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Time Travel Mater

Travel Back in Time to the Start of Radiator Springs with Mater

Time Travel Mater [3] is the 11th short in the Cars Toons series , which was first aired on June 5, 2012 on Disney Channel. It was officially premiered ten days later, on June 15 at the Disneyland Resort in Blue Sky Cellar at Disney California Adventure park to celebrate the opening of Cars Land , and first aired on ABC the next day. [4]  It was included on the DVD and Blu-ray of Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2 . The episode features Mater telling a story according to which he time traveled, back to the beginnings of Radiator Springs , thus reusing part of the abandoned concept of the unmade Tall Tale Backwards to the Forwards . Stanley, the founder of Radiator Springs, appears alive in this episode when Mater time travels. It is the third production of Pixar Canada . [5] The music is composed by Mark Watters. [6]

• 2.1 Additional Voices
• 5 References

Lightning McQueen and Mater are in front of the Courthouse when Lizzie drives by. She says good morning to Lightning and Mater in a rude way, but she says it in a nice way to the statue of Stanley . Lightning McQueen asks Mater how Lizzie and Stanley met. Mater replies by telling one of his stories, which "all started last week."

The story starts with him putting up a new town sign with a clock on it. The sign falls on Mater, and the clock ends up on his "nose." Mater sneezes, and then disappears.

He ends up inside the Tail Light Caverns. He exits the caverns to go tell everyone back in town. However, when he does, he can't find the town, but he does see a car at a nearby spring. When Mater gets closer to the car, he discovers that it's Stanley! Stanley asks Mater if he needs a radiator cap. When Mater says no, Stanley leaves to go to California in search of customers. Mater realizes that if Stanley didn't stay, there wouldn't be a Radiator Springs in the future! So, he goes to the present, gets Lightning, and they both go back to the past, where Mater removes Lightning's radiator cap and calls out to Stanley, saying that there's a car that needs a radiator cap (Lightning). So, Stanley gives Lightning a new radiator cap. Two cars that also need radiator caps enter the scene, and Stanley leads them to the spring, where the cars get a "drink." Mater suggests that Stanley build a town right next to "this here radiator spring." Stanley likes the idea, and even comes up with a name for the town right then and there: Radiator Springs . While Stanley was planning how to build the town, Mater and Lightning travel to the future to speed things up a bit.

Mater and Lightning then travel to 1927. Stanley shows them the town. Then, Stanley takes note of a Model T (which turns out to be Lizzie) that arrives in town. Lizzie breaks down, so Mater helps her out. Lizzie sees Lightning and appears to be falling in love with him, and Mater realizes that if Lizzie falls in love with Lightning, then she won't fall in love with Stanley, and then Stanley will leave town, and there'd be no Radiator Springs! But then Lizzie asks Lightning to get out of the way, revealing that she had her eye on Stanley, not Lightning, as Mater thought. Lightning introduces Lizzie and Stanley. Stanley took Lizzie to his spring so that she could get a drink. Then he took her to get a new radiator cap. Then, Lightning and Mater leave.

They reappear in Radiator Springs at the time that Lizzie and Stanley get married. After getting married, they went honeymooning at Comfy Caverns. Then, Mater and Lightning leave, and Mater finishes his story.

Lightning says that there's no such thing as time travel, but then Lizzie comes and thanks Lightning for introducing her and Stanley. Mater says, "And that's how you make history."

• Larry the Cable Guy : Mater
• Keith Ferguson : Lightning McQueen
• John Michael Higgins : Stanley
• Katherine Helmond : Lizzie

Additional Voices [ ]

