Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Silver Racers Return to the US
The Silver Racers (formerly a Kmart CARS Day exclusive) have returned to the US with a new packaging look.
Thanks “Christine L.” for the heads up & photos.
I’m presuming they look the same as the previous releases. While the CARS 2 WGP racers were first released with segmented faces, by the time these silver “repaints” were released, the racers were all unibodies as these are (except for Raoul Caroule) who seems to have stayed segmented.
11 of the 12 WGP racers were released in silver, only Rip is missing in action. There is also a Frosty silver metallic (not released in the US).
However, in the US Jeff Gorvette was released without the Corvette tampo decal on his hood that was fixed in the Australian release of Jeff Gorvette. I don’t see Jeff Gorvette in the photo from Christine so it might be re-released yet? If so, for completist, they have presumably fixed in this US release so you might want one more to have the corrected variant.
Reported at Walmart’s only so a re-exclusive?
Thanks “Christine L.” for the heads up & photos.
Not online at Walmart.com but you can get the Mater Tokyo Pitty 2-pack.
23 July 2015
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The Jeff Silver Racer I have has the Corvette “logo” on the front grill
not colored flags, just a black decal…..the crossed flags are also
on the rear trunk upper lip, but are blue / red colors.
I saw them at the local Walmart last night… Jeff Gorvette has the Corvette logo so I bought 2 (one to open, one to keep carded)… I left the rest.
In the Cars comic (issue 7) that has the Silver Racers story, Rip is the only WGP racer not invited to the race.
This is probably the reason there is no Silver Rip diecast and probably never will be.
(MET: Interesting, thanks!).
My Walmarts restocked singles with these instead of new singles. Booooooo.
$6 a pop! I’ll pass!
My local Walmart Store has these silver cars at 4.34 each. 12 total vehicles on the pegs, so I’m guessing these come as a 12 pack/case.
These were 4.37 at my local Wallmart
What ever happened to silver Rip as I’m sure he made it to eBay a couple of years back just before the gold version but never got released?
I want that silver Shu, I missed him the first time around
-John