Mattel Disney Pixar CARS 2: Color Changers End of Life/Line?
Toys R Us insiders report in that Color Changers seem to have been given the designation EOL – aka: End of Life or aka: End of Line.
Which of course means the line is canceled and it seems unlikely that another retailer will pick it up. We’ll never really get confirmation that it’s official but generally, they don’t bother to EOL a UPC unless it’s really EOL.
It was an interesting line extension but never supported by a real distribution plan and it definitely hurt the line that it was all plastic (at the current price point).
There might be more in the warehouse pipeline that were already shipped but since nothing new has appeared since June, 2011 – it seems more likely the remaining stock will get clearanced soon. So, if you or were collecting them, the end is nigh.
And yes, the two-packs are also EOL.
BTW, you can actually make metal color changers but they do change slower and presumably they thought kids couldn’t wait that long … I think there would’ve been a lot more interest if these were metal but … moving on.
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metroxing
17 February 2012
Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 3
11 Comments
MET,what about the Checklane short cards line? Dead?
I have
MATER
MCQUEEN
HOLLEY
FINN
JEFF
TORQUE REDLINE
FRANCESCO
PROF. Z
do you know anyhting?
(MET: The list I have shows 10 but Rod is not the list … Nigel, Max & Carla are on the list also but I have not seen any since the first wave so???).
Thanks….anyway i have Rod short card in My hands..
It Was in C or B case.. I don’t remember…
I never why these had to exist. No offense to those who liked this line. Hopefully Mattel doesn’t start slashing entire lines of Cars II 🙁
Never knew these even existed. Then again, I never go to ToysRus.
I guess I can look forward to these clogging up the big lots shelves.
I never saw these except for at Toys R Us once — were they exclusives?
Yes, for the second movie. The first movie CC’s were nonexclusive.
Saw them at many Wal-Marts for the first movie. The last time I went to Kansas City- I believe it was November- there were still first movie color changers at a Wal-Mart in Chillicothe, MO. I would goes they are gone now or on $1 Clearance but I don’t know.
Yes, a TRU exclusive, and stickered as such.
Good news, they take up a lot of shelf space.
Ditto
My son and I liked these. We have a lot of fun with ours, but we do get water all over!:-) I would say the price and not that they are plastic is what hurt the sales.