As I noted in my post on exclusives post a few weeks back, toy companies do not get it – if they really, really wanted just to thank their biggest fans – they should do so by giving them something – how do they determine that? I do not know. But short of them driving […]

My son’s postcard contest ended last week, thanks for posting about it! His team came in 2nd place with a little over 1100 cards. Steven had 26! Can you please tell everyone thank you? He got cards from all over, Austria, Germany, Holland, England, St Maarten, and a lot of different states. It was really […]

Good luck completing this one … 110 Plushes … I think I could name about 100 of them … is that a duck next to Stitch? Is that a house by Wall-E? I suppose the Skunk from Bambi has a name? Next to Buzz – is that fat Woody? Did I miss that short? 🙂 […]

From SDCC: Because of limited space at the San Diego Convention Center, we are required to limit attendance and do not have enough badges for everyone who would like to attend the show. Unfortunately, the high demand and limited availability can make buying a badge challenging and time-consuming. Although we are working hard on our […]

Hey Taker5ers! Tizmanian here with a little housekeeping… We just installed a new image zoom feature which should work on most of the images we place here. Click on an image and you’ll see a control bar overlay. Looks handy so let us know what you think in the comments. Not sure about how it […]

Fab.com has a nice deal on Andy Warhol art design skateboards … it’s hip, it’s iconic and it’s ironic … and cheaper than buying a print.  

Maybe as a human, you’re part of the 99%. 🙂 But hey, that doesn’t mean you pet shouldn’t be a 1 percenter … 🙂 The Umbra FishHotel Aquarium You can even stack them – available at Amazon. Less than $30 … if that’s too common for you, there’s also the Swedish Fish Condo … I’m […]

The NY Times seems to have found a 1776 broadside* print printing of the Declaration of Independence … (yea, that one) *A broadside is a single-page, printed document created to disseminate news by being read, shared, and posted but you knew that. 🙂 July 1776 broadside printings of the Declaration are rare and valuable, but […]

Hollywood Icon Barbie on Sale at Gilt.com  

So I was digging through the seven (yes, seven!) master cases at the Kmart Collector Days this weekend looking for some extra posters for some of my fav-O-rite readers on Take5 when I saw a pad with an offer and grabbed it for later reading. Turns out that Mattel is offering a FREE CARS 2 […]