Disney Pixar CARS: Disney Store Townie Playsets Back
Way back in 2006 and 2007, the Disney Store introduced mini RC’s with a town playset that was quasi in scale (the leftover sets were available until about 2010). But now they are back …
The Mini RC’s are actually quite nice – pretty responsive controls and fun for little tykes – since they are lightweight, they go flying off any piece of cardboard and through random objects like onion rings (of course, I’m easily amused).
As for the scale, you can check our post of the courthouse (since that one was not available in the Mattel line).
With Mini’s …
Radiator Springs Courthouse Play Set
Okay, the ramp is not very canon but it adds play value to the RC … I use the fence to keep my Impound Tuners – the road and “ground” is lightweight foam …
(With the RC, you can actually drive in the front door and ride an “elevator” to the second story and drive off the ramp – pretty cool). See original post for complete details.
And Ramone’s House of Body Art Play Set is cute – comes with a “gold” Ramone body shell … I think if you drive through, it drops the shell on him – pretty cool.
So, while not really in scale and smaller than the Mattel townie playsets, they can be an acceptable substitute until they get re-released (other than Flo’s V8 Cafe) … the mini RC’s are actually quite nice with good controls so there’s value there also … and each of the town playset has some fun action triggered by the RC so not perfect but pretty good.
| « Mattel Disney Pixar CARS 2 Diecast: Kmart CARS Day #9 SEALED CASES Back Online! | Disney Pixar CARS 2: Disney Store New Chase CARS » |
21 October 2012
7 Comments
These sets are in pretty good stock in Carsland over in Disneyland California Adventure. They are small for the 1:55 scale cars but kind of fun to have. I was lucky to pickup the courthouse building at a swap meet a few weeks ago for only $1! It didn’t have all it’s parts – no board, no ramp, no fence, no LMQ – but the building is fine for my son to play with his cars.
Courthouse looks cool, but we will wait a while, the price is too high.
The only one I want is Mater’s junkyard. But don’t want it enough to spend $35 on. I think Disney Store runs sales often enough, it might be more tempting at $20.
Looks like mini McQueen found Doc’s Oxy stash.
love it!
The courthouse and mater’s junkyard are awesome!! If you want to see how they compare to the Mattel Cars, I hav pics in the forum section set up in my display. We got them for super cheap when they went clearance the first time around. Super cooool!!
Never looked into these, i think i will have to give them a try!