Amazon.com for CARS Merchandise, Toys & Collectibles

Another great place to find CARS merchandise, toys, diecast toys, bedding and even clothing is on Amazon - you will be amazed at how many items you can find new and used on this site. Again people forget that this site is out there - I search amazon regularly for some of the CARS merchandise and the nice thing is you don't have to wait for an auction to end. I was pleasantly surprised to find several of the Dinoco Blue Lightning McQueens and the Fast Talking Lightning McQueen for great prices. I provided an amazon.com search box - just type in pixar cars or disney pixar cars or even Lightning McQueen and you'll get a list of items for sale - again new and used.

for CARS Collectibles, Toys & Clothes

Another great place to locate and buy CARS Collectibles - whether it is the Mattel series or the McDonald's Happy Meal CARS Promotion- check out Ebay Australia -


There are a lot of great auctions for the McDonald's Happy Meal CARS Promotion. Many sellers will ship to the USA and as long as you are using paypal to pay for the purchase, the currency exchange is not a problem - Paypal will do that for you. And as long as you already have an ebay account, you can shop all the ebay country sites. And it can be worth it because you can find some pretty cool and unusual CARS merchandise from the different ebay country sites and it is so easy to shop at these other sites yet so few people do. Some pointers before you do visit the other ebay sites - make sure that the seller will ship to the US, that you have a paypal account and that you are aware of the currency exchange an Australian dollar is not the same as an American dollar. Again shopping these other sites can be well worth it.

McDonald's Happy Meal Toys CARS Promotion

I found some great images of the CARS Toys that were part of the McDonald's Happy Meal promotion from this summer. They were available at McDonald's Happy Meal or Mighty Kids Meal from Jun9 until July 6, 2006. There were 8 toys with action features and there were two versions of Lightning McQueen - a clean and a muddy verion. There were also slight variations in the eye position of the model cars. Worth noting is that the McDonald's Mater fetches the highest prices on ebay - suggesting that it is harder to find and in greater demand.


1. LIGHTNING McQUEEN - (2 versions, clean and muddy - action feature is a pull back, it races forward and does wheelies).

2. MATER - has working tow truck features such as a moveable towing hitch and tires that actually turn. You can really use it to tow other cars in the lineup.

3. SALLY - she also has the pull back action feature like Lightning McQueen, as she races forward so goes off into different directions - steering off to the right or the left.

4. DOC HUDSON - doc has a wind up action feature, you wind it up and let it zoom away.

5. RAMONE - comes in several different body color versions: purple, yellow, and green - Ramone does some hydraulic tricks, bouncing around.

6. FLO - owner of Flo's V-8 Café - is a classic pull back car.

7.LUIGI - one of the funniest McDonald's toy, the personality of this little Italian car number is matched by the fact that it gets moving only after you shoot if off from crank on the tire wrench.

8. FILLMORE - this classic hippy van is like Flo, another pull back that will race forward after being pulled back and released.



I have seen some of the complete sets available on ebay - so if you missed out on these collectibles - then my suggestion is visit ebay and do a search - check out http://www.hotdealspotter - as it is set up on default to locate the DIsney Pixar CARS items up for auction.

The Movie CARS Character Line Up

Lightning McQueen, #95 Race Car

Sally, 2002 Porsche 911

Doc Hudson, 1951 Hudson Hornet

Mater, 1955 Wrecker

Sarge, 1942 WWII Willy's Army Jeep

Fillmore, 1960 VW Bus

Ramone, 1959 Impala Lowrider

Flo, 1950s Motorama Show Car

The King, 1970 Plymouth Superbird

Chick Hicks, #86 Race Car

Where to find CARS Collectibles

Here is a suggestion as to where you can find CARS collectibles - online and offline.

1) Big Lots & Odd Lots Discount Stores - I continue to find some CARS diecast toys at the local discount Big Lots - in some areas they are called Odd Lots. And the best part is that they are cheap. Now I have yet to find the complete set of the MATTEL CARS 1:64 model diecast toys, I have found a number of them and still very cheap. So it might be worth a visit or two to your local discount Big Lots - just to see what CARS Merchandise and toys they might still have in stock.

2) Yahoo Auctions - you know that there is another auction site out there besides ebay. There is much less competition on the yahoo auction site and fewer products. But it is worth checking out, I have seen several CARS auctions up there on a daily basis.

Mattel Diecast Lightning McQueen Toys

Mattel has released 4 different versions Lightning McQueen die cast toys - these include:
-race versio
-Dinoco blue version
-modified race version (red/white pattern seen at the film's end)
-Willys Butte Version (A muddy race version) exclusive to Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge.

As I get good images of them I will post them. I am finding some good bargains now only on ebay but also on Amazon.com. You can still get news ones as well as opened ones. The demand for CARS Merchandise will start to pick up again around November 7th - that is when the DVD will be coming out. So that means by the time Christmas rolls around, kids are still going to want CARS toys, merchandise, clothes, you name it.