Articles in the Film Category
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 30 May 2009
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Nice display … nice assortment. Well, other than the guy who peeled off one side to see if there was any candy hidden inside or an Apple car 🙂
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 30 May 2009
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The real Land of the Lost movie is starring Lightning McQueen 1:24 who seems to have fallen into a 1:12 scale hole somewhere. No one claims to know the whereabouts or what’s happening. The original plan was that there would be two versions. Matty would sell a version with real synthetic rubber tires and alternative […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 30 May 2009
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Issue #2 of CARS: The Rookie comic is out. It’s a 4-part series on how Lightning “Bulldozer” McQueen landed the gig as a Rust Eze driver … Our Q&A with Alan Porter, the writer is HERE (along with a preview of issue #1). Mack as the Eggman is shown in this post from issue 31. […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 30 May 2009
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Amazing. I hope that everyone who wanted tickets got one. It has NEVER sold out this early, last year was a sellout but I think the final tickets did not sell out until a couple weeks before the show opened but 2009 – 8 weeks away?! Wow. For those not going to SDCC – we […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 29 May 2009
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Well, whatever you can find on the shelf for CARS – 25% OFF! Some exceptions apply – not good on singles or MegaBloks. (In Canadian dollars, of course). Though they have the new Mack TV in stock – couldn’t find on US TRU … Which we covered earlier – while not exactly the best TV […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 29 May 2009
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No case assortment info but these are the next three Mini Motion Motorized Trailers only one of which is truly new: First appearance of Mini Chick in Chick green. Dinoco McQueen has been available for a while – though now upgraded to painted eyes (and of course, trailer in Dinoco blue is new) 🙂 Mater […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 28 May 2009
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Unbelievably, the first CARS Day went well for 99% of CARS collectors. It wasn’t absolutely perfect but it was pretty close … Now, it’s time to do it again. First, for newbies, what is it? As noted above, on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 11 AM your local time at PARTICIPATING Kmart’s – they will […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, comics, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 27 May 2009
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While we have not gotten all the official details just yet … on a certain Sunday in July (July 26 to be precise) … if you love CARS and like TakeFiveADay … I would say you want you might want to wander off the show floor and head to one of the meeting rooms where […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 27 May 2009
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When the “Race O Rama” cards first appeared, it was hard to tell if we should call them World of CARS: Race O Rama or just plain Race O Rama … but now, it looks like we’re back to calling this series World of CARS: Race O Rama (October 2008 to May 2009) and World […]
Posted in Design, Film, iPhone, Mobile on 27 May 2009
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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! […]