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Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Next Megasize – Sven, Frank the Combine & Elvis RV …
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 29 January 2009
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Yea, they might sell a few of these … You might want this case also … Okay, you might need to expand your budget … And the next CASE after this one will have … And look, NOT one Al Oft in any assortment … guess it’s time to hoard the Al Oft … and […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Easy Sarge Quonset Hut Custom
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 28 January 2009
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Laziest custom playset ever … 🙂 Keep in mind that kids are super smart these days so if you just hand them the plane and keep the hut, they will ask you where’s the hanger? And if you’re not fussy about scale … it’s 50-foot tall monster Sarge … nicely detailed …

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Chick Hicks Green Day – I Had the Time of My Kachigga …
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 28 January 2009
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Chick Hicks seems to be the kind of CAR guy who likes having his pit crew-his gang-his posse-his yes men around … For the longest time, it was just him and his bud Bruiser … not even extra tires or an extra toolchest … but all at once, Chick Hicks Hauler, Chick Semi and Chick […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: F CASE Mainline Singles Leaving Warehouse
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 28 January 2009
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The F CASE Mainline Singles is leaving Mattel’s warehouse in the next few days so resellers will have cases in hand to ship and some retail stores might have it as early as next week on the shelves … And after that?

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Sven Must Be Found!
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 28 January 2009
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If you could travel forward in time to Summer of 2009, you will find these on the shelf …* This CAR is ripped with details – can’t wait … will arrive a few cases after Elvis … it will easier to find as there’s 3 to a case – can’t find the rest of the […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Caitlin-FPG Also Says to Look For …
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 27 January 2009
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Yes, sometimes you have the bad with the good but you can’t really find … … in the same store you’d find … You have to drive at least 30 miles 🙂 … Though sometimes you can Diddly-Squat and Squat at the same store. Thanks for the rarer than Rollin’ Bowling Mater on cards CARS, […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Piston Cup Starter Set
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 27 January 2009
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Your next track playset … The loop-de-loop looks pretty cool. Perfect for placing lil’ bro’s head there to see if that might hurt if full speed RPM comes barreling through … all in the name of science, of course … Also folds up … And you can even store a few CARS … good thing […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Target Easter Eggs – Other Photos
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 27 January 2009
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The first Target Easter post is here … and of course, the two CARS without an Easter egg photo next to it were two CARS already out, Charlie Checker & Shiny Wax Crew Chief but if case you want to see them nestled next to their egg house. And Charlie Checker – still cannot really […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Frank the Combine – Homeward Bound
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 27 January 2009
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Three years later, Frank the Combine is finally coming home to roost. The history of frank the Combine is fraught with villainy (eBay sellers), scum of the Earth (uh, other eBay sellers) and small girls who roll the dice when it’s NOT THEIR TURN! YEA YOU! CHEATER CHEATER! Um, what was I saying again? Oh […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Caitlin-FPG Says the Shelves are Never Truely Empty …
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 27 January 2009
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Remember, if the store looks like this … Or the CARS shelf looks like this … As Caitlin-FPG always says – remember to go around way back and you call always buy the special collector’s card that is the most special of them all … Thanks Caitlin-FPG for the great art of a card and […]