John in MO asks … “Marking 10 years since his death, AOL has a pictoral history of Dale Earnhardt’s life. When I saw this picture, I couldn’t help but wonder if Pixar made Mater’s missing headlight in honor of Dale?”

““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 […]

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 […]

In Turkey (and in Germany and the rest of the world), you can get chocolate eggs with a CAR inside … Either from Kinder or Zaini … [Kinder Egg Photo from: Flickr/brandoncripps] Seems pretty straightforward … Eat the chocolate, do NOT eat the plastic toy inside … Cute new line – photos from Altan. Yes, […]

The CARS Blu Ray is being re-released yet again with a new cover … There’s really not much new other than if you want the Blu Ray without the two diecast CARS and in this go around, you get also the “One Man Band” Short and the “Inspiration For Cars” in HD that was only […]

“K (Carkiya)” was nice enough to send us pics of his kid’s TRU exclusive Wooden CARS … Very nice … not a lot of other properties where you can build two Mattel versions (1:55 & mini adventures) of Radiator Springs along with a Disney Store version, a GeoTrax version and now a wood version (plus […]

Hello all if you’re new to CARS or just starting recently … here’s a state of the state … Oh boy, where do we start. Well, some of us have been at it since 2006 so you have a little catching up to do … this poster will give you a snapshot of what your […]

Still in pre order but shipping in 3 weeks, the collected stories of Mater Tall Tales Toons … Mater Treasury of Tall Tales includes “novelizations” of Monster Truck Wrestling, PI mater and Moon Mater and all the stories from the first two Mater books. So if you have these two below, only 33% of the […]

The first Disney Pixar USPS postage stamps arrive in August 2011 … So how many will you buy and not use … the USPS post office is running a deficit of around $8 billion so remember to buy a bunch and not use them. 🙂 I can tell you the utility is not getting my […]

“David D.” has also uncovered the Disney Store exclusive (as far as we know) diecast release of Toon Mater Monster Wrestling Dr. Frankenwagon … (we did post about it months ago but I guess no one looked very closely 🙂  ). Here he is in his tiny screen glory … how tiny? Very tiny … […]