The Target racing 4-pack with Lightning McQueen’s Fan – Ronnie Del Cooper (Mini Cooper) is out. His name is now known – Ronnie Del Cooper. Cool touches of the Union Jack on the mirrors – and of course the roof. I’m sure he has an American flag cousin … will there be dozens more flag […]

“DDD” sends us this note and some great photos. I’ve really gotten interested in the old Reliant Regals after seeing the new Tomber character and his diecast iterations. He has an extra pair of headlights and a few other differences from the Regal (including an inversion of the triangular shape that finishes the upper portion […]

Father of the Year People are worried about the state of boys in America. For almost twenty years, though, John Lasseter and Pixar have been helping boys grow into good men. Everything is going to be fine. (great photo! 🙂  ) Rest of article at ESQUIRE.

Arrrr Metty! Pirates arrrr known for flaunting the law here and there, and smuggling in contraband whenever they can.  So I thought that I wood help me fellow collectors in them there United States.  I here tell that ye lawmakers are afraid that ye youngins will eat the plastic egg inside the chocolate one of a […]

“Julia B.” sends along this new Safeway offer: This is a new special offer which in effect amounts to if you spend $25 in one trip, you will get a free kid’s ticket voucher worth $10 (?)** * Purchases must be made in a single transaction. Redemption code given via receipt at checkout. Qualifying purchases […]

There are a couple new CARS & CARS 2 comics and magazines – as usual, there are a bunch of things going at once so it’s all confusing. It looks like the CARS Magazine is finally coming to US. There is a Preview (?) edition available at BJ Warehouse (thanks for the heads up & […]

We get nearly 1,000 posts and responses on trades every month and after 3 years and literally thousands of transactions, there has fortunately only been a handful of bad trades where it turned out to be a one-way deal. Recently we’ve had two issues with UK traders (of course, not the old friends we know […]

A Finn McMissile Sub for every room! Red indicates first case apperance. It’s hard to tell what the shipping dates are – so E might be as soon as this month or July … and the Pope/Popemobile listing is convoluted but I’m presuming the Pope himself will arrive before his car carrier but this listing […]

Yes, you CAN eat a peanut butter & jelly sandwich from a CAN now! Yes, it’s real and yes, like in the infomercials, you get everything you see here – bread, PB & jelly and a bonus candy all in a can! From MarkOneFoods. Coming soon, PB & strawberry jelly and a BBQ Chicken sandwich […]

Since it’s fairly easy to walk into a store – even a gas station to buy the first 15 singles, I have not posted a lot of case assortment info but now that you might want to consider getting full cases, here are the case assortments through the Summer and into the Fall of 2011. […]