Recent Finds: May 2012

[cac1959]

Saw Shu and Miguel among other singles at a Family Dollar store today... at $5 each, I left them... the Walmart in the same town had put out more of the dreaded 4 singles and dreaded 3 2 packs... nothing new at the local Meijer again today either... they have price reductions on several items that are in effect until June 10, so I'm doubting that we see anything new at Meijer before then...

One of my earliest UK trading friends lives down in Cornwall, dumbleweed... his boys have outgrown Cars, so he's been leaving Cars on the pegs and shelves... good luck on your travels.

[boogity]

Nothing new around my way, ging on holiday Friday down Cornwall way so hopefully fo some hunting down there!

bout ye dw, was in cornwall a few years, from polperro to lands end I found nought, in fact I forgot about cars that holiday, which was no bad thing I suppose

[Bumper Save]

as far as i can tell so far the only cars that have'nt been released on the new cardback are these.
1.race team mater
2.finn mcmissile
3.luigi/guido
4.grem
5.carlo maserati

Interesting, one would think that with all the Finns and Maters a couple would be bound to have the new cardback, but I guess not.

[lovemini]

Action Agent Spy Mack

[sodabear]

I'm glad you finally got one, G. Still haven't seen those (although I have seen a shelf tag for it) in these parts.

[boogity]

maybe old hat , but new to me, spotted lego agent mater and trunkov - the one with the parachute, also a fiver off the lego red in tescos

[cac1959]

Found another Finish Line Frenzy with Silver Flames McQueen at Meijer this morning... and when I came home from work today this was waiting for me:









Disney Store is doing a good job getting new items out... wish Mattel could do the same...

[daul_p]

Quick a few different singles in Asda for a change. Nothing new but I saw Grem, Acer, Jeff, Rod, Fillmore, Raoul, Petrov and one Prof Z plus the 4 usual suspects :-).

[carscrazy]

Nice stealth finn

Cant believe theres still no new cars in any shops

[yuffie]

saw the disney store topper deckington for the first time today in the bath ds

[carscrazy]

Went to a bootsale today and found a stanley for 10p, he was hiding in a box of mcdonalds toys. No other finds

[cac1959]

Great find on the Stanley... for those of you in the US, a UK bootsale is what we'd call a garage sale or yard sale...

The only reason I've been buying the Disney Store Chase Cars is that there haven't been Mattel Cars products to buy...

[carscrazy]

Was lucky to find stanley as he was chucked in a box and was right at the bottom, Shame there wasnt more cars with him.

Ive noticed more cars 2 are popping up on ebay so thats a good sign, should be in the shops soon

[d1ulove2h8]

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i found these this morning at a kmart in southern california

[djjd21]

found 3 new cases in our local smyths toys today.
all 3 were a re-pack assortment again but this time had a completely different assortment than the last.
it had been re-packed in an old 2011 case P with a white sticker on the side.the code on the sticker is W1938-8506.
case contents are as follows and were a mix of both old and new cardbacks.
1 x rs ramone
1 x miguel camino
1 x lewis hamilton
1 x carla veloso
1 x hydraulic ramone
1 x jeff gorvette
1 x shu todoroki
1 x rod torque redline
2 x holley shiftwell
2 x lmq with racing wheels(one piece car only)
2 x acer
2 x grem
2 x nigel gearsley
2 x mel dorado
3 x francesco
1 car is missing as i can't remember the contents and the photos i've got are really poor and can't make them out.i believe it may be a sarge/max.see what you guys think,i will confirm this in the next few days.
the car in question is on the 3rd row from the top and 1st working from the left.





also found another fresh case of lights and sounds which included darrell cartrip and spy finn mcmissile in one of our tesco stores.
in tru they had put out a load of metallic jeff gorvettes and lmq,and also seen a case of piston cup nights deluxe cars that have appeared out of nowhere which had hummer sven,richard clayton kensington and mack semi all on U.S cards,but to my good fortune in a bargain bin by the side of the cars pegs was a lone miles meat truck on an international card that again has just come from nowhere.