You go to sleep all grumbly but voila! (as French is required), you could wake up Canadian! Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans. The April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian […]

Okay, technically the $.99 Store is the $.99.99 Store now – I kid you not. They needed to raise prices and couldn’t figure out how to do it until some lawyer jumped in … of course, they round to $1 … though technically, does this mean some other lawyer is going to file a class […]

Part I of this post mostly covered the tuners which offer clues but nothing definite … the rest of the CARS here, are mostly licensed as indicated by the info on the cards or the trademark info … Here are some obvious ones … though of course, CARS is great on two counts – the […]

eBay started out a welcoming friend. eBay then became a demanding friend. eBay “unfriended” nearly everyone. eBay then became “too good for us.” eBay sent out e-vites for a holiday get-together and no one showed. eBay then tried being “nice.” eBay is now trying desperation. “eBay today announced it will take a more active role […]

Most of the cars of CARS that are based mostly on a real life CAR is evident by the “licensed” logos and trademark/trade dress indication on the cards. The tuners are a little different as they seem to be mostly “inspired by.” Now, whether that’s because they wanted to have design liberty with the tuners […]

And now, the geekiest post of all … the bags of CARS … Of course, most CARS come on cards or in boxes but the mail-aways have mostly come with bags so here’s a review since there are a lot of questions about “authenticity.” In this case, it is important because you want to be […]

This is a sort-of repeat of an earlier post covering licensing for films but I’ll answer it again – more specifically regarding voice rights. For animation, a movie star will generally will not do “additional” voice over work outside of the film and maybe a short if it’s already planned – such as Ghostlight Mater […]

In some ways like the UK site but they have actually stepped up a notch and included all the diecast CARS along with the original Pixar art so that’s nice … though ironically redundant for this line since it’s one of the few diecast or action figure lines where we do not have to guess […]

Sure, it was nice to get Crew Chiefs in Eggs, here are some customs from Robert E. that are the Easter CARS we really, really wanted … Once upon a time in a land far, far away and in a land before time, there was a magical places where CARS with eyes and sentient thoughts […]

For those unware, Mattel has been tuggling with Bratz Doll owner, MGA over who actually owns Bratz Dolls. The designer of the line was under contract with Mattel when he sketched the Bratz Dolls. Mattel won the first big round of the case when it was determined that the designer was definitely and legally under […]