In addition to all the new Cars announced at San Diego Comic Con, Mattel announced there will be a Wal-Mart exclusive wave of Cars scheduled to be out in October 2007. The wave is planned to consist of the following Cars, some of which were shown at Comic Con.
- Ghostlight Ramone
- T. J. Hummer
- Official Pace Car
- Cactus McQueen
- Lightyear Blimp
- Kori Turbowitz
- Chick’s Crew Chief
- Plane
Here is a link to a photo gallery on Michael Crawford’s web site and on figures.com of the Mattel Cars display at SDCC.
I found the first four at my Walmart in Sept. I just need to watch for the other four.
No specific date of release but they should be in the current store sales ads. See here
http://carstoys.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/cars-wal-mart-exclusive-wave-is-out-now/
and here
http://carstoys.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/wal-mart-exclusive-cars-wave-2-is-out/
for more info. Both waves are also showing up on eBay as well.
Is ther a more spacific date of releace? I was at Walmart yesterday and they had no clue about these cars, as to be expected I guess.