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By K.O. Pemberton
MSN TV
"Cars Toons," based on the blockbuster animated film "Cars," hits the small screen on a trio of Disney networks. "Cars Toons" premieres Monday, Oct. 27 at 6:56 p.m. ET/PT on Toon Disney and is set to air later on Disney Channel on Saturday, Nov. 1, and on ABC Family on Tuesday, Dec. 23. These three new animated shorts follow Lightning McQueen's trusty, but rusty, friend Mater as he recounts his glory days as a fire truck, a famous daredevil and a famous bulldozer fighter in Spain. MSN TV talked with Co-Directors Rob Gibbs and Victor Navone about this newest Disney-Pixar collaboration.
MSN TV: How did "Cars Toons" come to be? Can you give us some background on how "Cars Toons" evolved from the blockbuster movie "Cars" and how it came to focus on Mater?
Rob Gibbs: Last summer a small team of story guys and I came up with a bunch of ideas involving "Cars" characters. I guess it started with John Lasseter's (Director/Creator of "Cars) marching orders to just come up with ideas that we can do with these "Cars" characters. He wants to keep them alive. And so we just came up with a lot of ideas, but one of our animators had the idea for "Mater's Tall Tales." Mater tells these stories of these fanciful things that happened in his past. John really latched onto that and had us take some of the ideas we were working on and had us develop them into "Mater's Tall Tales." Shortly after developing about 15 ideas, we sort of narrowed it down to about five that we focused on, and then we narrowed it down to three we actually wanted to produce.Victor Navone: It turned out to be a really good format for doing anything we wanted to do in the "Cars" world. Because it would be taking place in Mater's imagination, we can go anywhere, any time period.
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