As most people guessed, buy 6 CARS in the UK with a special sticker, get Faux Wheel Drive. Dave S. of the UK was nice enough to send along photos … You need a CAR with a special sticker on the front. (That’s January 31, 2009 – those wacky Europeans with their metric system and […]

Now that 2008 is officially over and 2009 is already in full swing – start to clear space in your bank account and your house for the expansion of the Expanded Universe CARS TOONS line … one component will be a new playset … Yep, the Canyon Jump playset … (CARS sold separately of course […]

Enough To Choke a wagon train of Clydesdales … TRU – launchers and singles? Whatever. We will corner the market on the Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge! We’ll take 100,000 of these and mark them all down to breakeven what we paid for them so we can’t make a dime on them! That’ll show ’em! Don’t […]

Of course, this is the WOC playmat but if you guessed or said, man – wouldn’t life be grand if we had a STORYTELLERS playmat? Your greatest wishes have been granted – I don’t actually have a photo of it so you’ll have to use your imagination and merge the artwork from here with the […]

First, you go right ahead and collect what you want to collect. There is no predicting what will become valuable, most valuable or ultra valuable in the long run. Collecting CARS should be about appreciating the artistry of it and having fun with it. Remember to hold them up and look at them closely to […]

I been shined. I haz no Sidewall Shine. Apparently I am a deviant as I deviated and am non-compliant. I can picture the 1979 Cylon talking to me through the window – YOU ARE NON COMPLIANT. YOU ARE NON COMPLIANT. ERROR. ERROR. Didn’t really explain why I’m not compliant as I sent in the receipt, […]

An interesting subset of the Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS are the English-only Canadian cards. Now, they are not technically part of the U.S. release so in this case, you can safety ensconced yourself in the complete blanket without any of these CARS but they are amusing and during the occasion lulls of CARS collecting, […]

As many of you know, we had a checkup at EDITGRID but it got a little too unweldy and as a straight spreadsheet while useful in some ways – was limiting because the online version only allowed limited typefaces. So while power users can continue to download that one and add to it and have […]

For those that missed the CASE ASSORTMENT C of the ‘Pit Race Off’ launchers embedded in the WHEELERS post, it is … Coming in early January?

I think everyone was at least able to find Mack with Bumper Save, Nitroade & Bob Cutlass on or about Black Friday … This was one of those deals where Mattel & WM did not make any money, WM just wanted to assure you were eager to be there on BF and Mattel basically counted […]