Yea, 5 years ago, you could pretty much decide you wanted to want a 4-day pass around June and you’d be okay … now apparently, we live in world where in SEPTEMBER the year before – or nearly 9 MONTHS AWAY – you have to start thinking about buying a 4-day pass for San Diego […]

A Sidewall Shine is worth 13 eBay auctions in the bush? A picture is worth how many Sidewall Shine’s? How does that old saying go? Now, before you get too carried away, it’s JUST a photo – albeit an official photo. It’s not even on the official Lightyear launcher’s list yet but clearly, it’s coming […]

Well, not much more to add beyond this banner … September 27, 2009 Online pre-ordering starts at 10 AM (presumably Central Time), 11 AM Eastern, 9 AM Mountain, 8 AM Pacific. They have NOT finalized maximum orders or maximum orders per address. October 17, 2009 In store event. Kmart CARS Day 3 – begins at […]

Finally a retailer living up to its name* Toy R Us will be opening 80 stand alone Toys R Us Express Outlets in October and then closing them in January. PLUS, they realized they could sell toys in Babies R Us … so 270 Babies R Us are also getting a toy section for the […]

Well, if your store is not going through a reset where there’s enough room to drive Rhode Island through it … Store in Maine – thanks Fiddlehead. You might find the 3-pack CASE F. Which also includes another Showgirl’s pack … Charlie Checker with yellow tail-lights? Can’t tell from here … This was the last […]

I know, you’re sick and tired of staring at the Mater Tall Tales – Rescue Squad Mater … staring at them in every store – all day and all night long … or maybe that just applies to 5 of you … so, okay, for the rest of us 230 million … we might not […]

I think I last updated this chart in 2008 – anything going on with this line since then? 🙂 Okay, here is it – this includes every CAR released so far plus the announced releases through December 2009 … though we know for certain that we should more Mater Tall Tale releases from Mater the […]

Mater Tall Tales have landed in the UK … Along with new cases of lenticulars … Thanks for the update & photos, “Rippers.” He says someone else grabbed up the other Mater Tall Tales singles …

Steven P. seems to have found the nearly(?) complete set of Final Lap CARS released so far at Target … Is he still the heaviest diecast? Looks like it … King – nice to see him back … And the non-pink hue Radiator Springs McQueen. Well, that’s all I’m buying … but Steven P. also […]

Ben J. spotted this yesterday and might not have had a sleepless night but countless other CARS buyers did … but the proof is not in the pudding (section) but in the CARS section: No other Final Lap CAR was on the peg … and yes, the arrow sticker is odd … The sticker is […]