What’s wrong with this picture? Maybe we should sell PRINTS here at TakeFive … I shall title this … “Retail Death.” “I Cry.” “Stare Into the Abyss. It Shall Stare Back At You” “Faded Shadows of Fun” “Stick a Peg in Me …” “Mankey Scot Git.” “O (I’m In) Canada” “Better to have it and […]

These are the Final lap CARS scheduled for August 2009 to Autumn 2010. Updated to include photos versus the blu ray screenshots. ROLL CALL 2009-2010 Scroll slowly. It’s the victory lap! Look, a cute ute … More Reporters … (or Aroldo’s custom …) Bert – the reporter. Dash Boardman – reporter. Houser Boon. Marty – […]

Some more FINAL LAP MAINLINE NON-LENTICULAR SINGLES coming 2009-2010. This is actually the lenticular version … Some of the reporters are hard to tell who’s what as the screenshot colors are hard to tell … Cone Lightning … Who knew you could release an entire line of CARS with just cones glued to them? 🙂 […]

Now scheduled for September … Hauler CASE G. As others have reported in the UK and France already, Nitroade Hauler has hit Germany (TRU). CASE H contains NO STALL as the new hauler but also includes Octane Gain … they might want to-need to repack that case … This pic courtesy of SlicePie-Jake but I […]

Well, Walmart talks big about what’s coming but will they deliver to YOUR STORE? Apparently, later this week, WM will get some Mater Tall Tales – megasize CARS … again, unlike the days of yore (11 months ago) when virtually all WM’s would get a base amount of CARS (or other toys merchandise) so you […]

Lenin V. is in NYC and apparently in NYC, not only is the pastrami perfect, ho hum, the stores are bulging with megasize and Lightyear Launchers … FAO Schwartz (now owned by TRU …) Um, instead of sending 100 cases to one store, how about some more cases to other stores? Apparently, you cannot round […]

Ten-hut … The ‘boys are assembled … They are positioned. And now in their proper fatigues and gussied up for action … I believe when one dresses in pink and bright green, gussied up is the right military term 🙂 Two surprises … one, the green CAR got assigned a name, Charlie Cargo – everyone […]

It’s a topic that everyone loves to visit and revisit … will CARS be valuable down the line? And to that, I say yes – and forever! 🙂 Oh, wait, what was the question again? Well, define “valuable?” What is ‘valuable” to you? And while there are probably 8-10 buckets that most people fall into […]

Good news all around for the CARS 2009 Blu Ray “Ultimate DVD Set.” Amazon.com has dropped the price to $33.99. Don’t worry if you pre-ordered already, your order price will drop to the new price of $33.99 AND even better news* It comes with a Red Ransburg Rescue Squad Mater now NOT the Megasized Rescue […]

“Nikko” snaps a few pics while at Disneyland … a mix of Mattel products and Disney Store products … Notice the giantism Guido? Plus the most amount of spaces between CARS possible … Did it used to be a 32-pack? Key Chargers are their RC-like CARS … nice, lots of pieces … Not as scary […]