Thanks “Mark T.” for the heads up and photos. The re-release of Fightin’ Face Mater is more than an eyelid line variant. The 2020 version, The CARS 2 release, different eye position, the bomb is slightly different and while I have to dig my up, I’m presuming the 2020 is a unibody with the tow […]

Thanks, “Mark T.” for the heads up and nice photos. There is a Wave 2 for the Expanded Universe Fan Favorites – Team  95 & 51 Flo. The original list also featured a Luigi/Guido – any sign of them? Wave 1 HERE.

Just a low res preview – but Mini Racers completist collectors might want to keep an eye on this advent calendar … it seems to feature all ‘snow day/ice’ white/snow covered tires – will these be an exclusive or will we get these as regular releases before December 2020. About 300 days until Christmas …

From Martin Arriola, another fun Behind the Scenes peek at the creation of a toy, one of our favorites, the SDCC Comic Con exclusive Lightning Storm McQueen … he has one up sale, signed if you prefer + ORIGINAL ART! Check it out on eBay HERE. The story behind the diecast … “I was once […]

Thanks “Samuel K.” and “Mark T.” for the nice photos. The new Tex Dinoco is from Thailand. The China flat windshield version is the open one. The new Thailand one has the eyelid line and some slightly different dairy cow spots positions. 2020 Tex Dinoco. Inset windshield, eyelid line, variant dairy cow spots positions. Also […]

Thanks, “Mark T.” for the nice photos. 2020 Mr. Drippy is a variant from the previous release … he is the “dirty” version – which was sort of available but in very limited quantity, it was hard t tell if it was an error, a test? Of course, CARS might drink water from a tank […]

Catching up on older cases… the singles CASE A of 2020. Only 2 new diecast CARS – Trainer Cruz Ramirez and Metallic Cal Weathers. Uncommon re-releases with the eyelid line so of you missed them on their 1st release, here’s another chance .. Morre common re-releases (with eyelid lines or slightly different production changes as […]

While Tomy Takara are doing the Rust-Eze Wraps series in their normal scale (1:64), Mattel might only be offering as Mini Racers … Available early on Amazon if you want to pay extra.

The new mini racer Todd, Pizza Planet is distilled greatness in a tiny package! He’s all metal including the camper shell and the Pizza planet logo. He comes in the “Blind Box” YELLOW BOX – he is #25 in this series.  (code as example). Even if the retailer has swapped out the box, the 2020 […]

Martin Arriola, CARS Designer from 2007 to 2010 has another behind the scenes peek at the creation of a CARS product, the “giant” sized Barney Stormin. This is what the shelf/release version looked like – if you pushed on his bean like head, the propellers ould spin but sadly it would not fly … it […]