2011 LEGO Cars 2 Discussion

[Stardusty]

I agree that Mater's Tall Tales' are great.

"What happened? Well, don't ya remember? You was there too."

Heavy Metal Mater is my favourite for a lot of reasons:

- Guido sings on the start of the episode, and it sounds so funny

- Lighting McQueen looks really cool

I really like this theme, but onl because of the characters, so I'm still not sure about buying any set.

Not to emntion that they are expensive in Croatia

[sharky]

I was at my local Target today and noticed the Ultimate Build Lighting McQueen had a clearance sticker and was marked down 30%. The original price was $29.99 and they had 3 of them for $20.99. I would have bought one, but I ended up getting the Toy Story Pizza Planet Truck for $19.99.

Has anyone else noticed this? It was hard to believe that a set so new would be marked down. I was wondering if it was a mistake. But, they had 3 of them and they scanned at the reduced price on the price checker. None of the other Cars sets were marked down.

Edit: Here's a pic from a 2nd Target I found them on clearance. I also noticed Ultimate Build Francesco is also on clearance at some Targets as well.

Edited July 14, 2011 by sharky

[prozac]

SO I called Lego today to buy some replacement stickers for Set 8638 Spy Jet Escape and after a few minutes the rep tells me that set isn't supposed to be out in the states yet! I told him I bought it about 2 weeks ago at TRU and they had the Big Bentley Bust Out too. All 3 Spy Jet sets had beat up boxes and the bricks punctured the sticker sheet. He said he would replace them for free since it was a quality thing and I said that i didn't figure it was thier fault which is why i was going to pay for them. He stated these 2 sets were supposed to be available exclusively in Europe for a few months before making it to the US and that he would forward the info on to be investigated. Guess I shuold have bought the bentley set too cause I think they are gone now.

So has anyone else seen these sets at TRU yet?

[minifgure_fan]

Yeah, I was up at TRU to buy the Earth Dragon the other day, and they had the spy jet, but not big bentley. Odd.

I was also at target a few days ago and got Flo's cafe since it was marked down from $60 to $41. SCORE!

[EDIT] - Ultimate build McQueen was also marked down at Target.

Edited July 29, 2011 by minifgure_fan

[MAH4546]

I was at my local Target today and noticed the Ultimate Build Lighting McQueen had a clearance sticker and was marked down 30%. The original price was $29.99 and they had 3 of them for $20.99. I would have bought one, but I ended up getting the Toy Story Pizza Planet Truck for $19.99.

Has anyone else noticed this? It was hard to believe that a set so new would be marked down. I was wondering if it was a mistake. But, they had 3 of them and they scanned at the reduced price on the price checker. None of the other Cars sets were marked down.

Edit: Here's a pic from a 2nd Target I found them on clearance. I also noticed Ultimate Build Francesco is also on clearance at some Targets as well.

Target clearances are determined on a store-by-store basis. It's essentially computerized, and based on sales at a particular store and a ratio of sales to stock in hand. So, essentially, this means that at the particular Target you went to, this set was low in sales and high in stock. I saw not a single Target with set marked down, but did go tomone with Ultimate Build Francessco marked to the same price.

[WhiteFang]

Not sure if I am in the right state of mind. But I am very sure that the LEGO Cars 2 sets are starting to interest me more than just mere "Cars", but it's something very nice to have in a collection, especially after watching the movie last night. Suddenly, all of the released sets made some sense to me! Geez, I think I can expand and exploring into this new theme!

[greeny]

Not sure if I am in the right state of mind. But I am very sure that the LEGO Cars 2 sets are starting to interest me more than just mere "Cars", but it's something very nice to have in a collection, especially after watching the movie last night. Suddenly, all of the released sets made some sense to me! Geez, I think I can expand and exploring into this new theme!

The same happened to me

After seeing the film I do think that:

TLC should of not inclueded Profeser Z in the Big Bently set because in the flim he does not really have a big role in this sence.

More sets should include the 'lemons'.. sigh... tthey will probaly be out in the next wave, more sets for me

[K-Nut]

Not sure if I am in the right state of mind. But I am very sure that the LEGO Cars 2 sets are starting to interest me more than just mere "Cars", but it's something very nice to have in a collection, especially after watching the movie last night. Suddenly, all of the released sets made some sense to me! Geez, I think I can expand and exploring into this new theme!

The same happened to me

After seeing the film I do think that:

TLC should of not inclueded Profeser Z in the Big Bently set because in the flim he does not really have a big role in this sence.

