The model has a fully textured, detailed design that allows for close-up renders, and was originally modeled in 3ds Max 2012 and rendered with V-Ray. If you want to be the most-loved parent on the block, it’s a safe bet this Christmas.Lightning McQueen Car Toy is a high quality, photo real model that will enhance detail and realism to any of your rendering projects. That’s a lot of money to spend on a toy for the kiddies, but you can see where every penny goes. In the US you’ll play $299.99, and that’s mirrored in the UK by a £299.99 price (Australian and global prices to follow). It’s one of the techiest toys we’ve ever seen then, but it comes with a price tag to match. There’s also a “pit stop” app minigame that the car interacts with, allowing McQueen to help the player recognise which car component is needed to fix up the motors waiting to get back on the road. Pop him into “Drive In” movie mode, fire up your copy of the Cars films on the telly, and Ultimate Lightning McQueen will react to the onscreen action, talking up his best moments and saying hello to his petrol-headed friends.Ī “ghost car” racing mode will also be ready at launch, along with an animation studio that lets you queue up McQueen’s preset phrases and movements into a script to be performed. Just like BB-8 before him, Lightning McQueen has a range of app functions beyond steering. There’s a far gentler learning curve here than with Sphero’s earlier, more tricky to master, toys. We had him speeding along with his boost function and pulling off donut spins within a few minutes during our demo session. Controls take the form of a digital thumbstick through your phone or tablet’s touchscreen, meaning he’ll be easy to steer for anyone that’s picked up a console game pad before. Squeezing a respectable 40 minutes of play time out of a two hour charge, he’s got a 30 meter range and a top speed of 6mph. Driving schoolĪpp controlled over a Bluetooth connection, the Ultimate Lightning McQueen toy makes for a great racing car, too – especially compared to its Sphero stablemate, the Star Wars BB-8, which seemed to require real Jedi force powers just to get it to move in a straight line. Also, with the animated mouth also acting as the front bumper, it'll be interesting to see whether it can survive the head-on collisions the toddlers of the world are sure to submit it to. Though it's built to take a beating, don't expect to take McQueen off-road like you would a traditional RC car. When asked if the Cars toy could be used out in the open, away from smooth indoor surfaces, Sphero's representatives encouraged us not to take that chance. McQueen's durability will be one area that will need closer examination. It’s the closest a licensed toy has come to bringing to life the character that inspired it. Even his head and taillights are smart, with ambient lighting sensors seeing them kick in automatically in low-light situations. The attention to detail is fantastic – animated in Maya before being translated into robotic movements, McQueen has a moving mouth on his rubbery front bumper, speaks 40 phrases from a built in speaker and reacts to touch, leaning as you brush against five capacitive touch panels spread across his body.
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