Looks like Walmart is changing up the mix of their stores to go after former Circuit City customers … As the WSJ reports … “Wal-Mart also is leveraging a more subtle advantage it boasts over standalone electronics chains: a mom-heavy clientele. Retailers say women often have final say over household purchases of new video games […]

Frank is here and it’s a massive and heavy piece of diecast machinery. His thresher combine thing works great – it’s solid and not just for show – spin and it works and spins for a while. Who are you calling tiny? Let’s go to scale measurement thinger … Frank & the brain of a […]

The mainline singles were once simple. Go to store or go online to buy. Then CHASE CARS were added. But they were not all that different – some easy to find and some not so easy to find but basically – go to store or go online to buy. Now it gets complicated because the […]

Well, what do you know, it might be a case where hardly anyone has a quibble 🙂

A thing of beauty is a joy forever … and now the most frakin’ beautiful CAR to behold … It’s too beautiful in every imaginable way … It is everything we could have imagined. I did mentioned this is the greatest diecast line ever? No detail or exhaust is too exhausting to recreate. No, you’re […]

The first poster included with the first release of CARS under the RACE O RAMA motif & design was this one-sided poster: It was replaced by this two-sided version for most of the Race O Rama series. This poster is of course, folded under the mainline singles CAR so it’s on the “grass.” Now, poster#3 […]

After a long air flight, you do need some Trunk Fresh … Will you be needing the XXXXL size or will the M do for ya? 🙂 Their slogan, “The bigger your junk, the ‘mo fresh for your trunk!” 🙂 CTC is offering the case on sale for $85 – now shipping …

Some official non-hinckey photos … In other words, will you bow before the power of Mater Tall Tales? It will crush your resistance like Thor’s hammer on a watermelon … ma-hahaha mawaahahahaha … And yes, this is the “non-Ransburg” Mater … in other words, the ‘common’ one … who’s your daddy now? And while NOT […]

The lenticulars are coming … and as noted before, I have nothing against lenticular in general or when applied to CARS – I only question the way they are being distributed but some look very nice straight from Mattel’s photo studio. Of course, to no surprise, it’s not easy to photograph them – how is […]

Do you have a mint to spare? For the variant o mint? Spare us some Variant Mint? What was once Spare Mint is now? O, Spare us! We once had names and apparently now taken over by the Tach-O-Mint corporation? … Or it’s a Scottish ancestry thing? Thanks for spotting the name change, MackDaddy or […]