Color Changers Cars

Color Changers are 1:55 scale Disney Pixar Cars toys made by Mattel. Color Changers are model cars of popular characters from the Cars and Cars 2 movies. These color shifting cars are plastic and change colors when placed in hot or cold water. Mattel no longer is making Color Changers and thus they are very hard to find. The Cars 2 Color Changers were sold at Toys R' Us exclusively and were pronounced End of Life / End of Line in summer 2011. Where can you buy Cars Color Changers now? The best place for used and new Color Changers is eBay. You can also buy new Color Changers on Amazon. Mattel released several Color Changers Cars in individual packages, 2 packs and in play sets. For both Cars and Cars 2 Pixar and Mattel released Ramone's House of Body Art Color Changers playset. The playset included a replica of Ramone's paint shop and a Ramone Color Changer. For Cars 2 they released Color Changers Color Splash Speedway which included the play set and a color changer Finn McMissile. The Color Changers cars are very fun to play with because they have 2 paint jobs in 1 car!!! All you need is water to play with them as well. Disney Pixar Cars that were made into Color Changers cars include: Lightning McQueen, Mater, Snot Rod, DJ, Boost, Wingo, Dinoco Chick Hicks, Dinoco Lightning McQueen, Darrel Cartrip, Doc Hudson, Radiator Springs Lightning McQueen, Ramone, Red, Sarge, Sheriff, Finn McMissile, Raoul Caroule and Francesco Bernulli.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Color Splash Speedway Cars 2 Color Changers


Here's my son's new Color Changers toy. He got it for his 3rd birthday from grandma and grandpa. It was on clearance at Toys R Us for $29.99. This set comes with one color changers / color shifters car, Finn McMissile. The Finn McMissile color changing car shifts from a gray blue to a royal blue color. It is great that the set includes a color changer car, because the color changers cars are extremely hard to find and VERY expensive. I even saw a Boost color changer sell on eBay for $160!!!!! Makes me wish my Boost color changer was never opened from its box. :-(

Anyway, this set is very different from the Ramone's House of Body Art color changers set that was sold for both the original Cars movie and Cars 2. This set I think is for a slightly older age group. That being said, my 3 year old son can play with this set on his own, no problem.

In this video, I display my set of Disney Pixar Cars Color Changers made by Mattel. Below is a list of my Mattel Cars Color Changers Collection. He owns 13 color changing cars. His set includes:
Sheriff Color Changers (green to black)
Darrel Cartrip Color Changers (white to purple)
Darrel Cartrip Color Changers (white to blue)
Lightning McQueen Color Changers Cars 2 (yellow to brown)
Race Tow Truck Tom Color Changers (yellow to red)
Flo Color Changers (pink to purple)
Ramone Color Changers (yellow to red)
Wingo Color Changers (light green to dark green)
Snotrod Color Changers (light orange to dark orange)
Boost Color Changers (light purple to dark purple)
Lightning McQueen Color Changers (red to black/red).
Finn McMissile (gray blue to royal blue)
Finn McMissile (blue to brown)
My set includes all of the delinquent road hazards except for DJ.

I am so amazed at how expensive these color changers now are on Amazon. They originally sold in stores for about $5-7. Now on Amazon they are between $10-55 each. Wow! However, you can get the Ramone's House of Body Art playset by Matel on Amazon for $15-17. I found my set at Ross for $10. You can also get the Ramone's set for about $15-20 at ToysRUs.

Mattel's Ramone's Color Change Playset did not get the best of reviews on Amazon.com. However, I personally love the set and so does my 2.5 year old son. We always get it out when he has friends over and it keeps the toddlers busy for hours. Plus, the Disney color changers helped him learn his colors when he was just 18 months old. It was easy for him to see the colors change right in front of him and I think the action of putting the cars from warm water to cold water really helped him understand the color concept. Mattel made color shifting cars for both the original Cars movie and for Cars 2. I just saw last weekend that Toysrus was clearing out their Disney color changing cars. My store was selling the color changer Finn McMissile for about $5.

If you don't live near a Toys R US you can buy the Disney Pixar Cars Color Changers Track Set Speedway on Amazon for $36. There are no reviews on this cars color changers track set yet. It does not seem as popular as Mattel's Ramones Color Changers House of Body Art set. This set is for older kids and takes up more space in your house, so maybe that's why less people bought it. Also, it is just so impossible to buy color changers individually.
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