The massive online Disney Infinity game launches in August – a brief overview and the CARS game pieces are here. Here are some screen shots of gameplay and some YouTube video overviews of game play … Most of the scenes set in Radiator Springs looks pretty logical – while I’m not sure exactly what’s available [...]

Thanks to OzzieMum, the winners of the Australia-only posters are: “Lightyear,” “Cateyez15″ and “Everett” – send your mailing address to metroxing (at) gmail.com – thanks all for entering!   Tweet This Post

Children’s Toy Closet has bought the last of the 2012 CASE N’s from the warehouse -  last call to get Alex Vandel, Fabrizio, Sir Harley Gassup, Otis,  & Nick Cartone – either CHASES or not scheduled for 2013. Lightning McQueen with Racing Wheel  1 Francesco Bernoulli 1 Race Team Sarge 1 Raoul Caroule 1 Hydraulic [...]

The Disney Infinity video game “world” is now coming in August … with 4 “worlds” – Pirates of the Caribbean, Incredibles, CARS & Monsters University. Without going into huge detail, you are a character that interacts in that world (obviously Jack Sparrow will be doing sword fighting while collecting gold pieces while Sulley of Monsters [...]

LEGO has put up Bios of each mini figure … And in series 10, they have added a CHASE Mr. Gold (not made of real gold) … you can go to the database to add yours or see how many more are floating out there … I see Hawaii is there but no Madagascar yet! [...]

Here is the flyer that will be available at Kmart next month – buy $20 worth of Mattel CARS merchandise, get Ivan FREE – details at www.Mattel.com/KMCars. Website page is NOT active yet. I’ll wait while you try it. And also – yes, the plate I said is hot is really hot. No fooling! You [...]

While the Kmart $.99 oversized deluxe sale is unadvertised – hence, no price match from the competitors, “Anon” says that in one of his Walmart’s, they have done a price adjustment to match Kmart’s so if you’re at Walmart, you might want to do a price check scan – if it comes up a dollar [...]

It looks interesting – though it only works with the Stunt Racers … Crank it up – Convert your potential energy to Kinetic energy the CARS … The press the red button to release the kinetic energy! CARS will zoom around the track in a dizzying array of multiple directions! Diecast CARS can watch as [...]

// Books

Yes, it took a while … but it’s finally completed! It took 40 pages to get everything in there! Click on the graphic or LINK here – it’s printed on demand from MagCloud who will pretty ship worldwide. Remember your purchase helps supports T5 – so thanks and enjoy! You can also click to get [...]

// Checklist

Just to recap the checklist magazines for newcomers. Issues 1 through cover the first 6 years of CARS diecast collecting – for the most part, there was a design motif change once a year and each issue covers every diecast, playset, box sets, etc of the Mattel 1:55 series shown both mint on card, sealed [...]

// Video Games

While the original trailer showed glimpses of Radiator Springs and CARS Characters, it’s now doubly official with announced CARS gamepieces. There are 4 worlds announced: Pirates of the Caribbean, Incredibles, CARS & Monsters University. Presumably Phineas, Toy Story & Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas are coming next. Without going into huge detail, you are a [...]

// Retail

This week, Kmart is having a $.99 sale on CARS diecast singles – and in theory, Walmart, Target and TRU will price match. There seems to be no issues at WM, show them the ad and they will sell you diecast CARS singles for $.99. TRU does not seem to have any “Themes 2013″ cards [...]