking completely to his script.
Deadpan dry-humor like “Ladies and gentlemen hold onto your pacemakers, I must warn you that an animatronic hippopotamus made entirely of fiberglass is about to shoot water at us…oh boy that was really scary wasn’t it folks. I hope the paramedics are available at the end of this ride”.
I always wanted to see “The Tonight Show” but this trip to Southern California gave me more unexpected laughs than Jay Leno could have provided.
CONTEST ENTRY
We spent several days in Orlando back in 1982 so we could visit Disney World. In the evenings we would come back to the hotel and relax in the pool.
Except my Dad.
He was in the game room plunking quarter-after-quarter into the Galaga machine. To this day when I see the arcade game — or even just hear it — it transports me back in time!
(MET: The Galaga version on the iPhone is not bad for FREE … It’s not great but not bad).
Well Met, that might just be the one reason I would get an iPhone!
CONTEST ENTRY: The thing I like most about Disneyland/Disney World is their attention to detail. A couple of years ago, we went to Disney World. There is one memory that keeps coming back to me. It wasn’t any of the big rides or major attractions. It was a small detail that impressed me. The “Dinosaur” ride is very scientific looking as it purport to take you back in time to the era of the Dinosaurs. As you leave that ride, you are channeled down a pathway with very technical looking signs that warn you that you are leaving the “science facility” behind and would soon be entering the “commercialized” area of the park. The “commercialized” section looks and feels like a very typical small desert town tourist trap that sprung up on the outskirts of a science facility and is bent upon capitalizing on the “Dinosaur” name. The signage goes from very high tech to the look of rusty license plates. It was all very subtle and all very well done. Kudos to Disney for that fond memory detail.
Contest entry:
Since I have never been to Disney land or world I will tell you about some of the things that I would love to do if I ever got to go there.
The thing I think I would enjoy the most is seeing all the disney characters all over the place and getting pictures with them!
Then there are also some awesome looking rides that I might try (of corse I would probably end up chickening out!)
I have also heard that the hotels are amazing!
I sure hope I get to go someday!
(MET: See you June 2012 for CARSLAND opening day?)
When you go for the opening day of Carsland, be sure to stop for an “autograph book” first thing so you have somewhere to put photos of you with the characters and record you memories of it all. Very fun.. Also, you should do a character meal since they all come right over to your table and chat, it’s such fun.
CONTEST ENTRY:
I loved going to Disney Land Paris a few years back and pretending to be French for the whole week!! we also had to wait 2 hours to meet Mickey and when we got there here went for a break
CONTEST ENTRY: A few years ago, I attended a three day conference at the Anaheim Convention Center which is located next to Disneyland. The conference turned out to be a snoozer. After two days of propping up my eyelids, I decided to spend the third day at Disneyland instead. So I spent an entire day at Disneyland all by myself! Normally, you think of sharing these experiences with family and friends. But I had a blast doing it all by myself. Mostly, I visited and reminisced at the places I visited as a child. It brought back a lot of memories.
CONTEST ENTRY: When I was a student at the University of Utah, I was accustomed to having professors and teachers who spoke English as a second language. One semester, I had a professor who really didn’t speak much English at all. The problem was that he was my English professor. To top off his inability to speak English, he was bullish and combative. The class started with 30 students but in the end, only five of us completed the course. The thing that got me through the final exam was the thought that as soon as the test was over, I was heading to Disneyland. Literally, five minutes after I turned in my paper, I hopped in the car and headed to the Magic Kingdom. A day and a half later I was standing in line to buy my book of tickets to Disneyland. Guess who should be standing in line in front of me! It was my non-English speaking English professor. I couldn’t muster the nerve to say hello so the timely coincidence remained my secret. I hope he had a good time. I certainly did!
Aw, you should have purchased his ticket for him!
Contest Entry- I have to many favorite memories. I loved watching my children going on the same rides I did as a child and having them enjoy them as much as I did over 20 years ago. We loved the teacups, Dumbo, Peter Pan & especially It’s a small world. You sing it for weeks after you get home and it always puts a smile on your face.
Bring back Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
havent been there yet but in a couple years i will cause im in the band and we all raise money for a few years then go to flordia,and actually play there in a perade! im the biggest bass drum as part of the cchs marching band
CONTEST ENTRY:
I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and watched the early “Disneyland” TV programs (before color TV) on which Walt himself chronicled the progress of the new park he was building in California. This fostered my dream of going there, sometime, to see Tomorrowland, although in my pre-teen years, California seemed a world away. In December of 1967, courtesy of Uncle Sam, I found myself in Northern California. An army buddy invited me to go along with him on a visit to his Aunt’s place in Bell Gardens, not too far from Anaheim. An excursion to Disneyland was sure to happen! To make a longer story a bit shorter; after the sixth day of constant rain, cabin fever began to set in and we decided we’d make a run for Disneyland at the first break in the rain. The next day, we finally arrived at the waterlogged park, which, even under the circumstances, looked quite amazing! As the light of the sun broke through the overcast for the first time in a week, the color and spectacle of Walt Disney’s dream of his “happiest place in the world” became evident – until we arrived at Tomorrowland, that is. That section of the park was in upheaval, undergoing a huge remodeling. Amid the winter cold and damp and general turmoil, features had been dismantled or removed or just closed. I guess after 12 years of operation, some of it had already become “Yesterdayland”! I have been able to return to the park many times since then under far better circumstances and, each time, I recall how both happy and disappointed I was on that first visit.
CONTEST ENTRY
My wife and I went to Orlando for a convention
in 1999. Our time was limited, so even though we
could not make it inside Disney World, we did
kill some time by driving around the park, and
even visited the fancy hotel where the trams
yield to drop off and pick up tourists.
Margaret and I were newlyweds with no kids, but
our nieces and nephews received many gifts from
us when we got back home, as there were many
shops to browse in the hotel lobby. Talk about
entertaining – we can’t wait to really go back!
nice!!!!!
Thanks! Just thought I’d go for a little extra credit!
CONTEST ENTRY:
I went to Disneyland with my wife when I was 25 for the first time. My whole life I saw the Disney logo which of course is the castle – I guess it’s Cinderella’s castle, I don’t know – well anyways it looks like a 200 room castle. So I was kind of excited to see the castle – you know walk around in it – go up to the top – eat dinner it – those kind of things. So without really saying much about the castle to my wife but having this grand vision of the castle in my mind, We enter the park I see the castle and I realize that it’s in miniture scale and I was totally duped. That was the first of many suprises that day. I’ve always been a roller coaster junkie so I thought that Disney was going to be lame. Far from the truth. That place and Disney World in Florida are truely MAJICAL. I can’t wait to take my kids. It’s the illusion that makes that place special.
Contest Entry??:
in the 1970′s was supposed to go to Disney but never made it. While in California from NE Iowa visiting family, and airliner exploded and over Aunt and Uncles neighborhood, crashed nearby and rained down alot of stuff and took the fun out of going. Parents packed up and after roadblocks lifted, went home.
wow – that’s crazy man.
CONTEST ENTRY: When I was about 3 1/2 years old I went to Disneyland with my parents and my new little baby sister. Just inside the entrance gate there was a “Mothers Care Station”. It was a place where mothers could change and feed their babies. But what really impressed me were the special diagonal parking lines painted on the street for “stroller parking” just in front of the care station. Mom let me “park” the stroller in between the lines just like Dad would do when parking the car. I felt so grown up! I spent the rest of the day looking for the special parking spots so that I could park the stroller. I could have cared less about the rides and attractions. I guess it was like the child who had more fun with the box than the toy that came in it!
I love how Disneyland has little sinks and potties for the kids too!