From Last March … “Disney Eyes More Online Investment The Walt Disney Co. will invest more in online games and virtual worlds following the success of sites with themes based on Disney Fairies and “Pirates of the Caribbean.” In 2008, the company will launch an online game site based on the Disney/Pixar film “Cars,” Disney […]

Camo Lightning McQueen will look something like this … He will come on this, of course … It was an eclipse when I took this picture but he will be on a blister card … but wait, there’s something different about Camo Lightning McQueen on this blister card … “Cars Die-Cast Collector Guide: The Cars […]

I had to test it out but it seems to be working. Go to www.gravatar.com It’s some cross platform multi-site avatar thinger, click on SIGN UP and upload an avatar. Next time you comment, your avatar should show up. You do need to use the same Gravatar signup EMAIL address in our comments section here. […]

‘Stickers’ Fred is the next CHASE car and he should be here in another 2 weeks or so – will update with a more specific schedule as we get one. By himself, looking great – as with every other CAR, detailed and precise to the smallest indentation and rust mark. And while we have had […]

While there was not much going on at the Hot Wheels booth of Comic Con … and their Batman offering was not a sellout, their wall of Hot Wheels was nice … so if you decide you need to divide a room, here’s one way to go … Our other display possibilities is in this […]

Wandering into the Mattel booth was like stepping in some dream world candy-like shop where it was all edible and seemed too good to be true. I kept asking people to pinch me … Well, okay, just these two in the Mattel booth … Um … oh yeah, where was I again, oh yeah, diecast […]

Launching today, Mattel is going to give fans from all around the world a chance to own the SD Comic Con Lightning Storm McQueen (as well as some other figures sold at the SD Comic Con). The site, www.MattyCollector.com, goes live at 11 AM Pacific Time US … which when my brain is functioning correctly […]

Before going much further, let me again thank NascarBroncoFan, & Monica for essentially mounting a hostage rescue situation … except they didn’t have any weapons other than what they could muster with their bare hands (push carts and rolling carts were banned). For anyone not at Comic Con 2008 … I will try to capture […]

“Steve AKA: Poppa” pointed in a recent comment that the HK couple seems to be taking pre-orders for another 28-ish Motor Speedway of the South set. Most interesting. Real, Fake, Counterfeiting or Something else? As we noted in our Top 10 Rarest Post, this is an interesting new phenomenon in collecting. Back in the old […]

Thanks “CollectorMom/Monica” for the great pics of the new Pixar parade. Thanks – now back to Mickey funnel cakes!