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 […]

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Well, if your store is not going through a reset where there’s enough room to drive Rhode Island through it … Store in Maine – thanks Fiddlehead. You might find the 3-pack CASE F. Which also includes another Showgirl’s pack … Charlie Checker with yellow tail-lights? Can’t tell from here … This was the last […]

I know, you’re sick and tired of staring at the Mater Tall Tales – Rescue Squad Mater … staring at them in every store – all day and all night long … or maybe that just applies to 5 of you … so, okay, for the rest of us 230 million … we might not […]

I think I last updated this chart in 2008 – anything going on with this line since then? 🙂 Okay, here is it – this includes every CAR released so far plus the announced releases through December 2009 … though we know for certain that we should more Mater Tall Tale releases from Mater the […]

Mater Tall Tales have landed in the UK … Along with new cases of lenticulars … Thanks for the update & photos, “Rippers.” He says someone else grabbed up the other Mater Tall Tales singles …

Steven P. seems to have found the nearly(?) complete set of Final Lap CARS released so far at Target … Is he still the heaviest diecast? Looks like it … King – nice to see him back … And the non-pink hue Radiator Springs McQueen. Well, that’s all I’m buying … but Steven P. also […]

Ben J. spotted this yesterday and might not have had a sleepless night but countless other CARS buyers did … but the proof is not in the pudding (section) but in the CARS section: No other Final Lap CAR was on the peg … and yes, the arrow sticker is odd … The sticker is […]

More good news all around for the CARS 2009 Blu Ray “Ultimate CARS Gift Pack.” Here is what the final box set should look like … The link above is to Amazon.com but it also looks like it will be available at the Disney Stores – as they are offering it as an online pre-order […]

According to “BMW” – her grandson spotted a “Fab Hudson Hornet. There were no other final lap cars there. Only the lenticular mcqueens clogging the pegs. He said he looked at it cause the card was so different, and tried to call me but I was at work, so I missed his call. It was […]