It’s from 1937 but in 9 minutes, you’ll understand it as plain as day … This is exactly how everyone should explain everything … Note, there is about a 2-minute motorcycle stunt show that seems to make no sense but slowly reveals why they started that way … I think I could fix a car […]

If your ‘Honey Do’ list includes redoing the driveway or the street … now, you have no excuses plus you could charge admission for your property improvement … From Tiger-Stone. The device rolls out a beautiful and sustainable hardscape, creating an instant road anywhere it travels. Dude, if you get one, can I borrow it […]

Happy Father’s Day … if you need a last minute gift, all dad’s will appreciate this … Now, wait, not that – THIS! It’s a remote controlled demolition robot! The new remote-controlled demolition robot from Husqvarna®, the DXR 310, is the very latest in compact demolition robot technology. High power, low weight and functional design […]

Welcome to the first edition of Tizmanian Live! I kept one of the cases from the great folks at Die-Cast Authority which was provided to us for review.  I wanted to take a much closer look at their construction and I came away even more impressed than I was initially but you be the judge.  […]

While Cars related, it is a bit of a stretch but one worth taking a look at I think. One of the designers that works at the WETA workship in New Zealand has developed a little side project where he has created 99 hot rods (aka sleds) via some tweaked software on a Nintendo DS!  […]

Take Five A Day: The Magazine! You asked for it and now, you can on-demand it! Issue #1 of our magazine is available for order! 20 full-color pages devoted just to the DESERT ART series … Other than a few pages of text, the magazine is entirely comprised of full color checklists for however you […]

The CARS comic book has been released … There are two covers. McQueen explains to Darrell Cartrip how he came to be Lightning McQueen … (guess the use GOODLIGHT tires on the lower circuit? Or our blimp collection is incompete) 🙂 We also meet Mack who was actually delivering other goods … Cue the Beatles […]

There are plenty of ways to show ones affiliation, angst, anxiety, pleasure, pain, and desire via the American propensity for t-shirts.  As such, we at TakeFive, thought you, dear intrepid readers, would establish a ken for our cotton based zen such as here. Shameless plug aside, I think it is time to survey our readership […]

Amazon has been selling toys and other products in what they accurately term frustration free packaging. If you need a quick refresher course on what we are talking about, here you go: It becomes pretty clear within a few seconds doesn’t it? 11 minutes vs 44 seconds…hmm…I wonder which version I will pick from Amazon?  […]

Once upon a time TakeFiveADay.com (and TwoADay) actually posted about other topics besides Mattel Disney Pixar CARS (yea, hard to believe) but we have now cleaved the blog into two parts as we build our EMPIRE! So, be sure and check out our other blog at www.Acmeplex.com … where we will talk about the 11% […]