{"id":3261,"date":"2011-04-07T18:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/maters-news-tow-in-040711"},"modified":"2011-04-07T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:53:58","slug":"maters-news-tow-in-040711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/maters-news-tow-in-040711\/","title":{"rendered":"Mater&#039;s News Tow-In! [04\/07\/11]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1406.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"131\" height=\"191\" align=\"right\" style=\"width: 131px; height: 191px\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1406.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Welcome to Woody&#8217;s&#8230; I mean, Mater&#8217;s News Tow-In! <\/p>\n<p>With <em>Cars 2<\/em>&nbsp;a little over&nbsp;two months away, I thought I&#8217;d switch things up a bit. Here are the headlines Mater towed in today.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThree Vintage <em>Cars 2<\/em> Posters Premiere:<\/strong>&nbsp;With&nbsp;each new Pixar&nbsp;film, I always seem to look forward to the eye-popping &quot;vintage&quot; posters released.&nbsp;CinemaBlend.com has obtained high-resolution images of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/gallery\/previews\/Cars-2-3087.html?tid=32446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three&nbsp;brand new&nbsp;one-sheets<\/a>. The <em>Cars 2<\/em> posters were seen hanging in the atrium when we visited the studio, although I&#8217;ve never seen them in detail like this!<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/gallery\/previews\/Cars-2-3087.html?tid=32446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CinemaBlend<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1404.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"131\" height=\"171\" align=\"right\" style=\"width: 131px; height: 171px\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1404.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>New Ratatouille Box-Art:<\/strong> Can you see the trend here? Disney\/Pixar has been re-packaging its library of films to follow a certain aesthetic. See the new cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ratatouille-Blu-ray-Patton-Oswalt\/dp\/B004UFEJS0\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1302121769&#038;sr=8-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Ratatouille<\/em> on Blu-ray<\/a>&nbsp;(re-released July 5, 2011)&nbsp;for example; just like&nbsp;<em>Toy Story<\/em>, <em>Toy Story 2<\/em> and the new <em>Cars<\/em>&nbsp;Blu-ray, one side features the film&#8217;s protagonists while the other features the logo on a colored background. Expect this trend to continue with re-packagings of <em>Up<\/em> and <em>TS3<\/em>. <em>How do you feel about the uniform box-art?<\/p>\n<p><\/em>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixartalk.com\/2011\/04\/coming-soon-pixar-blu-rays-repackaged-with-new-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pixar Talk<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming Soon&#8217;s John Lasseter Q&amp;A:<\/strong> How did the rising price of gasoline affects <em>Cars 2<\/em>?&nbsp;Where did&nbsp;the spy-angle come from? All this and more has been answered in great detail thanks to ComingSoon.net&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=76012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q&amp;A with <em>Cars 2<\/em> director<\/a>, John Lasseter.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/pixarblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/lasseter-q-at-comingsoonnet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pixar Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><em>Mater&#8217;s News Tow-In; keep it or dump it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Welcome to Woody&#8217;s&#8230; I mean, Mater&#8217;s News Tow-In! With Cars 2&nbsp;a little over&nbsp;two months away, I thought I&#8217;d switch things up a bit. Here are the headlines Mater towed in today. Three Vintage Cars 2 Posters Premiere:&nbsp;With&nbsp;each new Pixar&nbsp;film, I always seem to look forward to the eye-popping &quot;vintage&quot; posters released.&nbsp;CinemaBlend.com has obtained high-resolution images &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,18,28,2,22],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mater&#039;s News Tow-In! 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