Article Archive for February 2009
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 26 February 2009
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The UK gets a nice Mattel newsletter … Don’t forget, you have HOURS until the Buy some CARS, get Faux Wheel Drive promo is over … Thanks Jon S. for the heads up.
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 26 February 2009
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Time to drag out your MSOS set out or open the cover to take a look … Variant within the MSOS set? Brandon of the great CARS Drive in Gallery sends us these very interesting pics … Underneath, is your pouty-aggro Dale Jr. with WHITE SIGNATURE © 2007 Dale Jr? Mine from the MSOS set […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 25 February 2009
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From those out now to the rest of 2009* – here’s a high res to low res of what’s out and what’s coming … Hard to believe there were people who didn’t believe in this line … The Peterbilt Boys are here also … Coming after that – Trunk Fresh … Always classy in black […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 25 February 2009
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Of course, we already know the Mater the Greater diecasts look amazing as PART OF THE GREATEST DIECAST LINE EVER 🙂 Here are some first look shots at the “Megasize” Mater the Greater CARS … or in this case, “Props McGee.” That’s his name listed as of now – they could back to calling him […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 25 February 2009
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Not the most important news of the day but it’s something … for those collecting the CARS Finger Boards, they have a larger card now … Same board – same accessories … slightly larger card on the left. There are 3 CARS finger boards on single cards – still 3 (1 Toy Story board & […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 25 February 2009
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Okay, I admit I’m not really collecting them but if I had an extra, extra bedroom, I might break down and add them to my list. They are definitely cool though it loos like this will be the last year we will see these blocky fun CARS from Mega as Lego has signed a master […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 25 February 2009
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Part I of the highly detailed 1:55 “plused” CARS was in yesterday’s post. And now, the display box … it certainly adds to the allure of it … There was some confusion in my post yesterday when I used the word ‘maybe.’ Just to clear matters up, this is DEFINITELY the JL Signature Series Lightning […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 24 February 2009
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In line with the comments about the difference between Pixar & Dreamworks, here is a line Pixar could’ve easily introduced if they were lazy … 🙂 CARS Diecast: THE ZOMBIES! CARS Diecast: ZEN CARS! Pics from Emily V (aka: EvilLarr) … included for free – haunting Polaroid reflections of days gone by as King contemplates […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 24 February 2009
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You’ve already seen the photos but now in higher res and as big as life … (well, life on a 1:55 scale 🙂 ). And of course, this page template is only so many pixels wide … no panorama 🙁 And of course, the newly minted expression Lightning McQueen … All coming soon (2 weeks?) […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 24 February 2009
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This is a proto pic from last year’s SDCC of Jerry Recycled … It was a little esthetically & reality-logistics-wise really odd for a truck to actually open like that since the container shell would essentially drag along the ground and be easy to damage … Amy/Bravo1616 noticed that the RELEASED version of Jerry Recycled […]