Jon in the UK was kind enough to send us a scan of the new poster from the UK CARS magazine - along with the latest UK promotional offer of BUY 6, send in UPC’s and get a free CAR:

Or log onto www.carstoys.co.uk for more details - though strangely, nothing is up yet, guess they [...]

Before going much further, let me again thank NascarBroncoFan, & Monica for essentially mounting a hostage rescue situation … except they didn’t have any weapons other than what they could muster with their bare hands (push carts and rolling carts were banned).
For anyone not at Comic Con 2008 … I will try to capture [...]

Here’s a schedule of things to do.
Um, no way to see or do it all so pick and choose and as noted, sometimes the people in the room are not leaving so you might not get into everything.
Eat lunch early or late but do not eat lunch between 11:45 and 1:15 … everyone else decides [...]

Mattel’s Disney Pixar CARS are like 15-year olds … if you don’t watch them carefully, they’ll just wander away and are soon splashed all over the internet
So, here are some unofficial unboxing photos …
Of course, you’ve already seen the box from our last post so we’ll skirt over the technical details of sliding [...]

I admit I was never a huge fan of Iron Man but the movie trailer looks good and they were smart to get Robert Downey Jr. That guy might’ve had a lot of personal problems but he can flat out act.*

I know the back story and while they are sticking to the gist of how [...]

Mattel is going to be crazy busy this summer with new movie launches.
But in a way, Batman is easy - people pretty much just want the Batmobile - give it us in every scale and at every price point, we’re in.
But Speed Racer beyond the Mach 5 is going to require a little more work [...]

After 40 years, the George Barris Batmobile from the 1966 TV series still RULES ALL.
And in 2008, Mattel is going to deliver just about every version in every nearly every scale.

I’m not normally a large-scale (1:24, 1:18) diecast collector but these all look blazing cool …
The “regular/standard issue” 1:18 scale Batmobile
(currently shipping or very [...]