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Radiator Springs · some time after Cars

Mater and the Ghostlight

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Mater pranks the town, then a blue light starts haunting him

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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  • Everything2 of 7
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Quick recap

Mater spends the day pranking Radiator Springs: he moves Red's flowers, scares Luigi and Guido, dresses as a cone vampire for Sally. Then he teases Lightning McQueen about the Ghostlight, a Route 66 legend. Sheriff scolds him and says the light is real: a blue glow that haunts Radiator Springs, took a young couple and left only two out-of-state license plates, and hates clanking metal. Terrified, Mater starts making the exact noise the light hates and can't stop.

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Hidden details

  1. ReferenceA Cars DVD extra

    The short came out as a Cars DVD extra on November 7, 2006. On November 6, 2007 it returned on the Cars Blu-ray and in the Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1.

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  2. CameoPaul Newman returns as Doc

    Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Michael Wallis, Cheech Marin and Paul Dooley reprise their roles from the film. John Lasseter directs.

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  3. SetupThe Route 66 legend

    The Ghostlight is a Route 66 urban legend: a blue light that haunts Radiator Springs and hates clanking metal. Sheriff tells the tale, and Mater, who'd been scaring everyone else, panics.

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