Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2017 Finds

[niftynigel]

cars are...wait for it...6.50 in tescos...yes you read that correctly... what a rip off

And Sainsburys too!

ASDA £5.95
Morrisons £5.50
Bentalls £5.99
Toymaster £6.29 / £6.99
TRU £5.99 - No offers in SW London
Disney £5.95
Smyths £5.99 - Offers in some stores and / or on some cars
The Entertainer £6.00

Current stocks are combinations of cases 965A, B, F and G. All Wave 1.

Smyths website is now stating that all the Wave 2 cars will be in stock in October rather than spread over September and October. Probably having exclusive 965G case (20 per store) for three months had lead to massive overstocks in all stores!

[boogity]

cars are...wait for it...6.50 in tescos...yes you read that correctly... what a rip off

[boogity]

three for two in tru, poor range however

[VANDANCE]

it was the mega sized cab only from last year

Okay thanks for clarifying, still great value and worth picking up if you don't have it.

[GotFrank]

Cabs only that real chafes me... I picked one up on Amazon for $6 shipped. I'm still wresting with the idea of customizing a dark purple. Cars 3 Octane Gain trailer into a Transberry Juice trailer. Maybe if I had more room. But I'm also getting tired of picking up Mattel's slack, ah ambivalence.

[boogity]

Wow, a hauler for £2.99- that must be a mistake, get them while you can sir!!

it was the mega sized cab only from last year

[VANDANCE]

Not sure what the case codes were but the most recent Cars 3 finds are Taco and Ciglert from Morrison's 3 weeks ago. We must be very close to seeing the next wave soon. Also Sainsbury's have stocked up with Carstoons singles along side the Cars 3 line.

[VANDANCE]

transberry hauler 2.99 in tesco
cars comics now have the free plastic car attached a la rest of europe, sept is cruz and the one out on 4 th oct is miss fritter!

Wow, a hauler for £2.99- that must be a mistake, get them while you can sir!!

[boogity]

transberry hauler 2.99 in tesco
cars comics now have the free plastic car attached a la rest of europe, sept is cruz and the one out on 4 th oct is miss fritter!

[niftynigel]

Case 999T was listed as a forthcoming US case, but it wasn't on the international list of cases. There maybe an international case with a different letter?

From what I have noted, these are the most common cases so far ...

999A - General (May)
999B - General (May)
999C - Walmart (May) (Sterling)
999D - Walgreens (Apr) (Sterling) (Todd)
999E - Target (May) (Sterling)
999F - General (Jun)
999G - General (Jul) (UK Smyths exclusive)
999H - General (Aug) (Twin of 999Y) (Wave 2)
999J - US only (SC) (Wave 2)
999K
999L - Walmart (Jun) (Aug restock)

999M - Target (May) (Variant of 999B)
999N - Target (Jun) (Aug restock)
999P
999Q - Target (Aug) (Target version of 999Y) (Wave 2)
999R
999S
999T (Wave 2)
999U
999V - 8no Cars (0807EAA)
999W - Target (May)
999Y - General (Twin of 999H with Poster) (Wave 2)

UK cases released so far in bold

It's a bloody mess Mattel! How difficult is it to go from A, B, C etc. in sequence?

[niftynigel]

The full list of singles due to be released in the UK is as follows:

September (Case 999H)

JIMBO
APB
ROSCOE
PUSHOVER
FISHTAIL
BROADSIDE
DARREN LEADFOOT (SHINEY WAX No. 82)
ERNIE GEARSON (SPARE MINT No. 93)

October onwards (Case 999K / 999P / 999R / 999S / 999U) > Nice of Mattel to release these in sequence!

RIVER SCOTT
LOUISE NASH
PATTY
JUNIOR MOON
PILEUP
PAT TRAXSON
MADDY McGEAR
KRIS REVSTOPSKI
CHASE RACELOTT (VITOLINE No. 24) (2G)
RUST-EZE LIGHTNING McQUEEN
BUBBA WHEELHOUSE (TRANSBERRY JUICE No. 6) (2G)
RYAN "INSIDE" LANEY (BLINKR No. 21) (2G)
H.J. HOLLIS (NITROADE No.28) (2G)
ED TRUNCON (MOOD SPRINGS No. 33) (2G)
TERRY KARGAS (TRIPLE DENT No. 31)
PHIL TANKSON (NITROADE No. 28)
HERB CURBER (FAUX WHEEL DRIVE No. 54) (2G)
RUST-EZE CRUZ RAMIREZ (No. 95)

There are also three other cars that I've seen on a release list, but are not on any posters:

T-BONE
BRENT MUSTANGBURGER (W/RSN)
GAUGE

Also six SKN numbers were reserved for other, so far unidentified new cars. What are they and will they come out?

When will the 'Themes' re-start? Are they being spread over into 2018?

[cac1959]

found a four pack, exclusive to tescos, its race to win, same format as fireball beach, its 17 quid, , it has 2 next gen and 2 normal racers, cant rem who they were now, but one was octaine gain, which was a different shade of blue/purple than the single, looks good, bearing in mind cars are 6.20 its a good price

I believe you probably saw the boxed set that I found last Saturday at a US Target store, boogity... the one new Car is the Revolting Piston Cup Cars 3 Racer (not the next generation Revolting which is coming out in another boxed set).

[boogity]

found a four pack, exclusive to tescos, its race to win, same format as fireball beach, its 17 quid, , it has 2 next gen and 2 normal racers, cant rem who they were now, but one was octaine gain, which was a different shade of blue/purple than the single, looks good, bearing in mind cars are 6.20 its a good price

[rossibutton]

jada 1.24th , wwill have to check that, what did they have rb?

They had Cars 3 Lightning McQueen, Rust-Eze Racing Centre Lightning McQueen, Dinoco Cruz Ramirez and Jackson Storm.

They do look really nice but i noticed a few imperfections such as scratches, the McQueen I received from Target.com has a badly scuffed decal on the side. I have only seen them at a large Asda store.

[boogity]

It would appear that the 'G' case with Ralph Carlow (Lil Torquey Pistons), Jack DePost (Tow Cap) and Cigalert is exlusive to Smyths Toy Superstores in the UK and Ireland. All stores got around 20 of these cases. There's been plenty of all these cars on all my recent visits and plenty of unopened cases at all the stores too (if you want cars without their £5.99 price ticket on them)!

The Smyths website also list the full set of singles due for UK release. It looks like wave two will hit the stores in September and October.

https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/...c/SM0601010702

One for Boogity ...

I gave in to tempatation!

The ASDA sale (£4 per car) was just to much to resist. I bought around 20 cars (all the racers and second generation racers plus a few others) from cases 965A, 965B and 965F from ASDA. Oh well!

I also bought Ralph Carlow and Jack DePost at Smyths too (at £5.99 each).

I knew you couldnt hold out there nige!