Articles in the Marketing Category
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 24 January 2009
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We showed off this TRU exclusive a while back and it seems to have hit the shelves … It looks nice and for most lines, a 16-CAR carrier would be a nice addition but in this case, we would pretty much need 10 of them and that would just get us caught up to today […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 23 January 2009
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Joe, aka: Megaheat … or better know as MEGAHEAT2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 is offering a CARS singles prize package of “1 edwin kranks 1 tank coat pitty 1 luke pettlework 1 roman dunes.” Contest is very simple. Below is a photo of TRU’s shelf. Name one CARS item (of any scale) in the comments below. You must […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 23 January 2009
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I finally updated the recap page – top right column … So, if you missed anything or are just starting out – hopefully, the recap page will answer some of your questions … Oh, BTW – this is post #1,000 here at TakeFiveaDay & TwoaDay … I think I need a nap … 2,500 photos […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 23 January 2009
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I think this beautiful illustration from Caitlin/FPG sums it up nicely … The squirrels took over the asylum but order has been restored … So, yea, this case B above … um, not. The original CASE B was and is still CASE B. Chick Hicks (1) Shifty Drug (2) Tank Coat (1) Vitoline (2) And […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 23 January 2009
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When Mack was released as an “Oversized-Megasized” Cab only … there was an oddity in that there was no trailer hitch hole. We knew the haulers were coming so it seemed odd that the Megasize Mack Semi would have no trailer hitch hole … especially since it’s not like we could buy a ‘competitors’ trailer […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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Mater’s Tall Tales are up on Disney France … so if you would like to hear Mater speaking French … or as he is called in France, Martin* … Does the Tow Martin thing work in French? 🙂 Tokyo Drift is NOT included in the choices … LINK is HERE – though it not direct […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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You have until the end of January to call in your numbers … In other words, 1/31/2009 or of course, those on the wacky-as-metric-system date thing of 31/1/2009. 🙂 Naturally, since you have about a week left, they are starting to appear in stores … more specifically, as Gevart reports from London, UK … “Was […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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For US readers and buyers, it looks like the announced Movie Moment move to Target is finally moving forward. The “regular” Movie Moments cases are now listed as unavailable for Mattel resellers. There wasn’t much left that was available to order – I believe just the E CASE but again, that is no longer available […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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For those who favor the large sized Mack with the wildly large size car carrier, there are a few more coming … Presumably the version with the 3 tuners is being swapped out for this one – and maybe a price drop to around $20 since there are only 2 diecast CARS. You’ll notice that […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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Leak Less Haulers have arrived and is shipping out from Children’s Toy Closet today from Michigan. As far as we can tell, you cannot find it on the store shelves as these are only available as a Direct Import and of course, only CTC has agreed to air freight it in. The rest of the […]