The Super Chase scheme makes very little sense for Disney Pixar CARS – if every CAR except for Francesco Bernoulli is a sellout since 2006, why do you need to create super limited editions to juice the market? Let’s go to the trouble to make as little money as possible when 95% of EVERY diecast […]

CASE CONTENTS REVISED – New Case assortment HERE! When several cases were “canceled” and things shuffled around – they did create ONE Super Nice Double Chase Case – N (read about it here) which essentially combined elements of J, K, L & N so they had parts left over which now goes into the “Franken” […]

Thanks “John H.” for sending us his Alex Carvill escapades and photo poses … The WGP Security Van – appearing in CASE N for the first time. Nice to get a new sculpt. Yep, he’s a Fiat Panda. Don’t taze me bro! With fellow Fiat, Erik Laneley. Let’s double check that badge to make sure […]

While CASE J (and its TWIN CASE K) were canceled and essentially merged into CASE N – CASE J did make it to Australia … “Daven N.” was at the store in Australia when they opened the case for him. Brent Mustangberger with headset x1 David Hobbscapp with head set x1 Lightning Mcqueen with racing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The perfect soundbite from Hunt For Red October. The recent Kmart Free-Ivan promotion is now official CRAAAZZZZEEEY. The main portion of the promotion went pretty well as long as you were able to find a Kmart. The second part of the promotion where you bought $20 worth of CARS for a free Ivan went well […]

The Theme Park group strikes again – they have just released TWO Playsets: “Tow Mater”   “The Playscapes product line was created by Olszewski to provide collectors a way to display figurative art. These themed designed displays can be mounted on a wall or can stand alone. The first two are scenes taken from the […]

They haven’t forgotten about CARS 2. They have one more track set up their sleeve … It seems you can launch two CARS across a trestle, winner hits the ramp first and coasts to a win. The new theme of 2013 seems to be a lot of flinging CARS – will this work or will […]