Along the way, you may have heard of the lenticular Cars coming out, although I don’t think I’ve mentioned them yet on here. If you don’t know what these are, they are the same Cars in new packaging with special stickers for the eyes. The eye stickers are lenticular, meaning they change depending on what angle you are looking at them.
As everything else is the same except the packaging and the eyes, I’m guessing most collectors will pass on these, although, the completists will probably snap these up. My opinion is they are very lame, and a blatant attempt by Mattel to milk this line for all its worth.
But there is a silver lining here with the chase Cars. There are chase Cars included in each assortment that are not lenticular Cars. The 2 chase Cars in the first assortment are Saluting Sarge and Ferrari F430 with chase packaging. That’s right, Sarge is back for the first time since the recall in Summer 2007. Although, it is a Sarge variant, and not the original. The Ferrari is chase packaging only, making this the 3rd chase packaging Car we have gotten.
Last, the cards on these are very different. They don’t say Race O Rama any more, and the J hook is part of the card rather than a sticker on the back.
We now know case H was the last case of Race O Rama mainline singles this year. New singles the rest of the year will be lenticular. If Race O Rama does come back at retail this year, they will be store exclusives.
Here is the full case assortment for the first case of lenticular Cars. This is a case of 24 and is heavily weighted with 11 McQueens.
Lightning McQueen (9)
Radiator Springs McQueen (2)
Doc Hudson (2)
Mater (2)
Filmore (1)
Chick Hicks (2)
Sally (1)
Saluting Sarge (chase) (1)
Sheriff (1)
King (2)
Ferrari F430 (chase packaging) (1)
kmart exclusive sell out in less than 1 day!
Last year I found most of the K-Mart exclusives 2 weeks after the collectors day. I think they may sell out in the big cities, but in smaller towns and rural areas could have them for awhile. I heard from another collector that at one K-mart in Wisconsin nobody showed up, so they just hung the cars on the pegs.
Last year at a K-Mart near me some lady and her three kids went to K-Mart that morning and got tickets to open the cases, well her kids opened the cars in the store and started playing with them, she then tried leaving the store with all the cars without paying for them. The manager told her she had to pay for them, but she refused saying that they won tickets and that they were free. Anyway the manager took back the cars and threw them out of the store.