Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Final Lap CARS HERE … North Carolina FIRST?
According to “BMW” – her grandson spotted a “Fab Hudson Hornet. There were no other final lap cars there. Only the lenticular mcqueens clogging the pegs. He said he looked at it cause the card was so different, and tried to call me but I was at work, so I missed his call. It was not there two days ago, he said.”
… He described the medallion on the upper right, and said there was an arrow on the blister pointing to the name tag.”
So, several things but first, a WINNER!
Monica (aka: Mater’s GF) was gracious enough to award a SDCC Rescue Squad Mater box to the first person who could name the date (and if necessary) the location of where they would first be spotted.
The winner!
Unimog
Submitted on 2009/08/23 at 7:56pm
California September 11
(My son is getting married on that day!)
SO CONGRATS on two things! Hope the wedding went well and you are sleeping it off 🙂
Or down in the hotel using free WiFi to read this 🙂 I have your email and will forward to Monica. Congrats and thanks.
BTW, Chuki_Mama submitted September 11 about 12 minutes later …
chuki_mama
Submitted on 2009/08/23 at 8:08pm
See, that’s why you should never log off the site – just kidding … Chuki_Mama can blame Comcast, she had trouble connecting for a while so it’s all their fault, I’m sure she started to send it at 7:55 PM 🙂
But tomorrow (or later today on the East Coast), it’s a doorbuster day! Get out there and report in – take photos … okay, honestly, I’ll bet 98.6 percent will find shelves full of Trunk Fresh Pitty’s but somewhere out there, someone will be lucky and walk (or drive rapidly home) with Final Lap CARS.
What’s in the first case?
You tell us.
This is the meager list of the CARS listed so far … this is NOT a case assortment list… there are 17 CARS on this list – 7 which are “new” if you count 2 Dexter Hoover’s waving different flags as new and it’s pretty unlikely we will see 7 new (ish) CARS in this case … so what’s the case breakdown?
It brings up an stocking-logistics issue that no can really answer …
Previously, Mattel made @60,000 of a “new” CAR – generally 2 of that new CAR went into a case or 40,000 was sold into the @20,000 cases of each dash code. The general pattern was that the next month, that new CAR of the last case would return with 1 or 20,000 going into the next dash case code. So @40,000 were available in CASE 1 and 20,000 in the case next month. This was split up between WM (@5,000 stores), Target (@1,800 stores) and TRU (@700 stores) and of course, other retailers and online sellers. You can do the math, 2 cases per store (on average) of the approximate 7,500 of the BIG THREE equals about 75% of the allotment and other retailers or online stores bought the rest.
Of course, as we all know, not every store got two cases, some would get 1, others might get 4 and others zero … but on average, about right …
So, here’s the logistic and production issue.
As part of the agreement to take the FINAL LAP CARS, How exactly will the 40,000 of a new CAR be distributed to “only” 1,800 Target stores? Plus the other 16 CARS in a case of 18, that’s 360,000 CARS per dash case code … or in other words, to match the revenue from last year per dash code, Target will have to take approximately 10 CASES per store – as they have less than 2,000 stores …
(remember, NO ONE else is selling Final lap CARS (as of now)).
Will Mattel pack the cases differently? Do we really need 10 Fabulous Hudson Hornets per store or … how many Lightning McQueen’s will we see in each case that a Target store might get 10 cases of … AND is Mattel going to slow production down on Final Lap CARS – otherwise, it’s a dash code every 4 weeks on average … and less during the holidays … so we have a lot of questions and not many answers …
We know there will be @40 CARS released over the next 12-14 months … SEE PHOTOS & PICTURES HERE. So, that’s obviously @3-4 PER MONTH … right now, I’m not sure anyone is convinced EVERY TARGET in America store will really get 20-30 Dexter Hoover with green flag (for instance) – it would be a nice pipe dream to just casually stroll into a store and buy as many Dexter Hoover’s as we like as if we’re buying Neosporin.
But who knows … please send in your pic of 30 Dexter Hoover’s with green flags … 🙂
So, happy hunting and report in with photos and regale us with your adventures in Target-land …
Thanks for the contest Monica and congrats UNIMOG … maybe we’ll all need a UNIMOG to carry the huge amount of Target Final Lap CARS home …
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12 September 2009
64 Comments
The should put “LOOK! I’m defective” next to the arrow ’cause it’s not obvious to the packers in China.
