Since it’s fairly easy to walk into a store – even a gas station to buy the first 15 singles, I have not posted a lot of case assortment info but now that you might want to consider getting full cases, here are the case assortments through the Summer and into the Fall of 2011. [...]

If you ever flashed back nostalgia for the cereal of your youth? Yes, Corn Kix really came with a mini trophy mount. Now, you can scratch off one more To-Do site you planned to launch … the Cereal Box Archive is LIVE.   Tweet This Post

Lost in the opening day shuffle are the ChargeUps. They are plastic but they hold a charge and zoom around a track or in random direction – since they have no RC controller, they just go forward at a high rate of speed … which is not so bad … The big Kahuna track set [...]

You’re now anywhere from 10-24 hours from the official CARS selling season … Cool look display (thanks Monica!) This is from Australia but our TRU should look like this very soon (if not today!) where the entire front wall becomes CARS, CARS, CARS … Now, I’d like to see someone put everything into a cart [...]

I believe this is the full list of playset-track sets available on opening day … Rod’s Escape might actually be called Stunt Ramp Getaway – hard to tell without the box. Thanks for the photos, Nikko & SlicePie. Thanks. Happy collecting! Tweet This Post

Here is the breakdown by retailer exclusives – keep in mind that some of the “exclusives” are only the configuration or the ‘box’ itself … it’s like saying partly cloudy or partly sunny … technically, it’s correct but it may not mean much of anything. With CARS 1, there were not a lot of releases [...]

This is the final piece to the CARS Buying Matrix Puzzle. The Target “Racing Rivalry” 7-Pack. This is the only other place to find Pit Crew Sarge (other than as a single) in the initial wave release. The BUYING MATRIX CHECK LIST encompasses everything scheduled to be on the shelf May 16th to June 1, [...]

For a while there, 3-packs were listed as a KM exclusive but it’s now available to all non-big retailers so as of now, it looks like you won’t be able to find them at WM, Target, TRU or Kmart but at all other resellers including most likely, online sellers – the biggest example – Amazon. [...]

The good folks at Kmart are looking for some honest feedback about what you, our dear readers, as collectors of Mattel Disney Pixar Cars think about a few different aspects of this fun pastime. The extra good news:  Each person who completes the survey will earn one (1) additional entry into the case giveaway contest! [...]

Take Five A Day: The Magazine! You asked for it and now, you can on-demand it! Issue #1 of our magazine is available for order! 20 full-color pages devoted just to the DESERT ART series … Other than a few pages of text, the magazine is entirely comprised of full color checklists for however you [...]