Contest! Win a FREE Copy of the Disney Pixar CARS Character Encyclopedia!
Disney Pixar CARS: Character Encyclopedia Contest!
You even get a free discast, a metallic paint version of “Lightning McQueen with Piston Cup (decal).” (aka: Hudson Hornet Lightning McQueen) + a poster!
Now that the book is out, I can tell you some fun trivia such:
I threw out their original list of characters to feature which had EVERY Final Lap CAR on it but not Lizzie, Red or about 20 of the Piston Cup racers. I think you’re okay with that decision, right? 
Humm, Hooman or the Apple CAR.
Yes, there are some tiny corrections here and there but it was hard to keep track of the random PDF pages that were the proofs.
The ones still unreleased or just released were a little difficult to guess when exactly they would come out – so some are implied they are already out.
There was a definite limit of 140ish pages and it had to include CARS, CARS 2 and all the Toons so I tried to make sure no uninteresting looking CAR was left out but for instance, each Toon series was limited to a page so obviously, you could get in all the El Materdor releases but not Tokyo Mater. So, it does not include every diecast released … unlike say, our checklist magazine. Of course, I also don’t have a world class art director at my disposal.
But a contest to win your own copy!
Enter below in the comments with the words
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(And at what year/series/number of CARS did you realize it was no longer a casual hobby and it was a way of life).
Contest starts right now and ends August 26, 2012 11:59 PM PST – US entries only.
You may enter once a day – but feel free to expand on the details of your original entry or add in a family/relative story …
Good luck!
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metroxing
19 August 2012
Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 2, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 2
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When my mama has a list of cars my son needs and checks when she goes to stores lol! :0)
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World of Cars started in late 2007, I was hooked on buying the cars on cardbacks with New and without New. Thanks Mattel for not continuing this marketing scheme.
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When your kids start giving you valentines, pencils, stickers, birthday and Father’s day cards that have cars characters on them.
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….when I feel really good when I find new Cars.
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When I started checking T5AD MORE than five times a day!!
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Whenever a 6 1/2 hour drive home to see my parents in Chicago winds up being 9 or 10 hours thanks to all the Cars hunting stops.
(100th comment on this post!)
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We go to the mountains several times a year and we always stop at the Disney store (we don’t have one anywhere near us) and my husband tells me before we ever even get there “we are not buying the whole Disney store” LOL!!! I know some don’t like the Disney store cars but my son likes them and I don’t mind if he beats them around.
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When I read that someone on Take5 has found a Car I need and run over to that store in hopes of finding one too.
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When I bought a new pack of 10 cars that only had 1 new car in it.
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In 2006 when my wife first brought home these little Cars from the movie and thought they were cute. We’ve been collecting ever since and it has been lot of fun!
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When I started stopping at (3) WMs and (2) Targets on the way to work almost every day.
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When I stopped just joking about tackling babies, and actually started doing it to get to the Cars section first.
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When i spend every other Saturday walking local flea markets trying to find any cars we dont have. I have had a little luck but not much. I just dream of the day when my son has them ALL! LOL!!
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After that it was look and coment.
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What started with one shelf of a single bookcase in my home office has now turned into every shelf in all the bookcases. I had to move my books to another room.
Next you’ll have to sell the books!
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When I had friends buying exclusives from Comic Con
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Once we got Lizzie we were hooked
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When the people at KB Toys STARTED CALLING ME when new cases would arrive each Monday.
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May 20, 2008 5/20/08, 11:00 AM CT – Supercharged Series – the number of my Cars collection blossomed from a small complete set of the original Cars plus the race cars already released to include a complete set of the race cars.
I knew it was more than a casual interest as I took half a day off in order to be online and ready to click the buy button at the moment the Hot Wheels website went from coming to buy…for The Motor Speedway of the South Set.
The set had every race car in the opening Cars movie scene. There were only a limited number of 1000 sets with a unique holographic number attached to a letter that was mailed to each purchaser. The set included 24 “new” Piston Cup racers and 12 previously released ones. The sale sold out in 2 hours and 26 minutes.
But the magnificient obsession didn’t stop I had to get a complete set of the Supercharged Series singles, USA and International releases and all the new movie moments.
