Saturday, February 28, 2009

Disney Pixar Cars - Mater 1:24th Disney Store vs. Mater 1:24th MattyCollector

If you didn't realize it, Mattel previously released a Lightning McQueen and Mater in the 1:24th Scale. They were originally released a few years ago at the Disney Store and locations such as The World of Disney at the theme parks. They sold for $19.99 and were only available for a short time. Once again, Alternator Valley reader Tim, has contributed some fine pictures of his Mater in 1:24th Scale from the Disney Store for us to compare.
Mater (Disney Store) looks pretty good for $19.99


Mater (Matty) reveals treaded tires, more detail and deco


Mater's (Disney Store) detail looks well done


This New Mater (Matty) is far more detailed

It is interesting to take a side by side look! The NEW Mater has much more deco and detail. Martin Arriola from Mattel's design team told me this previous Mater can't compare to this new Mater. I hope not, as the NEW Mater will run you $50.00 instead of $19.00! Again, Mater is expected to come with a dust cover made of chipboard with full color printing, and will be shipped in a corrugated shipper. There's no release info. We all know how "reliable" MattyCollector.com has been. Only time will reveal what Matty has in his big ole head!

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    Ken,

    Slight correction on you comment on this 1:24 Mater. You mentioned VUM and there is no VUM/chrome or gold finish on this casting.

    Also, I didn't want to show a rear view because the back of his cab is not decorated and still needs to be. This guy is approx. 80% there. The waterlabels were tricky to do in order to get that real rust look as well.

    The first one looked like a cake topper to me. I've see better decorated football fields. I can say that because it wasn't my Line then :)

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  2. orlandog kenMarch 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    It has been corrected senor! It looked like the gold was VUM on the rear wheel.

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