• Jess Harnell
• James Kevin Ward
• The first and, so far, only Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode with Lizzie in it, and actually the first time she played a role as a secondary tritagonist.
• The first episode without any pitties and without Mia and Tia in it. This may be due to the fact that being modernized cars, they weren't even built (born) yet.
• The first episode not to have Mater say something similar to his line: "Don't you remember? You was there too!"
• The first episode with Lightning McQueen in his World Grand Prix paint job. It is also the first time it has shown McQueen's hood open, showing his motor.
• Tail Light Caverns, Stanley's early settlement, and Comfy Caverns, all places which had never been seen before, are sets that come from Cars Land . Their appearance in the short enables to establish them as canon, and perhaps to promote the attraction.
• This is the second Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode that has Mater's story in black and white. The first one is Mater Private Eye . However, in this episode, it's not Mater's whole story that's in black and white. After Mater drives out of the Tail Light Caverns, everything was in sepia tones (a common color tone used in "flashback" sequences). When he and McQueen time travel to when Stanley's early settlement was made, everything was in black and white. When Mater and McQueen time travel to when Lizzie and Stanley get married, the entire color scheme is a homage to the two color Technicolor processes that were used in movies from 1917 to 1936.
• The alternating color schemes used in this story seem to be an homage to how photographs of each particular time period looked. This gave each era that Mater visits its own unique visual identity. It was likely implemented to avoid confusion.
• When Mater puts the sign with the clock up, it then leans towards him and falls on him. This is a reference to the first film when he tries to put his sign upright, but it leans to the other side; and in Cars 2 when he puts the Leaning Tower of Pisa upright, but it then leans to the other side.
• Also, the clock on Mater's "nose" is a reference to  Cars 2 when the lemons planted a bomb on his "nose."
• The story of Radiator Springs seen in Time Travel Mater was used before the movie Cars . [7]
• Mater's "Whoa!" when he notices he's in the Tail Light Caverns is the same sound he makes when he sees the moon in  Moon Mater .
• The scream that Mater makes when he sees that there would be no town in the future if Stanley doesn't stay is the same scream he makes when he is fighting the I-Screamer in  Monster Truck Mater .
• The episode may be a homage to Back to the Future . This may be because Mater goes really fast to travel through time and he warps into the past with an electrical reaction.
• This short is on the Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2 DVD and Blu-Ray.

Gallery [ ]

References [ ]

• ↑ Disney Channel program on Zap2it.com
• ↑ 'Pixar Shorts Volume 2' List of Included Shorts Announced
• ↑ Cars Official Website (see screenshot )
• ↑ Travel Back in Time with Mater – ‘ Time Travel Mater ’ to Premiere June 15 at Disney California Adventure Park and June 16 on ABC
• ↑ 2011 BC Film and TV Productions
• ↑ Mark Watters's profile on ASCAP's official website
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Time Travel Mater

Time Travel Mater is the eleventh short film in the Cars Toons series, which was first aired on June 5 on Disney Channel. It was officially premiered ten days later, on June 15 at the Disneyland Resort in Blue Sky Cellar at Disney California Adventure park to celebrate the opening of Cars Land , and first aired on ABC the next day. It is included on the DVD and Blu-ray of Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2 . The episode features Mater telling a story according to which he time traveled, back to the beginnings of Radiator Springs , thus reusing part of the abandoned concept of the unmade Tall Tale made by Scott Morse , Backwards to the Forwards . Stanley, the founder of Radiator Springs, appears alive in this episode when Mater time travels. It is the third production of Pixar Canada . The music is composed by Mark Watters .

• 5 External links
• 6 References

Lightning McQueen and Mater were in front of the Courthouse when Lizzie drives by. She says good morning to Lightning and Mater in a rude way, but she says it in a nice way to the statue of Stanley . Lightning McQueen asks Mater how Lizzie and Stanley met. Mater replies by telling one of his stories, which "all started last week."

The story starts with him putting up a new town sign with a clock on it. The sign falls on Mater, and the clock ends up on his "nose." Mater sneezes, and then disappears.

He ends up inside the Tail Light Caverns. He exits the caverns to go tell everyone back in town. However, when he does, he can't find the town, but he does see a car at a nearby spring. When Mater gets closer to the car, he discovers that it's Stanley! Stanley asks Mater if he needs a radiator cap. When Mater says no, Stanley leaves to go to California in search of customers. Mater realizes that if Stanley didn't stay, there wouldn't be a Radiator Springs in the future! So, he goes to the present, gets McQueen, and they both go back to the past, where Mater removes McQueen's radiator cap and calls out to Stanley, saying that there's a car that needs a radiator cap (McQueen). So, Stanley gives McQueen a new radiator cap. Two cars that also need radiator caps enter the scene, and Stanley leads them to the spring, where the cars get a "drink." Mater suggests that Stanley build a town right next to "this here radiator spring." Stanley likes the idea, and even comes up with a name for the town right then and there: Radiator Springs . While Stanley was planning how to build the town, Mater and McQueen travel to the future to speed things up a bit.

