It’s on the shelves! In our hearts, in the cart and in the car … Ossifer, the baby is fine – besides, this seat is for valuables … TJ – all right sized … The Boys are Here … TJ – bigger then Sven… (Sven just shown for example – not in box set). What […]

TRU is having a birthday sale … Starting Sunday … And of course, the Mattel CARS portion of the ad is confusing … it says ALL CARS but only the price and photo shows the Megasize CARS … (for instance, the Thomas the Train ad lists the price range of $11.99 to $29.99) so … […]

Finally a retailer living up to its name* Toy R Us will be opening 80 stand alone Toys R Us Express Outlets in October and then closing them in January. PLUS, they realized they could sell toys in Babies R Us … so 270 Babies R Us are also getting a toy section for the […]

Lenin V. is in NYC and apparently in NYC, not only is the pastrami perfect, ho hum, the stores are bulging with megasize and Lightyear Launchers … FAO Schwartz (now owned by TRU …) Um, instead of sending 100 cases to one store, how about some more cases to other stores? Apparently, you cannot round […]

Ten-hut … The ‘boys are assembled … They are positioned. And now in their proper fatigues and gussied up for action … I believe when one dresses in pink and bright green, gussied up is the right military term 🙂 Two surprises … one, the green CAR got assigned a name, Charlie Cargo – everyone […]

In case you haven’t noticed, the Piston Cups included with the CHASE CARS are personalized to each racer … And of course, nicely detailed – not just some random hunk of plastic but looks real and hefty. Like the Stanley Cup, this one looks like it’s been tossed around the garage, the hotel swimming pool […]

TRU is having a CARS get-together day … unlike Kmart CARS Day, NO special CARS but more of a gathering place where CARS fans can trade and meet up … and commiserate about Gask-Its being 1 per household ;-/ August 29th and 5th of September. This the flyer announcing the event. Thanks David V. for […]

In Canada … Mater Tall Tales singles have arrived. These are definitely the international ones with the multiple languages. Is that second one German? Humm, what is the direct translation of nurse – what are the words that comprise of “nurse” 🙂 Das Dos Pitty’s … As for the US, there’s good news & there’s […]

If you’ve been holding out on adding the GeoTrax tracksessessss’- now you can’t use laziness as an excuse like me … The have bundled 6 sets together into a MEGA “Radiator Springs Mega Set” for $99 … “Fiddleheads-Heather” spotted this at TRU and sent us these pics. You can go through our visual checklist to […]

While CASE C has not shipped other than to Walmart, it will eventually ship to all retailers – so CASE D is another trundle of weeks away … Lightning McQueen – will all-metal nose out 2-piece face McQueen? Or vice versa for which is the variant and which is the main?