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Disney-Pixar’s “Cars” Diecast Toys Check-list

All Cars Check­list dis­cus­sion & cur­rent infor­ma­tion is now being post­ed over at RickBeckman.org. Be sure to check it out for the lat­est information!

Update: There are now three ver­sions of the check­list avail­able; you can grab any of them — includ­ing the newest (3rd) one — on the extras page.

I know and have met sev­er­al peo­ple whose chil­dren absolute­ly love the die-cast cars from Cars. New ones are released, moth­ers get excit­ed, and I keep an eagle’s eye out for just the right one’s cus­tomers are wait­ing for and have asked me to save for them when we get them in at my store. Specif­i­cal­ly for some of my friends who col­lect them for their chil­dren, I have put togeth­er a handy-dandy check­list list­ing all of the cars thus far (and soon to be released) accord­ing to Cars Diecast Line.

Feel free to down­load it, dis­trib­ute it, use it to assem­ble the ulti­mate Cars toys col­lec­tion! (Or lament the fact that there are even more than you had hoped as you’re start­ing to feel the finan­cial strain Dis­ney-Pixar and Mat­tel have upon you! :)

Get the checklist!

Last updat­ed June 3, 2007.

Update: Those look­ing for infor­ma­tion on the lat­est Cars toys should check out this post.

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96 responses to “Disney-Pixar’s “Cars” Diecast Toys Check-list”

  1. Roy Avatar
    Roy

    Thank you mate! I was browsing/looking for some­thing like this for some time now.

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  2. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Just note that the list isn’t entire­ly accu­rate. A more accu­rate list is avail­able on the Wikipedia; I was too quick to include unsub­stan­ti­at­ed rumor in my list because, at one point, that’s what the Wikipedia arti­cle list­ed as well. Just note that the major­i­ty of “Wave 4” cars aren’t released and may not be released, as list­ed in my checklist.

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  3. Krissy Avatar
    Krissy

    I was so hap­py to come across your site. I have a two year old at home who loves the movie and all of the cars we have got­ten him. This is so handy now I know what to watch for since he has all the one that are out so far.

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  4. Manda Avatar
    Manda

    Awe­some list! My three year old and I are con­stant­ly hunt­ing out new CARS and I’ve been look­ing for a list like this. You’ve been so helpful!!

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  5. Katrina Avatar
    Katrina

    Thank you so much for putting this list up! I have 2 boys and they’re both in love with these toys. I have to admit I’m a but enam­ored as well hon­est­ly. This makes it so much eas­i­er to know what I’m look­ing for.
    Thanks again!

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  6. Andrew Avatar
    Andrew

    Thanks for the check­list. I just pur­chased Snot Rod as a sin­gle from Tar­get. He’s not on your check­list yet. He was pack­aged with the the Wave 4 backing.

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  7. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Check out the “Basic” check­list on my extras page; Snot Rod has been list­ed in it for quite a while.

    The check list that I put togeth­er which divides every­thing up by Wave, Single/Double, etc., is out­dat­ed and no longer main­tained. Actu­al­ly, the Basic list needs updat­ed as well.

    Frankly, until Mat­tel releas­es an offi­cial list, putting togeth­er a thor­ough and accu­rate list will be difficult…

    I am, how­ev­er, pleased that new pack­ag­ing has been spot­ted; that’s a good sign for the 200+ being shipped to our store in the near future. w00t!

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  8. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    I Think I Love You Man

    THAT LIST WOOOOOW

    AWESOME

    JUST WHAT I NEED

    Thanx man

    Greetz From Belgium

    Steve

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  9. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    You’re my hero!

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  10. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Hey, thanks for the Cars list.…just what I’ve been look­ing for online! Thanks for putting in the time and then putting it up here for all to enjoy!

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  11. Kyle Avatar
    Kyle

    a cou­ple things miss­ing from your checklist:

    Red Rimmed Fab­u­lous Hud­son Hornet
    Cruisin Ramone (Red & White)
    Bessie
    Dale Earn­hart Jr

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  12. Kyle Avatar
    Kyle

    Mario Andret­ti miss­ing as well

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  13. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    With­out see­ing real pho­tographs of them (i.e., at a rep­utable retail­er, not eBay) or see­ing them in per­son, I’m not adding any­thing to the check­list. There are far too many rumors going around where peo­ple say they have seen char­ac­ters that real­ly aren’t toys yet — or even peo­ple mak­ing their own toys and pass­ing them off on eBay as real Mat­tel products.

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  14. Kyle Avatar
    Kyle

    that’s cool.

    I pur­chased 3 “R” cas­es and each case con­tained the Red Rimmed FHH and the Cruisin Ramone. If I get a chance, I’ll take a scan and email em to you.

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  15. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    “R”? Wow… Our area got flood­ed with J I think. We’ll be stuck with ’em for ages!

    Would love to see some pics, if you’re will­ing. [email protected]

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  16. Kyle Avatar
    Kyle

    I’ve got 2 “Q” cas­es and 3 “S” cas­es that should be in by Tues­day. Can’t wait.

    I dont have the great­est cam­era, but I was able to get pics. Should be in your email shortly.

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  17. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    I’m on my lunch break right now and just got your email. When I get back to work, I’ll be telling a cou­ple co-work­ers about your finds.

    So, thanks for mak­ing the day of two women I work with. They’ll be thrilled!

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  18. Mark Curtlin Avatar
    Mark Curtlin

    Hi Rick,

    Good effort and most appreciated.

    One small point though, there are 2 realeas­es here in the UK, one I will call Desert Backs & the oth­er Supercharged.

    Could the list be split up to show both and all the releas­es within?

    Includ­ing Movie Moments, as some of the Super­charged MM’s were not released on the Desert Backs.

