Articles in the Apple Category

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Dueling #84 Piston Cup Racers
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, collecting, diecast, Film, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 March 2009
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One of the enduring mysteries of our universe is why there are two #84’s in the Speedway of the South race … No less a mystery than: why people will drive 10 miles to save a dime on a gallon of gas; the existence of the Yeti and; the internet comments FIRST! thing … Why […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: When You Click Your Heels, All your Apple Car & Apple Hauler Dreams Will Come True …
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 5 March 2009
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In a magical world (Earth 2.0 to be precise), all these are available … here on this Earth, sadly, not so much … yea, who would buy these? In case you missed the earlier posts, all of these are crafted by hand by Mr. Aroldo Pongetti. Check out the posts HERE, HERE & HERE. Why? […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Wally Hauler to Apple Hauler – Aroldo Instructions
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 5 March 2009
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The Wally hauler is just begging to be converted to an Apple hauler … All you need is some sandpaper, some white paint and a high res gray Apple logo … It’s like open heart surgery. Get knife, some medical sponges and clamps … go. Oh, and some stitches … And hey, the Wally hauler […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: CSI: Piston Cup Racers Pit Row Clues
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 February 2009
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As if Aroldo P. of Italy hasn’t already done enough for us, he discovered a great screenshot of Pit Row that appeared in the CARS Magazine – Italian version. It is obviously shrunk down to fit our pages here but you can see it’s a puzzle for kids (cut out squares on the right) to […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Aussies in the CARS House … Plus New Stuff!
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 3 February 2009
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Aussies are a tough lot … “An Australian surfer punched a 16-foot shark in the head as he rescued his 13-year-old cousin who had been bitten on the leg and dragged beneath the water.” (Yahoo News) So, when they were mentioned earlier in year there were not many CARS to buy, that probably meant they […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Aroldo Updates Pit Crew Mack
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Toys, TV on 17 January 2009
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Somehow Aroldo (Pongetti) got it in his head his Pit Crew Mack’s gas “catch” cans were not quite right … so he redid them … Maybe he figured the other way was too easy … I’m not exactly sure how he molded a 3-dimensional thing out of a tube of goo but good luck to […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Tokyo Mater CARS TOONS Preview – Bolt 12/12/2008
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Video, Video Games on 9 December 2008
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Added to the front of BOLT this Friday is the latest CARS TOONS short – Tokyo Mater. This will be the 4th Mater’s Tall Tales short – though the longest – almost 6 minutes long and maybe the last – at least for a while. So, for those hatin’ on Expanded Universe CAR TOONS – […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Mac iCar (The Apple Car)
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, collecting, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 1 August 2008
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© Disney/Pixar & Mattel Red Line Club No, it is not scheduled to come out in the next two months. Beyond that, who really knows? My opinion is that it will be out at some future time. The time doesn’t matter because whenever it comes out, Mattel will sell it by the bushels. (A bushel […]

Apple iPhone Software 2.0 – Two More Features & Tips
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Retail on 16 July 2008
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The APP STORE will let you know if there’s an update to one of the apps you bought/loaded with a numeric note – nice. (In this case, it’s EVERNOTE – not shown on page 1) And when you press UPDATE, you even get a nice ‘uploading’ bar – very thoughtful. I even did it over […]