Via Bloomberg: “Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — KB Toys Inc., the 86-year-old toy retailer, filed for bankruptcy three years after leaving court protection, blaming a cash crisis caused by a “sudden” drop in sales at its 277 stores. The company, based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, exited bankruptcy in 2005 after closing hundreds of stores. KB Toys said […]

First, do not do this at home unless you are a trained professional … next thing you know … But if you can’t wait until June until the CAR TOONS Rescue Squad Mater comes out … Sander P. has done a Burnt Lightning McQueen … Thanks for the nice pics, Sander P. So, remember not […]

Buying CARS is not like most things – any pansy can just kudzu to the section marked on the canopy, drop it in a cart and pay for it … CARS, holy fertilizer, it is the winter of our discontent. With CARS, it not just hit or miss but after checking the toy section, you […]

These are available (in theory), has any retailers actually ordered them? Anyone actually see one on the store shelf? Maybe it’s in a box under a tarp in gardening? Children’s Toy Closet just let me know that they are arriving in a few days so if you want to order one from them. Otherwise the […]

The December contest produced some really nice entries across the board.  Here are our four winners: An HHR submitted by Supergrassgirl. A wood skinned lambo submitted by h1topper. A unique tank submitted by Gervart. A nice bluesmobile submitted by Jarrod. Submissions came from across the U.S., the UK, Australia, and France!  Well done folks!  We […]

Keep in mind they just finished these a month ago so it will take a while to sculpt, get approvals, create molds, make them and ship them to us … so don’t start holding your breath just yet, we still have 6 months but clear out your shelves, convert your gold hoard to cash … […]

Main post yesterday – details on release. Here are some more pics courtesy of Pixar & Entertainment Tonight – a slightly different preview trailer. Mater tricked out as a tuner … Some nitroade, naturally … And as Mater is drift racing through Tokyo … he slides through the lobby of a building … guess who […]

Case D is just starting to ship from the warehouse and CASE E should be out in January. Case D singles should be the last ‘new’ CARS item to leave the warehouse in calendar year 2008. Keep in mind, January cases are generally the hardest to find at the big three retailers. And yes, a […]

Added to the front of BOLT this Friday is the latest CARS TOONS short – Tokyo Mater. This will be the 4th Mater’s Tall Tales short – though the longest – almost 6 minutes long and maybe the last – at least for a while. So, for those hatin’ on Expanded Universe CAR TOONS – […]

Luca was nice enough to send a copy of the WORLD OF CARS and the Storytellers series story – released in Italy and in Italian as “Story of Radiator Springs.” The front cover art has a lot of raised reflective effects so it scans a little dark … In Italy, he’s also Saetta (Lightning) McQueen […]