    Thanks

    Mark C

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  19. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Mark,

    Grab Check­list #1 from the Extras page. I’ve since decid­ed not to take the time to be that spe­cif­ic in the list — just list­ing all avail­able Cars, not even sep­a­rat­ing dou­ble packs from sin­gles. It was just too much to keep up on.

    The “desert backs” were only used for the first few Cars; they were quick­ly changed to the Super­Charged pack­ag­ing, at least here in the Unit­ed States.

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  20. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Hi there,

    Even though you don’t update your list, it is still a great list to start with. I per­son­naly thought that I had a lot of those die-cast… only to see I miss about half of it… lol

    Today, I was in a Toys ‘R’ Us and there was a box full of cars and was amazed to see many I did­n’t have. So I came back and found your list.

    I’m get­ting so mani­ac about all this that I’m going to try and get both Desert Backs and Super­charged ver­sions for the same car.

    Some small notes that might be of use to anyone:
    — I live in Cana­da and bought my first 3 cars in Orlan­do (McQueen H6406, Mater H6408 & Ramone (Green) J6421)

    - All oth­ers I have have been bought either at Wal-Mart or Toys ‘R’ Us here in Que­bec Province.

    - Look­ing at Check­list #1: all Sin­gle Packs have been release in Desert Back pack­ag­ing because I have all of them.

    - Unlike the check­list say­ing “The King” for H6413, mine is named in 3 lan­guages on the front label: King, El Rey, Le King

    - Unlike the check­list say­ing “Fill­more” for H6415, mine is spelled “Fil­more”.

    - The 3 cars I bought at Dis­ney World are eng­lish only. All oth­ers I bought home are tri-lin­gual (Eng­lish, French and Spanish)

    And final­ly… I will go back to the Toys ‘R’ Us this week-end and get all oth­er cars I don’t have. If there is any­thing worth men­tion­ning, I’ll come back over here and post it.

    Thanks again for the list!!

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  21. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    I just noticed this also about my Ramone (pur­ple), in SC pack­ag­ing and L6270 number:

    On the back of the pack­ag­ing, there is a fac­to­ry applied stick­er match­ing the design under­neath and say­ing: “Ramone º Ramón”. I don’t know what would be under…

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  22. STEPHANIE Avatar
    STEPHANIE

    HI i LOVE THE LIST .. IM JUST WONDERIGN IF YOU KNOW TEH ACTUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEH SERIES 1 AND TEH SUPERCHARGED ONES .. I HAVE BOUGHT TEH CARS SINCE DAY 1 AND THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN THE SUPERCHARGED ONES .. ALSO IS THERE EVER ANY WAY TO FIND OUT THE RELEASE DATES OF TEH NEW CARS ??? THANKS ALOT

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  23. STEPHANIE Avatar
    STEPHANIE

    HI i LOVE THE LIST .. IM JUST WONDERIGN IF YOU KNOW THE ACTUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SERIES 1 AND THE SUPERCHARGED ONES .. I HAVE BOUGHT TEH CARS SINCE DAY 1 AND THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN THE SUPERCHARGED ONES .. ALSO IS THERE EVER ANY WAY TO FIND OUT THE RELEASE DATES OF TEH NEW CARS ??? THANKS ALOT

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  24. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    To Stephanie: About 90% sure about this, the only dif­fer­ence is in the pack­ag­ing. Here is a link to a pic I took from my own colelction. Sor­ry I don’t have both pack­ag­ing with same cars in it, but you sure­ly get the idea. The bakc-pack­ag­ing is also different.

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  25. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Darn… post­ing a link does­n’t work… Ok then, copy-paste this: http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7688/carspackagingzi0.jpg

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  26. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    oh… lol (would ben great if I could edit my posts of at least pre­view them…)

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  27. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    I’d like to add this:

    - I have per­son­naly seen two dif­fer­ent ver­sions of Fill­more on desert back pack­ag­ing. One spelled “Fil­more”, the oth­er spelled “Fill­more” (1L or 2L)

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  28. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Same car, just dif­fer­ent spelling. I’ve seen Yeti referred to on card backs as both “Yeti” and “Yeti the Abom­inable Snow­plow” (or some­thing like that).

    When I start­ed with the check­list, I thought I’d include such vari­ants. But, now I don’t care enough to. It’s the same car, after all.

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  29. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Well… maybe you don’t care, but maybe some oth­ers would be hap­py to know this so I post­ed it. You are men­tion­ning there is two pack­ag­ing ver­sions… so why not men­tion the spelling dif­fer­ences if they do exist? Maybe it’s too much job for you, and I under­stand that… I’m just try­ing to fill up the gap and make your list the best one on the net so that it may help oth­ers like it helped me… you sure­ly don’t have a prob­lem with that… do you?

    If you don’t care about the spelling dif­fer­ence, fine. Oth­ers might. Please don’t under­mine my contributions..

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  30. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    I’m not under­min­ing it at all, just stat­ing why my lat­est check­list (#3) — the only one that still receives my atten­tion — is just a bare-bones check­list. In the orig­i­nal check­list (#1), I sought to be as thor­ough as pos­si­ble. I don’t even remem­ber what #2 is like. lol.

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  31. Mark Curtlin Avatar
    Mark Curtlin

    Rick,

    I wish to thank you for your time and effort in get­ting this list togeth­er. It is an excel­lent start­ing point for the collector.
    I would also like to agree with Smum­dax, there are a lot of vari­ants out there that could be includ­ed if you are a nut­ty col­lec­tor like myself. How­ev­er to include them on your list would require a lot of research and time, some­thing that maybe some off us just don’t have!

    You are both cor­rect and your inter­est in this sub­ject should be commended…

    Regards

    Mark C
    Sun­ny Warwickshire
    England

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  32. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    thank you for the check­list. r they off­i­cal??? my email is [email protected]!!!!! i have seen 2 more check­list on the web. do u have a web site (your store) so i can buy them from you.

