Danny left this in the COMMENTS section of the Motor Speedway of the South post (from months ago) so I thought a wider audience might appreciate it … Take it away, Danny … Good Evening of the 5th of February, 2009 to yooz “guys”. I have been looking for current info about the “Cars” lineup. […]

As if Aroldo P. of Italy hasn’t already done enough for us, he discovered a great screenshot of Pit Row that appeared in the CARS Magazine – Italian version. It is obviously shrunk down to fit our pages here but you can see it’s a puzzle for kids (cut out squares on the right) to […]

For those who need an introduction, on the back of the name plate “ticket” on each of the Mattel Disney Pixar diecast CARS is a number. Then go to www.WorldofCARS.com. Be sure and register first(free) and then enter codes to help you build a race car and unlock tracks to race … for now, the […]

The best analogy for the MINI’s are they are the California Adventures Theme Park and the 1:55 series is Disneyland. No matter what, it just cannot hope to compare. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with California Adventures, it’s just not Disneyland. Or if your brother is Michael Jordan … good luck escaping that shadow […]

Jason T. spotted something pretty interesting on Bumper Save … It looks like he found a “different” mouth on his … look at the pics, look at yours and let’s piece this mystery together … So, check yours along with these and see if yours matches or does not match (okay, there is a third […]

These are from the MINI cases B & C … Unfortunately, I was watching TV and opened the boxes to photograph but just made one giant stack so … all I can tell you is that they are from the last two case … whoops … Monster Truck McQueen & Chick Hicks (2-pack) it’s nicely […]

Since our post ran so long ago, many people have forgotten about it or have never seen it before. We have an EDITGRID spreadsheet database of the production dates on the bottom of official Speedway sets. You can find it HERE. Right now, there are about numbers for about 20 sets – please add yours […]

Good news, Knightrider sends us a good news update … “The Faux Wheel Drive promo is being continued until the end of February. I spoke to a Mattel UK customer service assistant today who told me, that because most of the promo stickered cars didn’t get put on the shelves till after Christmas, and due […]

I think this beautiful illustration from Caitlin/FPG sums it up nicely … The squirrels took over the asylum but order has been restored … So, yea, this case B above … um, not. The original CASE B was and is still CASE B. Chick Hicks (1) Shifty Drug (2) Tank Coat (1) Vitoline (2) And […]

You have until the end of January to call in your numbers … In other words, 1/31/2009 or of course, those on the wacky-as-metric-system date thing of 31/1/2009.  🙂 Naturally, since you have about a week left, they are starting to appear in stores … more specifically, as Gevart reports from London, UK … “Was […]