Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Crew Chiefs & Pitty’s-The Photo ID
It’s even nicer than first thought …
You get ALL THREE Pitty sizes – Fat, Wide AND Tall plus the Crew Chief + the toolchest & TWO sets of tires.
Other than it’s only at Target, it’s like a pie out of the oven with whip cream and ice cream … in other words, I’ll be bellying up to the table, who’s with me?
These should even outsell the fabled ‘hotcakes’ that I’ve heard so much about. Does Target sell ‘hotcakes?’ Are they essentially pancakes or flapjacks? I do prefer my flapjacks off a hot giant griddle versus a box from the frozen section … and who’s with me? … the flapjacks should be yelling over a cascade of maple syrup, “I’m drowning! I’m drowning in butter and pure maple syrup! Glug, glug, glug, glug.”
Even the box is a nice touch with a corresponding sponsor logo in the right corner – most excellent!
And some nice close-ups of the two Crew Chiefs not yet released though, of course, it’s not your wavering 🙂
When will these be in stores?
Hopefully soon – but as with every Target item, unknown – SURPRISE!
I’m sure it will be there by the holiday reset – here’s hoping the stores get more than 1 shipment like the Team Haulers of last year …
Thanks for the nice pics, SlicePie Jake.
(The kind of pie with pizza sauce is nice also …)
And on one final note – not to be annoying but isn’t this the ONE TIME we DO WANT A Team Rusteze Crew Set?
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24 August 2009
94 Comments
Sweet! Almost as good as my dream of pitty 4 packs!
Well I am honored to get a “Welcome” from MET, thanks! Good to hear from you PirateDad and I will be looking for those VIP passes from John in Missouri, I can picture the VIP Club…walls lined with display cases of Cars! So I wonder what Car would be in the center display with all the lights? Any thoughts? MET what do you think would be on the center display?
(MET: I’m in the basement eating a damp churro … there’s an upstairs?)
Well, in my house it is the autographed picture of Scott Baio!!
Would have to be Dark Mater….
maybe Texas Tea
sitting on Man furniture ? (plastic milk crates)
Not related to pitty’s but since they are having all the Christmas 1:55s this year, are they going to do halloween cars again? mini’s?
I wish, Cone Vampire Mater!
oh, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello everyone! I feel like I know all of you, been reading the daily comments for quite a while, I have not commented myself much but I wanted to introduce myself. I am a fellow collector in central Florida and love reading the news and comments on a daily basis! I go by the name of Driveshaft. It is funny, friends & family think I am crazy for collecting, but it is nice to know that I am not alone in this ADDICTION. LOL Anyway hope you all have a great day and keep searching those shelves…there is always tomorrow!
Driveshaft
(MET: Hello and thanks for joining us! 🙂 ).
Hello Driveshaft….admitting you have a problem is the first step….
My name is PirateDad and I am a Carsoholic!!!
PirateDad, do you want to send Driveshaft the information on purchasing Elevator Passes for the Take5 V.I.P. Club, or should I do that?
The Elevator Pass is pretty expensive….maybe he should start with the Stairs…after all, you and I did…have to work your way up to the Elevator!!
what do you mean…. I started out with the Elevator pass…. I must have connections!!!! 😆 😉
With curves like THAT!??!?! of course!!!!!!
😆
I cant wait to hear about getting a key to the executive restroom……
OLe ,again something lickely unavailable in Europe,keep it going Mattel!!!
ok, so let me try to get this right, so far on the Dinoco set there was what 1 pitty released – wasn’t his name Luke Pettlewarmer or something like that. and I think he was the short one but not the fat one. So the other 3 cars are new??? As far as HTB’s set I think 2 of the 3 pitty’s have been released or is it all of them? The HTB crew cheif is new. As far a Leakless isn’t the fat one new but the rest have been released? or was only the tall pitty released and the other 2 are new? Darn it – my head hurts.
(MET: HTB Pitty (aka: Bruiser Bukowski) was released in the following configs: as a WM 8 single (no toolchest); as a ROR Movie Moment with Chick Hicks (no toolchest) (out now in US, available in Int;’l packaging for a while); in the Team hauler package at Target only with the Hauler & Chick; and in the 3-pack with Mater & one other HTB Pitty).
