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 […]

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 […]

The first go-around of the Storytellers series was a big hit … Make that a surprise hit. Well, maybe not to us 🙂 Hence, the giant gap between Release 1.0 & Release 2.0 but then again, Target doesn’t seem to mind taking down displays only to put them up again later. The new lineup is […]

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 […]

SOME THINGS OVERHEARD AT TARGET … This line is easy to collect. He is the chosen one. We’re putting out one color at a time. Each Target gets a different color. The other CARS are for illustration purposes only. If you don’t waddle in here at 8 AM, you lose, dude. There are plenty of […]

Returning in mid summer … Chase Salutin’ Sarge will be returning first … I know there are a couple hundred reasons this is not logical as ‘chase’ generally implies something that might be as less desirable so you want to goose sales a little with variants and ‘chase’ variants but then, why ask why did […]

Well, if you can’t find any of the Easter Egg CARS, you can pick up a $1 bin CARS magnet … There are two choices – one to make your own McQueen decoration … And one to decorate the track with CARS … or a fun background if you plan on photographing all your CARS […]

The new Target Easter Egg CARS are here … the are pretty much exactly as the previews promised and no surprise, the case assortment of 6 is there are 3 McQueens and 1 of each of the others. What is nice is that these are the first Target holiday CARS to feature “different” selections than […]

Well, it’s official … Definitely a nationwide thing. The word was sent out last night but I’m sure some stores are slower to put out the sign. So, while CARS sales were not really affected by price but more by stock selection or in many cases – NO selection, it’s still nice to get some […]

DJ for $15? Or 21€ on eBay Germany? (or about $27 USD). Lizzie for $7 to $10? Or last autumn – $20-$25? Plus other sporadic bursts where the price of the CAR jumps from retail to $10 on eBay which really means @$15 when you include shipping? One of the fundamental and continuing “logistics” based […]