Update: Darth Mater sold at auction for $10,000.
This year, Mattel’s Dream Halloween event is being held on Saturday October 25th, from 5 to 8:30 PM in Santa Monica, CA. This is an annual event where one of a kind items are auctioned off to support the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation. Same as last year, Mattel has a very special Cars related item up for auction. From MattyCollector.com:
Collectors,
Dream Halloween is right around the corner. This is a fantastic event where Mattel teams created one-of-a-kind collector items to auction off for Children Affected by Aids. This year, among the spectacular toys are two items we showed off first at San Diego Comic Con, the one-of-a-kind Darth Mater and the second and last publically available “Spirit of Grayskull” figures. Both are fantastic collector items with all proceeds from the auction going to a very noble cause.
If you are interested in attending the event or would like more information about bidding from home please go to www.CAAF4kids.org.
Darth Mater:
It’s Halloween in Radiator Springs and Mater from Disney/Pixar’s CARS has decided to make his own Darth Vader costume! Using found objects from the local junkyard, he has transformed himself into the not-so-terrifying villain Darth Mater!
Created exclusively for CAAF’s 2008 Dream Halloween auction, Darth Mater is a one-of-a-kind 1:9.5 scale model created by the design team at Mattel in close cooperation with John Lasseter and George Lucas. Armed with a light-up red lightsaber that pivots from his right front wheel both clockwise and counterclockwise, Darth Mater makes lightsaber and Darth Vader breathing sounds, plays the classic Star Wars “Imperial March” theme, and utters dialogue recorded by Larry the Cable Guy especially for the occasion with funny quotes such as “Luke, I’m your manufacturer!”
Darth Mater comes on a custom-built 21.75″ wide by 18.75″ deep by 4.75″ high base decorated like the floor of the Death Star with flashing LED lights synchronized with the sounds. The base includes two clear acrylic plaques, one with the Lucasfilm logo signed by Mr. Lucas and the other with the Disney/Pixar logo signed by Mr. Lasseter. Finally, the model is protected by a 21.75″ wide by 18.75″ deep by 14.25″ high clear acrylic case.
