I might be the only person at Gizmodo that likes Sphero’s new Cars toy. My co-workers hate the way the robot announces it’s going to sleep, and the long animated process it takes to wake up. They’re ...

If you have a child in your house under 15, then you’re probably intimately familiar with Lightning Mcqueen and the Pixar movie franchise Cars. The Cars crew is heading back to the big screen next ...

The new Cars 3 movie will soon be upon us. Not-at-all coincidentally, we have just discovered this new Cars 3 Lightning McQueen toy racer, and it’s actually really rather cool. Made by the folks over ...

Sphero, the company which has been making app-controlled robots for years, have followed up their last year hit of the Star Wars BB-8 with another product linked to the Disney family. This time it is ...

Pixar’s original Cars movie worked because you believed cars had feelings. Anthropomorphized vehicles talking, fighting, falling in love. It all clicked because of Pixar’s animation prowess and the ...

Cars might not be Pixar’s most popular film with critics, but it’s a licensing juggernaut, notching up over US$10bn in merchandise to date. Among adults, the likes of Buzz Lightyear, Nemo and Wall-E ...

Lightning McQueen is alive, and in my living room: It's not the first Lightning McQueen toy spawned from the $US1 billion Pixar film franchise, but it is the first ...