Article Archive for November 2008

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 18 November 2008
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Literally. N20 Cola has arrived for Micky. If you’ve forgotten, buy 5 CARS, mail in a bunch of stuff + $5 dollars and get N20 Cola “free.” Actual details in this post 🙂 Remember, you still have 6 MORE weeks to find and buy eligible CARS so don’t panic just yet. B CASE mainline singles […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 18 November 2008
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Some news for everyone next summer … PART I Complete on Card collectors who are collecting every card will be getting dealt from a new deck come June 2009 … the World of CARS: Race O Rama cards are getting shortened … Red is the current WOC: Race O Rama cards, Yellow are the Check […]

Posted in Advertising, Disney Pixar, Film, Internet, Marketing, Media, Retail, TV on 17 November 2008
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I don’t think I really need to sell anyone on the merits of Pixar’s Wall•E … 🙂 but just wanted to give you a heads up that you might want to consider the 3-disc DVD version of Wall•E coming out tomorrow. There are a planet-full of extras for film fans, Pixar fans and fans of […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 17 November 2008
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CARS, the diecast line is nothing short of one-in-a-lifetime happening. You really need a lot of disparate pieces to fall into place for it all to happen and then for it to continue … the closest comparison really is Star Wars. Way back in 1977, yea, a bunch of people loved the movie to make […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 16 November 2008
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“Hey look, I’ve worked here for 3 weeks and I’m telling you, this is the complete line … those pictures on the back are coming next year.” “What do you mean we have a poor selection? We got 200 CARS in stock.” “Sure, I’ll put out CASE H – as soon as we sell these […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 16 November 2008
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Ah Fred, who knew you could create such problems … It seems, based on this scene, we got original Fred … but we knew he wasn’t quite right … It’s been suggested that Fred is a Studebaker Lark though he looks more in line with several Fiats* or its European/Russian knockoffs like the Riva or […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 16 November 2008
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Thanks for Caitlin/FPG who has actually designed real t-shirts for us (versus the ones I made …). The new WHOOP WHOOP one is my favorite, hard to tell from the screensnap so a larger version of the artwork is included for you. There are also some older t-shirts that probably don’t make much sense now […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 16 November 2008
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Lenin V and the family are putting together these Santa McQueen’s “as a thank you for a donation to the LA Children Hospital, Loma Linda Children Hospital, and … with the LA Post office on the “Be an Elf” program where we will go & fulfill some Santa letters from children in poor neighborhoods.” If […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 November 2008
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I know some of you think I’m crazy and that all I see is birdseed when I go to Walmart … well, thanks to Amy/Bravo1616 who is a thousand miles away from me – she snapped a typical pic that proves they’re not just trying to drive me crazy in NoCal … I think that’s […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, Computing, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 November 2008
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Our YouTube Group is up & running. It was hard work. I had to click and type 10 words and then click a bunch more times but we’re up & running. If you haven’t checked out the video links from CARS, be sure and do so. Feel free to link any CARS (or Mighty Muggs) […]