Of course, CARS will easily take over one room that’s unguarded … spouse is away for an hour 🙂 Photo courtesy of NCC-2000 … but now, you can have it “professional.” Okay, in this case, you actually have to buy a house and then Disney will spiff it up one or more of the room […]

There have been reports that the Team Haulers labels are being pulled from the shelves but don’t worry – they are only going away temporarily. Once again, the sales of the Team Haulers were a surprise so now, they are going back to “make more.” (that’s technical speak in manufacturing 🙂 ). There is a […]

JPK of Chicago happened to be in Finland the other day so he ditched his meeting and went in search of CARS … (okay, I may have embellished a little 🙂 ). He writes: “I had to go to Helsinki, Finland last week on business.  Whenever and wherever I travel, I am always keeping an […]

Of course, the official Apple logo is not a flat gray anymore but a beveled gray … So Aroldo has updated his Apple Piston Cup Racer to be compliant – ready for CARS 2. For typeface geeks, the “84” looks like it’s the Myriad Pro Black SemiExtended font. Myriad Pro is the quasi official current […]

I vaguely recall seeing photos of these back on eBay in 2006 and maybe 2007 – as priced zoomed, people were buying them everywhere and trying to sell them. The backs are definitely international cards and it seems safe to guess they were early ones – as Mattel just scrambled to get them out … […]

SOME THINGS OVERHEARD AT TARGET … This line is easy to collect. He is the chosen one. We’re putting out one color at a time. Each Target gets a different color. The other CARS are for illustration purposes only. If you don’t waddle in here at 8 AM, you lose, dude. There are plenty of […]

Returning in mid summer … Chase Salutin’ Sarge will be returning first … I know there are a couple hundred reasons this is not logical as ‘chase’ generally implies something that might be as less desirable so you want to goose sales a little with variants and ‘chase’ variants but then, why ask why did […]

If you have some questions – we might have some answers … So, ask away and maybe the answers will be useful to many others …

The only other ongoing diecast CARS series is from Japan, from Tomica. Unlike the Mattel line which other than the love of re-re-releasing McQueen’s in each box has given us over 200 CARS – Tomica is pretty much sticking to a few dozen CARS and has been re-issuing them with different eye positions. They do […]

This is an easy checklist – only 4 … Pullback on the trailer and your kinetic energy is transferred to the mechanism, release and off it goes. The only downside is the mechanism is not small so the trailers can’t really hold anything … This is the first availability of Ramone in Purple as a […]