The German Mail-away promo offer didn’t look too terribly interesting – Send in 4 UPC’s for what looked like White Walls Lightning McQueen … But it looks like they didn’t really have a photo of the final promo … it’s actually METALLIC Lightning McQueen with Bumper Stickers. (“Mit Aufklebern” that’s German for “With Sticker.”) Lightning […]

It looks like the last of the 4 “re-release” Toon Box Sets (Walmart Exclusives) have arrived. Thanks for the heads up on noticing they were variants, John In Mo, BMW & JestrJef. That’s another reason not to shop hungry, I snapped the bottom pic in a hurry to go eat lunch – clearly not looking […]

While the whole Silver Series Expanded Universe storyline, shorts and diecast releases seem to have been back burnered – maybe when PLANES went from a straight to home video to a theatrical release, they didn’t want another line intruding on it – but they did hint a Silver Series short would arrive around September so […]

“Mike I.” says hi and sends along photos of his collection … I also have several other customs from Willie that might interest people. I had him create Herbie the Lovebug versions of McQueen, Sally, Mia and Tia. He also created a custom Breast Cancer Awareness Sally, which is a white car with pink ribbon […]

Turns out the Green Dragon Lightning McQueen is not much a mystery – an exclusive but just in a regular box set release at the Disney store. Available online. The Gold Rip Clutchgoneski is available also now.

There have been some mysterious Gold Metallic Rip Clutchgoneski’s pop up around the world on different auction sites … (the space between the front wheel covering and the air dam indicates it’s a Mattel mold and not a Disney store Gold Rip – plus the DS one has yellow wheel rims). While we are expecting […]

Just a mockup but nicely done by Raphael Heusser. You can check out more photos here.  

You might not be shocked to hear that Mattel Distribution does not fire on all cylinders at all times. Items in the warehouse system are sometimes tagged ON HOLD – which of course means it’s ON HOLD except for those that get shipped … other times, items will disappear from the inventory completely or to […]

Congrats Chris S! – you are the winner. It’ll be on its way to you as soon as I find a replacement box to fit this in! 🙂 Don’t forget to send us a review! Congrats and thanks all for entering. Thanks Disney Living for the contest prize!

Some people are asking for a clarification if a diecast character release is canon and whether they should collect-buy it? Well, the first question is – do you like it? Next question – is it priced reasonable to you? I think you have answered the first questions of whether you should buy it? 🙂 As […]