Dinoco Pitty was originally known as Luke Pettlework. The other 3 in the set are new; 2 new pittys and 1 new crew chief.
All 3 pittys in the HTB set have technically been released. The crew chief is new.
In the Leak Less set, only the middle pitty, known as Stacy, has been released. The Crew Chief has been released.
Regarding the HTB Crew Set…
Bruiser has been released with both blue eyes and brown eyes. One was the original WM8 and the other came with the Mater/Wide Chick Pitty/Bruiser 3 pack. I have International Bruiser/Chick Movie Moments sets that I got from UK friends that have Bruiser with both blue eyes and Bruiser with brown eyes.
It’s those funky colored contact lenses!
I wanna see a Mini’s Team Set!
Those would be some tiny pittys!
Cool sets.
The mater and 3 pittys is at walmart for 9.97. I couldn’t see adding one more pitty and charging $10 more.
Maybe the $10 is for the extra set of tires?
You mean 2 pittys in the WM version, don’t you?
NO I don’t.
The Mater comes with 3 green pitty’s. At least the one I bought did, it was the only one on the shelf last week.
Along with showgirls, the chick set with mia & tia, the leakless set.
And it was 9.97.
Yeah but you get the BRAND NEW crew chief! 🙂
Doesn’t the Chick logo on the crew chief look like something from “That Seventies Show” or an infomercial for a 70’s collection of songs on CD?
not as much as it Leakless looks like LearLess!
Like it should be a glossy iron-on on a tank-top?
Exactly, maybe with a little metallic effect! KC and the Sunshine Band style!
MET, is there any likelihood that the crew chiefs will be available as singles as well?
(MET: My guess is no. My guess is they are going to try and whittle down the singles to a core group … the Pitty & Crew Chief makes sense as people will want them together anyway … but anything is possible ;-/ ).
Mattel Rep response . . . um . . if WE can make YOU buy a 4 pack of cars with only ONE new Car inside . . WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ SINGLE!! 😈
Typical corporate response! You slipped into “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”! “Badges! We don’t need no stinking(TakeFiveADay)badges!”
umm the fat leakless pitty looks weird
are you a kingdom hearts fan cuz im makin my own version and btw i cant wait until 358/2 days! We can be great friends!!
Which is fat and which is wide?
fat is the ROUND one, wide looks like the tall just shorter and wider . . . more square . . . fat is round and plump . . 🙂 In the dinoco box from left to right: FAT, Tall, WIDE . . . 🙂
That’s what I thought, but why was the 3-Pack with Mater and Bruiser listed as coming with Wide Pitty (and not Fat Pitty)?
Hey dont let PD hear you talking about him that way
Knot me…I wood be the HUGE Pitty!!!!
GOOD NEWS! remember at the SDCC. we saw a cheif and 3 pittys of team Bumper Save. maybe they will release that!
Agreed, hopefully these are the first in a long series of team sets. ALL NON LENTICULAR…right? We can only hope.
I definitely want to collect them all! Even after seeing TarheelBill do the math in the previous post.
so do I. plus ALL the rest.
Nice!…..But $19.99 plus tax x 36 = $770.00 Ouch!
yeah…. like they will make all 36 teams….. I say 6 or 7 tops…
that is the single most disappointing thing about the whole line.
they haven’t even released all the racers yet.
(MET: Well, technically they have ;-/ 🙂 ).
You are probably right about that. First Singles, then Movie Moments (2 Packs), then 3 Packs, now 4 Packs, next add the race car and you have a 5 Pack…then 6 Pack…then 7 Pack……………… 😯 It’s not hard to see a pattern here. Only in their eyes they see $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. 😉
Oh, you forgot the CREW CHIEF STANCE… and then the little Retaining wall in front…and then for Christmas 2031 a special Deluxe EVERYTHING SET, with Cars, Petty’s Crew Chief, Crew Chief Stance, Retaing Wall, Buildings in the background, Side-ground, Middle-Ground, RV Parking lot, Grand Stand, But the TRACK will be in the following year’s Complete Set… but only Curves in one box and Straight in yet another box.
Bet you’ll see Dinoco and Chick Chiefs swapped with the King and Chick.
That would be rotten
The Chick set shows 2 tall Pitty’s instead of the wide Pitty
You’re right. Only difference is the eye color.
And one has raised eye-lids.
