Articles in the Retail Category
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 9 December 2008
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Case D is just starting to ship from the warehouse and CASE E should be out in January. Case D singles should be the last ‘new’ CARS item to leave the warehouse in calendar year 2008. Keep in mind, January cases are generally the hardest to find at the big three retailers. And yes, a […]
Posted in Advertising, Apple, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Video, Video Games on 9 December 2008
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Added to the front of BOLT this Friday is the latest CARS TOONS short – Tokyo Mater. This will be the 4th Mater’s Tall Tales short – though the longest – almost 6 minutes long and maybe the last – at least for a while. So, for those hatin’ on Expanded Universe CAR TOONS – […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 December 2008
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Luca was nice enough to send a copy of the WORLD OF CARS and the Storytellers series story – released in Italy and in Italian as “Story of Radiator Springs.” The front cover art has a lot of raised reflective effects so it scans a little dark … In Italy, he’s also Saetta (Lightning) McQueen […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 December 2008
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This looks like the best deal of the week at Kmart … of course, if you live near my Kmart’s … not so much on the actual choices … Please, for the love that is holy and plasticky, please take these off our hands … (Toys R Us) Um, really? Okay, I guess if you […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 December 2008
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Walmart apparently has a new strategy … we’ll order a bunch of stuff, we’ll make sure it’s shipped to us first and then we’ll stack it sky high in gardening and cover it with a tarp. I’m not exactly sure this is a money making strategy but it is a strategy. Humm, what could be […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 December 2008
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Also beating Walmart, Target & TRU to the launchers … Now appearing at a GIANT Supermarket near you, CASE B of the launchers … (this was Samuel R’s photo from Lewis Drugs in South Dakota) Jason T. found them at his GIANT Supermarket in the Virginia-Maryland-Greater DC metro area so you might want to pop […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 December 2008
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As most people guessed, buy 6 CARS in the UK with a special sticker, get Faux Wheel Drive. Dave S. of the UK was nice enough to send along photos … You need a CAR with a special sticker on the front. (That’s January 31, 2009 – those wacky Europeans with their metric system and […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 December 2008
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Now that 2008 is officially over and 2009 is already in full swing – start to clear space in your bank account and your house for the expansion of the Expanded Universe CARS TOONS line … one component will be a new playset … Yep, the Canyon Jump playset … (CARS sold separately of course […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 December 2008
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Enough To Choke a wagon train of Clydesdales … TRU – launchers and singles? Whatever. We will corner the market on the Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge! We’ll take 100,000 of these and mark them all down to breakeven what we paid for them so we can’t make a dime on them! That’ll show ’em! Don’t […]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 December 2008
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Of course, this is the WOC playmat but if you guessed or said, man – wouldn’t life be grand if we had a STORYTELLERS playmat? Your greatest wishes have been granted – I don’t actually have a photo of it so you’ll have to use your imagination and merge the artwork from here with the […]