Mater and McQueen then travel to 1927. Stanley shows them the town. Then, Stanley takes note of a Model T (which turns out to be Lizzie) that arrives in town. Lizzie breaks down, so Mater helps her out. Lizzie sees McQueen and appears to be falling in love with him, and Mater realizes that if Lizzie falls in love with McQueen, then she won't fall in love with Stanley, and then Stanley will leave town, and there'd be no Radiator Springs! But then Lizzie asks McQueen to get out of the way, revealing that she had her eye on Stanley, not McQueen, as Mater thought. McQueen introduces Lizzie and Stanley. Stanley took Lizzie to his spring so that she could get a drink. Then he took her to get a new radiator cap. Then, McQueen and Mater leave.

They reappear in Radiator Springs at the time that Lizzie and Stanley get married. After getting married, they went honeymooning at Comfy Caverns. Then, Mater and McQueen leave, and Mater finishes his story.

McQueen says that there's no such thing as time travel, but then Lizzie comes and thanks McQueen for introducing her and Stanley. Mater says, "And that's how you make history."

• Larry the Cable Guy : Mater
• Keith Ferguson : Lightning McQueen
• John Michael Higgins : Stanley
• Katherine Helmond: Lizzie
• This is the final Mater's Tall Tales episode.
• The first and, so far, only Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode with Lizzie in it, and actually the first time she played a role as a secondary tritagonist.
• The first episode without any pitties and without Mia and Tia in it. This may be due to the fact that being modernized cars, they weren't even built (born) yet.
• The only episode not to have Mater say something similar to his line: "Don't you remember? You was there too!"
• The first episode (and only time in Mater's Tall Tales) with Lightning McQueen in his World Grand Prix paint job. It is also the first time it has shown McQueen's hood open, showing his motor.
• Tail Light Caverns, Stanley's early settlement, and Comfy Caverns, all places which had never been seen before, are sets that come from Cars Land . Their appearance in the short enables to establish them as canon, and perhaps to promote the attraction.
• This is the second Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode that has Mater's story in black and white. The first one is Mater Private Eye . However, in this episode, it's not Mater's whole story that's in black and white. After Mater drives out of the Tail Light Caverns, everything was in sepia tones (a common color tone used in "flashback" sequences). When he and McQueen time travel to when Stanley's early settlement was made, everything was in black and white. When Mater and McQueen time travel to when Lizzie and Stanley get married, the entire color scheme is an homage to the two color Technicolor processes that were used in movies from 1917 to 1936 .
• The alternating color schemes used in this story seem to be an homage to how photographs of each particular time period looked. This gave each era that Mater visits its own unique visual identity. It was likely implemented to avoid confusion.
• Also, the clock on Mater's "nose" is a reference to Cars 2 when the lemons planted a bomb on his "nose."
• The story of Radiator Springs seen in Time Travel Mater was used before the movie Cars . [1]
• Mater's "Whoa!" when he notices he's in the Tail Light Caverns is the same sound he makes when he sees the moon in Moon Mater .
• The scream that Mater makes when he sees that there would be no town in the future if Stanley doesn't stay is the same scream he makes when he is fighting the I-Screamer in Monster Truck Mater .
• This short is on the Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2 DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Time Travel Mater

Travel Back in Time to the Start of Radiator Springs with Mater

Time Travel Mater is the eleventh episode of the Cars Toons series . It officially aired on June 15, 2012.

• 2 Characters
• 3.1 DVD and Blu-ray
• 5 Titles in other languages

Taking place after Cars 2 , Lightning McQueen and Mater were in front of the Courthouse when Lizzie drives by. She says good morning to Lightning in a friendly way and to Mater in a very rude way, but she says it in a nicer way to the statue of Stanley . Lightning McQueen asks Mater how Lizzie and Stanley met. Mater replies by telling one of his stories, which "all started last week!"

The story starts with him putting up a new town sign with a clock on it. The sign falls on Mater, and the clock ends up on his  nose . Mater sneezes, and then disappears.

