““Topping out” is a traditional construction event among construction workers and engineers that takes place when the highest piece of steel is installed on the frame of a building. As part of the tradition, the final beam is painted white and signed by the ironworkers, steel design engineer and construction management. This piece of steel […]

I guess we are officially out of topics to discuss about CARS 1 … “Buckland Blowouts” sent me a telegram. I was sure they stopped telegraphs in 2006 but that didn’t stop “BB.” Then some Kodachrome’s followed. I even got a diskette with his findings. There exists a Bumper Save variant. And when I say […]

Pretty hard to hate the people at Pixar* … “(George) Lucas had brought in a guy named Doug Norby as President to bring some discipline to Lucasfilm, and as part of his efforts, Norby was pressing Catmull and Smith to do some fairly deep layoffs. The two couldn’t bring themselves to do it. Instead, Catmull […]

Dale sends us some nice pics of the Shake ‘N Go El Materdor … Very darn cute … Nice rug track! And what looks like the entire set? And an early sneak peek at the art for CARS 2 … (with old Lightning art) And your first 2 waves of releases: 208796- Finn McMissile 208797- […]

The UK Disney CARS site is offering a new free two-side PDF poster to print, use as a wallpaper or a checklist … Click on the poster or the text link to go directly to the PDF page. If you want to visit the Disney CARS UK site, click HERE. Thanks for the heads up, […]

Here’s the updated Final Lap checklist to reflect everything everything “NEW” released so far … And the next four coming next month plus all the other un-numbered “classic” non-moving eye “NEW” CARS released so far … UPDATE – Somehow the numbering didn’t sort correctly above but fixed. The last block of CARS are on the […]

If you can’t find the Mattel oversized-deluxe Dinoco Heli, the Disney store one will be a nice placeholder … Thanks for the nice pic, “Micky.” Though, of course, strictly speaking, the Dinoco Heli should be large enough to fit Mater and presumably Tex, King, Mrs. the King and the Dinoco Crew Chief? Thanks, “Micky.”

Since we seem to have spend the weekend in the comments section on Lizzie, here’s a recap on the apparition known as Lizzie … Hey, everyone, come quick, there’s a picture on the internet that looks just like me. And obviously these dates are intended as a general guideline – each region can be completely […]

Last week, we covered collecting the Desert Art Series 1 & Desert Art Series 1.5 CARS “mint on card.” It’s hard to really even agree what constitutes a complete set – 15? 16? 20? all the way to 48? In late 2006 – Mattel switched design motifs … SUPERCHARGED! And the cardback design sort of […]

Robert D. collected enough reward points to redeem for the giant LIGHT ‘EM UP CARS sign from the Disney Rewards program … You get a sense of its scale – yes, it lights up. Only thing is it’s 8,000 points. A LOT of points. But nice – good luck! Disney Rewards LINK HERE along with […]