Next wave of diecast PLANES on the approach: #8 Sun Wing #12 – Sweden, Gunnar Viking. #15 Polish racer “Jan Kowalski.” #23 Tsubasa Also “Yellow Bird” from the Prelim race, I’m only guessing as this is the only other yellow PLANE (the other Yellow PLANE is called Fonzarelli from the first local race).

Like the character of Jeff Gorvette is in the US version of CARS 2 but Mark ‘Frosty’ Winterbottom in the Australian version, the character Rochelle in PLANES was swapped out in other versions of the film with a new look. “MoMcQueen” sends us pics of her as a Brazilian/Brasilian … In Australia, she’s looked like […]

“John H.” sends us nice photos of his TRU – looks nice for newbie collectors: No TRU around me looks like this. Happy shopping, thanks for the nice photos, ‘John H.”

From FastCompany … “Originally envisioned as a direct-to-DVD spin-off of Cars, the wildly successful Pixar franchise, Planes was never meant to be as a big summer movie. But during production, a funny thing happened. Test audiences not only liked it, they really, really liked it. And so the decision was made to switch tracks and, […]

That Disney company knows a little bit about marketing … Alaska Air PLANES plane Qantas PLANES plane You can check out the Qantas/Disney site here. You can even buy a the 767 plane (1:200 scale) as painted above. No Alaska Air CARS Land scale plane yet but you can buy some of their old timey […]

“John H.” spotted these in the overstock overflow section (aka: gardening) – hopefully they will make it out to your retail show floor – or you can jst help yourself as long it doesn’t snow, sleet or rain on it.       The oddball M case is a re-configured/re-packed case with 2013 Theme Cards […]

This is a nice looking dual purpose bath soap that doubles as bath toys! I guess I’m out of the age range? You even get floating pylons – saw this at Walmart.

Planes DVD/Blu Ray Combo Packs ships/arrives next Tuesday. Amazon will ship so it arrives on Tuesday. There’s no other description of extras. Walmart Version – Deleted scenes, Exclusive! Franz’s song, Top ten flyers – count down the world’s most famous aviators with host Colin Cowherd, Meet the racers, Klay’s flight plan. Walmart will ship to […]

The other Disney Store Hector Vector seems to be a good size – about 10″ – diecast metal with working doors and working visor! Disney Store Hector Vector (first release) But the Disney Store has now released a new MEGA Hector Vector – still all diecast metal with dual working doors! Working Visor and Blades […]

This list does not include non-racers. It’s hard to get an exact count as some more obscure racers might only appear in an international version of PLANES and it’s unknown just how many different versions there are – so until the Blu Ray comes out, it’s hard to tell if #9 Joey Dundee only appears […]