I seriously love that guy. He’s soooooo cute!!!
I found this video to be quite helpful in organizing everything we know so far, and putting faces to names made me realize I recognized some of the voice actors. lol.
Anyway, spoiler alert! Sortof…
Yup, she did indeed say that. But she mentioned that at this stage, it is highly unlikely that the Pixarians will change the script or storyline. Maybe a few lines of dialogue, if possible. Though with less than three months to go, it’s cutting it real tight. 
I’m just saying that it’s not that she went on an outright rant. She also gave some praises and compliments to it, so she’s not biased in the sense that she’s giving a one-sided opinion, but because she doesn’t have much to work with based on what the Pixarians showed her. If anything, she may be less biased than us fans, who have only seen maybe 5% of the final footage from the trailers and TV spots. 
Oh, and I’m really happy that Lewis Hamilton will be in there! I wonder what model his car is, I can’t tell from the pic.
Thanks for sharing this! There’s some nice concept art there. I like the one of Buckingham Palace the best. Also the one of Mater driving behind Holley is sweet too. Only he has a very discontented look on his face!
I thought he looked pretty pleased to see her behind! 
Anyway, thanks for the link, Pricklepants. Great concept art. I believe the pic of laughing Mater fifth row first from the left has already been featured in ‘The Art of Cars’ book (I think it’s a Michael Wallis’ number) so I’m miffed that it’s in the sequel’s display case when it’s not new concept art.
Also, a lot of cars are self-contained units. It’s a bit strange to see buses and cabs in London, I mean, I know they’re iconic, but what purpose do they serve? Police cars arrest cars, firetrucks put out fire, semis pull loads, etc. But what do London buses and cabs do as their jobs? This plot hole confuses me as much as the ‘taxi cab fishes’ in Shark Tale. I’m also curious to see what they do with motorcycles, which I heard are like insect pests in the cars world. 
Other than that, I’m really excited! Pixar art is always very beautiful and intricate to admire.
That was my exact question when I saw them. There were also Taxi insects on A Bug’s Life, but at leaast they appeared to carry smaller bugs.
Here, I don’t know. Maybe they’re just “born” (however that happens) that way, and it hasn’t anything to do with their jobs. But still… I would like to have an explanation.
New Cars 2 characters: All based on real people by the way.
Lewis Hamilton accesspixar.blogspot.com/2011/03 … ilton.html
and David Hobbscap accesspixar.blogspot.com/2011/03 … bscap.html
Jaguar E-Type! Lasseter (and Pixar) my man, you have good taste!
The only thing I’m worried about is that Pixar seems to be piling on a lot of secondary characters, even more than Toy Story 3, it appears. And they seem for the sake of ‘let’s see how many celebrities we can fit in here’ and ‘let’s see how many international fans we can please by having tokenistic characters from their countries’. This is not Pixar’s S.O.P. That is Dreamworks.
If Pixar can flesh out these secondary characters without being at the expense of the story, that’ll be fine. But I really think there’s character overload in this sequel. As I have mentioned before, movies like HTTYD, LOTG, Rio, and even Rango have at most ten ‘minor characters’ and two ‘supporting characters’ for the protagonist. Here, I fear that there’ll be so many new faces to remember, you’ll hardly get to know any at all.
Cars 2 is beginning to feel like a motor show, for want of a better analogy.
Thing is you don’t really need to know a majority of the new characters, though. Who cares about the ‘filler’ racecars or their crew chiefs and announcers and whoever else these characters might be. These characters are the equivalents of the broken bots in Wall-E, or the colony rats in Ratatouille, or Muntz’s dogs. They need to be created, need to exist for the story to even be a story. Might as well give them a bit of harmless side introduction, right? I have no qualms about the sheer number of new characters, because I know for a fact that I wouldn’t be paying too much attention about them when the movie rolls. Disney/Pixar and the merchandisers will pay super close attention, though. After all, what wouldn’t grab attention of little boys than shiny, colorful new cars, right?
right, most of them have been developed with the purpose of toy merchandise, of all the new characters I guess that at least 7 are important, the rest of them will be Mcqueen rivals in the main race like Carla Veloso, Raoul Caroule, Shu Todoroki, etc… looking back at the first Cars we also had too many characters
only in Radiator Spring there were 16 different characters without counting Mcqueen
Pricklepants got the thing here.
A race needs racers. A espionage plot needs leads. A city needs citizens. Those characters don’t need to be fleshed out. They just exist because they need to exist.
You summed it up nicely!
And if you’re going to have announcers and racers in a movie about cars, mind as well have them voiced by actual professionals. Like Junior from Cars. He had I think three lines. He wwas of no importance, but it is fun for racing fans to see him as an easter egg in this film.
As for the bios of the characters being paragraphs long. Just background info to entertain the fans wwho are anxiously waiting for the movie!
It’s more or less the way all Pixar eggs work. Just stuff for fans to notice, note, anlyze and get excited about.
You guys made some good points, there.
I don’t see what’s so wrong about having a lot celebrities doing voice casts. But, that’s just me.
I don’t either. Whoever has the perfect voice for the role should get it.
My sister is a big Formula 1 fan, and she’s gotten me into it in a smaller way, so I’m loving this stuff with “David Hobbscap” and Lewis Hamilton. 
If the voice fits (like Ellen for Dory, or Larry the Cable Guy for Mater), I’m all for it. It’s just that a lot of the criticisms against lesser studios are leveled at the use of celebrities for the voice actors. I also agree to an extent that a movie shouldn’t all be about who’s voicing which character (something which Dreamworks and Blue Sky like to capitalise on in their posters and trailers). With the exception of Cars, almost every Pixar movie never mentions the voice talent in their posters, trailers or marketing materials (maybe for the featurettes).
So it irks me that they’re doing this with Cars, when celebrity exploitation was once complained about in other studios’ movies but suddently there’s no problem with Pixar doing the same thing here. I was proud of Pixar because they would use their in-house animators to voice the characters, but there seems to be a lot of external voice actors in Cars and its sequel. To be fair, though, the celebrity name-dropping is only mentioned in the character press releases and internet updates for us fans. Thank goodness they’re not plastering Michael Caine or Lewis Hamilton’s names all over the posters and trailers.
Well, a celebrity cast to gain audiences would be something on the lines of Shark Tale.
A bunch of racing stars is more of a wink to the automobile fans. Just the minority of the audience knows those names, as opposed to “Angelina Jolie” or “Will Smith”
I don’t mind these celebrities doing voice overs for characters at all. i think its really cool that their making cars based off of real racers. Besides, these characters will have minor rolls in the movie. I really wish that they could have gotten more creative with Lewis Hamilton’s car name:
It should have been “Lewis Wheelington”!