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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 31 May 2009
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SOLD OUT! (for now?) – See link for updated info. Thanks to the eagle-eyes of NascarBroncoFan, it’s all true and very real. Kmart CARS Day II CARS are listed for “email notification.” Click on the graphic or the link to go to Kmart.com. Click on “EMAIL ME WHEN IT’S AVAILABLE” and they will send you […]
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 […]