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Cars 2 Ultimate Collector’s Edition 3D Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack

October 26, 2013 by Momstart Leave a Comment

Our family are huge Pixar fans and Cars 2 didn’t dissapoint us. I know there are things about the movie that a lot of parents don’t like, but it’s a personal decision and we like it. We received a free copy from Disney to share the news the Cars 2 is now available in a 5 disc collector’s addition. Pixar’s classic goes full throttle off the screen for the first time ever in CARS 3D Ultimate Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray 3D™, Blu-ray™, Digital HD, DVD and Digital Copy (U.S. Only) October 29th! Rev up for Cars 2, Disney/Pixar’s laugh-out-loud adventure! Everyone’s favorite Cars characters leave Radiator Springs to travel the globe with Lightning McQueen and his best friend Mater, as he competes in the first ever World Grand Prix! Meanwhile, Mater unwittingly gets caught up in a top-secret, action-packed, global spy mission. Powered by the genuine emotion that Disney/Pixar always delivers and with a colorful new all-car cast that includes secret agents, menacing villains, and international racing competitors, Cars 2 is non-stop fun for the entire family!

Includes

Classic Cars Bonus

Features Include: Epilogue, Inspiration for Cars, Five Deleted Scenes, Cars Short: “Mater and the Ghostlight,” (Ultimate Collector’s Theatrical Short: “One Man Band,” Cine-Explore, Carfinder, Boundin’ Cars, “Doc” Short, Edition Set Only) and more!

We’re pretty excited about this release and happy to add it to our collection.

Have a Family Movie Night Cars 2 and Juicy Juice

November 16, 2011 by Momstart 413 Comments

It’s always a good time to have a family movie night and I’m ready to pop open Cars 2. Our kids have already seen the movie, they went to the theater with their dad and watched it and I can’t wait to see it again. I love the soundtrack and listen to it all the time.

Nestlé’s Juicy Juice is teaming up with Cars 2 to help all of us have a fantastic movie night, including you! Juicy Juice has set up Spy School and your kids should try it out. You might even like to try it out. There is a name game, what’s your spy name? I just filled out the information and my assigned spy name is Lacey Lee. Find out what your spy name is at Nestlé’s Juicy Juice Spy School. Your kids can also play many different spy games there.

On our movie nights we love to all snuggle up on the couch. How do you like to spend your movie night?

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner, Nicolle B.

All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

The Cars 2 Car Tour Lighting McQueen Drives into Seattle

October 7, 2011 by Momstart 31 Comments

My kids were so jealous of me when they found out that I met Lightening McQueen, Mater and Finn McMissile a few months back when I attended the red carpet premier of Cars 2. But they don’t have to be jealous any longer because next Tuesday October 11th from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood and on Wednesday October 12th from 3:00 to 6:00 in the same mall. the Cars are going to be at the mall for the kids.

This event will have a variety of CARS 2 themed activities and fun including: A video kiosk, e photo opportunities, games, giveaways, prizes and a chance to win a copy of CARS 2 on DVD from Radio Disney! This event is the “Agents on a Mission” tour presented by State Farm. We Love State Farm they were so helpful when our house flooded, plus they are our car insurance company. Looks like they’re Maters preferred car insurance company too. “Agents on a Mission” hits the road with Disney•Pixar’s “Cars 2” when four-time Piston Cup champion Lightning McQueen and best friend Mater join master British spy Finn McMissile—life-size remote-controlled models that race around, light up and rev for fans.

Act fast and get your photo taken with the cars. Have fun playing games and enjoy all the fun. Disney•Pixar’s fast-action summer hit “Cars 2” comes home on Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D, Movie Download and DVD — November 1, 2011.

How to Throw a Cars 2 Party With Mattel Discount Code

July 5, 2011 by Momstart 10 Comments

My son is all about Cars, the last party we had for him was just us but we still decorated in Cars. Now that’s it’s all about Cars 2 I imagine that next year we’ll be using Cars 2 as our theme. When throwing any kind of party first you have to start with decorations and when it comes to kids, it’s best to go over the top. We checked out our local Target and found a great selection of Cars 2 decorations, cars 2 invitations, cars 2 party favors and cars 2 thank you cards.

