Article Archive for December 2008
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 December 2008
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Enough To Choke a wagon train of Clydesdales … TRU – launchers and singles? Whatever. We will corner the market on the Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge! We’ll take 100,000 of these and mark them all down to breakeven what we paid for them so we can’t make a dime on them! That’ll show ’em! Don’t […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 December 2008
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Of course, this is the WOC playmat but if you guessed or said, man – wouldn’t life be grand if we had a STORYTELLERS playmat? Your greatest wishes have been granted – I don’t actually have a photo of it so you’ll have to use your imagination and merge the artwork from here with the […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 5 December 2008
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First, you go right ahead and collect what you want to collect. There is no predicting what will become valuable, most valuable or ultra valuable in the long run. Collecting CARS should be about appreciating the artistry of it and having fun with it. Remember to hold them up and look at them closely to […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 December 2008
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I been shined. I haz no Sidewall Shine. Apparently I am a deviant as I deviated and am non-compliant. I can picture the 1979 Cylon talking to me through the window – YOU ARE NON COMPLIANT. YOU ARE NON COMPLIANT. ERROR. ERROR. Didn’t really explain why I’m not compliant as I sent in the receipt, […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 December 2008
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An interesting subset of the Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS are the English-only Canadian cards. Now, they are not technically part of the U.S. release so in this case, you can safety ensconced yourself in the complete blanket without any of these CARS but they are amusing and during the occasion lulls of CARS collecting, […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 December 2008
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As many of you know, we had a checkup at EDITGRID but it got a little too unweldy and as a straight spreadsheet while useful in some ways – was limiting because the online version only allowed limited typefaces. So while power users can continue to download that one and add to it and have […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 3 December 2008
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For those that missed the CASE ASSORTMENT C of the ‘Pit Race Off’ launchers embedded in the WHEELERS post, it is … Coming in early January?
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 2 December 2008
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I think everyone was at least able to find Mack with Bumper Save, Nitroade & Bob Cutlass on or about Black Friday … This was one of those deals where Mattel & WM did not make any money, WM just wanted to assure you were eager to be there on BF and Mattel basically counted […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 2 December 2008
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A hundred thirty years ago if you wanted a toy, you got yourself a nice piece of wood and a whittling knife … of course, for many, you were soon known as 9-fingered Johnny … or soon after that, 8-fingered John and subsequently, one-armed Jon … or based on the creative skill of most piece, […]
Posted in CARS, collecting, Disney Pixar, Mattel, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Music, Retail, Toys, Uncategorized, Video, Video Games on 2 December 2008
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