u/DittoheadGad

Had a dentist appointment this afternoon, so I stopped in at the Wal Mart near my dentist's office to check for the 2025 & 2026 Wave 1 & 2 liquid color cars that I still haven't found, I instead found well-stocked pegs that already had Wave 3. There were 13 total cars I think - almost 2 full sets of Wave 3 (only one Elliott), plus the Wave 2 CBell and the Wave 601A SSmith. No sign of the Liquid Rajah, but I'm not going to complain about that. I wasn't expecting to see Wave 3 so soon after it was announced, especially since other parts of the country usually start seeing them before we do in southeast Texas.

That said, this particular Wal Mart isn't well-stocked anymore 😀. As you can see, I grabbed the entire wave for myself, and I also got the 2nd Chastain, Byron, and BK because my girls wanted them.

Good luck to the rest of you hunting this wave, and hopefully the shorter turnaround from announcement to availability will continue with future waves!

Anyone else still waiting on the fantasy line up points to post to their account from this weekend? One of my teams scored max possible points yesterday but no sign of my rewards points for playing yet.

Looking for some help from the community - as a lot of you probably know, Winner's Circle made a different set of Dale Earnhardt Lifetime Series cars every year from 1997-2001. There were supposedly six in the 2000 version - the five I've posted here, and #6 of 6, which according to the list on the back is a 1995 Monte Carlo test car. Has anyone ever actually seen the 1995 Monte Carlo test car from this series or have a picture that proves it really did exist? Diecast Registry doesn't have it in their list, and I'm not having any luck finding anything with the major search engines, either.

I have not been lucky enough to ever get a Door # DIN... and I still haven't. This one was really close - all the right digits, but in the wrong order 🤷‍♂️

I have still yet to see this car on the shelves in a store, but thanks to tip from this group back on Wednesday, I finally have one in my possession and only paid retail for it. It was looking a little sketchy there for a while - when I placed the order it said it would be delivered on Thursday, but about 9pm Thursday night I got notified that it was delayed. No updates at all on Friday, but this morning, I got a notification that it was out for delivery, and it actually showed up.

With the 2026 Authentics waves only having six cars each, has anyone encountered either an unopened case or a confirmed fresh restock to know a) how many total cars are in a case now, and b) what gets replaced if the case has the liquid color chase piece?

I just ran into what may have been a fresh restock at a local Wal-Mart, but I don’t know that, especially since it was early evening. I just know it was all six standard cars in Wave 1 and nothing else. I picked up the three that I hadn’t found before, but I still need to track down the LQ Elliot, and both a standard and LQ KB from wave 2.

At Talladega last weekend, I was able to get both of my Gold Elite cars autographed, so now they're even more awesome.