The Mater’s Tall Tales book is released … (Amazon link) It’s very nicely done … about an 8″ by 8″ square shaped hardcover for only $7.99. Each of the first three Mater Tall Tales (Rescue Squad Mater, El Materdor & Mater the Greater) gets about 25 pages each (or about 80 pages total for the […]

CTC has a new batch of customs … a megasize semi we are unlikely to see for a while … if ever … Semi great! And for those who like the other kind of bubly … Nice & sparkly … And of course, the loneliest Pitty … You can find them here. Have fun populating […]

More ONLY AT TARGET shopping … the Piston Cup Racer 4-packs will now be a Target exclusive … so maybe it’s likely they will re-use the current 4-pack box? And yes, now that they are calling him Spare O Mint, I’ll list him as such … Yet another Rev ‘n Go 🙂 Maybe they will […]

PirateDad also believes in the adage that one should go big or not at all … so for his birthday he meets and greets a multitude of TakeFive Canadians or maybe just all Canadians in a national greet and meet … So, I can now take a breather from typing – take it away PirateDad! […]

Now officially called the Tokyo Mater: Ninja Knockout Track set. Comes with plastic Dragon McQueen and launcher … Of course, the coolest part is it comes with Mr. Crane … McQueen lands on the ramp on the ramp, triggers and trips over the two plastic blue cars and speeds on his way. The two plastic […]

The 2010 version of this … Will include a RANSBURG Dragon McQueen… At SDCC, we saw the “Dirty” version which will also see a release but maybe in a box set? Will this drift into your collection? Don’t drift away … Follow me! This is NOT Ransburg …

Metroxing and I want to thank all you out in Take5-land who opened up their own wallets to help keep the old Take5 machine rolling in publishing digital ink by providing us with a donation to the new Take Five Tip Jar in July. The monies are already at work oiling the webhosting machine, paying […]

By the numbers for the Fall reset … Nothing really new but now you have it all on one graphic. Don’t have STORYTELLERS or MATER TALL TALE DPCI numbers as they will be on an endcap – different planogram. They are actually preserving space on the planogram for the 2009 Collector’s Guide. Most likely the […]

Coming back are the Storyteller CARS … based on stories from this book. There are also TWO VERSIONS of the book – the regular version is $10.87 – available at most bookstores including Amazon in the US. At Target last year, there is an EXCLUSIVE version with a read-along CD which costs about $5 more […]

Ah, the freedom of the suburban open road shopping … Walmart Reset … Um, I’ve seen better … As from the last post, it looks like Sears is re-introducing a toy department … maybe it’s not all over the country but definitely on the West Coast Sears, it was down to a lonely shelf of […]