More sets should include the 'lemons'.. sigh... tthey will probaly be out in the next wave, more sets for me

Welcome to the club.

I still need the $15 sets and the Spy jet and I'll be good. It's fun to have a kids movie with guns. At first I though I'd nly get Lightning and Mater. Glad to see I'm not the only one sucked in by this theme.

[Morten]

I got hooked on Cars too, and I gave my two sons the MCK-truck and the plane, so I had to get an extra copi of those sets to have a complete collection! Luckely they had 50 % of in a toy-store today, and KimT was nice to me and bought them for me! Looking so much forwrd to see the next line. Hoping for more Cars 1 sets, The harvester, the tracktors etc.

Morten

[KimT]

I got hooked on Cars too, and I gave my two sons the MCK-truck and the plane, so I had to get an extra copi of those sets to have a complete collection! Luckely they had 50 % of in a toy-store today, and KimT was nice to me and bought them for me! Looking so much forwrd to see the next line. Hoping for more Cars 1 sets, The harvester, the tracktors etc.

Morten

Oh boy! I warned you not to spill your newest addiction

No Star Wars fan will ever take you seriously again.

And you're welcome.

[greeny]

I still need the $15 sets and the Spy jet and I'll be good. It's fun to have a kids movie with guns. At first I though I'd nly get Lightning and Mater. Glad to see I'm not the only one sucked in by this theme.

Same here I only wanted a Luigi and Guido, then I thought I should get Mcqueen and Mater by buying the £13 sets. When I saw the film I really wanted to buy all of them

I now have:

Flos v8 cafe

All of the £13 sets

The boat set

[legomilk]

New 66386

[Clone OPatra]

That super pack almost made sense and then failed (just like most of the SW ones). Having Guido and Luigi with the rest of the Cars 1 characters makes good sense, but Finn and Z. don't really. Still, I guess this is the only combination of three sets that results in no overlapping.

[Aanchir]

That super pack almost made sense and then failed (just like most of the SW ones). Having Guido and Luigi with the rest of the Cars 1 characters makes good sense, but Finn and Z. don't really. Still, I guess this is the only combination of three sets that results in no overlapping.

Do these sorts of things need to make sense? I had one in my childhood that was a Castle set and a Spyrius set.

[Clone OPatra]

Do these sorts of things need to make sense?

No, and I have nothing against it. I was just commenting. (I do find the SW ones to be weird) These are all good sets containing characters that have many interactions.

[Oky]

Yeah, I think the point of this superpack is to get most of the main Cars characters in one buy. In fact, I was planning to buy these three sets just for that reason, and I did buy the first two, but then decided that I want a normal version of Finn, so I skipped on the Escape at Sea.

Do these sorts of things need to make sense? I had one in my childhood that was a Castle set and a Spyrius set.

How does that not make sense? They could be time-traveling space spies, couldn't they?

[Oky]

Sorry for the double post (and thread revival), but I just had to share this cool video that I found on the Lego Cars website! I sure hope there will be more!

[refriedbeans]

I'm very excited I'm the first to post about this! Okay I went to Toysrus us today and there was a sign about a Lego Cars event where you can get a Lego Rod "Torque" Redline! The event will be held October 15. I have pictures but they are to large to upload I would gladly send these to someone to put on the website somewhere.

Edited October 9, 2011 by refriedbeans

[Solscud007]

I finally got Cars 2 on Blu Ray/DVD thanks to a BOGO 50% off at TRU. TRU has an exclusive 6th disc. It is all about Lego Cars 2. In it there are Stop Motion animated scenes. They were directed by Patrick Boivin. I have been following some of his work on Youtube for a while.

Remember that stop motion animator who animated those transformer cars?

Well he animated the Cars 2 Movie Trailer out of legos

Official Cars 2 Movie Trailer

official movie trailer with Lego Cars toys.

The trailer was on the 6th DVD. My wife and I had a good smile watching it.

Edited December 6, 2011 by Solscud007

[surrideo]

That must have taken so much time.....................

Thanks for the link, my kids were mesmerised with it

[brickie]

I bought some of the Cars2 sets and they looked great but they just sat there and looked at me.

So I built them onto slot cars { very modified }.

By attaching a 9V train controller to eachh slot, I was able to have enough power to have 3 or 4 'Cars' racing on each slot.

Kids loved it especially if you raced Lightning against Franchesco.