Zach and I have been collecting the die-cast cars from the Pixar Movie "Cars". He got a big box with the entire collection for his birthday last year. But since then they have come out with quite a few new ones. We've been picking these up as we find them and we have almost all of them.
Or so we thought.
It seems that Mattel (who makes them) came out with a special set in May that contained a whole bunch of previously unreleased new cars from the movie. They only made 1,000 sets and these sold out almost immediately.
Doh!
To make matters much worse, one of the cars is an awesome find for any Mac fan like me. The car was only in the movie for a split second during a race, it was put in by Pixar as a nod to Apple. It's painted in the ever-understated-yet-dramatic "Apple White" and comes bearing the number 84 (a reference to the cool "1984" ad that played at the Super Bowl that year to kick off the original Macintosh).
So I checked eBay, just in case, and my heart sank. They are going for $200! Far more than I could ever spend on a toy car, even if it does bear the bitten-apple logo.
Oh well.
Favor?
If any of you finds yourself perusing a garage sale and sees one of these for sale cheap, get it for me! I mean, for us.
I'll love you forever.
2 comments:
That is indeed a pretty car for an apple lover. I'll keep an eye out for one(not literally as that would substantially reduce my depth perception). But, if I never find one, even with depth perception intact, will you still love me forever?
You can't possibly remember the TV show "Car 54 where are you?" Do you?
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