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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 June 2009
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CARS 7: Savage Bloody Desert Sands of a Hillybilly Hell In a world where transmission oil runs like blood … When his eyes change to agitated, look out below! Alternative post choices: “Better Red Than Classics Dead.” “Same Quality Control. New Eyes!” “Visine – Gets the Red Out … of Your Eyes, Your spray on […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 June 2009
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We might need to load up an RV of CARS to the Great White North … Me thinks all is not well beyond the Great Lakes … And since, there does not seem to be mainline singles, movie moments, launchers, haulers, 3-packs, promos … they have resorted to either collecting these or have mistaken these […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 June 2009
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In CARS 2, if there’s a Space Shuttle, they can already do a two pack with a Pitty 🙂 Thanks for the pic Sander P. And going nearly as fast is MCL Sydney-Harris’ son … And Jason T. seems to have a confetti-less Lightning McQueen with a production date code from 2008! Interesting. Speaking of […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 12 June 2009
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Until recently, it was hard to do a precise comparison since we were not sure if many of the Piston Cup racers were going to re-released but now that the Kmart cases are sitting at distribution center or locked away in a manager’s office (or in some cases, on pegs for 6-minutes 🙂 ) and […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 12 June 2009
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Now that the Kmart CARS are definitely here and there have been some minor changes here and there, here’s the updated Piston Cup checklist. Two of the still-not re-released racers are in gray because officially they are only available in a trade or secondary market purchasing from Europe (Gask-Its & Faux Wheel Drive). We do […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 11 June 2009
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When it’s something you want to hold onto and or display, especially a great line such as Mattel’s Disney Pixar CARS, you want the card & box design to be as interesting, as cool and as classy as the CARS themselves … and as I wrote when I first saw the 3-packs, I realized that […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 11 June 2009
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Here are the details for the distribution & sales of San Diego Comic Con Rescue Mater & Dalmatian Mia & Tia. It is $30 USD each and at San Diego Comic Con July 22 to July 26, there is a buying limit of six. “PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT COMIC-CON Products will be sold starting preview night. […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 11 June 2009
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Not quite FINAL FINAL yet … Apparently the CAR on the blister will actually face to our right or in the direction of the name-plate arrow. Also not final because of course, this is Radiator Springs McQueen with wrong nameplate. And another little tidbit … under the T5 watermark above is the ONLY AT TARGET […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 10 June 2009
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Not only appearing LIVE in person at Atlanta this weekend, Martin Arriola will also hand you over this magnificent “Best Friends” watercolor of Lightning McQueen & Mater. One of a kind as in ONE available worldwide. Original. @14″ by 17″ – I know it’s hard to tell the size from here on the website – […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 June 2009
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The first poster included with the first release of CARS under the RACE O RAMA motif & design was this one-sided poster: It was replaced by this two-sided version for most of the Race O Rama series. This poster is of course, folded under the mainline singles CAR so it’s on the “grass.” This was […]