What, you mean you can’t just randomly walk into a WM and pick up all 7 Haulers? Who will be the Dinoco driver the year after? Like Chick could get out a contract signed with an outfit called Hostile Takeover Bank 🙂 I guess it’s legal to boost your octane if you say it upfront? […]

I guess we will make this international week at TakeFive 🙂 Gui, who introduced himself a few days ago is only 13 but has amassed a pretty impressive collection thousands of miles away from the nearest WM 🙂 He sends us some pics on shopping for CARS in Brazil … His local toy store,  “Meninos […]

“Country music star Keith Urban performed a surprise two-song set for reporters to kick off his day at the Daytona 500, where he was the featured artist for Sunday’s pre-race concert.” “Urban took brief questions and laughed awkwardly when asked what his favorite racing movie is. “Uhhhhh … `Cars’?” he stammered, choosing the animated movie […]

Since it has come to my attention that recent trades have involved CARS & cards are not listed correctly, plus questions about yesterday’s post … here is basic primer on listing-grading your CARS & cards. EVERYONE judges everything different so there is no definitive guide that will over every detail – this is just a […]

I guess somewhere along the line, Mattel figured out that it was a shorter boat ride from Hong Kong to Australia … as with Al Oft & The King Semi that arrived first in Australia – the ELVIS RV has left the building in HK and has arrived in Australia! Rachel (QuidCars) sends us some […]

eToys was one of the more notable dotcom launches way back when … Company was garnering sales but they went big time in spending to build up the website so they couldn’t quite make enough money to sustain themselves. The website name (eToys.com) was scooped up by KB Toys who continued to run kbtoys.com along […]

The CARS singles are known as the “mainline.” It is borrowed from the Hot Wheels line connoting that the single CARS on the blister pack is the mother trunk line of CARS, the diecast. But for new collectors or those who for some unfathomable reason were not collecting these in 2006 🙂  , it can […]

If your Walmart actually received the 1 case of Haulers last week with the Walmart hauler  … this case … More cases are on the way with some stores receiving up to three cases. However, as with Walmart these days, if you have not seen any on your WM shelf … a) It’s pretty hard […]

Don’t worry, no rug was pulled, no shenanigans nor was there a bait and switcheroo … The Lightning McQueen with the Dinoco Showgirls IS the never released and new expression ‘aggitated aggro McQueen.’ (not his official name – wonder what it will be? Take your best guess 🙂   ). And in case you forgot … […]

Kids, avert your eyes! (or kids shouldn’t know that CARS can be taken apart so easily …). John in Missouri sends us pics of his scalpel to Dustin … “A couple of years ago, we attempted to make our own custom Dirt Track Doc Hudson by putting the wheels from Fabulous Hudson Hornet onto Doc […]