Mater's Cousins Story Tellers

The series continues with Mater’s Cousins and the Motorama Girls. There are 6 new Cars in all, including Mater’s Cousins which are Jud, Cletus and Buford and the Motorama Girls, which are Sheila, Laverne and Rhonda.

Motorama Girls Story Tellers

The first Story Tellers showed up last year during the holiday season. These are also currently being stocked at Targets, in the single and 3 packs. These are exclusive to Target stores, but the Mater Saves Christmas Story Tellers are not.

See the previous post for more information on the Story Tellers. You may also remember the pic of Bubba from that post. No word on when he is coming yet. But Bubba will be mega sized though, so that may put a twist on trying to get him into the Story Tellers line.

Mater Saves Christmas Gift Pack

The gift pack is showing up first, and the boxset contains an exclusive Mater. The Mater is only available in the gift pack and not as a single. So I’m not really sure why anyone would buy the singles, unless you just don’t want Mater. But who wants Mater Saves Christmas without Mater? This seems like another Mattel ploy to get more money out of collectors.

Here is the list of singles.

Christmas Cruiser Ramone
Decked Out Doc Hudson
Snow Day Sally
Holiday Hotshot Lightning McQueen
Holiday Spirit Sheriff

Update: the singles are also showing up at Toys R Us, but no word on whether the gift pack is still exclusive. Also, there are 2 types of packaging for the singles, the normal Target style story tellers packaging and new snow globe packaging.

See this post for more Mater Saves Christmas photos.

Chase King with Piston Cup

Look My Eyes Change case D is now showing up at retail. The chase Car is The King with Piston Cup. I believe this completes the Piston Cup trilogy. Is there anything left to say about the lenticular Cars? No? Didn’t think so.

Here is the full case assortment for Look My Eyes Change case D.

Bling Bling Lightning McQueen x3
Boost
Dirt Track Lightning McQueen x2
DJ
Fabulous Hudson Hornet
Fillmore
Kathy Copter x2
King with Piston Cup (Chase)
Leak Less x2
Lightning McQueen x3
Mater
Pit Crew Member Guido
Ramone (Green)
Sally
Sarge
Sheriff
Tex Dinoco

Mater's Tall Tales Book

Also now showing up is Mater Saves Christmas. I found it at Target this week. It’s also getting Christmas Cars based on the book. Mater saves Christmas is also available on Amazon here. The book itself is pretty good. And although only 6 Cars have been shown so far, there are even more in the book that could be made.

Mater Saves Christmas

If you have read one of these, let us know what you think in the comments.

This is set to be available at Best Buy on Nov. 10 for $44.99. You can also pre-order this now on Amazon for $34.99.

Gil Hauler

Here is the full case break down.

Mack Hauler – 1
Gil Hauler – 2
Leak Less Hauler – 1
Trunk Fresh Hauler – 1
Nitroade Hauler – 1

Each 24 pack case contains 19 Kmart exclusive racer vehicles with Real Synthetic Rubber Tires (7 different characters). The Kmart exclusive vehicles with real synthetic rubber tires include:

#84 Re-Volting
#52 Leak Less
#68 N2O Cola
#58 Octane Gain
#73 Rev-N-Go
#76 Vinyl Toupee
#34 Trunk Fresh

There are 5 lenticular Cars in the assortment.

Brand New Mater
Chick Hicks
Lightning McQueen
Ramone (Yellow)
Sheriff

I don’t expect this will be much different from the Cars Collector Day this summer. Probably even less of an event since the Cars aren’t as exciting this time around. However, I will be going tomorrow to pick up the racers. Let us know how your experience was in the comments.

Team Dinoco Crew
Team HTB Crew
Team Leak Less Crew

Each box set has a crew chief and 3 pittys. Strange that there is no Rust-Eze crew. Maybe because there were different Rust-Eze teams? We are finally getting the Dinoco and HTB crew chiefs that were first shown in early 2008, I believe. Here is a photo gallery. Again, look for these only at Target on October 11, along with the Final Lap Cars.

And here are the toys.

I wasn’t aware, but it appears this is a Toys R Us exclusive. Here is the list of characters: TJ, Murphy, Charlie Cargo, Frank Pinkerton and Sarge. TJ is much bigger than the previous Walmart exclusive version. Compare him with Sarge to get an idea of scale.

So be on the lookout for these at Toys R Us. You can find some already on eBay here.

Each 24 pack case* contains 19 Kmart exclusive racer vehicles with Real Synthetic Rubber Tires (7 different characters), 2 new to market vehicles and other highly demanded vehicles as well. The Kmart exclusive
vehicles with real synthetic rubber tires include:

#84 Re-Volting
#52 Leak Less
#68 N2O Cola
#58 Octane Gain
#73 Rev-N-Go
#76 Vinyl Toupee
#34 Trunk Fresh

*Quantities are while supplies last, and the assortment may vary.

Update: There are 5 lenticular Cars in the assortment.

Brand New Mater
Chick Hicks
Lightning McQueen
Ramone (Yellow)
Sheriff

Since it is the first release of Yellow Ramone and Brand New Mater as lenticulars on card, we assume that those are the 2 “new to market” Cars. So yes this is very disappointing. I will be going to get the rubber tire racers and nothing else, and I won’t be pre-ordering a case.