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Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Mainline Singles Cases Next – H, J & K

The GOOD NEWS is Patti and Todd the Pizza Planet Truck are coming in CASE H.

The not so good news? You did ask for more Lightning McQueen’s, right?

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And there is a blank space at the end because the listing reads Impound McQueen (CHASE) which is presumably not correct as Chase CARS are only supposed to appear once and never return to the mainline so presuming someone decided not to annoy Pixar & JL, that listing is an error – maybe it’s another Lightning McQueen (sad but likely) or hopefully, it was a listing mistake and another NEW CAR will be included like Patti, Todd or even Andrea.

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The good news is there won’t be Race O Rama Mainline Cases with lots of Lightning McQueen’s after this.

BTW, CASE J is the last of the Race O Rama Mainline Cases with the current card height.

The good news is there are more Todd’s in this case – finally an understanding that people might want this CAR …

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(Matt56 NYCC photo – thanks Matt).

The CASE after this might be?

… AKA: The Big Unknown.

The switchover to ‘shorter’ 5.5″ is not a huge change or the switch to 24 CARS (as long as it’s not 8 McQueen’s in each) – that’s just admin stuff … the bigger unknown is the decision to mix in lenticular eyes CARS.

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Not exactly sure why you want to mess with a good great money making thing but they are splintering the line into lenticular eyes CARS and “classic” CARS … the plan was to sell the ‘classic’ CARS on Matty and other retailer/retailers but as we near April, it’s pretty clear that MattyCARS is taking a dirt nap and doesn’t look like it can roused in time to list dozens/hundreds of products in a few weeks, does it? … AND the lenticular eyes CARS cannot be released until AFTER the “classic” CARS have been out a month/a while (as part of the agreement with Pixar/JL) so it’s like having a game plan but none of the players have shown up.

Oh, and prices are going up.

So, it’s really hard to say what is going on? They really should just scrap the whole lenticular thing for some holiday box sets of the townies. It’s a cute idea and a nice supplement but why mess with the golden goose of CARS? How many other diecast lines are going all-blazes out after 3 years – good luck finding any NEW CARS on the shelf and now, some weird plan to roil the waters already with an extra mix of CARS that are the same CARS but with moving eyes? Like the Mini’s, it’s not a bad idea but as a supplement and NOT as a replacement. It’s not like the line needs ‘jazzing’ up for the sake of adding something – when you SELL OUT of every new CAR and the only thing left are McQueen’s, the problem is clearly not the line needs an artificial boost but the case mix needs serious work.

If Mattel really needs to raise prices a dime or so, we’ll live with that AND they save on the whole lenticular eyes thing. That sounds like a perfect townies box set for TRU – and higher margins – instead of confusing people with the two Mater’s on the shelf – just put lenticulars 5 to a box and charge $17.99 a box like the current boxes at TRU and at least it’s different and you collectors will have to get one to open 🙂 TRU gets an exclusive and everyone saves a lot of grief and logistics costs.

But presuming they someone get their act together, then expect this box sometime in early summer …

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Just like the transition from WOC to ROR happened but the Kmart Days CARS cards reflected neither …

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Yes, the Piston Cup racers will have “real” synthetic rubber tires … and other than it will be available at Kmart June 20, 2009 – any other logistical details are unknown but you can presume it will be much like the last one. Don’t worry – as we get closer, you will get more instructions and info.

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