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  33. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    You want to buy the check­lists? Weird… lol
    Where have you seen the 2 oth­er check­lists? I’d like to see those.

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  34. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    give me your email and i will send you one that i got and the oth­er one is my check­list. the cars that i need. sor­ry just one more check­list then and i will give a 4 web sites to buy cars.

    [email protected]

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  35. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    here are the web sites, you should now about them. you can order cars before they hit wal mart.

    http://www.toywiz.com/dipicamotobc7.html

    http://www.1stopdiecast.com/

    http://www.rpmdiecast.com

    http://p067.ezboard.com/bcarsthetoys

    the 3rd web site has the cars checklist.

    dan­ny

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  36. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    the 3 check­list have new cars that are not on my check­list and then there is a ckeck­list with all the play­sets and oth­ers. i don’t think no one has the off­i­cal check­list. but those check list are real­ly good. there is only a few that i need to add to my list. thank u.

    dan­ny

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  37. Mark Curtlin Avatar
    Mark Curtlin

    Unfor­tu­nate­ly here in the UK the new waves are yet to land.

    That means a lot of peo­ple from the states and Cana­da are mak­ing vast sums of cash by adver­tis­ing on the UK Ebay site and we end up pay­ing small for­tunes because Mat­tel don’t roll out their releas­es on the same day worldwide.

    I wish Mat­tel would stop this prac­tice, why should the states get them first and we here in rip of brit­ian have to pay a huge premium.…

    If you are a UK buy­er, just wait, they will come, don’t pay the arti­fi­cial prices imposed on us from over the Pond.

    When your child sees these on Ebay its very hard to say, no son, you will have to wait, dad­dy can’t afford that price, makes me feel a ter­ri­ble father..

    Why oh why do peo­ple force up prices that kids can ill afford here.…

    Mark

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  38. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Why oh why do you put your kids in front of eBay?
    I think you are wrong in putting every­body from “over the pond” guilty for the prices on eBay… I mean, I’m in Que­bec, and just by read­ing your com­ment, I should feel respon­si­ble for that? Gimme a break…

    The truth is that Mat­tel make these toys (import­ed from Chi­na I know), and they come to Cana­da first. Then, it’s all a mat­ter of ship­ping sched­ules. I think it’s only log­i­cal that the sur­round­ing areas of Mat­tel be served first. And con­sid­er­ing the num­ber of stores to ship to, I also think it’s pret­ty nor­mal that it takes more than a month to get to the UK… If you don’t run an inter­na­tion­al busi­ness, I don’t expect you to under­stand this, but I don’t have one and it’s kind of easy to see how it goes…

    If you pay big amounts to have your toys the day they get released, well it’s your fault, don’t blame the world for it. You want it now, you pay. You wait, you pay less. Nobody forces you to buy anything.

    Even if I don’t agree with your hid­den hate of Amer­i­ca in gen­er­al, I do agree with you say­ing that the ship­ping charges on eBay are some­times to high, what­ev­er coun­try your are in.

    For a die-cast car that you could find at 4$ at Wal-Mat of Toys ‘R’ Us… it’s pret­ty dumb to have to pay say 7$-9$ + ship­ping of 5.95$, 15US$ total…

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  39. STEPHANIE Avatar
    STEPHANIE

    hi does any body know if there is a place to find out upcom­ming releas­es ??? [email protected]

    thanks

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  40. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    hi stephanie, i will email you some info that you can you and some check­list for you to.

    [email protected]

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  41. Mark Curtlin Avatar
    Mark Curtlin

    Sor­ry?,

    I have not “hid­den” hatred of Amer­i­cans at all, in no way shape or form, and I am more than a lit­tle upset by the infer­ence…!! I work dai­ly with peo­ple from Amer­i­ca, play online with them, laugh and joke with them, the peo­ple I know are gen­uine­ly nice people.

    Strange that one com­ment on peo­ple exploit­ing oth­er peo­ple seems to imply a gen­er­al down­er on the entire culture?

    As for plac­ing kids in front of ebay, this is the year 2007, not 1807, kids know way more than most adults and are resource­ful too.

    As for run­ning an inter­na­tion­al com­pa­ny, luck­i­ly I don’t have that bur­den, espe­cial­ly one that allows me to make a prof­it out of inflat­ed prices that kids end up pay­ing if they want the lat­est “in thing”

    Whilst I do not want this to turn into a flame war, please do not assume you know what I am think­ing or what I believe in, because you don’t…

    Thank you,

    Mark

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  42. Mark Curtlin Avatar
    Mark Curtlin

    BTW, I have now unsub­scribed from this thread so will no longer receive noti­fi­ca­tions when you post.…

    Mark

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  43. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    A new check­list is avail­able from my Extras page.

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  44. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Rick, check­list #4 is great!
    How­ev­er, some­thing might be wrong.
    I have in my hands right now both DB and SC pack­ag­ings of Light­ning McQueen, and both are H6406.

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  45. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Smum­dax, glad you like it! And wow, what an eye for detail you have!

    I used this col­lec­tors’ ref­er­ence to put the check­list together.

    I won­der if the vari­a­tion in stock # could be attrib­uted to the fact you’re in Cana­da and I’m in Amer­i­ca. Or maybe the ref­er­ence was wrong.

    I’ll see if I can sort the issue and have it fixed in the next update.

    Are there any new­er cars I may have missed?

    I know there are things like Bessie & Blue Bowl­in’ Mater, but they come only with play­sets; I want­ed the check­list to focus only on the indi­vid­ual and Movie Moments packs.

