You go to sleep all grumbly but voila! (as French is required), you could wake up Canadian! Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans. The April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian […]

From Jestrjef … “We had the grandparents come over today.  They took us and the kids to the Central Florida Zoo in Sanford, FL.  On the way into the parking lot we crossed over railroad tracks and thought nothing of it.  We parked, unloaded the Suburban and my daughter yells “TRAIN!!” I turn around and what […]

Everyone all over the world, come visit us at Disney World in Florida or Disneyland here in Cali, your visit is FREE on your birthday in 2009! Pretty straightforward – show an US driver’s license type photo ID and or a passport on your birthday, you are in FREE. You can sign up beforehand online […]

From the Detroit HW Collector’s Club event … where our friend, Traver from Children’s Toy Closet attended, here’s the report from Shanon … “I went to the sad little Hot Wheel Collectors Day..it was held at a flea market but there were 20 vendors. Traver was the only one selling CARS, and he was selling […]

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. […]

When in LA, you can also check out the Pixar CARS Exhibit at the Petersen Auto Museum … “remclsydney” was kind enough to send us pics of his recent visit to LA and the exhibit … Too bad, you can’t pick up one of these in the gift shop. Though the airline might just charge […]

Thanks “CollectorMom/Monica” for the great pics of the new Pixar parade. Thanks – now back to Mickey funnel cakes!

Opening May 22, 2008, the long awaited return of Indiana Jones. Hard to believe it’s almost 20 years since the last one … at least they haven’t tried to simply pawn off the Indy character as just a few years after the LAST CRUSADE but that it’s “real time.” THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL […]

© Copyright Disney/Pixar The great Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles will open the “The Art of Cars” starting on March 29, 2008 (and running ’til November 2, 2008). “The Art of Cars” exhibit includes more than 60 watercolor and pastel drawings, pencil and marker sketches, and a variety of three-dimensional pieces, including: •Life-size replicas […]

You’re on a plane, the movie they are offering is NORBIT or the edited 9-minute version of DEADWOOD … fortunately the rotund dude in front of you who had to buy two tickets is sound asleep and he’s wearing a white shirt – just attach the Pico Movie Projector to your iPod and you use […]