It’s been nearly a week so why not a change in plans? :-/ It looks like now the PLANES PIT ROW GIFT SETS are available everywhere – not Walmart exclusives. The updated listing no longer says anything about Walmart Exclusive. In fact, “Danrio” has already found the Ripslinger Gift Set at Target … Interesting that […]

The race day exclusives have showed up at my local Target BUT … These are not the CARS “exclusives.” but rather swaps from someone’s open collection. While I certainly don’t condone this – however by Mattel demanding that collectors pay up to $76* for 3 character diecasts just beggers the situation for abuse. (With taxes […]

Looks like “Quercy” has tracked down the new Frosty 2 that will be an Australia exclusive … will it be a Chase? A Super Chase? Will the promotions be around Fall, 2013 like last year? Here’s the race schedule for the Australia V8 Supercars Series. I think last year, the first promotions was at the […]

It looks like Kmart has all CARS products and some PLANES products on sale through Monday July 8th. Remember the Ivan promotion runs until August 8th. It doesn’t just have to be diecast – anything from Mattel (includes Fisher Price? Owned by Mattel) also counts. Oversized deluxe are on sale until Oversize until 7/20 (for […]

I’m not sure if these have hit the store shelves but Amazon has them in … BTW, it holds 40 MD’s not 4 (it’s not keychain sized). But you really need to read the reviews – one makes it sound like it was designed like an idiot and the other review makes it sound like […]

Well, it seemed real straightforward and simple. For every $20 worth of Mattel Disney CARS, get a free Ivan! For “BMW,” it was pretty straightforward. Mattel packed it nicely in a box – not just shoving it into a padded envelope AND on card – nice! The Kmart snipe is a sticker – easy to […]

Er, Dusty, you might be standing a bit close to Tripp … Looks like Everett can be re-purposed.

This might be a first, Mattel Shop already has the PLANES Propwash Junction playset on sale – 5 weeks BEFORE the film comes out … INCONCEIVABLE? Thanks for the heads up, “John H!”  

Happy 4th of July! Stay safe! Not more than 9 of anything! Hot dogs, beer, degree of sunburn … Grantland ranks the Top 10 Singing of the National Anthem.

The downside is you actually have to make these but instead of using your metal diecasts to drop on top of a cake, they actually have (food safe) plastic CARS! Of course, this one is the best – the Frank Tractor Tipping Cake Topper! And it’s not just some plastic CARS, the Tractor actually goes […]