When Lightning falls asleep and gets dumped out onto the highway, the first couple of cars that almost hit him look just like the "customers" that Sally sees the next day.
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Here’s some of my picks:
Ratatouille: I feel like this one maybe could’ve done a little more domestically, given that at the time for such a well-reviewed Pixar film it was the lowest-grossing since Toy Story and A Bug’s Life. However, it’s $417.3M OS gross (which was the 2nd highest behind Finding Nemo at the time) made up for the lower domestic gross, and it finished with $623.7M WW, making it the 3rd highest-grossing Pixar film behind Finding Nemo ($871M) and The Incredibles ($631.4M).
WALL•E: This one would’ve certainly beat The Incredibles’ Pixar OW record ($70.5M) if it didn’t have ‘Wanted’ ($50.9M OW) in the same weekend, but still it did $63.1M. Curiously though, it had drops in the 45-48% range for its first 4 weekends, which is shocking considering the lack of family competition (Kung Fu Panda had already been in release for over a month by that point). It finished with $223.8M, barely more than Kung Fu Panda and worse than Cars ($244.1M) despite starting bigger than Cars and outpacing it for a while. Overseas it could only manage $297.5M, which was pretty lackluster considering Kung Fu Panda did $416.3M. It made $521.3M WW. I figured robots would be appealing to overseas audiences. However the 2008 recession might have been a factor for its lower overseas take.
Cars 2: This film’s underperformance is blamed solely on the reception. Had they made a good Cars sequel, it would’ve done $275-285M DOM and $700-750M WW (roughly on par with Up). However while it opened strong to $66.1M, the negative reception killed its legs and it was the first Pixar film to drop more than 60% in its second weekend. It quickly fell behind Cars’ pace and finished with $191.5M vs. its predecessor’s $244.1M. However overseas it managed to do $368M, a higher take than its predecessor’s $218M, and it finished with $559M WW, about $97M more than Cars’ $462M.
Brave: This one should’ve done more overseas. It was more along the lines to How to Train Your Dragon OS ($277M) vs Tangled ($391M). Its domestic gross ($66.3M OW and $237.3M total) was just fine, it maybe could’ve done $250M if there wasn’t TASM, Ice Age 4, and TDKR, but it was still very good. However it underperformed OS and only did $303M for a $540.4M WW gross, and was the first Pixar film to not finish in the Top 10 for the year worldwide. It finished at #13 and failed to match even Cars 2’s $559M WW. That film finished at #10 for the year Worldwide in 2011. Brave had a $185M budget so I’m sure
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I remember a VHS with a light blue animated car. Either the windshield or headlights were the eyes, and I remember that it was distributed by Buena Vista.
I used to watch it in the 90s. The VHS may have been from the 80s and the movie itself may have been from much earlier.
In 1979 Gary Newman released the song "Cars" and it was a bop. In the future the song gets rediscovered and people start to live it. The first verse goes; here in my car/I feel safest of all/I can lock all my doors/it's the only way to live in cars. Another line says "it keeps me stable for days in cars." So people begin living in cars and over time become more integrated and cyborg-like. They then eventually become the cars from Pixar's "Cars."
Every time we see a forklift in the films, it's for some menial labor job, and most of the time, it's a whole crew of forklifts working on it together. The racing pits from the first film, the food court from the second film, Pope Pinion has a few forklift altar servers following him in the second film, etc. Forklifts are always in some menial job below the other cars. Never a position of respect. They either provide a service or they're completely overlooked.
And it's not like the jobs they fill have to be filled by forklifts, either. Some might say the forklifts are the only vehicles that can manipulate tools easily, but we are shown multiple times throughout the films that's not the case. Many tools are built to fit over a car's lug nuts, like the press cameras and Ramone's spray guns from the first film, and some cars can even use their antennas for those things, like Luigi squeegeeing his windows in the first film or the Queen of England knighting Mater in the second. On top of that, the gas pumps at Flo's, the phone in McQueen's trailer, and every door or gate in the first film is shown to be easily operated by cars pressing their tires against pedals. And the Mater's Tall Tales short "Time Travel Mater" shows Stanley even had a sophisticated tire-pedal-controlled device to precisely pick up a rad cap and screw it onto McQueen's radiator for him. All of these things are proof that other vehicles can easily manipulate objects just as easily, if not with more precision, than a forklift with their prongs.
Maybe one advantage a forklift would have is their sheer lifting capacity. but the truth is that we don't see them in places where that strength is needed. Lifting tires with rims might be justified, but otherwise we seem them holding socket wrenches, using knives to dole out wasabi, raking sand, carrying incense burners for the Pope, and so forth. The one potential reason for specifically forklifts to be delegated to a role isn't even in effect for most of the roles they're being put into.
So if forklifts are being systematically forced out of authority positions, into menial labor jobs that other cars can easily perform, the question is why that is? My theory is that forklifts are treated that way because they are not the only heavy equipment we see. The Cars Universe also features tractors, combine harvesters, dump trucks, bulldozers (seen in El Matordor) and cranes (seen in Tokyo Mater), all of which are considered heavy equipment (which for
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