Free Comic Book Day will soon be here. Never heard of Free Comic Book Day? It’s a day where comic book stores promote reading by giving away comics for free. On the list this year, is the new Cars comic book from Boom Studios! The only caveat is that it looks like this is issue [...]
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Follow Cars Toys Blog on Twitter
Ever heard of Twitter? If you haven’t, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. If you aren’t already on it, I suggest you check it out. Cars Toys Blog is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/carstoys. You can follow @carstoys, and [...]
Cars Toys Blog Meet and Greet Post
Greetings Cars Collectors! I decided it was long overdue for some introductions. For almost 2 years, I have brought you Cars diecast news, but I’ve never really talked about myself at all. I’ve decided its time you knew a little bit about me. My name is Jonathan, and I live and work in Knoxville, TN. [...]
Cars Comic Book Released this Week
Update: BOOM! Studios announced today that one of the premiere titles for their new BOOM! Kids imprint, Cars: The Rookie #1 has sold out – in only one week! They also announced a second printing. Cars: The Rookie #1 second print features a brand new photo cover and will hit store shelves mid-May, serving as [...]
Mattel’s 2009 Toy Fair Cars Press Release
Mattel has issued a post Toy Fair press release. Although not much new Cars product was shown at Toy Fair this year, Mattel’s press release covers a few interesting things for diecast Cars. Cars Character Cars with Lenticular Eyes These are regular diecast Cars, except they have lenticular eyes, which are eyes that move! The [...]
Mattel's 2009 Toy Fair Cars Press Release
Mattel has issued a post Toy Fair press release. Although not much new Cars product was shown at Toy Fair this year, Mattel’s press release covers a few interesting things for diecast Cars. Cars Character Cars with Lenticular Eyes These are regular diecast Cars, except they have lenticular eyes, which are eyes that move! The [...]
World of Cars Online Coming Summer 2009
Disney Online contacted me about the upcoming release of Word of Cars Online. I wrote about the World of Cars Online back in October of last year. Anyway, I get the sense that Disney is really trying to make their mark with this online community. I think it has lots of potential because of the [...]
Announcing the Cars Toys Blog Community!
A few days back, I announced that I had added registration to the site, but about the only feature was the fact that you didn’t have to re-enter your information when you left a comment. Well, today I am announcing the Cars Toys Blog Community! This is an area for people who have registered on [...]
Post Your Cars Trades and Recent Finds
Good news Cars collectors! At Cars Toys Blog, you can now post your Cars trades and recent finds on our Cars trades and recent finds pages. Let everyone know what new Cars you found and where you found them by posting your find in the comments on the recent finds page. Got some Cars you [...]
Upcoming 2009 Events: New York Comic Con and Toy Fair
Coming up soon is the New York Comic Con on February 6-8th 2009. Cars collectors may be interested in this because Mattel has a panel planned called MattyCollector.com Updates and Announcements. Here is the panel description. Are you a MattyCollector.com fan? Last year at NYCC Matty announced a brand new MOTU toy line exclusive to [...]
