Articles in the CARS Category

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Race ‘N Chase Box Set – Target – Back
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 October 2008
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Making a successful return engagement, it was a big hit – the Target exclusive Race & Chase Box Set … One Target already down to 3? It’s a very nice looking display box along with a retail exclusive Piston Cup Racer, Re-Volting which was only previously available in the Motor Speedway of the South set. […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Sears & JC Penney’s Toys Shopping … Uh, Not So Much
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 October 2008
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Well, JC Penney seems to have put up an section we can probably call a toy section … Yes, it looks suspiciously like the Mevyn’s deal where Mattel-Hasbro made a deal with JCP (like Mervyn’s) to bring in X amount of toys per stores minus a nice discount and allows them to present the merchandise […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Random Photos & Sidewall Letter From Customer Relations
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 October 2008
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Thanks to everyone who send in photos, keep ’em coming – we’ll fit them in where we can – or we’ll just randomly unleashed them … Top 10 Captions … “HULK Smash” “I can see the recycle logo also but I think they mean after I open it.” “Yes, I know I thought a garbage […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Side by Side Oversized-Mega Size Versus Normal
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 October 2008
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Some photos to see the Mega Sized line versus the regular: Yea, it was getting kind of dark but I was too lazy to drag out the whole lighting kit so no difference in color, just a little more shadowy on the right – can you guess who is the 98%-metal versus the metal-plastic Barney […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Collecting From the Beginning-The Tactical
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 October 2008
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This is sort of Part II to How to Begin Collecting CARS (Part 1 is here). Then the rest of the list breaks down into how you plan on collecting – if your goal is simply own one of each CAR to open – You should not have much trouble finding them in stores ranging […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The “Limited” and “Exclusives” CARS Price List
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Magazine, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 October 2008
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(This is a post that was originally part of a post on answering the cost of what Chase ‘Stickers’ McQueen future value will be but it was hard to find and search for so split up & moved here). Basically, every CARS limited item has increased in value and held steady for long periods of […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Just Starting to Collect …
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 October 2008
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Welcome to CARS diecast … collecting them is only slightly crazier than the people actually collecting them 🙂 Of course, the movie is great but the diecast CARS? Rolling pieces of art … It’s that simple. Where most other diecast lines and especially licensed diecast lines are just there to promote the movie, the Mattel […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: WorldofCARS.com Bonus Codes Included HERE!
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Disney Pixar, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Video Games on 5 October 2008
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Here is an interesting thing. It looks like number on the back of the ticket is the SAME for every individual car. For instance, all SPINOUT LIGHTNING MCQUEEN’s are ALL 3739960264880210? (CLICK ON GRAPHIC above to be taken to WORLDOFCARS.COM) Enter that in at the REDEEM CODE area … You get immediate bonuses, I got […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The Collector’s Guide Book Inside Pages
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 5 October 2008
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There will be NINE different tickets as different categories … well, 9 colors and the CHASE CARS ones will have mini banners … though clearly there is a disconnect already as they realized it was hard to do ‘real’ tiny banners on the printed ticket (since the blister space was assigned) so they moved the […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: If Only This Was Real …
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 October 2008
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To repeat, this is not real but collectors & fans of CARS will still want to see and lament the non-arrival of this Movie Moment. It was offered early on to Wal-Mart but then Wal Mart decided they wanted TJ as part of their exclusive 8 instead … I think the timing would’ve been that […]