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Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Target 11-Pack Lizzie with Radio, Radio

Thanks for the heads up and photos, “John H.”

There is a new Target 10-pack with a new Lizzie … and radio.

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The Radiator Springs Friends Gift Pack with 11 Townies.

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The radio is a nice accessory.

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Regular Lizzie (L) with the “new” Lizzie with Radio (R). Her eyebrows look different so “Lizzie with Radio” counts a new release and not just a variant. Hard to tell if anything else is different.

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This is regular Lizzie with the new radio.

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With Wedding Day Stanley.

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As for the other 10 releases, presumably they are all the recent variants with the flat windshields so if you’re a variant collector, here’s your chance to scoop them all up.

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I’ve been told the purple headlamps are correct for the Model T. The lamps gave off the appearance they were purple.

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John H. notes … “The legs are a soft rubbery material that bends. Strangely there’s no marking on the radio bottom (“Mattel”, “Disney”, “Pixar”, “Made in”, etc) that will pin this object to the Cars universe. I expect this accessory will quickly become very rare. If you look at both screencaps, it appears from the night shot that the radio should have had a silvery faceplate. The toy designers likely worked off the scene with Red where the radio looks brown in front.

For the Precision Lizzie’s Curio Shop it would be terrific if they did “Sleeping Lizzie” with a lit up radio dial.
A detail that I think Pixar missed would have been to include the Civilian Defense markings on the radio dial. Of course one could argue that maybe in the Cars world there was no Cold War, or that Lizzie’s radio was made after 1963.
CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation)
Between 1953 and 1963 all new radios sold in the United States were required by law to have a triangle in a circle at the 640 and 1240 spots on the AM dial. The triangles marked the Civil Defense (CD) stations.
In the event of an emergency all United States television and FM radio stations were required to stop broadcasting. Upon alert most mediumwave stations shut down. The stations that stayed on the air would transmit on either 640 or 1240 kHz. They would transmit for several minutes and then go off the air and another station would take over the same frequencies in rotation so that enemy aircraft could not use the broadcasts as a navigation aid.
By the early 1960’s the development of Soviet missiles had made the civil defense system obsolete and it was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System in 1963.
The set is $39.99 at Target, each store appears to have gotten four in. I doubt there will be a huge rush on these but I don’t think they’ll sit long enough to go on clearance.”

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Elvis Costello RADIO, RADIO lyrics appropriate. 🙂

Thanks, “John H!”

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5 Comments

  • pwschuh says:
    June 13, 2016 at 2:52 am

    New accessory yes, but I’m not seeing a variation in Lizzie here. Eyes look pretty much the same to me.

    • John says:
      June 13, 2016 at 9:03 am

      I don’t see the difference either.

      Target DPCI is # 087-07-3586, ask the sales clerk to bring one out if there’s not one on display.

    • John says:
      June 13, 2016 at 9:16 am

      By-the-way, Model T headlight glass started out clear when the cars were new. One approach to decolorizing glass used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was to add manganese dioxide to the mix the glass was being made from. This mix of glass turns purple if left out in the sun for many years. I think most brass era cars were kept garaged, but Model Ts being a lot less expensive tended to be kept outdoors more often and so the chemical reaction seems to be more common in Model Ts.
      If you look at old commercial buildings you’ll see lots of purple glass in the prismatic panes high up above the storefronts. Also in the sidewalk where you find purple glass squares or circles that let light into basement storerooms. These were all clear originally.

      In ‘Time Travel Mater’ Lizzie’s headlights should still be clear. (I can’t remember if they were?)

    • Ryan says:
      June 13, 2016 at 3:58 pm

      Look the same to me as well!

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