The first 2009 CARS item being offered at Matty Collector will be 1:24 scale Lightning McQueen. But let’s backtrack a little … normally, with 1:64 diecasts (CARS, of course 1:55), you cut some corners … Here is a $.99 Hot Wheels Ferrari 250 GTO. It’s a solid looking sculpt – sure, there are lots of […]

In honor of the MINI, a tiny package of goodness, artistry and fun … a mini MINI’s contest … To be precise, a Mini Haiku contest. A real haiku consists of 5-7-5 syllables for each line but that’s way too much reading and ‘riting 🙂 Instead, you get 5 WORDS to form a winning entry. […]

For the longest time, Lightning McQueen #1, the original was missing something … Not our love, not our admiration and not our purchases over and over and over again 🙂 No, he was missing the Rust-Eze decal on his back spoiler as for most of the film, he was wearing that decal … The first […]

The Buy 4 CARS, Get a free Piston Cup Racer (?) promo has come to France. (From the French site – WORLD OF CARS – used with permission). Rules are: 1 – Between 1st of January and 31st of August 2009, buy 4 Cars vehicles.* 2 – Send your receipt. 3 – Send or copy […]

The mainline singles CASE F and the Mini’s CASE D have arrived … While CHUCK the car itself is great as usual, his artwork on the front is definitely weird. It’s almost like Pixar sent over the artwork that’s not fully rendered. What makes a 1-dimensional illustration come to life is shading, shadows and details. […]

Yes, Walmart is getting a special Hauler case for the WM Mack Hauler. CORRECTED UPDATE (previous) Of course, as it’s Walmart, it will leak out and arrive at completely different parts of the country at different times IF IT ARRIVES at all. 🙁 So, as some have noted, it arrived in Arizona but for the […]

They are now available on Race O Rama cards … And the cardback which interestingly enough has already appeared on the back of some of the WOC Check Lane cards … Of course, generic across all the CARS to save on coordinating cardbacks … Yes, still an oddball series since most stores don’t seem to […]

First, Aroldo was kind enough to scan us a higher resolution and larger size of the pages (just below) from the Italian CARS magazine so the ZSHARE LINK is here – free download to enjoy and use. Also feel free to add to the discussion if you unearth anything new … Original post and comments […]

As many of you know, Lenin V. & Family helped kick off our Toy Drive & Donation page where you could begin coordinating your efforts in donating toys for kids during the holidays. Lenin sent us an update for his efforts this past Christmas … We were able to deliver toys and clothes for 22 […]

Once upon a time TakeFiveADay.com (and TwoADay) actually posted about other topics besides Mattel Disney Pixar CARS (yea, hard to believe) but we have now cleaved the blog into two parts as we build our EMPIRE! So, be sure and check out our other blog at www.Acmeplex.com … where we will talk about the 11% […]