Welcome to Saturday and the announcement of our four winners for the THQ Race-O-Rama games contest! Our two “NitroAde Style” Winners are: SCANDELL and HEINZ57BABY Here are their two winning entries: “I love CARS gaming because the games give my 5 year old son the ability to win the Piston Cup all by himself; and […]

Metroxing emailed me a quick snapshot while standing in queue (for our Brit friends) at the San Diego Comic Con as seen here: As it turns out, this is only the Fast Pass line.  For those that have not been there, you race upstairs to Autograph Area 8 and get your Fast Pass, you are […]

Bad news from Metro’s road trip to Comic Con: I just received word from Metro that the mega sized Case M which was to scheduled to include the much awaited and anticipated Richard Clayton Kensington Police SUV will NOT be included in Case M. This is a bit of a downer but there is other […]

This is a fun list of songs posted by Tizmanian via the online service imeem.  Have some fun this friday.  Kick back, relax and roll! TakeFive Muzak

According to TV 19 in San Francisco, Metroxing has been sucked into a streetsweeper in a nasty street accident. See the live report here: Apparently, Metroxing thought he saw a rare Red Ransberg in the gutter outside his home.   We hope he is on the mend soon and we apologize for any TakeFive news update […]

There are plenty of ways to show ones affiliation, angst, anxiety, pleasure, pain, and desire via the American propensity for t-shirts.  As such, we at TakeFive, thought you, dear intrepid readers, would establish a ken for our cotton based zen such as here. Shameless plug aside, I think it is time to survey our readership […]

Taking a further look into the entrails of our web analytics we find another interesting nugget of info.  The Top 10 cities where we currently are gaining visitors reveals mostly U.S. cities but there are indeed two non-U.S. cities that make the Top 10. Have your guesses in place before reading on.  Are you ready? […]

Peeking under the hood of the TakeFiveADay.com can be rather interesting.  When Metroxing and I decided to tackle another blog, we really didn’t know just what would turn people on regarding content which is why our first six months or so we wrote just about anything.  Since we are both media and culture omnivores, it […]

Bow down to your master!  Revealed for the first time anywhere on the internets!  Behold, one room of the collection of Metroxing! Just kidding, fellow TakeFivers!   The photo above is from an article in Wired for the Action Figure and Toy Museum located in … wait for it … Pauls Valley, Oklahoma!  You can view […]

I ducked into a KB Toys close out store to see Cars I could nab for a song when I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this: Man, I have seen some stretches in the licensing game and while this is not one of the most egregious examples, I think the licensor could […]