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  46. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Well, actu­al­ly I was put­ing a list togeth­er based on your lists, and some research on the web, try­ing to add those num­bers. I thought it was pret­ty log­i­cal to have them in the list. I was think­ing about send­ing it back to you… How­ev­er, if those num­bers depend on the coun­try your in, then we got a prob­lem… lol.

    What I’ve got I’ll send.

    I must spec­i­fy that my DB Light­ning McQueen was bought at Walt Dis­ney Flori­da, and my SC ver­sion of the same car was bought here in Que­bec. Both have same number…

    Makes all this pret­ty weird does­n’t it? I think that we should con­cen­trate on the num­bers we can actu­al­ly ver­i­fy, hav­ing them in hand. So I will go through my lot and send you the info when all is done on my side.

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  47. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    DINOCO HELICOPTER
    LIGHTYEAR BLIMP

    rick i don’t see these on your list and they are both out. you can’t find them at wal mart but you can get them on ebay.

    email all info to [email protected]

    what is this new mater and whats up with this no fin mcqueen. i put that in on ebay and i saw a pic of it and its one that i have. the springs mcqueen. its not new.

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  48. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    I have a sim­ple ques­tion… we talk about the Assort­ment (sp?) num­ber, and also that oth­er num­ber unique to the toy itself.

    But what is an assort­ment num­ber, and what is the oth­er num­ber called?

    And what’s the pos­si­ble rea­sons why these num­ber can dif­fer on 2 same toys?

    Also, why/what the let­ters on the ship­ping boxes?

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  49. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    to Smum­dax: the newest let­ter on the box­es are r and s !!! that will be the newest cars out. i got all the upc bar codes off the cars when u get them at wal mart.

    my email is [email protected]

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  50. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    To Dan­ny: Well… it does­n’t answer much of my many ques­tions. How­ev­er it does bring out 2 oth­er ques­tions for you… Aren’t the UPC bar­codes for a same Assort­ment num­ber all the same? I believe so, I used to work 4 years at Wal-Mart also ;) So for you to have “all” of them, it ain’t impress­ing me much… lol

    Sec­ond ques­tion: why are you push­ing your email address this much?

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  51. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    to smum­dax: sor­ry i have most of the upc codes. the first five num­bers are all the same on the cars 20487, then the next five are dif­fer­ent. i put my email so u can use it if you want. i’m not push­ing it at all. i got all the upc bar codes from some­one on ebay. this per­son nos a lot about cars if u want his info!!

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  52. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Well… on my pack­ag­ings, there is no dif­fer­ence in UPC bar codes for the sin­gle packs. There is how­ev­er a dif­fer­ent UPC for the Movie Moments. Nor­mal, not the same Assortment…

    A UPC is good for an unique Assort­ment num­ber, not for a spe­cif­ic toy. Things like Star Wars fig­ures, Match­box cars, mini-Trans­form­ers.. in the same assort­ment you have the same UPC for any dif­fer­ent toys.

    And the rea­son is quite sim­ple: how many Match­box die-cast cars there are in the 2007 col­lec­tion? How many darn Star Wars fig­ures?… that many would be the num­ber of new items to cre­ate in the store’s data­base… Chang­ing prices would be hell, doing inven­to­ry would be hell, mak­ing new planos would be hell… trust me, Wal-Mart is enough hell as it is.. lol

    Only bad about this is that even if you know that in one par­tic­u­lar store, there are 50 items with the bar code of the toys you are search­ing for, you just don’t know wich one it is. You just know that there are 50 of the same assortment.

    Quite frankly, think­ing about it, what’s the use of hav­ing all/most/any of the UPC bar codes from the Cars die-cast series?

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  53. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    when u go to the wal marts u can give them to a asm and then she can sell if they are in the back or order what you give her. if give her one upc and it will come in a box of 18. that upc will be in that box that she order.

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  54. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    all the sin­gles are dif­fer­ent. just the 1st five of the upc is the same. look in the bot­tom of two of them. since i no that a lot of peo­ple don’t open the cars.

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  55. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    … well… I can give you my address and you can come and take a look at all 25 that I’ve got. They all have the same UPC bar­code… The only rea­son why I could have a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent UPC bar­code would be if the toy is from a dif­fer­ent Assort­ment. But that is not the case. All my sin­gles pack are from the same assort­ment… mean­ing exact­ly the same UPC barcode.

    I’m not say­ing you a liar, it’s just that maybe you have dif­fer­ent assort­ment, so dif­fer­ent UPCs.

    And I must cor­rect you: I worked at Wal-Mart for 4 years. You can­not order the exact toy you want if it’s from an assort­ment. You can order a box, and maybe, just maybe hope it’ll be in it.

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  56. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    the last five of the upc bar code are different:

    lizzie: 27084–50402
    wingo: 27084–50405
    gui­do and lui­gi: 27084–49313
    yel­low ramone: 27084–47640

    get what i’m say­ing, well i no u worked at wal mart but the asm said the ones i gave her (bar codes) she will order and they will come. there is a let­ter on the boxe and this car comes in this box and this car comes in that box.

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  57. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Smum­dax:

    Makes all this pret­ty weird doesn’t it? I think that we should con­cen­trate on the num­bers we can actu­al­ly ver­i­fy, hav­ing them in hand. So I will go through my lot and send you the info when all is done on my side.

    Appre­ci­at­ed but not real­ly nec­es­sary, unless you real­ly want me to have the best list out there. :)

    Dan­ny Floravit:

    DINOCO HELICOPTER
    LIGHTYEAR BLIMP

    rick i don’t see these on your list and they are both out. you can’t find them at wal mart but you can get them on ebay.

    eBay is not a reli­able source for any­thing retail. Unless it shows up and is ver­i­fied to me either by pho­to­graph or by men­tion in a reli­able thread at carsthetoys.com, I’m not adding to my list.

