Recent Finds - July 2013 Store Purchases

[cac1959]

Awesome find, keonisdad... If I ever find a Taia Decotura on the pegs I won't leave it... same goes for Francesco Fan Mater, Taco Truck Mater, and many other Cars that have never seen US release.

niftynigel - the Jeff Gorvette Lane Mate shows 16/17 on the front of the card.

Great finds, Hunter!

Great find, Scavenger's wife - I'm glad that several of you have spouses/partners that help you with Cars purchases... some of us don't.

[Scavenger]

Well the wife beat me to finding another case! She found case F before me now case G! No Miles but still happy to see something other then case C at my Target!!

[niftynigel]

the brislington toys r us had about 5-6 popemobiles yesterday

and seeing taia and taco mater going for about £10-12 on amazon when i paid £25 each reminds me to just stick to what i get in shops and not pay over the odds on ebay

It doesn't always work out that way. Mattel have us over a barrel. You run the risk of missing out and they know it! It's a close call, but think about if they didn't reappear on Amazon at reasonable prices (I paid £8.95 each), but only on eBay for £30-50 each, you'd be glad you got them when you did!

You win some, you lose some; Mattel always wins!

[niftynigel]

Jeff Gorvette on the short checklane card has been at TRU for over a month or so.

Sorry, my mistake!

We haven't had those (or the Lenticulars) in the UK!

Are the Check Lane singles numbered in the same series or are they not numbered at all?

Thanks,
Nigel

[yuffie]

the brislington toys r us had about 5-6 popemobiles yesterday

and seeing taia and taco mater going for about £10-12 on amazon when i paid £25 each reminds me to just stick to what i get in shops and not pay over the odds on ebay

[odisn]

Jeff Gorvette on the short checklane card has been at TRU for over a month or so.

[niftynigel]

Haven't found time to post my finds, so here here are my July finds!
Got all of these from Walmart, Target, Kmart & TRU!

In the second picture down, there is a JEFF GORVETTE. He's not supposed to be released until case 999L. Have you any idea what case he was in, as Mattel are swapping cars and cases like crazy at the moment?

Super Chases being found at retail in the US. Whatever next?

Met on T5AD hinted that Jeff may not be coming out as a single as there was a double-pack with John Lassatire on the way, possibly instead, but the numbering on the two-pack didn't make sense, unless Mattel are considering another sub-series of double-packs?

It would be great if they did, sort of an expansion of the current 2013 card series!

[niftynigel]

ok, not a new car, but i couldn't leave Taia on the peg

this is my second Taia that i have found in the wild

Great find! A few more have recently been advertised on Amazon.co.uk.

Why can't Mattel get these out on time?

[niftynigel]

I found this today at a garage sale for a great price

That's an international carded Popemobile! What is that doing in the US? That's a very rare car, excellent find.

Just to confuse the issue, TRU (and maybe other stores too?) in the UK have got the Pope Pinion IV and Popemobile Deluxe case. On Saturday, there were a few US-carded Popemobiles at a TRU on my travels (Southampton). Quite a few in fact. The Queen is also becoming quite a common sight at Smyths on a US card.

The US gets international cards and the UK gets US carded Deluxe! How does that work?

[carslover]

I found this today at a garage sale for a great price

[carslover]

ok, not a new car, but i couldn't leave Taia on the peg

this is my second Taia that i have found in the wild

WOW it is a Taia parade

[Ferris]

Interesting .. were they in a tray or on clip strips? When Cars 2 first came out, I found Porta Corsa cards there for on clip strips ... they did not have peg hanger holes cut into them. they were really nice looking cards.

They were on the clip strips like last time, but regular cards this time. The Bjs around here had the Porta Corsa cards that you are talking about last fall.

[keonisdad]

ok, not a new car, but i couldn't leave Taia on the peg

this is my second Taia that i have found in the wild

[jestrjef]

I was in BJ's yesterday and saw 2013 cars for the first time. There were very few left, so I'm not sure what they will have, but another store to add to the hunt.

Interesting .. were they in a tray or on clip strips? When Cars 2 first came out, I found Porta Corsa cards there for on clip strips ... they did not have peg hanger holes cut into them. they were really nice looking cards.

[Ferris]

I was in BJ's yesterday and saw 2013 cars for the first time. There were very few left, so I'm not sure what they will have, but another store to add to the hunt.