LEGO Series 11 Mini-Figures are out. This looks like a nice series. The Wood Mask Guy is my favorite. Space soldier is nice. Welder is cool. Can’t go wrong with Abominable Snowman handing you a popsicle! (Couldn’t do the snowcone) 🙂 Good that’s there’s a woman scientist – cool beakers! Gingerbread man – good thing […]

The Super Chase scheme makes very little sense for Disney Pixar CARS – if every CAR except for Francesco Bernoulli is a sellout since 2006, why do you need to create super limited editions to juice the market? Let’s go to the trouble to make as little money as possible when 95% of EVERY diecast […]

Walmart is bringing back layaway and strengthens their commitment to “price-matching.” You can read the full article at the SJ Mercury News. Wal-Mart also plans to price-match its products to other competitors, a tactic also being used by Toys R Us. The playthings purveyor said this week that it was expanding its price-match guarantee to […]

Interesting that Target (Australia), the retailer name is not actually licensed from Target US … Er, no, not really a coincidence – you can read more and the rest at Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Surprise, the same company also runs Kmart (AUS) – it’s also not licensed!

CASE CONTENTS REVISED – New Case assortment HERE! When several cases were “canceled” and things shuffled around – they did create ONE Super Nice Double Chase Case – N (read about it here) which essentially combined elements of J, K, L & N so they had parts left over which now goes into the “Franken” […]

Here’s a nice story from New Jersey … “The store was actually closed when the customers walked in, but the lock malfunctioned, leaving the store open past business hours. The men thought the store was open, officials said. “The manager did lock the doors, but there was a glitch in our system and the alarm […]

There have been a lot of rumbling about pricing lately but we have to lay all the arguments on the table. First, one reason I write about toys/diecast is that it’s not a respirator part, not baby formula or water purification – it’s not life or death. Okay, if you’re an 7-year old at heart, […]

PLANES in its third week with nearly all kids going back to school is still doing well. It’s the end of the summer so the overall grosses are down but with 3 new movies opening, PLANES was BARELY beat out by 2 of them and beat out a third which is IMPRESSIVE for any third […]

Thanks “John H.” for sending us his Alex Carvill escapades and photo poses … The WGP Security Van – appearing in CASE N for the first time. Nice to get a new sculpt. Yep, he’s a Fiat Panda. Don’t taze me bro! With fellow Fiat, Erik Laneley. Let’s double check that badge to make sure […]

If you missed out on Barry Diesel in 2011, Children’s Toy Closet was able to uncover some in a warehouse … More photos in this post. He’s a BIG BOY – next to the Convoy Brothers … He’s the Andre the Giant of CARS … though he weighs the same as Convoy Brothers G-Man (Barry’s […]