    Smum­dax:

    I have a sim­ple ques­tion… we talk about the Assort­ment (sp?) num­ber, and also that oth­er num­ber unique to the toy itself.

    But what is an assort­ment num­ber, and what is the oth­er num­ber called?

    And what’s the pos­si­ble rea­sons why these num­ber can dif­fer on 2 same toys?

    Also, why/what the let­ters on the ship­ping boxes?

    Both the assort­ment num­bers & the indi­vid­ual num­bers are used by man­u­fac­tur­ers — in our case, Mat­tel — to track their own prod­ucts. For instance, one line of toys — say for instance, Bar­bie doll gowns — may all be col­lec­tive­ly main­tained by one assort­ment num­ber (i.e., this is the num­ber that all the prod­uct would be count­ed under for pur­pos­es of inven­to­ry, for ship­ping to retail­ers, etc.), while indi­vid­ual items with­in that assort­ment would of course still be num­bered for cat­e­go­riza­tion and so on.

    I believe the indi­vid­ual item’s num­ber is a SKU, or stock keep­ing unit. I’m not sure of that, though.

    The num­bers & let­ters on the cas­es are just anoth­er way to track inven­to­ry, the num­bers most like­ly being a broad type num­ber while the let­ter tracks which par­tic­u­lar assort­ment of that type is added to the box. What comes to mind is that this eas­i­ly allows them to make sure no old stock is left hang­ing around while they’re ship­ping out new­er stuff.

    Smum­dax still:

    Aren’t the UPC bar­codes for a same Assort­ment num­ber all the same? I believe so, I used to work 4 years at Wal-Mart also ;) So for you to have “all” of them, it ain’t impress­ing me much… lol

    Every toy of the Cars line has a dif­fer­ent UPC. The first five dig­its (of the mid­dle 10) is Mat­tel’s man­u­fac­tur­er num­ber; the next five iden­ti­fy which par­tic­u­lar toy it is — often, but not always, this num­ber will match the toys SKU. When at Wal-mart we order a case of Cars, we do so under a spe­cial UPC which does­n’t appear on the prod­uct itself — a prime item num­ber. And while each indi­vid­ual car we get has a dif­fer­ent UPC, if they are a part of that same assort­ment, they’re all inven­to­ried under that one number.

    Assort­ments are a con­fus­ing top­ic, though; prob­a­bly half or more of the peo­ple I work with don’t get the con­cept. I learned it through tri­al & error.

    To see some of the UPCs for some of the new­er cars, check out this post. You can see the pat­tern that the first five dig­its are the same. :)

    Smum­dax continued:

    And the rea­son is quite sim­ple: how many Match­box die-cast cars there are in the 2007 col­lec­tion? How many darn Star Wars fig­ures?… that many would be the num­ber of new items to cre­ate in the store’s data­base… Chang­ing prices would be hell, doing inven­to­ry would be hell, mak­ing new planos would be hell… trust me, Wal-Mart is enough hell as it is.. lol

    Trust me, they all have indi­vid­ual UPCs. Match­box cars and Hot Wheels cars I believe very often have the same, but there is still quite a vari­ety of UPCs. And all of the Star Wars fig­ures have dif­fer­ent UPCs as well.

    How­ev­er, inven­to­ry, price changes, etc. are all done under the prime num­ber (ide­al­ly; it does­n’t always work that way), so it isn’t too bad.

    Dan­ny Floravit:

    when u go to the wal marts u can give them to a asm and then she can sell if they are in the back or order what you give her. if give her one upc and it will come in a box of 18. that upc will be in that box that she order.

    If you give us any indi­vid­ual UPC, all we can tell you is whether or not we have any item in that assort­ment on hand. If I scanned a Lizzie UPC and it shows an on hand, all I know is that there are Cars toys some­where in the build­ing. It does not mean that there’s a Lizzie some­where. All the inven­to­ry is tracked by one prime num­ber. Like­wise, if I ordered via a Hamm UPC, it would default to the prime num­ber and the case received may or may not have Hamm in it.

    Last­ly, smumdax:

    … well… I can give you my address and you can come and take a look at all 25 that I’ve got. They all have the same UPC bar­code… The only rea­son why I could have a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent UPC bar­code would be if the toy is from a dif­fer­ent Assort­ment. But that is not the case. All my sin­gles pack are from the same assort­ment… mean­ing exact­ly the same UPC barcode.

    I’m not say­ing you a liar, it’s just that maybe you have dif­fer­ent assort­ment, so dif­fer­ent UPCs.

    All the toys have dif­fer­ent UPCs, unless it’s dif­fer­ent in Cana­da. Check out the post I linked to ear­li­er in the comment. :)

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  58. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Dan­ny Floravit:

    the last five of the upc bar code are different:

    lizzie: 27084–50402
    wingo: 27084–50405
    gui­do and lui­gi: 27084–49313
    yel­low ramone: 27084–47640

    get what i’m say­ing, well i no u worked at wal mart but the asm said the ones i gave her (bar codes) she will order and they will come. there is a let­ter on the boxe and this car comes in this box and this car comes in that box.

    I’m not sure what an ASM is; we don’t have those at my store. Maybe you mean CSM?

    Also, when orders are placed, regard­less of which num­ber with­in the assort­ment is used, they are placed via the prime item num­ber. There’s no way to order, say, a case of Desert-back Cars using an old UPC, nor is it pos­si­ble to only order cas­es of the lat­est, great­est. We order, and the ware­house ships us what it has.

    If we could be that spe­cif­ic in what we ordered, col­lec­tors would­wide would be mak­ing a big deal out of it. Col­lect­ing would be so easy then!