He ends up inside the Tail Light Caverns . When he exits the caverns, he can't find the town, but he does see a car at a nearby spring. When Mater gets closer to the car, he discovers Stanley, the would-be creator of Radiator Springs. Stanley asks Mater if he needs a radiator cap. When Mater declines, Stanley leaves for California in search of customers. Mater soon realized he has effectively erased the town's existence. He goes to the present with the other Mater watching, gets McQueen, and they both go back to the past, where Mater removes McQueen's radiator cap and calls out to Stanley, saying that there's a car (McQueen) that needs a radiator cap. So, Stanley gives McQueen a new radiator cap. Two cars that also need radiator caps enter the scene, and Stanley leads them to the spring, where the cars get a drink . Mater suggests that Stanley build a town right next to "this here radiator spring!" Stanley likes the idea and says that he's " on the trolley! " and even comes up with a name for the town right then and there: Radiator Springs . While Stanley was planning how to build the town, Mater and McQueen travel to the future to speed things up a bit.

Mater and McQueen then travel to 1927, where Stanley takes note of a Model T (which turns out to be Lizzie) that arrives in town. Lizzie breaks down, so Mater helps her out. Lizzie sees McQueen and appears to be falling in love with him, and Mater realizes that if Lizzie falls in love with McQueen, then she won't fall in love with Stanley, and then Stanley will leave town, and there'd be no Radiator Springs! But then Lizzie asks McQueen to get out of the way, revealing that she had her eye on Stanley, not McQueen, as Mater thought. McQueen introduces Lizzie and Stanley. Stanley took Lizzie to his spring so that she could get a drink. Then he took her to get a new radiator cap. Then, McQueen and Mater leave.

They reappear in Radiator Springs at the time that Lizzie and Stanley get married. After getting married, they went honeymooning at Comfy Caverns . Then, Mater and McQueen leave, and Mater finishes his story.

McQueen says that there's no such thing as time travel, but then Lizzie comes and thanks McQueen for introducing her to Stanley. Mater says, " And that's how you make history. " at the end.

Characters [ ]

• Lightning McQueen
• Travelers ( a few of them cameo )

Home Media [ ]

Dvd and blu-ray [ ].

• Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2

Gallery [ ]

Titles in other languages [ ]

• Hungarian: Időutazó Matuka
• Polish: Złomek i wehikuł czasu
• This episode was the first, and so far, only short with Lizzie in it. It is also the first episode without any pitties and without Mia and Tia in it. This may be due to the fact that being modernized cars, they weren't even built/born yet.
• This is the first Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode with Lightning McQueen in his World Grand Prix paint job. It's also the first time it's shown McQueen's hood opened showing his motor.
• Tail Light Caverns, Stanley's early settlement, and Comfy Caverns , all places which had never been seen before, are sets that come from Cars Land . Their appearance in the short enables to establish them as canon, and perhaps to promote the attraction.
• The short could have been based on the popular movie  Back to the Future .
• This is the first episode not to have Mater say something similar to his line, " Don't you remember? You was there too! "
• This is the second Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales episode that has Mater's story in black and white. The first one is Mater Private Eye . However, in this episode, it's not Mater's whole story that's in black and white. After Mater drives out of the Tail Light Caverns, everything was in sepia tones. (A common color tone used in Flashback sequences). When he and McQueen time travel to when Stanley's early settlement was made, everything was in black and white. When Mater and McQueen time travel to when Lizzie and Stanley get married, everything had more color.
• The alternating color schemes used in this story seem to be an homage to how photographs of each particular time period looked. This gave each era that Mater visits its own unique visual identity. It was likely implemented to avoid confusion.
• When Mater puts the sign with the clock up, it then leans towards him and falls on him. This is a reference to in the first film when he tries to put his sign upright, but it leans to the other side; and in Cars 2  during the end credits when he puts the Leaning Tower of Pisa upright, but it then leans to the other side.
• Also, the clock on Mater's nose is a reference to in Cars 2 when the Lemons planted a bomb on his  nose .
• The story of Radiator Springs seen in Time Travel Mater was used before the movie Cars .
• Mater's "Whoa!" phrase when he notices he's in Tail Light Caverns is exactly the same "Whoa!' he says when he sees the moon for the first time in  Moon Mater .
• Mater screaming, " Whaaaaah! " when he sees that there would be no town in the future if Stanley doesn't stay is exactly the same scream he makes when he first sees the I-Screamer in  Monster Truck Mater .
• Mater gets the ability to time travel, but in different ways.
• At one point in both shorts, Lightning tells Mater that there was no way he could time travel, but then a second Mater appears. Lightning freaks out by the second Mater in both of them, but Mater got freaked out only in Backwards to the Forwards.
• Mater inspires Stanley to name the town Radiator Springs in both shorts. He does it purposefully in Time Travel Mater, but by accident in Backwards to the Forwards .
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Time Travel Mater

