Articles in the diecast Category

Kmart.com Shipping & Order Confirmation Issues
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys on 17 June 2009
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Dev & his team are working on resolving the issue. Here is an official update. Thanks Dev! We have identified 85 individuals whose orders were cancelled. The email you received was incorrect. The cancellations were not because of an “out of stock”, but for paypal or credit card declines.  I have a team looking into […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: MegaSize CASE K Must Be Found!
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 17 June 2009
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Leaving Mattel’s warehouse later this week – should arrive in your hands by next week.

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart CARS Days 2 – 5 Day Countdown
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 16 June 2009
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This Saturday, June 20, 2009 -11 AM (YOUR local time). What Stores Are Participating? Official Full List of Stores on our EDITGRID page. Or at: http://www.editgrid.com/user/takefiveaday/Cars_Collector_Event_June_Store_List I have sorted it by STATE & ZIP CODE in descending order so it should be easier to search. If the Store is on the List, It’s 100% Sure […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: You Ain’t Nothing Yet (2009-2010)
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 June 2009
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With the “more to come” listing and announcement of “40” CARS to come on the back of the forthcoming Target “classics” CARS … some things to clear up … The “40” list is a ‘general listing’ for August 2009 to October 2010. As always, just because it’s on a list does not mean it will […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Aroldo Custom – Artie’s Assistant
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 14 June 2009
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I’m sure Aroldo Pongetti spent many sleepless nights knowing that Artie, the TV Director did not have his technical assistant next to him 🙂 As you know, he sent us his artwork of converting Snot Rod into Artie … Then of course, he spent countless sleepless nights knowing that Artie needed his assistant 🙂 Here […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: SD Comic Con TakeFive Discussion Panel & T-Shirts
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 14 June 2009
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For those who are going to SD Comic Con – please stop by on Sunday at 2 PM – Room 5AB. Martin Arriola, & Ryan Gleason of Mattel will be joined by Alan Porter, the writer of the CARS comic book to talk about CARS – I know, how will they fill an hour?  🙂 […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The R-Rated Tarantino Version
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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 […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Canadian Collecting Mental Health Help
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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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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 […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: TakeFiveReader Roundup Pics & News
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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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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 […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Cold Hard Cash – Piston Cup Racers & Motor Speedway of the South
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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 […]