Article Archive for 10 February 2009

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast MINI CARS: The TakeFive Mini Haiku Contest
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 February 2009
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In honor of the MINI, a tiny package of goodness, artistry and fun … a mini MINI’s contest … To be precise, a Mini Haiku contest. A real haiku consists of 5-7-5 syllables for each line but that’s way too much reading and ‘riting 🙂 Instead, you get 5 WORDS to form a winning entry. […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Lightning McQueen – You Complete Me
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 February 2009
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For the longest time, Lightning McQueen #1, the original was missing something … Not our love, not our admiration and not our purchases over and over and over again 🙂 No, he was missing the Rust-Eze decal on his back spoiler as for most of the film, he was wearing that decal … The first […]

Amazon’s Frustration Free Packaging
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Posted in CARS, collecting, Design, Retail, Toys on 10 February 2009
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Amazon has been selling toys and other products in what they accurately term frustration free packaging. If you need a quick refresher course on what we are talking about, here you go: It becomes pretty clear within a few seconds doesn’t it? 11 minutes vs 44 seconds…hmm…I wonder which version I will pick from Amazon?  […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Buy CARS, Get a FREE CAR Comes to France!
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 10 February 2009
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The Buy 4 CARS, Get a free Piston Cup Racer (?) promo has come to France. (From the French site – WORLD OF CARS – used with permission). Rules are: 1 – Between 1st of January and 31st of August 2009, buy 4 Cars vehicles.* 2 – Send your receipt. 3 – Send or copy […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Welcome to the Show … CASE F & MINI CASE D
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The mainline singles CASE F and the Mini’s CASE D have arrived … While CHUCK the car itself is great as usual, his artwork on the front is definitely weird. It’s almost like Pixar sent over the artwork that’s not fully rendered. What makes a 1-dimensional illustration come to life is shading, shadows and details. […]