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Very soon after I bought my first one in 2006 and started buying pretty much any Car I could find. My collection has crossed the one hundred mark with the addition of a few Cars 2 diecasts.
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…. When I created the original Drive-In at the CarstheToys message board in May ’06 I knew it was gonna be big.
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I’ve made a few mistakes in collecting over the years but the two biggest ones were, not buying a SOTS set and not getting the Silver McQueen from D23. Both times I didn’t want to spend that much money and both times I was wrong
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When the first thing I check in the morning is t5ad.
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Then I registered on T5.
since starting my collection at 2008, I found Nikko, where is Nikko? I miss him.
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When you repetitively check the toy isles and clearance sections for new or marked down Cars items at every single store, every single time!
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Because I felt I had to have on of everything I knew I was more than casual collecting
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It has also become apparent that we are addicted when the first thing we do is check Take5ADay for updates.
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When people at work started bringing me boxes and/or air pillows for shipping packages, since I send out so many Cars around the world!
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Realizing that by entering this contest everyday I might be more than a casual collector.
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since last year, when i was hiding cars in the trunk and sneaking boxes into the closet, i realized i’ve been infected by the bug. must have new cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In 2009 when we starded driving entire weekends from WM/Target/TRU looking to complete the entire collection, Buying two of evrything we found, one for my son and one for myself to keep unopened. Toward the end of the day when we became exauseted or when my son felt asleep my wife and I would take turns getting of the car to check each store we would come across. Thats when we knew this was more than a hobby it was a way of life.
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2008 I started my collection with my son, even ask my sister to buy those disconntinued cars from China for me. Still far away from getting them all. now my 8 yr boy has three word every time he went into WM/TRU/Target/BigLots/Sears/..etc he will say “Collect them all”.
March of 2011, I finally registered at T5AD and started trading cars. Our collection wouldn’t be close to what it is today without all you guys out there!
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At the beginning of the movie “Cars”. The ball really began rolling when I put my first armfull of “Cars” cars on the Wally’s world checkout conveyerbelt!
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Then I found T5 I have been on it a while,I never registered untill June 9,2012.
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Since they first came out in 2006, i got the some of the one’s i really wanted.During supercharged, i was getting variations of characters like green Ramone, while i already had purple Ramone.By world of Cars, i was getting every new single i could find! I think i realized it had became a way of life was when i was getting huge boxes of Cars stuff from DisneyStore.com because there were nothing but Finn at Walmart for many months.
( NOTE: I did not buy the Mattel Cars sticker book, but i was looking at it in the store, and i found the weirdest error. In the back in with all the mini square stickers, there was one of buzz and woody from toy story when they are in the van fighting! )
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how to enter the contest, I’ve bought the Take5 Magazine.. is this book has more cars than that?
(MET: Our complete opener magazines have more pics but we have not done a CARS 2 issue yet – the book has more trivia, larger photos of CARS & CArs 2 and of a free diecast. Bottom line – there are close to 700 CARS released, the book covers about 300ish).
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I checked 2ADay every morning to see what stores I should stop at on my way. I was starting to find more Cars in the wild and buying less Cars on ebay.
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Also when it became a daily routine of stopping at the two Walmarts on the way to work.
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When I started making Take5 my first stop each day on the Internet.
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You know its an addiction when you have dreams about finding bessie and frank in the wild, not even kidding!!! LOL!!
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… as we already have this awesome book and car. I love reading everyone’s stories. Here’s mine:
Manifold Jr. got me into this back in 2008 when he was 2 1/2 years old and would pretend that his Hot Wheels cars were Cars characters. The trouble began when his grandma brought a “real” Lightning Mcqueen (with Tongue) home from the local Jewel/Osco grocery store. I knew I was in trouble a year and a half later when I found myself frantically scowering all of the Jewel/Oscos within a 15 mile radius, in the wee hours of night, to find the remainder of classic fixed-eye cars, as the box stores converted to the lenticular line, and stashing them away “for later.” Now, three years later, I still don’t know who the cars are for…. Manifold Jr., Baby Manifold, or me?
You.
Heh heh
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When I bought two copies of Cars 2 blu ray just so I could get the Ransburg Finn.