In case you wondered what McQueen & Sally ate on their first date? Available at Tesco in the UK … In the US, Tesco is starting up a chain called ‘Smart & Fresh‘ but they haven’t made it to NorCal yet so can’t you if we’ll e getting Sally & McQueen meals … Of course, […]

Okay, technically the $.99 Store is the $.99.99 Store now – I kid you not. They needed to raise prices and couldn’t figure out how to do it until some lawyer jumped in … of course, they round to $1 … though technically, does this mean some other lawyer is going to file a class […]

Most of the cars of CARS that are based mostly on a real life CAR is evident by the “licensed” logos and trademark/trade dress indication on the cards. The tuners are a little different as they seem to be mostly “inspired by.” Now, whether that’s because they wanted to have design liberty with the tuners […]

This is a sort-of repeat of an earlier post covering licensing for films but I’ll answer it again – more specifically regarding voice rights. For animation, a movie star will generally will not do “additional” voice over work outside of the film and maybe a short if it’s already planned – such as Ghostlight Mater […]

The CARS comic book has been released … There are two covers. McQueen explains to Darrell Cartrip how he came to be Lightning McQueen … (guess the use GOODLIGHT tires on the lower circuit? Or our blimp collection is incompete) 🙂 We also meet Mack who was actually delivering other goods … Cue the Beatles […]

Is it just me or does it seem wrong to beat McQueen like a Repo Man until he gives you candy? I could see beating on this dude’s masked head … Dude, you had a chance to kill Jar Jar – instead of you take out Biggs … that’s a pinata beating! This also seems […]

Mattel has lots of other CARS things they would like you to buy … Toy Fair 2009 photos courtesy of “BigMatt56.” It’s no puzzle that CARS is popular with puzzlers … Amazon has the “second version” of this kid-sized puzzle. Of course, this screenshot is of interest to diecast collectors with the oddball white RPM […]

CARS – the kudzu of your house, creeping, crawling – taking over virally  … now ceiling fans … Very cute … the Piston Cup & CARS logo a nice touch … available at Target/Amazon. A different design is available at Lamps Plus. Then’s there a real oddity listed on Amazon … This is the ceiling […]

Complete your Disney Pixar CARS CARS decoratin’ with a Lightning McQueen phone. It’s look very nice, it’s the 1:24 Lightning but with a cord 🙂 Of course, you’ll have to explain to the kids that the headset portion actually is attached by a wire to the phone base … How quaint. Kids will be stumped […]

If you’re going to to the Seattle “Emerald City’ Comic Con in a few weeks (4/4 & 4/5), there will be a limited to 500 copies edition of CARS #1. McQueen will be red foil. It looks like it will $20 – the regular CARS comic should be out by April 4th and available at […]