The launchers are on the schedule are all still coming … namely the WM 2 (coming next week? Next few weeks? Your guess is as good as anyone working at WM 

Easy Idle 0-27084-71731-0
Shifty Drug 0-27084-71733-4
Tank Coat 0-27084-71730-3
Vitoline 0-27084-71732-7

CASE B is available from your Mattel resellers and contains:

Chick Hicks (1)
Shifty Drug (2)
Tank Coat (1)
Vitoline (2)

When will retailers get them? You tell me If they order some from Mattel’s warehouse, they could on the shelves by next week but do they even know it’s out there?

And coming in CASE C – early January?

Easy Idle 0-27084-71731-0
Fiber Fuel 0-27084-71734-1
Mood Springs 0-27084-71735-8

Leaving these as the ‘new’ for CASE D?

Retread 0-27084-71736-5
Shiny Wax 0-27084-71737-2

And then endth of the Pit Row Race Off/Pit Race Off “launchers” as they look now.

In 2009 … WHEELERS …

The launchers were always awkwardly named – “Pit Row Race Off” and then “Pit Race Off,” but now they are neither … they are being discontinued for a new launcher-like item now called “Wheelers.”

No pictures yet but apparently instead of a rectangular launcher doohickey, it’s some sort of tire like motif setup that launches CARS … my guess is it’s something more for kids … however, the CARS are definitely the 1:55 Piston Cup Racers – so just to be clear:

… same CARS

… same scale

… different launching device.

No, I don’t have CASE configurations yet … they might be available in late spring 2009.

Er, COLLECT THEM ALL!