Where’s your precious RPM Hauler now? Yea, I said it – it’s just me – RPM Semi … yea, where’s your precious hauler? No where to be found. We’re the smiling bunch! We’ll cheer up any and every proper completist … we’re megasize with action, baby! Besides, my case pack comes with classy friends … […]

Of course, CARS will easily take over one room that’s unguarded … spouse is away for an hour 🙂 Photo courtesy of NCC-2000 … but now, you can have it “professional.” Okay, in this case, you actually have to buy a house and then Disney will spiff it up one or more of the room […]

There have been reports that the Team Haulers labels are being pulled from the shelves but don’t worry – they are only going away temporarily. Once again, the sales of the Team Haulers were a surprise so now, they are going back to “make more.” (that’s technical speak in manufacturing 🙂 ). There is a […]

JPK of Chicago happened to be in Finland the other day so he ditched his meeting and went in search of CARS … (okay, I may have embellished a little 🙂 ). He writes: “I had to go to Helsinki, Finland last week on business.  Whenever and wherever I travel, I am always keeping an […]

Of course, the official Apple logo is not a flat gray anymore but a beveled gray … So Aroldo has updated his Apple Piston Cup Racer to be compliant – ready for CARS 2. For typeface geeks, the “84” looks like it’s the Myriad Pro Black SemiExtended font. Myriad Pro is the quasi official current […]

I vaguely recall seeing photos of these back on eBay in 2006 and maybe 2007 – as priced zoomed, people were buying them everywhere and trying to sell them. The backs are definitely international cards and it seems safe to guess they were early ones – as Mattel just scrambled to get them out … […]

SOME THINGS OVERHEARD AT TARGET … This line is easy to collect. He is the chosen one. We’re putting out one color at a time. Each Target gets a different color. The other CARS are for illustration purposes only. If you don’t waddle in here at 8 AM, you lose, dude. There are plenty of […]

Returning in mid summer … Chase Salutin’ Sarge will be returning first … I know there are a couple hundred reasons this is not logical as ‘chase’ generally implies something that might be as less desirable so you want to goose sales a little with variants and ‘chase’ variants but then, why ask why did […]

If you have some questions – we might have some answers … So, ask away and maybe the answers will be useful to many others …

The only other ongoing diecast CARS series is from Japan, from Tomica. Unlike the Mattel line which other than the love of re-re-releasing McQueen’s in each box has given us over 200 CARS – Tomica is pretty much sticking to a few dozen CARS and has been re-issuing them with different eye positions. They do […]