The eBay seller has the following:
Blowing Bubbles Mater
Polly Puddlejumper
Skip Ricter
Brand New Mater
So, either Mater on the list above has been replaced by Brand New Mater OR there are really 18 characters being released right now. I’ve asked the Seller what others they found / saw. I will post their answer here.
(MET: The “list” that I ran does not say it’s complete nor accurate nor in some release order … all I can say is that sometime in the next 12 months, we should see the 17 CARS on the list …)
well the loop is finished and noooooooooooooooooooo final laps anywhere around here??? i wonder where there at??? lol i’ll find them soon good luck to all who hunts.
ps: wheres my buddy from k-zoo been whould like to hear a post from your area report.
thx
flop
Doesn’t an arrow pointing to the nametag sound like a Lenticular??? I demand a recount! I don’t buy this story for a minute! I’m sorry BMW, but we need a photo to back this up.
Well I have egg all over my face don’t I? I just read the other post with the picture. 😳
dont worry 😉
I heard that egg is supposed to be very for the skin!!!
Thanks Jeanne! Thanks Flik’s Friend!
John, no worries. Do you need a Target egg?
Is it on a Final Lap card? 🙂
Hey guys! so aaron called 2 targets and they both said they had 40 of the cars with the dcpi number for the final lap singles… so they go to ‘CHECK’ and they say nothing says final lap on the shelf? and they dont have stock room locations?? sooo what do we do? should we drive there anyway and tell them to high tail it to the stock room and find them??
k met i just read up LOL apparently its the same number for the regular singles .. ugh.. LOL.. well we scored some toons singles at the TRU there so we will just go by target anyway lol
P.S.
I was told I won some T-shirt and a checklist book. LOL.
Think my grandmother would like to have them, so send them to her!
“the grandson”
Ben sent the photos to Met of the Final Lap he found, I uploaded the pics
First on peg, second close up of front with weird arrow, third is back.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26216606@N06/3912976438/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26216606@N06/3912977250/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26216606@N06/3912193621/in/photostream/
I guess I’m the “grandson” who found these in Durham, NC last night. LOL.
Don’t really collect them, but my grandmother does.
She will post some pics that I took of it on the pegs. What is strange about the FHH is that it has this red arrow sticker on the blister. It is firmly attached. See pics, very weird.
Also, the date stamp on the back is 2029 EAB, which is much earlier than the Race-o-ramas that I compared it to at Target.
In addition, when I scanned this FHH Final Lap car at Target, it came back as item not found. Furthermore, when I checked out, it would not ring up and I had to just tell them the price on it.
Something strange about all this, says my grandmother, but these are the facts as I know them.
Good luck to all!
“the grandson”
Went to 2 Targets this morning and not a single one….
going to head to the east bay and hopefully will find them all
Congratulations to the winners! We really have two winners – the grandson who found them first, and the one who guessed the day right! Nice 🙂
hmmm…if they were found in NC, didn’t I say sept 10th in NC?
(MET: Well, you were right about NC but BMW said September 11 so early by a day – I’ll send you a magazine for having the right state).
awww thanx met…
Just got out of the shower….. going to Target now…. hopefully I find something good!!!! I’ll let ya’ll know!!!!
Wishing you good luck in your hunt!!!
thanks and Happy Birthday!!!! No Final Lap at Target, but I did finally score the Showgirls pack!!
“But who knows … please send in your pic of 30 Dexter Hoover’s with green flags”
How about we compromise, and I send you a pic of 30 Tumbleweed McQueens?
Definitely going to target today! we’ll see! 🙂
I POSTED ABOUT THE CARS ON CARS THE TOYS YESTERDAY MORNING
Is there a different DCPI for the Final Lap cars, or is it the same as the mainline singles (08707 0921)?
(MET: as far as we can can tell, the same so calling is probably not going to help …).
I would guess that the DPCI # for Final Lap is the same since the old singles and the lenticular singles have the same #
Thornton, CO.
