“A Screaming What” wins our costume competition … Pretty perfect! Squirrel! (just kidding) Too funny! I like how the house is actually floating away in this pic 🙂 Shouldn’t there be a Pizza Planet Todd on the ground for scale?  😛 And now, Aaron & Jeanne S … too artistic! I would have to move […]

Guess we might as well camp out at Target 🙂 The Storyteller cousins & showstopper (girls) have arrived at some stores … Thanks for the pics, Nikko. These are a little harder to find as they have THE SAME DPCI numbers as the ones from last year (Sponsorless McQueen, Retro Ramone, etc … 087071794) so […]

The Christmas CARS Checklist requires a slight revision and perhaps the picture is a little clearer on the two different cards. Target is DEFINITELY getting the Storyteller design cards with the velcro flap (much like the original Storyteller cards). Thanks for the great photos, Moe … and it comes 12 to a carton, 4 “Hotshot” […]

Unlike last time, the Kmart.com cases seem to mostly okay. I have not heard of too many problems and the cases I have opened all look okay. But Angie &Kevin F. win the contest for the weirdest case MAYBE EVER … (they are in the US). All of the cars were on tri-logo European packaging. […]

Yes, it’s a lenticular world and you don’t collect it, it collects you … Ta-da! Eric L. found this today at Target! Interestingly enough, it has the same DPCI as the other 4-pack racers 087-07-1832 though the name is different. The non-lenticular 4-pack racers are called Speedway 4-packs but as they have the same DPCI […]

As usual, “Nikko” was able to talk them into selling him one … I guess I’ll start wearing my TARGET MYSTERY SHOPPER shirt also 🙂 Too nice! It’s December 25th – Nikko opened that right up! Doc – pretty festive! Hey, look it’s 2-part Cruisin’ McQueen! Ramone’s pretty talent … to be able to paint […]

The last of the 2009 CHASE CARS that you already know about … (I think this is the right chronology of release) But you say, what’s coming in 2010? Chase-wise? Again, better clean some room as some of the ones you have long wished for ARE COMING. They are pretty much in alpha order other […]

Lenticulars are the ‘reality stars’ of CARS – easy to hate but hard to look away 🙂 Like reality TV, it’s understandable why you might hate it but it does serve a purpose. For completists who have been collecting all along, they have crashed the party and muddied the waters. On the logistics side, it […]

The Toys R Us Big Book is out-coming … and it’s UUGGGGEEEE! There are two coupons on the front – one for November and one for December – $10 off of $100 purchase … Plus if you spend $75, you also get a free $10 dollar gift card … (The “Buyer Protection Plan” does not […]

Yes, the Christmas reset is coming – Sunday 11.1.2009 so you can start calling and seeing if these have arrived yet … BUT keep in mind, just because the reset is 11.1.2009 does not mean it will all go out on that day – Target “resets” are more like a casual get-together, all very casual, […]