50% off Disney/Pixar Blu-rays (Amazon.com)

[JP]

I've found another Amazon.com Blu-ray sale. This time it's 50% off Disney & Pixar Blu-rays.

As always, there are no details as to how long the sale will last as there seems to be new sales starting every few days now!

$14:99 / £7:67

• Remember the Titans
• Bad Santa (The Unrated Version & Director's Cut)
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Finding Neverland
• The Haunted Mansion
• G.I. Jane
• Scary Movie

$19:99 / £10:23

• Ratatouille
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Cars
• Apocalypto
• Pixar Short Films Collection - Volume 1
• Pearl Harbor
• Meet the Robinsons
• King Arthur (Director's Cut)
• The Prestige
• Enemy of the State
• Gone in 60 Seconds
• Underdog
• Casanova
• Deja Vu
• High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition)
• Wild Hogs
• The Brothers Grimm
• Chicago
• Bridge to Terabithia
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Chicken Little
• Reign of Fire
• Eight Below
• The Great Raid (Director's Cut)
• Dinosaur
• The Wild
• The Guardian
• The Queen
• The Lookout
• The Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause
• Invincible
• Flightplan
• Roving Mars
• Ladder 49
• Annapolis
• The Invisible
• Sky High
• Goal! - The Dream Begins
• Dark Water
• Primeval
• Glory Road

$57:99 / £29:66

• Lost - The Complete Third Season

Check here & here to see which of these films are region free.

Remember that if the pre-sale price is £18:00 or higher for your order that you may be charged import tax when they arrive. Either keep it below the £18:00 if you want to be careful.

[ChrisF]

Tempted to order Bad Santa and Jay/Silent Bob, but still waiting on the other batch I ordered from them!

Weird title on the Cars page btw...

[JP]

Weird title on the Cars page btw...

You mean because it mentions Mario Andretti?

Although he wasn't really a major star in F1 here he was absolutely massive in the US and he is the voice of the car that he won the 1967 in the US version of the film.





I could well be misunderstanding what you mean though?

[ChrisF]

Yep - that's exactly what I meant. Didn't realise he was in it!

[JP]

I seem to think there 4 or 5 different depending on which country you bought it in.

Just had a look on Wiki and it seems that there were quite a few differences depending on where you bought it!

The character Mater at different points in the movie says "Git R Done" and "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there," both catchphrases of Larry the Cable Guy, who voices the character in the stereotypical drawl of an American hillbilly. Mater is named after Douglas Keever, whom John Lasseter met at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Although Flo is listed as a Motorama show car, she appears to be inspired by three early- to mid-fifties show cars: the 1951 Buick LeSabre (front-end lines, the basic hood shape, lights mounted near the corners, and front-quarter trim), the 1951 Buick XP-300 (side trim), and the 1956/57 Chrysler Dart (cockpit, deck lid, and tailfins).[24] Flo is played by Jenifer Lewis who is often cast as an African-American mother figure.

Fillmore is a 1960 Volkswagen Type 2, voiced by comedian George Carlin. Carlin was one of the first comics to be embraced by the flower children of the 1960s, and the VW van is usually associated with the hippie culture. In the 1990s, Carlin narrated Seasons 1-4 episodes of the children's TV show Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. This show also featured anthropomorphic vehicles, although most of them were trains. Throughout the film, Fillmore is shown with half-closed, unfocused eyes, and he speaks in slow, sleepy speech peppered with the word "man." This is also reminiscent of Tommy Chong, one half of the famous "pothead" duo Cheech and Chong. Fillmore is actually inspired on Bob Waldmire, a traveling Route 66 artist, who travels in his VW van. Waldmire is a vegan who refused to be associated with something that's given to kids together with a hamburger and hence refused to let Pixar use his name for the character.

Coincidentally, Ramone is voiced by Tommy Chong's former partner, Cheech Marin. He is a 1959 Chevrolet Impala lowrider, a creation popular among Latinos. He is Pixar's first obviously Latino character.

Luigi is a Fiat 500 with an Italian accent provided by Tony Shalhoub. By coincidence, the Fiat 500 is the same kind of car used by Lupin III, the protagonist of the Lupin III series and movies. Hayao Miyazaki, a good friend of John Lasseter, worked on two of the Lupin TV series and directed the Lupin III movie The Castle of Cagliostro. Lasseter said in an interview he did not intend for the reference to be there, although Cagliostro is still one of his favorite films.[25] While Luigi's voice has a strong Italian accent in the original movie, Guido speaks in Italian, this making his dialogues not understandable for the American public. In the Italian movie release, Luigi is speaking Italian with a strong Emilian accent, while Guido speaks only in Emilian dialect, which is not understandable for the average Italian public.

The European model cars in the film include Sally Carrera, Fillmore (both German -- though their country of origin does not influence their characters), plus Luigi, several Maserati Quattroportes (Italian), seven-time Formula1 champion Michael Schumacher (Italian; although he is German, he drove for Ferrari, and the car he voiced is a Ferrari F430). British motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson was the voice of Harv in the film's UK edition. In Clarkson's book, Clarkson on Cars, he described himself as a 1979 Ford Granada Ghia so it could be implied that Harv was (in the UK edition) a British/German car. In Finnish version former Formula1 champion Mika Häkkinen was the voice of the King, while in German version it was the three-time Formula1 champion Niki Lauda. Mika Häkkinen was the name of the #11, Ford Fairlane, in the German version, who originally was voiced by Mario Andretti.

In the Norwegian version, the King was voiced by the former Rallycross champion Martin Schanche. The Piston Cup announcers are voiced by Kjell Kristian Rike and Jon Herwig Carlsen. In real life, they usually announce TV-broadcastings of Cross-country skiing and Biathlon on NRK. However, the Norwegian character names are car-related puns of their real names.

Mario Andretti voices a 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 stock car, painted blue and gold with the number #11. Mario Andretti won the 1967 Daytona 500 with a car of the same appearance prepared by Holman-Moody.

The three Tuner Cars (Boost, Wingo, and D.J.) are Japanese imports while Snot Rod is a Plymouth Barracuda inspired 70s Muscle Car; Mia and Tia are Mazda Miatas, and their names are a pun on Miata. Frank's predominant color, orange, is the color of Japanese tractor maker Kubota. There is a Japanese woman named Chuki, who resembles an early 2000s Nissan March, on the world news.

If you're a real collector of Pixar films then this is going to be a really expensive buy to get all variations.