Canadian Tire built themselves an ice truck … Of course, those of you who live in the North part of the country are saying – big whoop – my car looks like that from November to April … 🙂 Or as you’re getting ready to go to work to find an empty frame … “OKAY, […]

Congrats “JrFan!” Winner of the Tractor Tippin’ Play & Race Launcher. Send us your address (metroxing (at) gmail.com – congrats and thanks for entering! Thanks Mattel for the fun prize!

Buck & Doe are coming as diecasts from Mattel. Buck Doe. Doe looks smaller next to Buck so while the bodies look about the same, it looks like they are different.

Congrats to our winners of our Disney Books Cinderella Books! Congrats “picketoybuyer,” Grand Prize Winner – you get to select one of the two packages! Congrats “Mack_me_Bucko” as the 2nd Prize winner, you get the 2-book package that “pickettoy buyer” did not select. Thanks for entering and thanks Disney Books!  

Get Me Collectibles & Mike Albert are teaming to sell the Australia exclusive Neon Racer Frosty’s  – with a portion of the proceeds going to Nathan’s Playroom. “The retail price was 12 Australian dollars. Get Me Collectibles & Mike Albert are pleased to announce the opportunity for members of our Cars community to purchase one […]

The new 2015 Easy Idle, & Pitty 2-pack. Thanks for the great pics, “John H.” The pack is a host of variant-goodness-annoyance. The most significant variant is the Easy Idle Pitty. The biggest difference is that he is a unibody (right) while the first/previous release had an added facial plate (though the facial plate was […]

“Disney Accelerator is a highly selective, immersive mentorship and investment program for technology-enabled startups in the media and entertainment space. Ten startup companies will be selected to gather in the Los Angeles area for three months to accelerate their ideas and build exciting consumer media and entertainment products.” APPLY HERE – good luck!

If your local store hasn’t gotten the next 2015 case singles – Amazon has them available – priced like TRU but you don’t have to drive around – you just have to go to your front door. There are two “new” singles. Well, only one is truly new – if you count Lightning McQueen with […]

The new re-release of Dinoco Gray Semi is a variant. For the most part, it’s pretty much exactly the same. This is the last release of (Dinoco) Gray Semi. The only difference? Dinoco Gray Semi loses the hitch hole … previously the 4 or 5 Semi Cab releases had a hitch hole that worked with […]

“John H.” has provided a nice overview of the WGP racers various series, what’s out and what are the holes. The very bottom row is of course the regular diecast series – if I wasn’t so lazy I could Photoshop in Frosty (2012). Of course, that is the only “complete” series even if you discount […]