Shopping report:
I went to Targets website, looking for CARS. Clicked on Mattel, found Cars, never beleived it but a lot of recent Haulers were there, including such as Gil, Shiney wax, etc. Not available on they website but you can put in the city and state you are in and it will list stores around you that do have them. Hope this is true. I am going to call some of the stores and see if they are available there.
Not true. All the haulers have the same DPCI number. So it is probably just ones like Mack, Gray, Chick etc…
Denver, Co
shopping report
All the haulers do have the same DPCI: 087-07-1891
Gil- asin: B001Q8MB16
Catalog Number: 11143141
Nitroaide same DPCI
ASIN: B001Q8K2UI
Catalog # 11143083
No Stall
B001Q8M7H4
catalog: 11143080
RPM
Asin: B001Q8REK4
Catalog: 11143081
Shiny Wax: B001Q8K3IG
catalog # 1143085
Really weird. Not a single Final Lap on eBay.
Worse is that the only ones I’ve seen have been Polly Puddlejumper and Skip Richter. Could these be the only 2 new cars in the first case???
And I thought I could sleep in this morning!
Hmmmm . . . time to hit my Targets this morning!!
Central Florida . . . LOOK OUT, HERE I COME!
Did you get lucky ❓
Nice avatar!
Thanks..
Wohoooo! You made the jump and got an avatar – NICE!
Thanks! 🙂 Not as cute as yours… 😉
Met posted “this is NOT a case assortment list”
I see that now, part of the post wasn’t showing up when I read it the first time. My bad.
Met, is there 1 missing? Only 17 in the case?
Really too bad that the entire list isn’t all NEW releases……only 7 out of 17, if my count is correct?
But, we’ll take what we can get, huh?
Part of the post wasn’t showing when I read it……oops! Sorry about that! PirateDad will have me walking the plank! Or WOOD he?
I’m gonna let this one go…but I am keeping an eye on you!!!
Make him WALK!! :p
My grandson Ben is the winner!
First in the Nation to find them!
congrats to Unimog!
let the hunt begin!
hmmm…. I would think they would be all over ebay if they were found today, but not a single one…..
that is what my son said as well, when my grandson Ben found the FHH in Durham, N.C. this evening. None on ebay, but he did find the first one and he described it perfectly. He will go back and get it and I told him to take a picture. There was only one sitting on top of the haulers. He mentioned the gold medallion on the upper right. He knew it was new or different, but since it was the FHH, decided to leave it. Maybe a scalper got the rest. But the Final lap was not there two days ago, as he checks frequently for Green lights, and other cars he collects.
now on ebay listed at noon today Sept 12.
Three from Chino Hills California seller.
Blowing Bubbles Mater
Skip ricter
and
Polly Puddlejumper
Yeah..I don’t know where this guy gets all this, he usually have a lot of new stuff before anybody! I’ll have to go around his area then to see if there’s something..
Either way, CONGRATS!!! Wanted the Final Lap out on 9/11 so that there would be something 8) COOL to celebrate w/ my BD.. 🙂
(MET: Happy Birthday, Chuki_Mama – you at the D23 Thing?)
Wish I was. 🙁 Kids started school 09/09/09 🙂
(MET: Their just taking attendance for 3 days, they should be at D23 getting a real education … well, at least according to he Disney press release).
I wish… My parents live about 8 miles from Disneyland.. Growing up near there, you take it for granted. Now that we live in another state, the kids get a big kick out of getting to go to Cali, Disneyland, and spending time with the grandparents!!! Should have extended my vacation… 😀
Can I live with your parents???? I’m sure they need another child!! 😆
Sure, my mom is probably missing having 5 kids around. She’s down to one and a grandson… The more, the merrier.. 😉
hahahahahha…. packing now!!!!! 😆
Can you see me now?
I logged out & back in…. and yay!!!! I can see you now!!!! Cool AVATAR!!!!!!
Thanks… Finally found one that I liked…
it is sooooooo cute!!!!!!
Any luck with your hunt?
found the showgirls… finally!
It’s not official until we see pictures. Come on Met, request them.
(MET: Remember – first photo wins a t-shirt or checklist magazine! So get out your red vests 🙂 ).