Cars at San Diego Comic Con 2008 Photo Post #3

— July 29, 2008

Here are even more photos from Comic Con ‘08 of new diecast Cars at the Mattel booth. The photos are courtesy of deano at the carsthetoys.com forum. Thanks again deano!

Check out the rest of our Cars San Diego Comic Con ‘08 coverage below.

• Cars at San Diego Comic Con
• Cars at San Diego Comic Con photo post #1
• Cars at San Diego Comic Con photo post #2

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Cars at San Diego Comic Con 2008 Photo Post #2

— July 28, 2008

Here are some more photos from Mattel’s Cars diecast display at Comic Con ‘08. These photos are courtesy of Michael Crawford of Michael Crawford’s Review of the Week. Be sure to check out his site for more Comic Con news and great toy reviews. Thanks Mike!

Check out the post on Cars at San Diego Comic Con for all the details and the photo post for more photos!

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Cars at San Diego Comic Con 2008 Photo Post

— July 27, 2008

Here are the promised photos from Comic Con ‘08 of new diecast Cars at the Mattel booth. The photos are courtesy of deano at the carsthetoys.com forum. Thanks deano!

Check out our other post on Cars at San Diego Comic Con for all the details!

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Cars at San Diego Comic Con 2008

— July 27, 2008

If you’ve been under a rock this week, then you’ve missed the fact that San Diego Comic Con is going on. You also probably didn’t know that Cars has a big presence at Comic Con. So this post is an attempt to bring you all the news on the Cars die cast line coming out of San Diego. This article may go through several revisions once it’s posted, so keep checking back for updates.

Some of the biggest news this year is new trailers, long rumored “chase” Cars, more exclusives and oversized die cast Cars. The chase Cars include a re-scaled Fred with stickers, McQueen with stickers and the “boot” Cars, McQueen, DJ, Wingo, Boost and Snot Rod. Oversized Cars include a new, bigger Al Oft Lightyear blimp, a re-done diecast metal Barney Stormin, Marco FA-18 jet and Elvis. Also, there are several Target exclusives including the new storybook line.

Here is a comprehensive list of die cast Cars shown at San Diego this year.

These are Cars shown that have already been announced.

• Axel Accelrator (Police Car)
• Chick Crew Chief
• Dexter Hoover (w/ Checkered Flag)
• Dexter Hoover (w/ yellow Flag)
• Dustin Mellows
• Gretta
• Dinoco Crew Chief
• Leak Less Crew Chief
• Leroy Traffik
• Mini
• No Stall Crew Chief
• Race damaged King
• RPM Crew Chief
• Ron Hover
• Patty
• Lightning Storm McQueen
• Tires McQueen
• Tumbleweed McQueen

The rest are all new, making their debut at Comic Con for the first time.

McQueen

• Boot McQueen
• Finish Line McQueen (With big tongue)
• Night Vision McQueen
• Mud Face McQueen
• Smell Swell McQueen
• Sponsorless McQueen (in a three pack with Hudson and Flo)

Ramone

• Retro Ramone
• Wedding Day Ramone

Boot Tuners

• Boot DJ
• Boot Wingo
• Boot Snot Rod
• Boot Boost

Old Town Radiator Springs

• Edwin Kranks
• Hank “Halloween” Murphy
• Milton Calypeer

Press

• Skip Ricter
• Chuck Manifold
• Andrea

Trucks and Trailers

• Chick Trailer
• Dinoco Trailer (named Gray)
• Gil (Green and White Truck)
• Jerry Recycled Batteries (Semi that McQueen thinks in Mack)
• Mack (Die-Cast ?) w/ Rust-Eze trailer
• Mack w/ White Trailer
• Octain Gain Trailer
• Wal-Mart Truck

Pit Crew Members

• Chick Pitty (new)
• Easy Idle Pitty
• N20 Cola Pitty
• Nitroade Pitty
• Shiny Wax Pit Crew Chief
• Spare Mint Crew Chief
• Spare Mint Pitty
• Tank Coat Pitty (Jerry Drivechain)
• Trunk Fresh Pitty

Other Die-Cast Cars

• Cone Sally
• Costanzo Dell Corza (Mazarati friend of Ferrari)
• Polly Puddlejumper (King fan)
• Saluting Sarge
• Timothy Twostroke (McQueen Fan)
• Todd (Pizza Planet Truck)

Oversized Diecasts

• Lightyear Blimp
• Barney Stormin’
• Elvis
• Marco FA-18

Much of this info comes from the carsthetoys.com forum, so go there and check it out. For any questions or corrections, please leave them in the comments below. Next up is a Cars at San Diego Comic Con photo post so stay tuned!

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MattyCollector.com

— July 27, 2008

Mattel announced their new collector website at Comic Con on Thursday. The new site is MattyCollector.com. Guess all the good names were taken.

It was viewable on Thursday when it launched, with all the exclusives from the show listed. However, they were all listed as coming soon. Now it has been replaced with a splash page with the countdown to Monday morning. Mattel has said that a limited number of exclusives from the show will be for sale on the new site when it officially debuts Monday morning at 8 AM.

Mattel has issued a press release on the launch of the new site. Here is an excerpt below. Enjoy.

Beginning Monday, our online store will have limited quantities of our 2008 San Diego Comic Con Exclusives: MOTU Classics King Grayskull,™ DC Universe Classics Lobo, Justice League Unlimited Giganta and Lightning Storm Lightning McQueen. If you weren’t lucky enough to make it to the Con, this is your chance to get them while supplies last!

In the coming months Matty’s Store will offer unique exclusive products unavailable anywhere else – including DC Universe Classics 2-packs and Justice League Unlimited 4-packs. MattyCollector.com will also be the only place you can get Mattel’s all-new line of Masters of the Universe® Classics figures, with a new figure available every month starting with He-Man® in October!

Take some time now to register for Matty’s Newsletter so we can keep you up-to-date whenever new products are being offered and major announcements are made. In the coming months, look for dedicated pages for your favorite Mattel brands like DC Universe, Masters of the Universe Classics® and CARS die cast.

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