Yea, just a little bit of info at the Comic Con in regards to Mighty Muggs … so until my brain starts functioning again, how about just some photos to tide you over … Got a chance to talk to Jerry who heads up Mighty Muggs and Chris the Mighty Muggs designer – great guys […]

Launching today, Mattel is going to give fans from all around the world a chance to own the SD Comic Con Lightning Storm McQueen (as well as some other figures sold at the SD Comic Con). The site, www.MattyCollector.com, goes live at 11 AM Pacific Time US … which when my brain is functioning correctly […]

Every Halloween, Mattel pulls together their creative talents to create special one-of-a-kind items to benefit the Children With AIDS Foundation (CAAF). Last year, they created this amazing display (along with 70 CARS) signed by John Lassetter which was won in an auction for $13,000 by the President of ToysRUs. Last year’s was hard to top […]

After Comic Con, May 2008 feels like a year ago … the Hot Wheels Red Line Club has finally scrapped together an envelope and some hologram stickers to complete the Motor Speedway set. As some of you might recall, they pointed out the set would be number 1 of 1,000 and then forgot to sticker […]

Before going much further, let me again thank NascarBroncoFan, & Monica for essentially mounting a hostage rescue situation … except they didn’t have any weapons other than what they could muster with their bare hands (push carts and rolling carts were banned). For anyone not at Comic Con 2008 … I will try to capture […]

Here’s a schedule of things to do. Um, no way to see or do it all so pick and choose and as noted, sometimes the people in the room are not leaving so you might not get into everything. Eat lunch early or late but do not eat lunch between 11:45 and 1:15 … everyone […]

From Reader and Collector “T” … a cool prototype/test version of the other ‘more official and correct’ Mack & trailer that is also coming – probably closer to Christmas time. Cab (yellow portion) is all metal – all other aspects of the cab are plastic as of course is the trailer all plastic. For those […]

What is a variant? (and of course, specifically to toys & toys collecting) There are really four criterias: A variant is simply a variation that is also available that is different from the “correct” design, different from the first-release design or different from the current release and more importantly, REPLACES it. It is a “variation” […]

I don’t often shop at Kmart here in the SF Bay Area because when it comes to toys, it’s the ‘Land That The Purchasing Department Has Forgotten.’ If you only buy CARS at Kmart here in the SF Bay Area, You know what it’s like to shop for CARS in Belgium. But maybe you live […]

Mattel’s Disney Pixar CARS are like 15-year olds … if you don’t watch them carefully, they’ll just wander away and are soon splashed all over the internet 🙂 So, here are some unofficial unboxing photos … Of course, you’ve already seen the box from our last post so we’ll skirt over the technical details of […]