There are three versions of diecast Dusty versions available at the Disney store. “John H.” has cracked all of his open and sends along great pics and info! Dusty (the cropduster) top left – he is the regular version with crop dusting “nozzles” underneath Racing Dusty – top right – he loses the dust cropping […]

Of course, a PLANES Retail Embargo doesn’t make all that much sense as Disney Studios has pretty much released screenshots of every character – though it is helpful to the Disney Stores as the only place to buy PLANES product until June 28, 2013. 🙂 But of course, some retailers treat the embargo as a […]

While we’ve had some planes or flight capable characters “CARS” previously – some were hard to define if they were accurate if they were the right scale since they were in the air (Rescue Squad Chopper) with nothing to really compare it to … or simply a “generic” flying craft that could be the correct […]

Zulily has a new Disney Pixar CARS sale … no diecasts but some playsets including the Space Shuttle – lots of cool books and some fun t-shirts … I would totally wear this to a sales meeting … (well, if it wasn’t T4 … 🙁  ). The salt & pepper Sally & LM look pretty […]

What, did you want to buy new CARS singles in the last 3 months? Maybe Mattel was hoping you’d want to buy some Hydro CARS, some Micro Drifters, some play sets or some silver launchers … but damn it if you did not wait them out and bought not much of the flanker CARS lines […]

“Anthony C.” sends along photos of the PLANES PIT ROW GIFT SETS (They seem to called Pit Row Gift Packs in international markets). You get a diecast PLANE, a diecast Pitty and a plastic hanger tent (with a mini flag). Anthony C. says Bulldog (the PLANE) is diecast metal (well parts of him are metal […]

Why own when you can just rent and build. That’s right, now sit at home and they will mail you sets to build, then SMASH and mail back … Playgo. Three tiers of membership … Didn’t see any Disney CARS sets but there are $500 Star Wars sets …

Since it didn’t look promising at my closest Kmart, I asked Kmart if there were going to be more shipments through August and the answer is this on the oversized Deluxe case of Francesco Fan Mater, Materhosen and the others … “Each store gets at least one casepack, some stores in larger areas might receive […]

The recent 35-minute Microsoft Xbox One next console presentation seemed to contain a lot of motion blur without actually saying enough – fortunately Darkbeat DK has edited it down to a 2-minute encapsulation of what MS is apparently focused on … (spoiler alert, it’s not video games). And yea, everyone seems confusing about whether you […]

Well, not so promising so far … My local Kmart had one Dustin Mellow on the pegs. Hard to tell if it’s from the Kmart case or an earlier one … Not a promising start either way. The scary question might be – is this one and done? Did this Kmart and every Kmart get […]