With the near release of the next Disney Cars Toons short , on the ABC channel - I have decided to provide an interview with Co-Directors Victor Navon and Rob Gibbs.
The Cars Toon evolved from John Lasseter desire to keep these cars characters alive and come up with ideas of new stories. One of the animators in Pixar came up with the idea for “Mater’s Tall Tales” – Mater tells these stories of these fanciful things that happen in the past. John really latched onto that and asked to take some of the ideas and develop them .

Starting from 15 and narrowing them down to three that were:

"Rescue Squad Mater" -- Mater is a fire truck that rescues Lightning McQueen from a burning building. When McQueen is rushed to the hospital, he discovers that Mater is a doctor, too.

"Mater the Greater" -- Mater is a famous daredevil who does all kinds of stunts. And Lightning McQueen becomes an unwilling participant in Mater's greatest stunt ever.

"El Materdor" -- Mater is a famous bulldozer fighter in Spain. He's so good, he's able to fend off multiple bulldozers at once. Lightning McQueen joins Mater in this Tall Tale just as things are at their worst.

Both Rob and Victor worked on the original Disney Cars , when they started working on developing the characters , they were not targeting only the younger audiences. The characters and story should appeal to adults as well as kids. This is what Pixar is all about – Family entertainment with different levels of humor. The story doesn’t have to be educational or provide profound life lessons but rather make the audience think and react. We want to tell an original story and show the good and the bad – it is hard to tell a story and have the audience emphasise when the stakes are not high enough.
The attraction around Mater’s character revolves around his stories which take place in different time periods , his different customes and behaviours. He acts as a child with a great imagination and is able to touch the kid inside us all.
Mater includes McQueen inside all his stories and puts him into some ridiculous situations using his tagline “You remember – you were there?”.

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