Yesterday, we posted on the CARS flanker lineups that probably are EOL and not going to survive to 2013. Left unknown are the 1:55 metal diecast Lights & Sounds series which are quite nice but does not have a lot of support at retail. They actually seem to sell okay (no huge stockpile on the […]

Disney Pixar CARS: Character Encyclopedia Contest Winnah!! MACKDADDY! Congrats! Thanks everyone for entering – it was fun to read all the stories about how you got started or how you are still going strong as a CARS Collector. 🙂 Thanks for entering! You even get a free discast, a metallic paint version of “Lightning McQueen with […]

Of course, Mattel never actually cancels a line … (the Mini Adventures are still listed) rather, they simply stop adding new products to the listing – though years later, they do sometimes actually delete the listing. For CARS, the EOL (end of Life) lines are not a huge surprise: Action Agents Not sure why they […]

The next Kmart CARS Day is October 20, 2012 – 9 AM. Thanks for the heads up & update, Kevin NascarBronco. The WGP racers definitely included are the chrome racers not released in the Kmart Day #8. (the photos are the early concept ones when the plan was to release them as clearcoat cars and […]

Collecting diecast CARS is like being a city-state in Central Asia. You know disaster is coming, you can only try and guess what direction it’s coming from this time … 2006: Birth of a Glorious City-State. 2007: The Empire is More than 4 Yurts and 11 Goats. 2008-2009: The Golden Age – a Varietal Bounty […]

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Presumably resting in the warehouses with a DO NOT SHIP code has been switched back to the living … CASE F is back.   UPDATE – DEAD AGAIN Mattel says HAHA – April Fool’s! August Fool’s! Rob of Rob’s Palace of Disney CARS just cracked it open. He does not want. You do not want. […]

Bruno Motoreau arrives in the latest Target 4-pack … Thanks for the great photos, “John H!” A great diecast version of the classic Citroen DS. It looks like he’ll only be available in this 4-pack as of now … You also get the upgraded Lewis Hamilton unibody version – and the first time Lewis is […]

The Q Singles Case survives to ship another day … It was pretty much the W singles case (canceled) that had Eric Lanely in it (now, presumably at WM) but Cartney Brakin’ survives as a CHASE CAR. For card completists, presumably this is the last case with the Porto Corsa no left diecut cards and/or […]

In case you missed yesterday’s post, a lot of cases were canceled – the first question is so what happens to all the new singles planned for cases J, K, L, & W? It’s just speculation at this point but since newly created cases N & P are going to Walmart, I suspect that to […]

I hope the earlier warning means this post won’t be quite a shock to you. Singles Cases J, K, L, & W CANCELED. The naked & the dead … So, no Russia Ultimate Chase and no Galloping Geargrinder for now. The Celine here was a CHASE without the Kmart sticker so technically new plus CHASE […]