• Episode aired Jun 4, 2012

When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an ambitious young car on his way to California. With the help of Lightning McQueen, Mater alter... Read all When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an ambitious young car on his way to California. With the help of Lightning McQueen, Mater alters history by convincing Stanley to stay and build Radiator Springs. Stanley meets Lizzie a... Read all When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an ambitious young car on his way to California. With the help of Lightning McQueen, Mater alters history by convincing Stanley to stay and build Radiator Springs. Stanley meets Lizzie and they commemorate the opening of the new courthouse with their wedding.

• John Lasseter
• Scott Morse
• Larry the Cable Guy
• Keith Ferguson
• John Michael Higgins
• 2 User reviews
• 3 Critic reviews

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• Trivia This short tied into the release of Car's land at Disney's California Adventure, which has a major focus on other parts of radiator springs that you can only see in the park
• Connections References Back to the Future (1985)

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• June 4, 2012 (United States)
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• Language: English, Français
• Release: June 12, 2012
• Duration: 7 min
• Genres: Animation, Family

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When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an ambitious young car on his way to California. With the help of Lightning McQueen, Mater alters history by convincing Stanley to stay and build Radiator Springs. Stanley meets Lizzie and they commemorate the opening of the new courthouse with their wedding.

Larry the Cable Guy Keith Ferguson John Michael Higgins Katherine Helmond Lori Alan Bob Bergen Jess Harnell Danny Mann Jan Rabson James Kevin Ward

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Review by ZombieTrex ★★½ 5

Ok, they missed a major opportunity when introducing the concept of freaking TIME TRAVEL into the Cars universe. They could actually show us how this dumbass universe works!! How about showing us how car civilization got started when nobody has any hands? Or what about those dinosaurs that they foreshadowed in Cars 2? Or what about freaking car Jesus (because of the pope car in car Italy in the second Cars)? What about the Car World Wars, seeing as there’s that army car that lives in the town? But instead of answering these hotly debated questions, we get this weird love story that has an awful Owen Wilson impersonator.

But in terms of the atrocious “Mater Tall Tales” series, this one’s ok.

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Review by Luke Nassief ★★½ 1

Hi Mater, please travel back in time and kill me before I see Cars 2

Review by Carson Christensen 15

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Literally the best commercial for a theme park I’ve ever seen.

Review by joj ★★½

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What a weird one to end with, leaving the “how can cars do this” type of questions.

Review by Luigi ★★★½

These are so harmless. Best way for me to describe it.

Review by Matt Milburn ★★★★★

I have never been touched so deeply by a film about talking cars

Review by Joel Haver ★★

Toy Story 4 was too good so I watched this to keep my hope in check.

Review by Binaru

Think of the countless tragedies he could’ve prevented.

Review by Blankments ★★½

Worldbuilding 101.

Review by Robert Hayes ★★★

Time travel conceit was pretty fun, I guess.

Review by Billy Dowling ½ 1

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Mater fucking learned how to time travel and he didn't go back in time to kill car Hitler. That bastard. This happened to my buddy, Eric.

Review by Carlos (Ctron3120) ★★★½

If Cars 1 is Pixar's take on Doc Hollywood , this is their answer to Back to the Future. The prototype version Backwards to the Forwards was even more BTTF-esque .

Once again, Mater tells a story to Lightning. Lightning asks how Lizzie (the oldest car in town) met Stanley the town founder. Mater remembers when he got a clock stuck on his engine last week, and travelled back in time to 1909. After escaping the Tail Light Caverns, Mater meets the young Stanley but when Mater says he doesn't need a radiator cap, Stanley heads off to California.

When Mater returns to present, Radiator Springs is missing so he needs to go back in time once again to set right what…

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