What, did you want to buy new CARS singles in the last 3 months? Maybe Mattel was hoping you’d want to buy some Hydro CARS, some Micro Drifters, some play sets or some silver launchers … but damn it if you did not wait them out and bought not much of the flanker CARS lines [...]

Since it didn’t look promising at my closest Kmart, I asked Kmart if there were going to be more shipments through August and the answer is this on the oversized Deluxe case of Francesco Fan Mater, Materhosen and the others … “Each store gets at least one casepack, some stores in larger areas might receive [...]

Very classy … Yep, some are unofficial releases – really unofficial. Tweet This Post

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 [...]

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 [...]

CARS, the Universe was very small for a very short while – after the initial 12-CARS release, it exploded into 2-pack Movie Moments, box sets, track sets, town playsets, Mack’s and then it exploded bigger by Supercharged and now, 7 years later … we need a chart to keep track of the mainline and all [...]

As more Target Stores open in Canada, there were high hopes they would get a full and sparking new CARS in the toy section … well, the toy section is sparkling new … Maureen (MoMcQueen) sends along this report and photos … Like most retail-deprived (depraved?) Canadians, I had been waiting in breathless anticipation for [...]

Of course, you buy it at Amazon now instead of Target but the price even with shipping is about the same as the lowest regular price of this set (@$32.99 when it was at Target). Our review of the set HERE. Tweet This Post