    So, regard­less of what the “ASM” told you, per­haps they just total­ly mis­un­der­stood the con­cept of assort­ments. Indeed, that very same “If I order this UPC, I’ll get that item” men­tal­i­ty I had too when I first became dept. mgr. of toys, but I quick­ly found out that I did­n’t have a clue what I was talk­ing about.

    Not say­ing you’re not telling the truth by any means. But it’s very like­ly they fed you a load of worth­less infor­ma­tion. There is lit­er­al­ly no train­ing giv­en regard­ing assort­ments, but there’s tons of mis­in­for­ma­tion float­ing around that peo­ple think is true.

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  59. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Well… thanks for all that info. Most of it I agree, most of it I knew (like first five dig­its are the com­pa­ny’s “id” in the UPC world).

    How­ev­er, still, nonethe­less, even though… Maybe in Cana­da, it is dif­fer­ent. I could take a pic­ture of all my UPC codes, and you will see that they are all exact­ly the same. I’m not giv­ing info from some oth­er site, from eBay, from a friend who know a friend who knows a friend… This is my own per­son­nal, in front of me, collection.

    And remem­ber. A McQueen, Mater and Ramone I bought in Flori­da have all the SAME UPC code as the oth­er cars I have… Great coin­ci­dence? This negates the “maybe it’s dif­fer­ent in Cana­da” theory… ;)

    So I see we both worked at Wal-Mart, but have dif­fer­ent expla­na­tion about the Assort­ment Vs UPC codes…

    I’m beg­ging ya… ask for pic­tures :D

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  60. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Send some pics if you want. :P rick.beck[email protected]

    I’m gonna make a point of it to check the toys we have on hand when I get back to work on Mon­day. I know they’re list­ed in our sys­tem under a vari­ety of UPCs — as list­ed in that oth­er post — but will visu­al­ly ver­i­fy the items them­selves when I’m able.

    Would you believe I’m this into the check­list and the toys yet do not own a sin­gle one of them?

    (I do own the movie and a videogame based on it, however. :)

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  61. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    i don’t no if the upc are dif­fer­ent in ca! but in the us those are it. thats the hole upc code. i nev­er work at a wal mart. asm stand for asst. store man­ag­er. see if you go to a wal mart in new york and then go to a wal mart in Cal­i­for­nia, you just give the the upc and they can order what they can. the asm i gave the bar codes to, she order them like noth­ing and no prob­lem them i will give her the next ones and so on. they come from asia so the west gets them first.

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  62. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Okay, asst. store man­agers… that makes since.

    Still, assort­ments don’t work that way. Been there, done that, for the past 3 years as toy dept. mgr. If they are get­ting the ones you are request­ing, it’s by sheer coin­ci­dence, else they are using a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent order­ing struc­ture — which I doubt.

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  63. Jamie Avatar
    Jamie

    Can we order these at Wal­mart before they stock them on the shelves? I have been fran­ti­cal­ly search­ing for a year for all of them for my 5 year old, and I thought I had them all until I found your list. DO I just give them the stock # on your check­list and they can order?

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  64. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    No. The stock # from my check­list is a Mat­tel thing. Wal-mart has their own unique item #s. Only the UPC is a “uni­ver­sal” code — used by both man­u­fac­tur­ers & retailers.

    Con­trary to what has been stat­ed by Dan­ny, Wal-mart can­not order via an indi­vid­ual UPC and expect to get it in a ship­ment. If it can be done, who­ev­er is doing it is using retail voodoo that I’ve not been told about.

    What can be done is that you can ask your local toy dept. mgr. to watch for cer­tain items, and when they arrive, they can be held back for you. This is quite com­mon at our store, and I’d expect Wal-marts every­where would be okay with it. How­ev­er, a goofy request like “I’d like all Yeti toys held back for me,” prob­a­bly won’t be honored. ;)

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  65. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Smum­dax: I talked to a friend at work who has bought all the ones avail­able here for her son, and she said that back dur­ing the ear­ly waves of Cars, the UPCs were the same. They’ve only recent­ly, appar­ent­ly, start­ed giv­ing them all unique UPCs.

    So maybe the UPC depends on which Mat­tel asst. # a car appeared in. I dunno.

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  66. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    to rick beckman:do u work at a wal mart??? because i think the peo­ple in the back are tak­ing all the new stuff and get­ting for them­selves. there is all ways thew old stuff out at all the same wal marts.

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  67. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Yes, I work at Wal-mart.

    And yes, occa­sion­al­ly asso­ciates do go through cas­es before they reach the floor. They can be fired for it if they get caught, but there isn’t a fool­proof way of deter­ring it.

    Also, the same old old stuff may be on the floor sim­ply because that’s all the store receives. That’s all my store’s been receiv­ing for months.

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  68. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    CAN U LOOK FOR THE CARS I NEED FOR MY LIST IF I CAN PAY YOU WHAT THE ARE OR I WILL PAY .25 OR .50 MORE SO U CAN MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT. WHAT WAL‑,MART, WHAT STATE??? CAN U HELP ME. BUY FROM EBAY IS NOT GOOD BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR A CAR.

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  69. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Rick: I won’t send my pics of the UPC codes now. I think we are in agree­ment about the UPC codes that for any Asst#, there is a sin­gle code.

    Dan­ny: caps is shouting ;)

    To all: yes­ter­day, I went to 2 Wal-Marts, a Cana­di­an Tire and 2 Zellers. All of them have the space for the toys, but I only found 1 lousy car in all 5 stores. There is one thing I noticed: one Wal-Mart had a hand-writ­ten note on one of the price tag that meant “Non replenishable”…

    So to Rick, I was won­der­ing if you have infor­ma­tion on what could that mean. Think WM won’t car­ry these toys anymore?

