Paul Newman passed away earlier today at the age of 83. He did everything with ease, grace and lived the way he wanted to. When he started out, of course, they just wanted him to be a movie idol but he took the route he wanted – taking on “unlikeable” character & roles and doing […]

Sure, anyone can make a list but how about an actual mockup … Courtesy of FPG …

The short card “Lane Mates” are certainly an odd duck portion of the line. In theory, by having shorter cards, stores can hang more pegs and hence, more sales per square pegboard and while Mattel doesn’t save much on cardboard, you times $.001 cents by a couple million and it adds up … except that […]

“I want a hard-target search of any residence, gas station, farmhouse, henhouse, doghouse and outhouse in that area. Check-points go up at 15 miles” These very words are being barked at families around the country as we slide down our CARS poles and drop into our Bentley convertibles* to go racing out into the streets […]

This sales ENDS Saturday night so you have @48 hours left (minus the hours they are not actually open …). And while this store has no left none now, NO RAINCHECKS so if it looks like this below … that’s your shopping choice but hey, at least it’s about 30% off. AND you have about […]

They are still in the warehouse but we have better photos to show you … Yes, from this angle, it doesn’t look like Blimp is larger (aka: oversized from before) but both Blimpy & Dinoco are 5″ now – about 2″ longer than before. Or in Marketing speak – OVER 30% MORE FUN THAN BEFORE […]

CARS 2 has been moved back to 2011. Of course, for us, that means one LESS year of padding out CARS diecast releases since after we start seeing CARS 2 trailers in 2010, they will start launching “preview” CARS 2 CARS in different case assortments as a tease and buzz builder and by April 2011, […]

It’s baacccackkkkk … In Wal-Mart’s toy department … no one can hear you scream … your only defense to crush the cube is … Q4 post updated HERE. No real major changes, just some things shifted around and the CUBE returns (nothing seems to be exclusives but just first shipping to THE CUBE) – aka […]

These are the things I do or do NOT know: When will it be out? Probably December. When in December, December 5th at exactly 3:30 PM, I will be wearing a TakeFive t-shirt and drinking a Coke Slurpee … I will give you instructions if you give me the right passcode. Or in actuality, I […]

Some official shots of Darth Mater … coming for the CAAF Dream Halloween auction on October 25, 2008. “It’s Halloween in Radiator Springs! Dad Gum!………………Tow Mater has gotten dressed up as his favorite villain Darth Vader but has changed his name to Darth Mater!  His Light Saber is fashioned from an old fluorescent light bulb […]