OMG!!! They are tasty!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEHOW MAKE YOUR WAY TO TEH UK 🙁
P.s They ain’t Lenticlar are they?! I don’t like them.. (UUUUUGLY)
dude . . . no one will buy these . . . . ULESS YOU PUT THEM ON THE SHELF!!!!!!!!!! GO TARGET . . . GET THE STOCK . . . PUT IT OUT . .. WE WILL BUY!!! THUD . . . . uuuhhhhhhhhh . . . what just happened, was I dreaming . . .NO . . . THEY ARE REAL . . . PUT THEM OUT!! 🙂
great, more stuff for america and not the rest of us!
you know i cant even recall ever seeing a cars multipack here in the uk,
its like…mattel dont want me to spend my money on them, fine by me, bye mattel!
Now were at risk of buying team pit crew sets, such as Leak Less, and duplicating crew chiefs to get pittys that haven’t been available before! More decisions to make! My head hurts!
I know what I want…er, the kids want…for Christmas!
Target Exclusive = $14.99 (I would say)
MET: I think $19.99 minimum).
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I thought that also, but the 4-pack with Revolting is $14.99 and it’s 4 “full” sized cars (nevermind repeats).
You also have to think that they are packaging 2 pitty’s in a pack for the tall tales and selling them at the std car price. I bet it is in the $14.99 range as well.
Shelf tags are already up at Target, $19.99
prices are a risin….
I think those shelf tags are for the Mater Tall Tales 4 Packs, not these. I still don’t believe the 19.99 price. Anyone else with me on that?
Since they said CREW CHIEF 4-PACK on the tag, I think they are the right ones.
This is a rip off at 19.99….$5 a CAR…wow, it’s like we just fast forwarded 2 or 3 years.
With that being said….my wallet will happily be $60 lighter this fall when these 3 sets show up. DARN YOU MATTEL!!!
I call them: Piston Cup Nights: The Ballad of Lightning McQueen
i want these omg!! we were just talking about how we need more pitties!!!! bring on ALL OF THEM!!!
These look great, nice packaging too! After suffering at the hands of my little guy for well over a year now, I guess it’s time to start replacing some of his pitties!
(drools…)
NEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!
MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 222222222222222222222!!!!!!!!!!!!
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
sorry… got excited….
you can pre-order these on Amazon $39.99
oops.. I meant the Blu-Ray/ Ransburg McQueen…
Can’t find it on Amazon. Do you have a link?
I have a good home for all of these!
Keep ’em coming.
And on a completely different note, I just read on CarstheToys
that The Cars DVD is being rereleased with McQueen & Mater.
Gold Rans. & Rescue Squad?
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3315
(MET: Um, June & follow up Post).
sounds lame. I will not buy it if it comes with gold (I’m tacky) lightning mcqueen
but its ransburg!!! not like gold mia and tia lol
right but it wasn’t in the movie….
Yes, I was just wondering if this is indeed the same thing.
Rescue Squad Mater does imply a Cars Toon connection.
Possibly two different sets? And that the release date might
be of some interest.
ummm…. yeah…. COLLECT THEM ALL!!!!! I think I might have to get a second job at Target!!!!! Does anyone else wonder where Jake gets his info…. it’s a conspiracy, man!!! And yes Met, I DO want the Team Rusteze Crew Set!!!!!!
Optimist John in Missouri loves this concept. 🙂
Pessimist John in Missouri wonders why they everything always has to come out in the prescribed order of Dinoco, HtB, and Leak Less. Let me guess, the next sets will be Nitroade, RPM, and Spare Mint. 🙁
YEP, same order. Same check list that I have, EXCEPT; I wonder if the shelves are going to be loaded with McQueen’s “FIRED CREW CHIEF”… Maybe even include one more Mcqueen!!!
Yeah, but it would only be McQueen and his pitty’s, because in the race they mention how he had fired his crew chief.
well they mentioned it, so therefore he HAD one…. and we need him!!!!
Yes, bring on the Rust•Eze pickup truck Crew Chief! And My Name is Not Chuck is in serious need of some friends!
yes he is!!!!!! Poor little guy, nobody knows his real name!!!!!
McQueen had 2 different crew chiefs in the comic…. don’t think we will see a Red Hummer stuffed in one of these though….
OMG I LOVE IT!!!!
Me too.