Disney Publishing sent along a copy of a new book on the Art of Disney Animation and Fairy Tales, “Once Upon a Dream: Sleeping Beauty to Disney’s Maleficent.”   Beautiful art book of illustrations, screenshots and art. You can check out more info about the book here. Contest starts NOW and ends June 29, 2014 […]

Disneyland is reporting the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique inside Disneyland has the Elsa FROZEN Princess Dress in stock. Yes, inside the park and no, they do not take phone orders.

Too true. 🙂 Thanks “John in MO!”    

The Deluxe “aircraft” of PLANES: Fire & Rescue are definitely DEE-LUXE. Unlike the Deluxe CARS line which are generally reserved for oversized vehicles or with an accessory, the PLANES Fire & Rescue Deluxe lineup actually has moving features! Blade Ranger.   Very cool – open the door to lower the hook – then to retract […]

Previewed early … “John H.” sends along some early open photos. These are from Mattel so they are 1:55 scale. Thanks for the early pics and info, “John H.” Links to the other new CAR WARS diecasts plus ordering instructions.  

In addition to the 2-pack Tractors as Sandtroopers and the 3-pack of Obi Wan Doc Hudson and Jawa Pitty’s, there’s also a Chick Hicks as Boba Fett – presumably as a single unless another mystery CARS WARS diecast appears. Thanks for the great early photos, “John H.” This looks like a solid block of diecast […]

The previous trailer, COURAGE

The Star Wars Celebration Weekends are May 15 to June 16 this year at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios. Last year, of course, they introduced the CAR WARS CARS … they are continuing this year with a box set of the tractors as Sandtroopers. These are $19.95. Thanks for the heads up, “NascarBronco.” The one on […]

Via NPD. The NPD Group, 2013 US retail dollar sales of toys experienced a decline of 1 percent when compared to 2012*. Retail sales do appear to be impacted by 2013’s shorter holiday shopping season. While the weeks of Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw respective sales increases of 4 percent and 24 percent (compared […]

CARS Land has some nice new t-shirts. (BTW, It’s also 80-degrees at CARS Land today – you know, in case you’re in a part of the country that might be I don’t know … 100 degrees colder?).