    Per­son­naly, I think that would be a stu­pid deci­sion. Because I saw the rate at which they get off the shelves. One day, you get one box. The next day half of the toys are already gone. Third day, no more.

    I think tomor­row I’m gonna go to my Toys Dept Man­ag­er and ask her to order me a cou­ple of box­es. Even if I just buy a cou­ple toys in them, I know they won’t be stuck with them very long. :)

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  70. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    RICK: IF I GIVE U A LIST, CAN U HELP ME GET SOME OF THE LIST FOR ME. I WILL PAY U. I NO THE WALMARTS OUT THERE, PEOPLE DO GET THE NEW ONES AND IT SUCKS. READ MY LAST REPLY.

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  71. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Dan­ny: I won’t even do that for the col­lec­tors I know here in per­son, so no, I will not be doing it for you. It would be an abuse of my posi­tion to do some­thing like that, and I could poten­tial­ly lose my job over it.

    Smum­dax: Just ’cause an item is non-replen­ish­able, it does­n’t mean they will stop car­ry­ing it. ;) It sim­ply means the store itself can­not order the item, but it may arrive (as the char­ac­ter Cars did for the longest time) via home office orders.

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  72. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    rick: sor­ry man, just ask­ing if u could!!! do u sell on ebay???

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  73. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Even if I did, I don’t own any of the Cars. ;) I’ve nev­er bought a sin­gle one — sim­ply no inter­est in it.

    :)

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  74. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    rick: on one of your checklist

    i type in no fin mcqueen on ebay and the pic was one of the ones that i have already and what is the blue bowi­in mater, so there is going to be 3 maters!
    some of the cars i have, are not on your list
    here is what i need:
    the num­bers next to them are the upc codes on the bot­tom of the car.

    DISNEY CARS CHECKLIST

    LUIGI,GUIDO, AND TRACTOR 27084–50411
    DIRT TRACK MCQUEEN 27084–49401
    FLEA AND FLIK
    MIA AND TIA
    RUSTY AND DUSTY
    MRS. THE KING
    DINOCO CHICK HICKS 27084–51755
    HYDRAULIC RAMONE 27084–49403
    FERRARI F430 27084–47646
    HUDSON HORNET (RED RIMS) 27084–47642
    BLING BLING MCQUEEN 27084-
    RPM#64 27084-
    TEXO DINOCO 27084–49405
    TONGUE MCQUEEN 27084-
    BUGFACE MCQUEEN27084-51753
    CRUSIN RAMONE (RED AND WHITE) 27084–51757
    DALE EARAHARDT JR.
    YETI
    BOB CUTLAS
    DARRELL CARTRIP
    MARIO ANDRETTI
    FRED
    DINOCO HELICOPTER 27084–48036
    LIGHTYEAR BLIMP
    ELVIS RV
    NO FIN MCQUEEN
    OIL GUZZLER RV
    SHOWGIRL #1
    SHOWGIRL #2
    BESSIE
    PLAYSETS
    1. FLO’S V8 CAFÉ 27084-
    2. CURIO SHOP
    3. LUIGI CASA DELLA
    4. RAMONE’S HOUSE OF PAINT 27084–26315
    5. MACK’S TRUCK 27084-

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  75. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    RICK: CAN I ORDER FROM MATTEL THE COMPANY???

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  76. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    1−800−524−8697 is Mat­tel’s sup­port line. You could call and ask.

    How­ev­er, I can’t even find men­tion of the Char­ac­ter Cars on mattel.com, so they may not sell them direct to con­sumes. I could be wrong, however.

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  77. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    rick: on my check­list, i have a few that u don’t have on your checklist!!!

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  78. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Lots of check­lists I’ve seen have cars mine does­n’t have.

    Do you own the cars that aren’t on mine? Are you sure they exist?

    Not try­ing to doubt you, but I’m pret­ty sure old­er ver­sions of my check­list have includ­ed cars not present on the new one. Rumors come and go, and right now, my list #4 (except for the errant list­ings of Flo & Gui­do as sin­gle packs) is quite accu­rate based upon all my trust­ed sources.

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  79. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    rick:well i got some­one on ebay that i talk to and he is very good on his info to. i’m not say­ing your info is not good but every­one gets info from every­one and every­one thinks there info is the best.

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  80. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    I guess my prob­lem then is I don’t trust eBay as a source. There are far too many peo­ple involved at carsthetoys.com that I sim­ply can­not dis­trust their infor­ma­tion, espe­cial­ly when I can cor­rob­o­rate it with info avail­able to me at work.

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  81. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    rick:the site carsthetoys.com has noth­ing i don’t no already. i just saw that site a few weeks ago and the peo­ple on that site real­ly talk about no new info on the cars. i only trust 1 per­son on ebay. that all. they all ask for so much $$$ for the cars. some­times i just wait unitl they get to your work (wal mart.) i have not even buy the cars from ebay only if i no its a good deal. i only get info on the cars from ebay. i don’t under­stand the site carsthetoys.com

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  82. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Guys… I’m going to Walt Dis­ney Wol­rd in a cou­ple of weeks. I’m sure am going to take as much Cars I can. Is there any­thing you want me to look at? Even I don’t buy all, I can take pic­tures of the prod­ucts that might inter­est you, and can also take some notes about the num­bers, the asst, the upc, etc.

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  83. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    oh… and I’ll be on the look­out for any rumors to confirm ;)

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  84. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    smum­dax: hi, my list was a cou­ple of reply ago and can u see if u can take any pic of of any­thing that is on my list or not on my list that are com­ing out. since u are going there i hope there is some­thing new out when u get there. thanks!!!!