Now what kind of goodies will you serve?

I have two really great Cars 2 themed ideas for snack time at your Cars 2 party. You have to check out these Cars 2 Whitewall Tire Cookies and these Tow Mater Cupcakes. Both are sure to be a hit.

After you get all the decorations and snacks taken care of, you’ll have to think of some games. Since Cars 2 is about traveling the world it’s a great learning opportunity with your friends and play mates. Get out a world map and discuss different cities and what you would like to see and visit. Example:

· Lightning McQueen and Mater visit the streets of Japan and Europe throughout film. Develop a wish list of places to visit and chart out a dream road trip using stickers and a world map.

Another Cars 2 party game idea is to make license plates. With cardstock paper and glitter glue, kids can create their own license plate design. And one finally idea I had was for you to let each kid pick a double digit number and they can decorate it pin it to them. Then you can take them outside for a race around your front or back yard.

And you can’t have a Cars 2 Party without Cars 2 Toys right?

Mattel has provided us with this discount code to use for the rest of the summer.

· CARS2BL
Offer: 20% off all Cars 2 items until 8/1
Limitations: One user per customer, limit 5 units per order

Here are some Cars 2 Toys and activities you can do at your party with them.

Race for “World’s Fastest Car” Title

· Perform Lightning McQueen’s stunts from the movie by loading two Cars into the Cars 2 Tokyo Spinout Track Set set’s dual launchers to watch the vehicles zip, whirl and race to victory.

Secret Agent Man

· Invent spy missions and take Cars 2 Secret Spy Attack Finn McMissile with you to crack the case. Loaded with top secret spy weapons, firing missiles, sound effects and thrilling transformations, kids will become super sleuths.

Ka Chow! Cars 2 Grand Prix

· Recreate scenes from the Cars 2 movie, like the final World Grand Prix Championship race scene. Create a race course from point A to point B. Line up the Lights and Sounds Die-Cast Assortment Cars and designate someone to start the race with the checkered racing flag. Kids push their cars to the finish line. The real working headlights, revving sounds and signature phrases of the Die-Cast will make it feel like Lightning McQueen and friends are really speeding around the course to take home the win.

If you’re anything like us you already have a house full of Cars die cast cars. So I thought it would be fun to have a quick conversation about die cast cars with Miles.

We received samples from Mattel to facilitate this review.

Summer Fun & Protection Cars 2 Band Aid Neosporin & Fandango

July 4, 2011 by Momstart 552 Comments

Playing outdoors is something we do all year round. When it’s warm out though we have fewer clothes on and the kids seem to be more daring, or maybe it’s just because…whatever the reason when we’re outside in the summer time, the scrapes, cuts, bug bites and boo boos in general go up exponentially. So we have to stock up on band aids and Neosporin.

When we go to the store and I’m looking for anything on the medical isle the kids always notice the Band-Aid Brand bandages because of the fun characters they know and love. Have you noticed we’re a Disney family around here?

Getting bandages and medicine on the kids after a boo boo is often difficult at best. So having something that they enjoy makes the experience a little easier on mom and dad. Now I’m going to be honest here, the plain Band-Aid bandages are not my favorite. They don’t stick on long enough, but the kids sure do like them. So I think it’s a draw.

Cars 2 has been out and has been doing really well at the theater. Which means that kids’ love of them will be re-ignited, even though in our house the love of them never died. So yeah, Cars 2 band aids are always on the list for my son Miles. One fun, easy and affordable way to bring the characters home is with BAND-AID® Brand Decorated Adhesive Bandages featuring all of your favorite Cars characters and scenes. Kids will love covering their cuts and scrapes with these Band-Aids. They’re perfect to bring to the beach, camp or on a summer road trip! In addition to Cars, BAND-AID® Brand has some newer character bandages out as well—Phineas & Ferb and Disney Fairies—that’ll make healing fun.

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Joanne Schultz.

We received samples to facilitate this review.

Walk Through a Cars 2 Car Show With Me

June 30, 2011 by Momstart 12 Comments

After watching Cars 2 at the El Capitan you have the opportunity to go into the “after party” scene, Cars 2 World Grand Prix. There is over 3 1/2 hours of fun inside the Cars 2 World Grand Prix. It’s like stepping into a carnival made for cars. One of my favorite parts was the Car Show.

