Pixar’s next movie, UP, will also have one of their incredible shorts preceeding it called, PARTLY CLOUDY.  Rumor has it that PARTLY CLOUDY is ‘an up-in-the-skies fable about how storks and cloud people work together to deliver babies of all shapes, sizes and species’. From the AWN website: “Everyone knows that the stork delivers babies, […]

There are plenty of ways to show ones affiliation, angst, anxiety, pleasure, pain, and desire via the American propensity for t-shirts.  As such, we at TakeFive, thought you, dear intrepid readers, would establish a ken for our cotton based zen such as here. Shameless plug aside, I think it is time to survey our readership […]

Taking a further look into the entrails of our web analytics we find another interesting nugget of info.  The Top 10 cities where we currently are gaining visitors reveals mostly U.S. cities but there are indeed two non-U.S. cities that make the Top 10. Have your guesses in place before reading on.  Are you ready? […]

Peeking under the hood of the TakeFiveADay.com can be rather interesting.  When Metroxing and I decided to tackle another blog, we really didn’t know just what would turn people on regarding content which is why our first six months or so we wrote just about anything.  Since we are both media and culture omnivores, it […]

Bow down to your master!  Revealed for the first time anywhere on the internets!  Behold, one room of the collection of Metroxing! Just kidding, fellow TakeFivers!   The photo above is from an article in Wired for the Action Figure and Toy Museum located in … wait for it … Pauls Valley, Oklahoma!  You can view […]

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?  […]

I ducked into a KB Toys close out store to see Cars I could nab for a song when I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this: Man, I have seen some stretches in the licensing game and while this is not one of the most egregious examples, I think the licensor could […]

Over the years I have received some fun ornaments from Mrs. Tizmanian that have fueled my passion for comic books, scifi, and other fun stuff such as Batman on the Batcycle, Superman flying over Daily Planet, and a little lunch box replica that came with the thermos such as Super Friends featuring Batgirl, The Flash, […]

The December contest produced some really nice entries across the board.  Here are our four winners: An HHR submitted by Supergrassgirl. A wood skinned lambo submitted by h1topper. A unique tank submitted by Gervart. A nice bluesmobile submitted by Jarrod. Submissions came from across the U.S., the UK, Australia, and France!  Well done folks!  We […]

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