No real shock, some Kmart’s have already placed the Francesco Fan Mater case out early … “Jeff M.” sends along this pic from last week. Thanks for the photo! “Lightyear” found the entire case out at his Kmart. There are 2 Materhosen’s, 1 Francesco Fan Mater, 1 Elvis RV, 1 Dustin Mellow (both re-releases that […]

Thanks “John H.” for the nice photos and reviews. You can read the post covering Darth Mater & Stormtrooper Tractor HERE. These are all essentially 1:55 in scale – though not from Mattel, they are also not particularly canon but they are now part of the CARS Expanded Universe. Sally/Princess Leia has the cool 1138 […]

This will be an interesting test – will anything Rip Clutchgoneski immediately sell out? Thanks for the nice photo, “Quercy.”

There is a $1 singles diecast sale at Toys R Us running through Saturday. It includes CARS 2 Porto Corsa cards, CARS “Themes 2013” singles AND CARS “Themes 2013” Check Lane cards … so that’s nice … Of course, the two stores I went to had Lightning & Francesco. Radiator Springs Classics are NOT on […]

Disney has made available some coloring pages & activities for PLANES & Monsters University. There might be an ulterior motive for giving these away free but I cannot fathom what it might be … though for some reason, I have circled two dates on my calendar that says MUST GO TO THEATER … might be […]

Of course, most collectors remember the last Australia only Super Chase, Frosty … you can read a mini recap here. So Australia, get ready for “Frosty 2.0”? There is a new listing for a FROSTY 2.0 – UPC 7-46775-36274-4. The last one was wildly successful – it launched at least 4 promotional events in Australia […]

The Disney Store Online is PLANES stacked, packed and ready for sales catapult … The “singles” PLANES Disney Store diecasts all come in a classy stackable acrylic box … While I have not actually held one in my hand, it’s safe to guess it’s pretty solid metal – the Disney Store diecasts tend to be […]

The new style Pit Crew Launchers are back. Arriving first in Australia, the US case seems to match the same case assortment: 1 Vitoline, 2 Leak Less, 3 Raoul Caroule and 4 Lightning McQueen’s. Thanks for the photo and info update, Rob’s Palace of Disney CARS. While the Pit Launcher slightly resembles the first lollipop […]

As great as the latest Disney PLANES trailer is – some people might not want to watch the trailer or read this post too closely – SPOILER ALERT! You may or may not want to know that it’s a race around the world … WITH PLANES! NOTHING like the other one! Looks like they dismantled […]

The latest Disney PLANES trailer is positively Pixarian … even though it’s technically from Disney Toon Studios … of course, both “studios” are managed by a guy who has pretty high standards – John Lasseter (I think he replaced Carrot Top as Chief Creative Officer). Of course, these screen shots don’t look as good as […]