All the above photos were taken by me. When you’re at the Cars 2 World Grand Prix you have the opportunity to have your photo taken with the stars of the movie while you’re there. I love looking at cars so much, I wanted to include more cars that inspired the movie Cars 2. These photos are used on behalf of Disney and were taken at the annual Motorama.

Pixar Animation Studios hosted its 11^th annual Motorama on June 24^th on its Emeryville, Calif., grounds as its 12^th full-length feature “Cars 2” raced into theaters nationwide. The four-wheeled comedy adventure’s anticipated opening aptly coincided with the much celebrated employee car show this year, which showcases the team’s love of cars, featuring a variety of special vehicles owned by employees, celebrities and auto manufacturers alike, as well as life-size, remote-controlled cars modeled after car characters from the film. Hosted by director and car enthusiast John Lasseter and “Cars” franchise guardian Jay Ward, Motorama is what many call the “coolest day of the year” at the Northern California Studio.

Featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer and John Turturro, Disney•Pixar’s “Cars 2” is in theaters now, and is presented in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D in select theaters.

Most Photos provided by Disney the rest were taken by me, my trip and all expenses were paid for by Disney. I didn’t attend the Motorama.

Inside Cars 2 Owen Wilson & Eddie Izzard Spies, Hot Cars and Pixar

June 26, 2011 by Momstart 2 Comments

During my stay in LA with Disney discovering Cars 2 I had the opportunity to interview Owen Wilson and Eddie Izzard along with 21 other bloggers. I’ve always thought of Owen Wilson as being a very famous actor, but never really thought about what it would be like to meet him, and Eddie Izzard, well I’d never heard of him before. I feel like since we don’t have cable anymore, it’s like living under a rock. The only news stream I get is either from my husband or from twitter.

Having no expectations at all helped quite a bit. Many of the moms felt like Owen Wilson was showing signs that he had somewhere better to be. I thought he just looked tired and maybe he was a mommy blogger virgin you know. Of course he is a famous actor and should be used to all kinds of crazy out of this world media exploits right?

Cars 2 came out Friday and Owen Wilson (Lightening McQueen) took a smaller role this time allowing Mater most of the spotlight. Some of the moms wondered if Owen felt slightly jealous of having a smaller role and that’s why he had the shy laid back attitude during the interview. I can’t imagine living the life of a star, it’s just too much smiling for me. Anyways, you’re probably wondering what Owen had to say to us right?

He talked about working as a Parking Valet and a huge perk was getting to drive really fancy cars. He spoke about boarding school and I’m really not sure what the point of that was, and we also chatted about the grossest thing he’s ever eaten. You know, in Cars 2, Mater eats a HUGE helping of Wasabi. The worst thing he’s ever eaten was a Vegemite. He said, “Yeah it was the foulest tasting stuff ….. I couldn’t even swallow.”

We then asked both Eddie Izzard and Owen Wilson What was your favorite scene in the movie. For Owen it was when Mater had the bomb on him. “when we were doing the stuff there is this scene where you know I’m telling uh you know uh– you know Mater is trying– we’re saying, “You’re the bomb.” Uh you know that, that– I thought that was a really funny sequence to do. Uh no, no you’re the bomb.”

Have you ever wondered what it’s like for an actor to be a voice verses being in a live action film?

For Owen, “I’d say for me it’s actually easier because you don’t have the distractions of wardrobe hair and makeup. And you know everybody is kind of around. And it’s a harder leap ta’ kind of get into your imagination than for me where it’s just– you’re just kind of in your head at the microphone and you just ….it’s more like a little kid when you’re just kind of playing you know make believe. Uh, uh so for me it’s, it’s, it’s easier actually.” he likes being a voice actor. Eddie on the other hand prefers the live action. He said, “I think it’s more difficult.…. There is a certain thing about the way you are, the movement. The, the attitude, what– even what you’re wearing. How, how you’re looking. I just shaved my head for a part. You know that certainly changes your feel. But if you haven’t got that you’ve just have the voice. It is harder. You have to give what you can and then they go and animate.

