The Super Chase scheme makes very little sense for Disney Pixar CARS – if every CAR except for Francesco Bernoulli is a sellout since 2006, why do you need to create super limited editions to juice the market? Let’s go to the trouble to make as little money as possible when 95% of EVERY diecast […]

Thanks “John H.” for sending us his Alex Carvill escapades and photo poses … The WGP Security Van – appearing in CASE N for the first time. Nice to get a new sculpt. Yep, he’s a Fiat Panda. Don’t taze me bro! With fellow Fiat, Erik Laneley. Let’s double check that badge to make sure […]

There have been some mysterious Gold Metallic Rip Clutchgoneski’s pop up around the world on different auction sites … (the space between the front wheel covering and the air dam indicates it’s a Mattel mold and not a Disney store Gold Rip – plus the DS one has yellow wheel rims). While we are expecting […]

You might not be shocked to hear that Mattel Distribution does not fire on all cylinders at all times. Items in the warehouse system are sometimes tagged ON HOLD – which of course means it’s ON HOLD except for those that get shipped … other times, items will disappear from the inventory completely or to […]

The perfect soundbite from Hunt For Red October. The recent Kmart Free-Ivan promotion is now official CRAAAZZZZEEEY. The main portion of the promotion went pretty well as long as you were able to find a Kmart. The second part of the promotion where you bought $20 worth of CARS for a free Ivan went well […]

The Disney Store 1:43 Rip Clutchgoneski is back in stock … And if you want to see where you stand in your Disney Store collection, the great “Unixed” Visual Checklist is here. Or if you want the Mattel single version with the entire case, it’s in CASE H with the CHASE, Francesca or its twin […]

If you missed on the first shipments of Race Day 4-Packs, more have arrived … As for the other racers in the 4-pack, unless you have not bought any racers since August 2011 when they started the upgrade to unibody’s on all the racers except Rip Clutchgoneski & Raoul Caroule – there’s not a lot […]

Darrell Cartrip with Headphones is technically new in the mainline 1:55 lineup … But he’s virtually a repeat of the CARS 2 Lights & Sounds release from 2011. The L&S version is on the left. It was a great series as almost all the releases simply re-used the diecast bodies from the 1:55 mainline. You’d […]

“John H.” sends along great photos of Ivan and Ivan Mater. Ivan is the free giveaway CAR with a minimum purchase at Kmart. This promotion ends August 8, 2013 – DETAILS HERE. It’s certainly a nice giveaway CAR, especially on card and sniped KMART. We might see Ivan back next year but it will be […]

It won’t help you much with getting a free Ivan but if you were unsuccessful in finding Francesco Fan Mater or Materhosen at your local Kmart, it’s now available at CTC. You get two Materhosen, 1 Chase Francesco Fan Mater and the other 3 CARS in the case … Elvis RV … There’s also 1 […]