Until now, we have not had an official “chase” CAR in the CARS lineup. What is a ‘chase’ CAR? It is literally a CAR you have to chase after. It is special car (or action figure) that is packed in limited quantity – in this situation, there are 20,000 “stickers” McQueen inserted into CASE R […]

Wandering into the Mattel booth was like stepping in some dream world candy-like shop where it was all edible and seemed too good to be true. I kept asking people to pinch me … Well, okay, just these two in the Mattel booth … Um … oh yeah, where was I again, oh yeah, diecast […]

Thanks to Heather & others, we’re going to try a specific trading area and see how that works under this somewhat limited ‘theme/template/format.’ As some of you know, we’re still moving and trying to get everything in order so plugins and ‘extra features’ of the site are coming but slowly. For now, I just set […]

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 […]

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 […]

Do you need to save your Starbucks? Here is the official list so far … Click on the link to access an interactive map courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: Or you can view and/or download the official PDF of Store Closings from Starbucks. Google search link to SAVE OUR STARBUCK’s online petitions though I […]

Nice story in Yahoo Sports – appropriately entitled, “Forever The King”

(Shhh, nobody tell Al Oft and those Lightyear Guys) Lightning McQueen #95 wins the 3rd Round of Super GT300 Series in Japan (click on the 300GT Tab) at the Fuji Speedway (all in Japanese, BTW). Official Circuit Website page for the #95 Team with driver info.* Cool – actual working headlights, I like it. Here’s […]

Okay, no one panic 😯 There are plenty of 1-day tickets still available, the only ticket to sell out are the 5-day tickets which also allows you in Wednesday night for PREVIEW NIGHT (which runs 3 hours). Yes, that allows you to buy and jump the gun a little earlier than most but don’t panic. […]