OMG I'm completely obsessed! Disney "Cars" cars.

[MetalMusicAddict]

So my Wife, kids and I go strolling into the toy section at Target (www.target.com) (my fave home store) on Friday. I've been wanting to get a "Lightning McQueen (http://img.lenta.ru/news/2006/05/15/schumacher/picture.jpg)" car from the Pixar movie "Cars (http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/cars/)" for my son who is 2. You know something big, soft plastic, about 12" long and rolls nice.

I go down the toy car isle and see these nice little diecast "Disney-Cars" cars done by Mattel (www.mattel.com). REALLY nice. Detailed, heavy and good scale (1:64). Like normal Hot-Wheels (http://www.mattel.com/our_toys/ot_hotw.asp) or Matchbox (www.matchbox.com). SOmething I also I liked was that all the cars are in scale to each other.

So we get the ones we can find there. Seven cars. I look on the back of the box to see how many there are. There are twelve. Then I thought, there is another Target 2 mins up the road. So I figure I'll go up there and see if I can find the rest.

I get to the second Target and find they have five more that I needed and these "Movie Moments" double-car packs. Also the I found werent the five I was looking for. I look on the back of these boxes and see they've expanded the line to sixteen. Great. I went to 8 Targets around Raleigh, N.C. Its sad I know where all of 'em are. I even went to 2 in Durham.

So I go back to the house to research the line. Come to find out these damn things are a SUPER HOT item right now. Full sets going for $150 (US) on eBay and crap.

So with that Im obsessed with getting 4 sets. One to keep for me. One set for my son and two to sell on eBay. http://ubuntuforums.org/images/icons/icon13.gif

Evidence of my obsession.
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2358/carssd3.th.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2358/carssd3.jpg)

I feel like comicbook guy from The Simpsons. :)

http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/l/cbg.jpg

[nalmeth]

haha
wow

I admire your honesty and pride :)

[mrgnash]

Bizarre.... I've never understood the allure of cars; cutesie Disney versions, or otherwise.

[MetalMusicAddict]

haha
wow

I admire your honesty and pride :)
Yea. It just caught me funny that I got so wrapped up in this. I havnt collected anything like this in years. Comics, toys, whatever. I guess unless you count CD's. I have 1400. :)

Bizarre.... I've never understood the allure of cars; cutesie Disney versions, or otherwise.
I cant explain it either. Most guys just are.
With the toys though, I really love the quality of the toys. I did open some of the common ones for my son to play with now. They are really well made.

[%hMa@?b<C]

lol, good luck in finding (and selling) your sets!

[MetalMusicAddict]

lol, good luck in finding (and selling) your sets!
Yea. I do have 1 set done so far.

75% of the 2nd. 50% of the 3rd and 25% of the 4th. (rough estimate)

[mugs1966]

Just seen the film myself with my children. Wow what a laugh.
Think its the best one they have done yet!
Have been buying everything to do with CARS ever since.

I have now completely re-decorated my kids room with everything cars....a bit OTT some might say... I found these great make over kits that have 48 huge, giant stickers of all the main characters, you should have seen my sons face when he saw his room. They post them anywhere, you may be interested.

they are on www.householdinnovations.co.uk

[MetalMusicAddict]

Well I almost have 4 sets. Set 1 complete. Set 2 needs 1 car. Set 3 needs 4 cars. Set 4 needs 6 cars.

Im almost done with this crazyness. :)

[GuitarHero]

Wow man how long till you're posting a screenshot of your completely Cars decked out Ubuntu theme?