| The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation | | | | changing his body color daily, so the miniature |
| Studios released the first product of its | | | | version comes in three hues, namely orange, |
| collaboration in 1995 with the full length animation | | | | green and the original violet. Meanwhile, Luigi, a |
| Toy Story and by June 2006 the team up | | | | 1959 Fiat 500 who owns the town's Casa Della |
| reached its seventh creation with the movie Cars. | | | | Tire Shop, comes with a tire crank. Lastly, Doc is |
| To celebrate the film's launching, the leading fast | | | | a wind-up toy that knows its bounds, turning |
| food chain, McDonald's, momentarily joined this | | | | about when it reaches the table edge. This design |
| productive partnership when it issued the | | | | is quite fitting for the Hudson Hornet in the film |
| collectible memorabilia of the main disney | | | | who is also the town's doctor and voice of |
| characters as its Happy Meal toys. | | | | wisdom. |
| From June to July of the same year, plastic | | | | Interestingly these Happy Meal toys which are |
| miniatures of Lightning McQueen, Sally Carrera, | | | | created for the film's young viewership, also |
| Mater, Doc Hudson and Ramone were among the | | | | attracts the adult crowd. Apart from quickly |
| 9 freebie items that kids were to choose from to | | | | running out of stock which implies the popularity in |
| go along with every Happy Meal. The 1:50 scale | | | | demand, these same giveaways are available at |
| models are replicas of their screen counterparts, | | | | online stores for the serious collectors. Priced |
| each with a hint of their respective personality | | | | somewhat costly considering these are released |
| traits. | | | | as tokens, most are for sale with the factory |
| The Happy Meal model for Lightning McQueen, the | | | | packaging still intact. The rarer the item, like the |
| racetrack rookie who takes center stage in the | | | | dirty McQueen and Mater, the more expensive it |
| movie, comes in two versions. Both are pullback | | | | is. |
| toys and can perform wheelies but one depicts | | | | Cars is a computer graphics animation that is |
| the clean and sleek McQueen, whereas the other | | | | backed by a formidable list of voice artists, |
| is the unkempt form, as if having just completed | | | | starting off with Owen Wilson as McQueen, Larry |
| the repairs on Radiator Springs' main road. | | | | the Cable Guy as Mater, Bonnie Hunt as Sally and |
| The miniatures of his friends from the formerly | | | | Paul Newman as Doc. Cheech Marin, Jenifer Lewis, |
| popular stopover to a now sleepy town also have | | | | Tony Shaloub and George Carlin also join the list |
| their individual attributes. The Sally and Mater | | | | of talents to give life to Ramone, Flo, Luigi and |
| models steer left or right, while Flo, the 1950s | | | | Fillmore, respectively. Since the film is entertaining |
| sassy show car and Fillmore, the hippie van of the | | | | to both kids and adults, it is no wonder that the |
| 60s, are both pullback toy cars like that of | | | | McDonald's Cars collectibles are popular to |
| McQueen. Ramone, the body paint artist and Flo's | | | | audiences of all ages. |
| husband, expresses his art in the movie by | | | | |