Pixar Play Parade Photo Blog: Part 4 Green Army Men, Buzz Lightyear and Mater

Finishing off the Pixar Play Parade we have the Toy Story & Cars sections. 

  Leading the Toy Story Float into action are the Green Army Men.   They are scouting out the parade route to make sure it is safe for the other floats.

Following the Army men come the Little Green Men.

Then Buzz doing a flyby of the Carthay Circle

Up next the rest of the Toy Story Gang

Jessie is aiming her water canyon at you rustlers.

 Speaking of Rust:  Here comes Lightning McQueen and Mater

I think we are about to have a Zoolander moment

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Disney/Pixar Animated Short Reviews: #13 Time Travel Mater 2012

Time Travel Mater  2012   6 out of 10

In this Cars Toon in the Mater's Tall Tales series of shorts Mater travels back in time and we get to see how Radiator Springs came to be.  It was a cute cartoon --but nothing special when compared to many other better Pixar shorts.  It features Mater having to make sure that Stanley (the founder of Radiator Springs actually starts it up in the first place, since Mater accidentally keeps that from happening at first.     It works best as an introduction to Carsland in Disney's California Adventure as it is a good back story for the things you see in Radiator Springs.  

This short can be found on the Pixar Animated Shorts Volume 2 DVD set.....This concludes all the featured shorts from that DVD. in future installments we will cover Pixar shorts Volume 1  which is a great set of animated shorts as well as starting to dig into older Disney cartoons after that.

DCA that is no more Part 5: Cars before they had a land

Before they got their own land Mater and McQueen were just a pre-parade promo for the original movie.  Here are a few photos I dug out of an old photo book of Mater and Lightning driving through the streets of DCA