The included Lightning McQueen is plastic but it looks like it should work with diecast CARS. Thanks for the nice photos, “Lane Change.”   The main selling point seems to be that you can connect the Ramone’s and Luigi’s though clearly whomever designed this “feature,” seems to have never actually watched CARS, the movie. So, […]

“LaneChange” also sends along some new cardback shots. While there’s nothing really new here, it’s nice to see the photo confirmation of more Alex Hugo with Party Hat and Ivan coming in 2014. And the first shot of the WGP Tow Truck Deluxe Oversized CAR named Towin’ Eoin. Looks nice.   Wonder what the other […]

Since the 2014 Theme cards design does not look much different than the 2013, you do have to look closely … since some of 2014 releases include Lightning McQueen, Max Schnell & Francesco. The main difference is the logo has changed from Disney • Pixar CARS to Disney World of CARS. If you spot Marlon […]

“LaneChange” sends along his nice stroll through the Mattel Company Store/Outlet store in Texas. The usual suspects. Porto Corsa Lightning & Francesco – still a few left, go figure!  And lots of Action Agents. Though this is actually a nice endcap. The rest are what you’d expect – playsets from the past few years. All […]

The Kmart promo mailaway of course ended on a strange note. While all early mailers got a nice email it was received and then another email that it was on its way, the redemptions sent in towards the end was met with stony silence for a few weeks – leaving everyone to question what was […]

While it’s nice to get Flo with a new plastic attachment piece, it’s pretty weak to get it with it with two re-releases.     Though I guess it’s progress that you only have 2 re-releases “extras” to get the one new release – and at least Pit Crew Member Guido has’t been re-released in […]

The Star Wars Dinsey Pixar “CARS Wars” diecasts are back in stock at the Theme Parks. If you’re not going or not having anyone pick these up for you, you can call their 800 number to order from the Theme Parks. Let us know if the Mater Time Travel CARS are back in stock-on the […]

A nice surprise, while every previous Radiator Springs Classic singles and box set release up to now has just been re-releases from CARS 1, for the last (?) two box sets of 2013, a surprise new release – especially the Dinoco 400 Box Set with Jay W. – presumably the W stands for Jay Ward, […]

So, while the first retail 2014 2-pack Movie Moments case is not terribly exciting (CASE F), there was hope that the Kmart First-to-Market CASE A would contain better releases scheduled. Well, 3 of the releases in the case are: So, clearly these 3 are not the first to market … hopefully the other 2 are […]

The Toys R Us Holiday “pop-up” temporary TRU EXPRESS stores are open around the country. It seems the 2013 Toys R Us Express stores are all or mostly located in outlet malls – there might be some exceptions but it seems to be the case. For some reason, TRU does not list them in their […]