Eddie was quite excited to be working on a spy film. “I mean the spies, everyone wants to be a spy,” so he was a little disappointed to find out that his character didn’t get any action. Owen found it pretty exciting and noted that it should appeal to kids saying, “Yeah I think that there’s something about you know spying you know that really appeals to kids. I know like growing up you know we always wanted you know binoculars or you know these– there was something that supposedly you could do with like Dixie riddle cups where you could heat or could create like you know anything that was like kind of secret or you know spying on people.”

I was most curious on knowing what it’s like to work at Pixar. Both of them had different stories on how much they liked Pixar’s offices and both commented on John Lasseter’s clothing choices. We all know he likes to wear custom made Hawaiian shirts.

Just in case you’re like me and have no idea who Eddie Izzard is, he plays Sir Miles Axlerod in Cars 2, is well known for being a comedian earning a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for outstanding achievement and has received a British comedy Award for tip stand-up comedian.

Oh and his favorite car choice is “Aston Martin DB5.” He said, “If they made one like the Thunderbird…..A new Thunderbird that was based on the old 60’s model……But if they did the Aston Martin DB5 like the James Bond one”

Oh and did this post seem a little random, you should see the interview transcript. The whole conversation was RANDOM.

Photos and trip expenses were provided to me on behalf of Disney.

Inside Cars 2 Emily Mortimer is As Glamorous as Holley Shiftwell

June 24, 2011 by Momstart 3 Comments

Emily Mortimer was born in Finsbury Park, London studied at Lincoln College, Oxford where she performed in several plays before becoming an actress. When she read the role for Holley Shiftwell, she thought her time at Pixar would last a month, boy was she surprised when it ended up taking two years to finish the role Holley Shiftwell.

Emily Mortimer feels that her life is much less glamorous than Holly’s. “I normally do parts where I never get to wear Mascara or you know, or have a Blow dryer on my hair and um, and — and I just look far from glamorous. So I don’t think I will ever look as good as I do as Holley Shiftwell. And I’m not normally this sort of, you know, together empowered Spy Car type. In fact, my friends will make me run for a bus just to give themselves a good laugh so I’ll totally mal-coordinated really in real life.” Sitting across from Emily, I find that hard to believe. She is a beautiful woman with grace and humor.

Playing a strong role like Holley Shiftwell has changed her view on future roles. Emily said her son, “thinks of me as this sort of hopeless sort of dappy thing and I play that part a little bit” and now she is thinking about playing stronger female characters because Emily isn’t dappy at all. She also has a 1 year old daughter now and will be considering how she wants to be looked up to by her daughter. “I think it is more important to me to think, kind of think about that more, you know, and what it is I’m doing every time I’m sort of pretending to be a hopeless dippy Female and — and of course I’m not.”

Emily truly showed me how strong she is when she was discussing how as an actor you really have to put yourself out there. “We’ve been talking a lot about that being, putting — putting yourself in unfamiliar situations being such a part of our lives as performers, and we spend half our lives feeling that way, as most people do. I mean, I think anyone that’s kind of trying to live a life and — and experience things and do things and challenge themselves as — is often feeling inadequate and like they don’t quite know what they’re doing. And — and um, and that’s a very familiar feelings as an Actor. You know, Performer.”

The best part of Cars 2 for Emily Mortimer was when her son was watching it and saw Holley get wings and fly off to help Mater. “he turned to me and he went, Mom, you’re amazing! And I, and that was just like, Oh my God, you can’t! That’s the, you know, it was just so great. And he’s not usually that impressed by me. So it was really cool.” Be sure to watch Cars 2 and see how Emily Mortimer made Holley Shiftwell so glamorous.

Disney provided the photos and paid for my travel and expenses.

Inside Cars 2 Who’s Mater & Larry The Cable Guy

June 24, 2011 by Momstart 6 Comments

I had no idea what to expect when meeting Mater the undeniable star of Cars 2, Larry the Cable Guy met and exceeded all of my expectations. I was surprised to find that Larry the Cable Guy doesn’t change his voice at all, he is Mater. Listening to him, I could picture Mater driving around and getting into trouble. Also, Larry the Cable Guy is true to himself. He dresses like he wants to, he’s comfortable, and arrives on the Red Carpet in shorts and a button up shirt. So I decided the best way to discover who Mater really is, go to the source, Larry The Cable Guy.

