Tractor Tipping is a minigame in Cars: The Video Game and Cars: Mater-National Championship. It involves Mater and Lightning tipping Tractors, like they did in the first Cars movie.
Objective[]
The goal in this minigame is to tip all the Tractors while avoiding Frank and the spotlights before the time runs out. If you stay behind Frank or stand in the spotlight for too long, it will fill up a red warning meter, and he will get faster every time it fills up, but if you bump Frank or stand in his headlights, it will automatically fill up the meter and you will get caught. If you get caught, it will show the scene of Mater and Lightning running away from Frank, and the player will have to start over. In story mode, you control Mater, which him and Lightning are the only characters to be playable in this event. It is set in an aerial perspective, and to move, you use the right turn, left turn, crouch, and raise controls.
Cars: The Video Game[]
The game has a total of eight levels.
Cars: Mater-National Championship[]
The objective is exactly the same as it was in Cars: The Video Game. There is also an addition of the gravel, where it will fill up Frank's "angry meter" if driven on for too long (unless the player drives very slowly). There are only 6 levels instead of 8.
Award Info[]
In Cars: Mater-National Championship, the player receives a total amount of bolt banners for which number the level was (1 for Level 1, 6 for Level 6, etc.). Winning all 6 will earn the player the "Anti-Frank" sticker. 1000 to 6000 points are rewarded for later wins.
Trivia[]
- In Cars: Mater-National Championship, Red can be seen in the background of Tractor Tipping 2, sitting next to a house in the background.
- Also in Cars: Mater-National Championship, the Tractor that stands on one of the bridges in Tractor Tipping 6 will levitate if you push one of the signs next to it.
- Frank will sometimes sink into the ground if the player looks closely.
- In the first game and some versions of Mater-National, if the player does Tractor Tipping while they have the Camera Auto Re-center enabled, their camera will permanently become unable to re-center whether or not the option is on or off. The only way to fix it is to create a new profile.
- Using Mods, more characters can be made playable in this event. While they work fine, they usually lack most animations, and also lack any horn sound for when they tip (with the unique exception of Zeke, who does have a horn sound in the game's files).
- Frank's Field is actually explorable as part of Ornament Valley (not in Mater-National), and must be visited to complete Lizzie's Postcard Hunt. It can be questioned both why the Postcard could not be found while playing this event, or how Mater and Lightning accessed Ornament Valley before the player unlocked it if they play this event right away, as Tractor Tipping is unlocked in story mode before Sheriff's Chase. They might have trespassed over the "Road Closed" signs and went to the fields before unlocking Sheriff's Chase.