Thanks “John H.” for sending us his Alex Carvill escapades and photo poses … The WGP Security Van – appearing in CASE N for the first time. Nice to get a new sculpt. Yep, he’s a Fiat Panda. Don’t taze me bro! With fellow Fiat, Erik Laneley. Let’s double check that badge to make sure […]

If you missed out on Barry Diesel in 2011, Children’s Toy Closet was able to uncover some in a warehouse … More photos in this post. He’s a BIG BOY – next to the Convoy Brothers … He’s the Andre the Giant of CARS … though he weighs the same as Convoy Brothers G-Man (Barry’s […]

While CASE J (and its TWIN CASE K) were canceled and essentially merged into CASE N – CASE J did make it to Australia … “Daven N.” was at the store in Australia when they opened the case for him. Brent Mustangberger with headset x1 David Hobbscapp with head set x1 Lightning Mcqueen with racing […]

The German Mail-away promo offer didn’t look too terribly interesting – Send in 4 UPC’s for what looked like White Walls Lightning McQueen … But it looks like they didn’t really have a photo of the final promo … it’s actually METALLIC Lightning McQueen with Bumper Stickers. (“Mit Aufklebern” that’s German for “With Sticker.”) Lightning […]

It looks like the last of the 4 “re-release” Toon Box Sets (Walmart Exclusives) have arrived. Thanks for the heads up on noticing they were variants, John In Mo, BMW & JestrJef. That’s another reason not to shop hungry, I snapped the bottom pic in a hurry to go eat lunch – clearly not looking […]

“Mike I.” says hi and sends along photos of his collection … I also have several other customs from Willie that might interest people. I had him create Herbie the Lovebug versions of McQueen, Sally, Mia and Tia. He also created a custom Breast Cancer Awareness Sally, which is a white car with pink ribbon […]

Turns out the Green Dragon Lightning McQueen is not much a mystery – an exclusive but just in a regular box set release at the Disney store. Available online. The Gold Rip Clutchgoneski is available also now.

There have been some mysterious Gold Metallic Rip Clutchgoneski’s pop up around the world on different auction sites … (the space between the front wheel covering and the air dam indicates it’s a Mattel mold and not a Disney store Gold Rip – plus the DS one has yellow wheel rims). While we are expecting […]

Just a mockup but nicely done by Raphael Heusser. You can check out more photos here.  

You might not be shocked to hear that Mattel Distribution does not fire on all cylinders at all times. Items in the warehouse system are sometimes tagged ON HOLD – which of course means it’s ON HOLD except for those that get shipped … other times, items will disappear from the inventory completely or to […]