To close out their 1:43 Lightning McQueen Country Flag diecasts, Disney Stores Europe just released a 1:18 scale Lightning McQueen. Looks pretty nice, though I would quibble the flags of the 12 countries would look nicer stacked in rows … 60,00€. You can check it out at the Disney Store Germany or the Google Translation […]

All five Super Chases have been released – and it’s safe to say we’re done with these. From the worst case scenario … 4,000 of these at 7,000 retail stores – with how many actually making it onto the front pegs (even John Lasseter told us we had to make friends with stock boys, HE […]

Children’s Toy Closet (CTC) has more of the greatest singles case assortment EVER coming in – warehouse is definitely down to a few cases listed so this might be it? Order here – there’s also a coupon code (one time use per household) – CP20 which knocks $20 off your total order. You must register […]

With the latest announcement of a giveaway of 400 Mark “Frosty” Winterbottom Super Chase CARS coming on December 1, 2012 … here’s the recap of distribution: 200 September 14, 2012 If you clipped this coupon from the (Australia) Herald Sun at the Sandown 500 race. They were only giving away 200 to kids. 400 October […]

In case you need a visual recap of all the Chrome CARS … The Toys R Us exclusives … Raoul is out in EU but has not made it to the US yet. The other Chrome ones … Dragon Lightning McQueen w/booklet version, DJ Metallic, Radiator Springs LM, Cruisin’ McQueen, DK Character Encyclopedia LM and […]

“John H.” was passing by El Segundo and saw a big tent – who can resist a big tent? I know I can’t! Lo and behold, it’s a warehouse sale! This might shock you but they seem to have marked down some CARS items that did not sell as well as expected …hard to believe! […]

If you’re in Australia and you’ve missed out on Super Chase Frosty – you have one more chance. At the Sydney Telstra 500, they will give away another 400 Frosty’s to kids. “Coupons will be in the paper from Wednesday 28th November in the Daily Telegraph.” Via V8 Supercars Facebook. I presume it’s like the […]

OzzieMum sends along fun pictures and her recap of taking her boys to see Mark Frosty Winterbottom. Event was run by the radio station Mix 106.5. Started at 2pm. I arrived with the kids about 11.15am & there were 4 others ahead of us & slowly people trickled through after us. (Hey, Mister – do […]

If you are trying to check stock at stores by looking up IN-STORE STOCK info of the Porto Corsa Series cards, it might show this line as EOL, closed, no longer stocked, etc, etc … The simple reason is the master UPC and Product CODE has changed going forward. While they are still CARS CHARACTERS […]

It looks like Mattel packed an N & P case for Walmart but Walmart did not want it? Or they did not want to order enough so back to the warehouse it went – available for anyone to order. So, it looks like the P CASE contains pretty much all of the “missing” CARS 2 […]