Thanks for the great photos, “Mack_Me_Bucko.” The Radiator Springs 500½ short is out (only viewable online or on your IOS device). The short features 4 off-road racers who come to town and challenge Lightning McQueen. The CARS on card photos are here. Blue Grit.   The blue body is diecast metal. It’s freakin huge! Compared […]

If you’ve got a question for the Mattel CARS & PLANES Design team, they might agree to answer it for you. 🙂 So, ask below and I’ll forward it to them. No promises. 🙂

In addition to the Radiator Springs 500½ Road Rally Toon only available on the Disney Movies Anywhere site, you can now watch a couple other “Tales of RS” shorts. The Disney Anywhere site is available online (Flash required) or on the “Disney Movies Anywhere” app for your iPhone, or iPad. Online is essentially like any […]

Of course, we’re still waiting on the next Toon and the accompanying diecast but the Toon after that appears to be “ice drift racing” themed. There is a diecast list but pretty vague other than “Ice Drifter Lightning McQueen.” Photo via Beautiful Vessel.

The Radiator Springs 500½ short is out (only viewable online or on your IOS device). The short features 4 off-road racers who come to town and challenge Lightning McQueen. There will be diecasts coming. Off Road Lightning McQueen & Sandy Dunes Shifty Sidewinder & Idle Threat … and Blue Grit. The open photos are in […]

The Radiator Springs 500½ Road Rally Toon is up on the Disney Movies Anywhere site so you can only watch it online there (Flash required) or on the “Disney Movies Anywhere” app for your iPhone, or iPad. Thanks for the heads up, “NASCAR Bronco.” All the regular characters are dressed in retro outfits … maybe […]

In 2011, Mattel & Disney gave away 500 CARS 2 Lightning McQueen’s at NY Toy Fair (the annual toy industry trade event in NYC). (And yep, T5 gave away one of the 500!). In 2014, Disney gave away a Lightning McQueen and a Dusty Crophopper at NY Toy Fair. The actual number is unknown but […]

Zulily has some fun CARS & PLANES products on sale … (scroll down to the bottom). I would totally wear this retro t-shirt – sadly I’m taller than 2′ tall. 🙁 Cool wall stickers. Kids today have all the fun toys.Potty training kit … I’m presume the Piston Cup is the reward and not a […]

Wave 3 should be the next and last wave of PLANES diecast – Part 1 is in this post, this is Part 2, the last of this wave. Netherlands – Van Der Bird Turkey, Vichi. Russia – Koyla Ianov These are all listed as singles but it’ll be interesting to see how many packaging variations […]

In addition to the metal diecasts for the Radiator Springs 500½ Road Rally Toon, there are two kinds of pullbacks, the one around 1:43 in scale. And the really oversized one for smaller kids that has lights & sounds and comes with a DVD – presumably the Radiator Springs 500½ Road Rally short.