Recommendations for a two year old Cars fanatic?

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So my son is two and OBSESSED with Cars, Cars 2, and the Mater shorts. He has to watch one or the other DAILY, its the highlight of his day to his parent’s great annoyance.

We have tried over and over to introduce different things none of which he seems to enjoy or care about, including Thomas The Tank Engine. In fact he often gets frustrated and angry and wants to watch…wait for it…Cars!:smack:
He doesn’t like any other Pixar movies, or 2-D animation.

But seriously any parents out there have any tips on introducing new things? Just to save our sanity at the least :slight_smile:

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My son’s 4 and he’s just like yours, a CARS fanatic. No, I don’t have tips on how to introduce new things. He’s 2. Let him has his fun and let him discover other things in his own good time. You can go read a book while he’s watching the movie.

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Damn. I honestly believed for about 10 seconds after seeing the title that this was going to be about a 2 year old kid who listened to The Cars.

Big let-down.

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My two-year-old has Buzz Lightyear crossed with God and the whole communion of saints. We’re on our five hundred-and-eighth repetition of Toy Story.

I’d just wait for it to pass, and occasionally try different things. When our four-year-old was two his Thomas the Tank Engine fixation was overwhelming. It passed.

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Oh I don’t want to steal his fun, I just wanted to see if there were any more movies in the talking vehicle genre:) Trust me we’ve been wondering why Pixar is taking so long with that Planes movie so we can at least have four in the rotation.:smiley:

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Jungle Junction is a disney animated TV series. My son, who is older but car crazy, likes it a lot. If you don’t get the disney channel it’s available online on the disney site.

BTW, I understand your frustration. Around the age of 4 my daughter became fixated on Scooby Do every time, all the time. But she did outgrow it.

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Be glad you don’t have to read him “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie” ten times a night.

But yea, seems to be a pretty universal kid thing to get fixated on repetitions of the same book or film for months at a time. I think the fixation has more to do with the fact that the kid has seen it enough times that he can predict what’s going to happen next, rather then the actual contents. So I don’t think trying to transition him to something else “similar” will work, its the fact that he’s seen those particular movies a hundred times before that is the source of the fixation, rather then just a love of anthropomorphic trucks.

ETA: also, why doesn’t my spell checker know the word “movie”? Weird.

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When my 7-year-old was 2 he was also completely obsessed with Thomas. Could not wait for that obsession to die.

I hope it happens soon.

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Despicable Me, maybe?