Collect them all!

Goodness gracious, here we go again.

There aren't many toys I'm willing to buy right now given the mess with China and the toy industry.

The exception is Cars cars, but what makes this difficult is they are hard to come by--not the ones that have been out for a year and a half, but the newest ones.

To find them, you have to check the toy shelves with the persistence and regularity of a drug addict.

So far, we have Cactus McQueen and the blimp. But if anyone else happens upon the others pictured here, please get two--I'd be in your debt in more ways than one! (Our friends have a little boy, Diego, who loves Cars cars as much as Gabriel does.) They run around $3 or so. We've had the best luck at Wal-mart, though the closest one to us has been under construction and not restocking much in the past few months.

If you're interested in reading more about this collection, you can do so here or here. As one of those sites points out, it's not too late to start if you're interested.