Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: From the Vaults, “Viewer” Lightning McQueen
Another fun look back in the Martin A. historical vaults when he was the Design Manager/Team Lead back in 2008 …
One of the ideas pitched before Lenticulars was a lenticular scene included in the back of the diecast … this was a plastic prototype but the final would’ve been a diecast.
If you peer in, the viewer is a lenticular scene from the movie – in this case, the Tongue Lightning McQueen scene …
While it got approved, Mattel decided not to go ahead with producing these …
Thanks for the fun look back, Martin A.
28 October 2015
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These are cursed, but we should have gotten them
The idea that these may have become an actual line of Cars products leaves me cold. Talk about a dilution of the value of the diecasts.
something weird about looking up Lightning’s “tail pipe”