There is a major change to Disney D23 Program … the most important change is that the basic tier is NOW FREE! (well, you have to wait until June 17, 2013 to sign up). On June 17, D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, will launch a massive reimagining of its D23.com website, opening up the […]

From The Hollywood Reporter. The five-year renovation to the Disneyland-adjacent theme park, with attractions like the $200 million Radiator Springs Racers (the most expensive ride in history), helped boost attendance by 22.6 percent in 2012 to 7.8 million visitors — enough to make it the 11th most-attended theme park in the world. (The park drew […]

“Unixed” has thoughtfully updated the Disney Store diecast CARS Visual Checklist … Part 1 of the Disney Store Visual Checklist contains ALL of the Disney Store Acrylic Box Singles releases from 2009 to 2012 which we will call Series 2 & Series 3. Disney Store CARS, Series 4 – First the re-releases, they can be […]

Zulily has a new Disney Pixar CARS sale … no diecasts but some playsets including the Space Shuttle – lots of cool books and some fun t-shirts … I would totally wear this to a sales meeting … (well, if it wasn’t T4 … 🙁  ). The salt & pepper Sally & LM look pretty […]

What, did you want to buy new CARS singles in the last 3 months? Maybe Mattel was hoping you’d want to buy some Hydro CARS, some Micro Drifters, some play sets or some silver launchers … but damn it if you did not wait them out and bought not much of the flanker CARS lines […]

Since it didn’t look promising at my closest Kmart, I asked Kmart if there were going to be more shipments through August and the answer is this on the oversized Deluxe case of Francesco Fan Mater, Materhosen and the others … “Each store gets at least one casepack, some stores in larger areas might receive […]

Well, not so promising so far … My local Kmart had one Dustin Mellow on the pegs. Hard to tell if it’s from the Kmart case or an earlier one … Not a promising start either way. The scary question might be – is this one and done? Did this Kmart and every Kmart get […]

This chart from business intelligence info supplier (on imports) Panjiva.com looks about right. The Mattel Disney CARS market is a smidgen of what it once was …

The Kmart Free Ivan Deluxe Diecast Offer is now LIVE! Buy $20 worth of Mattel Disney Pixar products (Mattel products! $20 Before TAXES)! Then go to www.Mattel.com/KMCars to begin your redemption process. Before you begin, there’s even better news – ZERO postage & handling fees! Nice! AND NO UPC’s to mail in so all you […]

OzzieMum (who also sent along all the photos) wasn’t kidding when she said you could buy Frosty specific merchandise in Australia. PJ’s Sheets/Pillowcases … Not available in the US for any characters, a (build it) Frosty Kit. Promotional – made of foam. Fun! I would definitely wear this cap – but kids only … Yep, […]