How the fuck was this franchise so popular?
What's wrong with it
>>150285454The first movie was good
>>150285454>boys like cars>boys usually enjoy fast things and love running around >the toys where cars> the show/movies/games where talking carsits not really hard to understand anon.
>>150285454Merchandise. To this day, I have several of their toys that are just sitting in my attic.
>>150285454Normal words, but a car guy
>>150285454McQueen does speed.
>>150285454Men and boys love speed,cars are one of the easiest ways to achieve speedSame reasoning applies to why guns,metal and electronic music,trains and various war vehicles are loved by men and autistsIf it goes fast or makes thing go fast its coolIts in our souls and dna
>>150285454because the original tapped into the flyover states and the part of America that everyone overlooks out in Hollywood. there hasn't been an animated film since that has captured the American ethos of the midwest.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRAtBX5HRw
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>>150285673The desert is West, not Midwest. Radiator Springs is basically in Arizona.
Pixar wanted an IP for merchandise and they knocked it out of the park. Licensing toys and other crap based on the film was more profitable than the actual film series.PULL OFF YOUR SKIN
>>150285454I love how no one is mentioning that it's a toyetic franchise, the most obvious answer.
>>150286959They're talking more about the small town vibes, NASCAR and Larry the Cable Guy shenanigans. That's why they were compelled to give Larry his own movie and spinoff cartoon, normies and children enjoy him despite how much the internet enjoys constructing Pixar Universe theories where he leads the genocide of all the humans and killed all the good Pixar characters in the process
>>150287212That’s why it became a gigantic franchise. Even without the toys, it still would’ve been as impactful
>>150287456anon, a talking car with eyes is never not gonna be a toyetic franchise
>>150285517They almost didnt greenlight the project before john lasseter explained the toy potentialYou could imagine the dollar signs in the execs eyes after they described a remote control lightning mcqueen, or lightning mcqueen matchbox cars, or the ability to market to little kids with the collectible aspect or adults with having them be based off real world cars
>>150285454Cars are cool, Pixar was in its heyday, therefore it appealed to both young boys AND cinephiles. Not that hard to break down, hombre.
>>150285454It's Thomas The Tank Engine meets NASCAR anon. The concept in of itself is genius if you disregard everything else going for it.But ontop of that it had a lot of appeal internationally as a lot of racing circuit fans undestood and appreciated how much the film tried ingratiate itself into racing culture. It turns out despite being different formats, the racing culture of modern NASCAR isn't too different from Rally, F1 or MotoGP in it's archetypes. Young asshole rookie making the rounds and acting cocky before humbling himself into an actual likeble driver while there is the win at all cost asshole that everybody hates but gets results. Throw in the commercialization western americana and the foreign markets ate it all up. I live in the UK and it was massive for a good while and my father loved it as he was big F1 fan. Any kid who liked cars enough to know what different models are called loved the film and bought the toys.
>>150285454I just always assumed it's popular with autists because I had a kid in my high school class that obsessed over this movie, I only graduated 2-3 years ago by the way so this is still somewhat recent and everytime I came to class regardless of whatever work we were supposed to be doing this guy would literally have cars stuff open on his computer, like those deviantart tier images where it's a group of characters edited together but it was mostly cars characters as well as fan made cars characters. I honestly completely forgot about that guy until this thread reminded me of him
>>150285673Hardest opening in animation history
>>150289031>One winner, fourty-two losers.>I eat losers for breakfast.
Because life is a highway that you wanna ride all night long
>>150285673This scene was so good, it actually felt like I was at the race stadium. I miss is when Disney/Pixar was magical.
>>150289283>I am Weed>I smoke Weed for breakfast
>>150289283>I am Pee>I drink Pee for breakfast
>>150285454Kids love cars and racing
>>150288035Don't forget the old guy 2 days from retirement.This was basically Earnhardt, Earnhardt Jr. and Gordon.
>>150285454>most American Disney film since the Davy Crockett specials>How was this popular?
>>150285454Boys fucking love cars
They should have stopped at 1 but no they wanted to see how far they could milk this series. Cars 2 was only slightly okay and 3 was just unnecessary overall.
I never understood why Cars got so much hate back in the day. I specifically remember people pointing to Cars 2 and Brave as being examples of bad Pixar movies. Meanwhile I could not give less of a fuck about Inside Out and consider Finding Dory to be one of the most miserable animated movies ever made.
LIFE IS A HIGHWAY
>>150290324I remember I got that song on a stupid kids bop cd from McDonalds
