The seven-minute musical love story between two mountains — Uku and Lele — will premiere at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan in August. You can read more at the LA Times. If you enjoy that nice slow viscous Hawaiian lava flow …

Spoiler Alert, this is one classy, great looking box and set … The backside of the “furoshiki” wrap. It blue versus the front which is black. It’s classy and feels high-end. There are panels of CARS Neon Racers art … The entire front – about 25″ by 26″     The box is definitely high, […]

Almost ready to unbox … Very classy, actual cloth. It does look special. Nice that it even includes instructions on re-tieing this thing.

Well, January 16th is not too bad to be up & running, right? Wait, it is January, isn’t it? It’s 98 degrees outside, it is January 16th normal, right? Well, it’s up and running with a few months to spare – good enough. You can find the website HERE – the poster is under the […]

TRU has a nice week one double-bonus Planes Fire & Rescue ticket discount and gift card with $30 purchase … Buy $30 worth of CARS or PLANES, PLANES FIRE & RESCUE product, get not only a free movie ticket (up to $8.50 value – in CA, that’s about 1/3 of a 3D ticket) but also […]

Looks like Mattel & Disney paid for the full Toys R Us Curtain-Wall of Planes F&R Marketing Castle. Thanks for the heads up & photos, “RRichie09.” BUY BUY BUY or we will pour boiling oil on you! The Dusty Homecoming 6-pack … is Supercharged Dusty a slight variant? I think the previous ones did not […]

Nice use of a drone, a literal bird’s eye view of being in fireworks …

The Rad Road Rally Toon short diecasts have arrived in some Walmart stores – the next ones are listed … The 4 definitely on the list are: “Fillmore with Jugs” Ramone (unsure if he’ll be “hydraulic” or not – but since these are $2 more than regular diecasts, maybe). “Sarge with Canopy.” There does not […]

The large sized lights & sounds Smoke Jumpers are out – and there’s a variant! Thanks, “Wraukn” for the nice photos. He also notes that they changed the snipe from the less parental-scary “Moving Blade” to “Moving Shovel.”   The back also changes slightly. Thanks “Wraukn” for the heads up & photo.

This is the latest kick in the teeth to the toy business … While Transformers, the movie is doing fine – the toys are stacked to the gills and selling at a slow pace. Basically, the toy business is like the movie business now. If you don’t have blank pegs by the time the movie […]