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  85. BJo Avatar
    BJo

    My boy is into col­lect­ing all Cars char­ac­ter, i m hav­ing hard time find­ing DJ, Flo and RED in sin­gle pack.. I went to Toy R us and Tar­get.. any­one have extra that they could sell me.. or tell me the best place to buy those hard to find

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  86. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    to BJo: i have a extra sal­ly and pur­ple ramone!!! well sell them to u for the price at wall mart.

    dan­ny

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  87. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    TO BUJO: YOU CAN BUY THE HARD TO FIND ONES AT EBAY OR WAIT A LITTLE AND GO TO WAL MART IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SPEND THAT MUCH.

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  88. Steve AKA Poppa Avatar
    Steve AKA Poppa

    I’m get­ting a kick out of your back and forth, give and take, on the UPC codes, etc. If you’re try­ing to amass every code vari­a­tion, you may go broke. There was a dis­cus­sion on a Has­bro Star Wars web­site with one of the heads of that prod­uct line. He indi­cat­ed much of the num­bers of the back of the cards are there to assist the actu­al man­u­fac­tur­ing plants to assem­ble the cor­rect back­board with the prop­er toy. Not every­body in Chi­na or oth­er coun­tries reads Eng­lish. There may be minute vari­a­tions in the num­ber for prod­uct run changes to the word­ing on the card stock. If it applies uni­ver­sal­ly to all toy lines, I do not know. The UPC has some uni­ver­sal­i­ty to the num­ber to enable all retail­ers to com­put­er­ize their inven­to­ry so the scan­ner can ring up the right price and prod­uct. I have noticed with some fre­quen­cy, when a new prod­uct comes on line the UPC codes pro­duce a gener­ic ID. Many of my ear­ly receipts rang up as a gener­ic Dis­ney Car . I know a Toys R Us store man­ag­er, who loves the sub­se­quent more detailed print outs of the UPC code, i.e., a very spe­cif­ic car. That con­trols the returns, i.e., the toy scalper or hoard­er who bought every Hamm or oth­er hot toy only to see the price crash. No more take it back to trade in or return for cash. No receipt-no return. And with my local Toys-R-Us, no receipt and the store will NOT even give you Geof­fery Dol­lar equiv­a­lents. The pro­duc­t’s UPC may change slight­ly, but, it will only give the retail­er the upper hand in con­trol­ling returns. For you blog­gers from Wal­mart, in Puyallup, Wash­ing­ton, there are guys return­ing old stock Hot Wheel cars for cred­it which are placed on the pegs. Who in 2007 is look­ing for 2004 Hot Wheels? Nobody! Go to Toys R Us and the man­ag­er will not take any Hot Wheel returns, because of the scalpers and hoard­ers. You bought it, you eat it! If you are going to col­lect these cars by UPC codes, have at it. You bet­ter hope Mat­tel does­n’t start mov­ing the eyes around the wind­shields like the Mac­Don­ald’s toy pro­mo­tion cars. I use eBay as an alert. If I see a pic­ture of the toy, then I start look­ing. The Wal­mart and Tar­get stock­room clerk usu­al­ly gets first digs and puts them on eBay.

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  89. Danny Floravit Avatar
    Danny Floravit

    to steve: i no the peo­ple at wal mart have 1st on cars and it sucks.

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  90. BJo Avatar
    BJo

    Alright, thanks — i will try Wal-mart.. thanks!!!

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  91. Steve AKA Poppa Avatar
    Steve AKA Poppa

    Rick,
    Sev­er­al weeks ago you indi­cat­ed that you were not going to list any car which you per­son­al­ly have not seen or seen on a rep­utable retail­er site. I have nev­er seen a sin­gle card­ed Flo or Gui­do- in per­son or on eBay or on the Inter­net. I checked numer­ous retail­er sites, etc, and have drawn a blank. Have you or any­body seen these?

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  92. Smumdax Avatar
    Smumdax

    Pop­pa: On my side, nev­er seen it except loose. I saw it in PVC, don’t know where it comes from… and I also saw a paper­mod­el of it… lol

    Rick: What’s the sto­ry about the East­er Egg versions?

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  93. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Smum­dax: As far as I know, the East­er Egg ver­sions were the same cars, just dif­fer­ent card backs. carsthetoys.com lists their Mat­tel #s along with the Char­ac­ter Cars #s. I have no idea if the East­er Egg ones are avail­able any­more any­where or not.

    Steve: The indi­vid­ual Flo & Gui­do were mis­takes on my part. Note that their stock #s are the same as the dou­ble-packs they appear in lat­er in the checklist.

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  94. Steve AKA Poppa Avatar
    Steve AKA Poppa

    Rick:

    I noticed the stock num­bers and fig­ured that was the case for the Flo. Toys R Us final­ly got some Bug-Face McQueens and Cruis­in’Ra­mone’s in stock.

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  95. Steve AKA Poppa Avatar
    Steve AKA Poppa

    If any­one is inter­est­ed in the blue mater exclu­sive to the “Mater’s Rollin’ Bowl­in’ Game”, it is cur­rent­ly list­ed on sale for $14.99 at KB Toys.com. I picked one up at a K‑B store last year and the car is a reg­u­lar size car and not a plas­tic small­er toy.

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  96. Rick Beckman Avatar
    Rick Beckman

    Giv­en the out­stand­ing suc­cess of past check­list efforts, I’ve put togeth­er what I hope is some­thing even bet­ter — or at least what is the begin­nings of some­thing even bet­ter — and I’m invit­ing any­one who’s been mak­ing use of my check­lists to come and check it out.

    Actu­al­ly, I’m pret­ty much forc­ing you too, if you want to keep the dis­cus­sions going. :D I real­ly do appre­ci­ate the traf­fic this all brings in here, but I’d like to get it all cen­tral­ized. Right now, there’s 3 posts + the extras page here. So I’m hop­ing to get every­one on the same page.

    http://rickbeckman.org/miscellanea/cars-diecast-checklist/

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