When Larry the Cable Guy was asked, What do you think it is about Mater that is so endearing to children, that is so iconic? He said, “Aw, he’s just a good guy. He’s just a fun little animated character. He’s nice, he’s funny, you know. Uh, everybody wants to hang around with him. He’s a faithful friend. You know, plus he’s funny. He says funny things and he does fun things. Kids like that. Well, Adults like it too. So I think that’s pretty much what it is.”

We’ve all known from the very first movie that Mater has a lot of heart. He cares about his friends and we discover just how far he’ll go for his friends in Cars 2. Mater even puts his own life on the line to save Lightening McQueen. The bad guys put a bomb inside Mater, and once Mater realizes it he does everything he can to get away. But that’s not all he does to show his huge heart. He develops feelings for Holly too! Even Larry was quite impressed with how Cars 2 kept Mater true to his character from Cars 1, “they kept the relationship, the friendship factor in it. They kept everything in it. They just added a ton of action.” Mater is the star of Cars 2 and he managed to not let it get to his head. He is all the action behind Cars 2, he and Holly both were thrown into being spies.

What was Larry’s favorite scene in the movie Cars 2 you might ask?

“Uh, in the, I like the part were Mater, uh, eats the Wasabi [UNINTELLIGIBLE UNDER LAUGHTER] More of that Ice Cream! Boy, come on, it’s free, ain’t it? I get some. I do. Let’s go, it’s free. Move on there! Get her done. That’s, I like that part, you know.” He later said that was something he would do himself. Like I said, Larry the Cable Guy is Mater.

Photos by Disney used with permission. My Trip and expenses were provided by Disney.

Meet the Man Behind Cars 2 John Lasseter

June 24, 2011 by Momstart 2 Comments

John Lasseter has my dream job. Honestly, the intern that works as the bottom tier of Pixar has my dream job. Yes since Pixar released their very first movie all I could dream about was working at Pixar as a computer animator. John Lasseter is a family man with five boys and a very sweet wife. I briefly met her before the Hollywood premiere and she doted on my dress, which was so very kind of her.

When we interviewed John he wasn’t sporting his usual Hawaiian shirt, he was wearing a custom made Hawaiian Cars 2 shirt. From everything I learned about John Lasseter, I learned that he’s very passionate about his work. As a team they research every detail for their movies. Take for instance the cities, they spent time in each city making sure they were quite accurate. The cars well here’s what John had to say about researching and naming the cars:

“we go to the car company to ask their permission. But there’s a lot of things were people’s kind of names and if there’s a big advert on the — advertisement on the side of one of the double-decker buses in London that’s Callahan’s and that’s Sharon Callahan, our lighting lead.”

And the cities that he found most glamorous, “I kept going to Japan and the UK and Italy and France and Germany and all these places that have their own car cultures and great cars and amazing roads and very different than here. and I thought it be really fun to take our characters to these places so kind of those ideas and spy movies, you know, travel around the world, you know, in these glamorous places. And I thought this is gonna be really fun and it satisfied me for wanting to do something that’s really different than the original movie.”

I’ve seen the movie twice and the second time I noticed much more than I did the first. For instance, the second time I watched the movie I noticed how accurate Paris was to my memory. John noted that there are so many details in Cars 2 that every time you watch it you’ll notice something else. “You’re going to have to single frame some of this stuff but it’s hilarious.”

When making a movie, it’s the story that’s most important. It’s important to John Lasseter that every character is appealing and tells a story. “You have to tell a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can’t wait to see what happens next and it works for adults as well as kids. You populate that story with really memorable characters, uh, and appealing characters. That’s really the important thing for me. Even the bad guy should be appealing that you enjoy watching and you put those characters in that story in a believable world. Not realistic but believable for the story you’re telling.”

Cars 2 is a great family film with action suspense and lots of heart. I found all of the characters, even the bad guys believable and realistic. Cars 2 transports you into the middle of their lives and you’ll be on the edge of your seat wondering what’s going to happen next.

My Trip and all expenses were provided by Disney