After making several trips looking for new Cars lately and coming up empty handed, I started to wonder which Cars are the most plentiful on retail shelves. The easy answer is Lightning McQueen since he has the most variants, but what would the other ones be?
Rather than go by my perceptions, I decided to dig into the lists of what Cars are in each case and how many. I used the list from the Upcoming Cars Checklist, from last year’s case T to the most recent case G, to calculate which ones appear most often and how many are per case. The actual stats are pretty interesting and match up fairly well with what I have personally seen.
Top 10 Cars Peg Warmers
- Bling Bling McQueen – 6
- Dinoco Helicopter – 5
- Pit Crew Fillmore – 5
- Pit Crew Hornet – 5
- Radiator Springs McQueen – 5
- Ramone Green – 5
- Bug Mouth McQueen – 4
- Dinoco McQueen – 4
- Dirt Track McQueen – 4
- RPM #64 – 4
There you have it. Without having any actual numbers to go by, I felt that was pretty accurate to what I have seen in stores, not counting Wal-Marts that may have extra Wal-Mart exclusives still on the shelves.
Since I already had my stats, I thought I would keep going. Next I came up with a list of which characters had the most variants. As you might have guessed, Lighting McQueen had the most variants with 33 from case T to case G. Ramone was an obvious runner up but with not nearly as many as McQueen with 15.
Most Variants – Lightning McQueen = 33
- Bling Bling McQueen
- Bug Mouth McQueen
- Cactus McQueen
- Cruisin’ McQueen
- Dinoco McQueen
- Dirt Track McQueen
- Lightning McQueen
- Radiator Springs McQueen
- Tongue McQueen
Second Most Variants – Ramone = 15
- Cruisin’ Ramone
- Ghostlight Ramone
- Hydraulic Red Ramone
- Ramone – Green
- Ramone – Old School
- Ramone – Purple
- Ramone – Yellow
At the other end of the spectrum, I was able to list which Cars have the fewest in each assortment. These are the Cars that had only one release from case T to case G. I thought this list was pretty accurate as well.
Top 12 Rarest Cars
- Boost
- Cruisin’ Ramone
- Darrell Cartrip
- Fillmore
- Hamm
- Hydraulic Red Ramone
- Lizzie
- Nitroade
- Ramone – Old School
- Sarge
- Snot Rod
- Young Mater
There you have it. Your experience may vary, as this list is just speculative, based on the assortment lists, and each store will be different. What do you think? Do you agree or disagree?
I will agree witht the blogger posted. McQueens are everywhere here in the states, second comes Lizzie, (OMG!! Kmart and Target are loaded with her!) and then Ramone, and then comes the Buzz & Woody Movie Moments and the Sally & Crusin’ McQeeen Movie Moments.
I own only one Hamm, from the “Supercharged” series, but no Hamm from the “WOC” series. He is nowhere to be found!
Also, I have only seen two Mario Andretti in the 30 stores I frequent.
I only started collecting CARS in January 2008, and I already have 95% of all ever made…..
I’m from Canada, but I have to disagree based on what I’ve seen. Ramone tops the pegwarmer list by leaps and bounds. He’s everywhere! Green and Yellow are the worst offenders. I’ve been to quite a few stores that only have Ramone on the pegs. Sometimes in the dozens. And this has been for the past 6 months to a year.
All the other Cars on the pegwarmers list are around here and there, but I wouldn’t exactly call them pegwarmers, especially compared to Ramone.
And I don’t know about Hamm being on the rare cars list. Next to Ramone, he’s probably the one I see the most on the pegs.