Coming soon, it’s ole #109 … No, this is NOT an exclusive. The “exclusive” is the fact this CAR only is available with this booklet. This car comes in his own case, 12 to a box and is available separately (from the other singles) and will be available throughout 2009 so plenty to go around. […]

Normally, for a lot of diecast collectors, you have to look overseas to find masterful sculpts, attention to detail, quality molds and dedication to quality – for us in the US, Mattel’s CARS hits all the right quality notes … so for once, we don’t have to collect an overseas line to get the “best” […]

Anyone want to see photos of the haulers in packaging? An interesting thing really – they actually look nicer than the brief appearance of the haulers in the film … I like the transparent packaging that they started with the Race & Chase set … And I’m not planning on buying more than 1 … […]

Here is what the “normal” CHASE Lightning McQueen with Bumper Stickers CAR looks like: If you need a checklist to keep track of how he’s “different” from regular ‘ole McQueen? Now, there are TWO other ‘Lightning McQueen with Bumper Stickers’ variations and ONE is definitely a packaging variant … For ‘Stickers McQueen #2’ – as […]

Fiddlehead of Maine actually notes that Kmart.com is selling the Hot Wheels Event Day Hot Wheels by the box … humm, interesting… (CLICK ON GRAPHIC to go to Kmart.com & that HW Case page). And no, I have no idea if this means the CARS Collectors Days CASE M1054-9998 will be available on their website […]

The short card “Lane Mates” are certainly an odd duck portion of the line. In theory, by having shorter cards, stores can hang more pegs and hence, more sales per square pegboard and while Mattel doesn’t save much on cardboard, you times $.001 cents by a couple million and it adds up … except that […]

“I want a hard-target search of any residence, gas station, farmhouse, henhouse, doghouse and outhouse in that area. Check-points go up at 15 miles” These very words are being barked at families around the country as we slide down our CARS poles and drop into our Bentley convertibles* to go racing out into the streets […]

This sales ENDS Saturday night so you have @48 hours left (minus the hours they are not actually open …). And while this store has no left none now, NO RAINCHECKS so if it looks like this below … that’s your shopping choice but hey, at least it’s about 30% off. AND you have about […]

They are still in the warehouse but we have better photos to show you … Yes, from this angle, it doesn’t look like Blimp is larger (aka: oversized from before) but both Blimpy & Dinoco are 5″ now – about 2″ longer than before. Or in Marketing speak – OVER 30% MORE FUN THAN BEFORE […]

CARS 2 has been moved back to 2011. Of course, for us, that means one LESS year of padding out CARS diecast releases since after we start seeing CARS 2 trailers in 2010, they will start launching “preview” CARS 2 CARS in different case assortments as a tease and buzz builder and by April 2011, […]