Articles in the Retail Category

Nanny State Border Patrol Stops You From Choking on Tokyo Mater
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 13 January 2011
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In Turkey (and in Germany and the rest of the world), you can get chocolate eggs with a CAR inside … Either from Kinder or Zaini … [Kinder Egg Photo from: Flickr/brandoncripps] Seems pretty straightforward … Eat the chocolate, do NOT eat the plastic toy inside … Cute new line – photos from Altan. Yes, […]

Disney Pixar CARS: Amazon Deals & Pre Orders
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Posted in Film, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 13 January 2011
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The CARS Blu Ray is being re-released yet again with a new cover … There’s really not much new other than if you want the Blu Ray without the two diecast CARS and in this go around, you get also the “One Man Band” Short and the “Inspiration For Cars” in HD that was only […]

iPhone: There are Times You Want to (Lego) Brick Your iPhone
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Posted in iPhone, Retail on 12 January 2011
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From Smallworks … a real Lego-compatible iPhone case … Comes in Black … … Clear … or White … Sold via Amazon so free shipping with PRIME or $25 order …  

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Collecting CARS on ‘Desert Art’ Cards
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 10 January 2011
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Last week, we discussed collecting CARS – through the years as Mattel changed motifs and designs, how the CARS were generally repeated so if you’re opening them or just collecting one of each, some aspects are relatively straightforward – in particular – if a CAR had a particularly nameplate, there were not a lot of […]

Pay It Forward: A Very Merry Christmas
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 9 January 2011
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As you know, David Y. & Family (Samurai60 & sons) every few times a year tries to help out another family with kids … who because of “real world” situations that ultimately affect the kids – when kids should just having kid-fun … You can read the last post HERE and this year’s Christmas family […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Target & TRU Clearance
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 8 January 2011
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The Target & TRU post holiday clearance has begun … Probably not enough to clear the shelves … Target’s clearance varies – so look around – it’s $10.98 here but there are places where it’s lower. Haulers are on sale – doesn’t look like anything new. And last chance at TRU! No, really – last […]

Disney Pixar CARS: The TRU Wood CARS + Mack Recall?
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 6 January 2011
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“K (Carkiya)” was nice enough to send us pics of his kid’s TRU exclusive Wooden CARS … Very nice … not a lot of other properties where you can build two Mattel versions (1:55 & mini adventures) of Radiator Springs along with a Disney Store version, a GeoTrax version and now a wood version (plus […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Collecting CARS – New Year, Last Year and Welcome to CARS Diecast
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 3 January 2011
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Hello all if you’re new to CARS or just starting recently … here’s a state of the state … Oh boy, where do we start. Well, some of us have been at it since 2006 so you have a little catching up to do … this poster will give you a snapshot of what your […]

Disney Pixar CARS: The New Mater Books and Art of CARS 2
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Posted in Books, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 2 January 2011
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Still in pre order but shipping in 3 weeks, the collected stories of Mater Tall Tales Toons … Mater Treasury of Tall Tales includes “novelizations” of Monster Truck Wrestling, PI mater and Moon Mater and all the stories from the first two Mater books. So if you have these two below, only 33% of the […]

One of Big Mysteries of Universe Solved – “How Much Did it Cost AOL to Send All Those CD-ROM’s in the 1990’s?”
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Posted in Internet, Retail on 28 December 2010
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For those alive in the 1990’s … every few days if not EVERYDAY, AOL would send out diskettes, CD-ROM’s and DVD’s in hopes you would slip in your computer and the AUTORUN would take over from there … (well, at least on PC’s). The rarest AOL disc offer? The one on an 8.25″ floppy disk […]