Autoweek reports that there will be a 30-city US CARS 2 tour with an electric motored Mater, Lightning & Finn … custom created by a company called TFX. There will be 8 Lightning McQueens, 6 Finn McMissiles & 5 Mater’s. Then they will tour Russia, Japan, Europe, Mexico and Latin America (probably Brazil & Argentina). […]

Here is the official Disney Video of CARS 2 products including a fun interview with Michael Caine … plus a nice display case … perfect, side one for CARS 1 and side 2 for CARS 2 and great as a wall divider! Though of course, not very complete 🙂 Good starter collection if you’ve been […]

The complete CARS 2 bios and CARS introduced … Star racecar Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) take their friendship to exciting new places in “Cars 2″ when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s […]

Australia? He must’ve taken a left turn at Albuquerque … Feb 08, 2011 – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Get set to rev those engines as Mack the Transporter steams into Sydney this week for the official launch of the Disney-Pixar CARS Truck Tour. The year–long Australia wide tour sees Disney-Pixar team up with Mack Trucks Australia and […]

CARS World – Expanded Universe expands just a little more – well in 2013 … Disney Toon Studio, the home entertainment (ie: non theatrical release) animation arm announces, “Planes.” The sky’s the limit as DisneyToon Studios proudly announces PLANES – a spectacular, full-length CG animated comedy action adventure movie for everyone set high above the […]

Lots of CARS 2 books are already listed … The biggie is of course, the Art of CARS 2 (a series of great books – one each for every Pixar film) – Release date: June 1, 2011 And all these other CARS 2 books are due out May 17, 2011 … so spoiler alert? Do […]

As many of you know, the Boom Comics CARS comic book series suddenly stopped a few months ago – it was hoped it was just a temporary thing as not to intrude upon CARS 2 and the storyline there but now, it seems that Pixar comics have moved over to Marvel but as “magazines.” The […]

We can gleam more clues about CARS 2 from the kids clothes that are coming … His new pit crew (though Sarge is missing). Some competitors not yet name-revealed … and some very cool shoes though I’m guessing you have to bea bout 6 and under to fit in ’em … (I believe these light […]

Here’s a shock – Emily Mortimer (Holley Shiftwell in CARS 2) really, really, really enjoyed working on CARS 2: “Mortimer quipped that she has enjoyed the process behind the movie so much that her husband thinks she has a crush on John Lasseter — “and I think he might be right,” she added to laughs. […]

Needless to say for a new movie launch, there will be a massive amount of track sets released for CARS 2. Since the movie involves a lot of racing – there does not seem to be any playsets but mostly all track sets. They will be designated between “low priced,” (under $15), mid priced (under […]