If you thought your election ballot was complicated, this Checklist was exhausting to compile but here for those who are building a collection of “first” appearance of a particular CAR, here you go … it’s massive but it’s down to two pages. I sure this list will provoke some ecumenical arguments, discussions and name-calling of […]

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The WORLD OF CARS is available in Italian as “Stories of Radiator Springs.” I wonder if it’s available in other European languages? German? French? Let us know or send us a scan of the cover. Thanks, “Luca!” Of course, in the US, the cover looks like this (the Target version): And from this book come […]

The short card “Lane Mates” are certainly an odd duck portion of the line. In theory, by having shorter cards, stores can hang more pegs and hence, more sales per square pegboard and while Mattel doesn’t save much on cardboard, you times $.001 cents by a couple million and it adds up … except that […]

In theory, if you bought all 17 CASES for World of CARS, you’d wind up with 306 CARS or 76 different CARS (which includes the “extra” versions of #44 Fred (re-scaled) & Darrell Cartrip (mouth fix)). Of course, technically, it would have been hard to actually buy a full case of M and the two […]

It looks safe to say that World of CARS is over and here is a final recap. So, if you are keeping track: 95 World of CARS releases for completists including cards with the NEW snipe. 76 World of CARS official releases.* 37 World of CARS new to World of CARS cards.* 31 World of […]

It looks like the early proto packaging pics of the 5-pack Mini’s has all been updated to the 6-packs of Mini’s in the U.S. or maybe the international ones will be 5-packs? But it looks like in the U.S., the 6-packs are the format. And I’m guessing each 6-pack will look much more like Crusin’ […]

Here is your November Printable Shopping Guide – simply drag off and open in another app – then print … you might have to resize to get it to fit on a regular size sheet of paper … yes, it’s that kind of month … 🙂 Note – some items are listed as December but […]

The early info we got was that the pallet was coming out on Week 45 … except that WM apparently starts their Week count a month into the regular calendar year (or post holiday inventory) so Week 45 is not the week 45 you or I might call week 45 … so we’re a few […]

First, it’s lowland gorillas hoarding all the goodies, now, we have a horse problem* Apparently they figured out they have a glue issue … As in, oops, the glue goes on the blister before we heat seal it? Or oops, we seem to be missing 800 barrels of glue … hey, look, someone on ebay […]