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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 May 2009
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Frank is here and it’s a massive and heavy piece of diecast machinery. His thresher combine thing works great – it’s solid and not just for show – spin and it works and spins for a while. Who are you calling tiny? Let’s go to scale measurement thinger … Frank & the brain of a […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 May 2009
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The mainline singles were once simple. Go to store or go online to buy. Then CHASE CARS were added. But they were not all that different – some easy to find and some not so easy to find but basically – go to store or go online to buy. Now it gets complicated because the […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 14 May 2009
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Well, what do you know, it might be a case where hardly anyone has a quibble 🙂
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 14 May 2009
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever … and now the most frakin’ beautiful CAR to behold … It’s too beautiful in every imaginable way … It is everything we could have imagined. I did mentioned this is the greatest diecast line ever? No detail or exhaust is too exhausting to recreate. No, you’re […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 14 May 2009
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Not only do you get to contribute to the great CARS CARE program of getting CARS and toys to kids when they need it most … but you get a one of a kind item signed by “the coach.” The CARS are birthed at Pixar but you need the right coach to shape ’em up […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 May 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.” Now, poster#3 […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 May 2009
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After a long air flight, you do need some Trunk Fresh … Will you be needing the XXXXL size or will the M do for ya? 🙂 Their slogan, “The bigger your junk, the ‘mo fresh for your trunk!” 🙂 CTC is offering the case on sale for $85 – now shipping …
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 May 2009
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Some official non-hinckey photos … In other words, will you bow before the power of Mater Tall Tales? It will crush your resistance like Thor’s hammer on a watermelon … ma-hahaha mawaahahahaha … And yes, this is the “non-Ransburg” Mater … in other words, the ‘common’ one … who’s your daddy now? And while NOT […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 May 2009
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The lenticulars are coming … and as noted before, I have nothing against lenticular in general or when applied to CARS – I only question the way they are being distributed but some look very nice straight from Mattel’s photo studio. Of course, to no surprise, it’s not easy to photograph them – how is […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 12 May 2009
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Before beginning this post, you can also read the Red Ransburg post as some of it is treading old ground but we’re also breaking territory and breaking new wind and yes, that is the correct phrase to describe where we stand now. In the words of the the Grinch – stink, stank, stunk. 🙂 As […]