Trailers un-hitched. Pitty’s unloading. No racers, no press. What’s a hauler to do Tuesday night? Maybe do a few laps – last one buys the Piston Poison … FIVE WIDE – coming through! Anyone can do 190 in a aero race car, you ever try doing 125 at 16 tons? Whoa, Nelly! It ain’t drifting, […]

Kari C. asked an interesting question about what would be more valuable – CARS cards that are sealed or CARS & cards opened … and of course, the general and quickest inclination would be to answer – sealed. Which is generally correct but CARS presents an interesting and usual set of further circumstances that might […]

For the Disney Pixar diecast CARS line, Mattel has not officially retired any CARS though there are some that have been unofficially officially retired … Generally, if a change or a fix is made, it’s unlikely to go back for another “fix” – for good or bad – but Mattel (and every other company) doesn’t […]

As I’ve said before, CARS is the greatest diecast line ever design & production wise. And unlike most other diecast lines, they have actually gone back and fixed certain CARS because of non-canon or production errors but MORE amazingly, they have gone back and even fixed scale issues – which is almost unheard of – […]

The first six parts of the Collector’s Field Guide covered the single CARS on hanging blisters that were available to all authorized Mattel resellers including the main retailers, small retailers, online and other resellers. In 2007, the first exclusives were merely packaging exclusives at Target until the important Walmart 8 exclusives released in October 2007 […]

Some people have reported that Haulers are no longer listed in the system at their Walmart – no need to panic. Walmart is making some adjustments to their UPC and store inventory database. As you know, Walmart tracks CARS by their own individual UPC and the “group” UPC and they are making changes to their […]

You had a lot of questions and we have lots of answers … some of them even pertaining to your question! 🙂 I know Mattel would never just make a case of new cars but…. why couldn’t Mattel ship a case of mostly new cars with a few McQ’s or some of the older ones […]

Where’s your precious RPM Hauler now? Yea, I said it – it’s just me – RPM Semi … yea, where’s your precious hauler? No where to be found. We’re the smiling bunch! We’ll cheer up any and every proper completist … we’re megasize with action, baby! Besides, my case pack comes with classy friends … […]

Of course, CARS will easily take over one room that’s unguarded … spouse is away for an hour 🙂 Photo courtesy of NCC-2000 … but now, you can have it “professional.” Okay, in this case, you actually have to buy a house and then Disney will spiff it up one or more of the room […]

There have been reports that the Team Haulers labels are being pulled from the shelves but don’t worry – they are only going away temporarily. Once again, the sales of the Team Haulers were a surprise so now, they are going back to “make more.” (that’s technical speak in manufacturing 🙂 ). There is a […]