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Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Supercharged Checklist Collector’s Guide NOW Available
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Posted in Magazine Checklist, Uncategorized on 20 July 2009
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Volume II-Issue 2 of our magazine is now available. 28 pages and includes EVERYTHING released in the US in the Supercharged Series. Just a sampling of the pages. You can get a full preview & ordering instructions HERE. It is printed “on-demand” so when you order one, they will print one. If you want the […]

Fun on a Friday
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Posted in Uncategorized on 17 July 2009
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Ok, this post may not be CARS related specifically but I think it does fall within the genre of fun and amazing artwork (such as created by Pixar) so here on a Friday, enjoy a look back at a seminal list of cartoon and artist influences over the years (for those of you over 40 […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Final Final Lap Full List
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Uncategorized on 14 July 2009
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These are all the Final lap CARS scheduled for August 2009 to Autumn 2010. Of course, we may not see all of the due to some issue but for now, these are scheduled. I think it’s safe to say we’ll definitely see 90%+ of them but one or two might slip away or might slip […]

HAVING DATABASE ISSUES :-( … – UPDATE – Fixed!
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Posted in Uncategorized on 16 June 2009
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Sorry for the flaky service – having database issues with our host … trying to resolve, meanwhile enjoy the old look of TakeFive 🙂 … TIZMANIAN UPDATE:  I believe I have stabilized the site for the very short term so thank you all for your patience!  The good news / bad news is this: Good […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Switchover Is Beginning
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 10 June 2009
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At your Walmart, here is the last look at the entire gang … the mainline singles will be at Target-only soon as well as the Movie Moments. There are rumors the MINI’s may go exclusive also .. And yes, there is some confusion at some Walmart’s. It is not the current overall plan to mark […]

TakeFiveADay – We’re Back
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Posted in Uncategorized on 2 June 2009
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Apparently spammers decide to hit our web host servers a couple million times so they had to shut down the server … so we’re back! Thanks!

Memorial Day 2009
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Posted in Uncategorized on 24 May 2009
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Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Spare Mint or Spare O Mint
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 12 May 2009
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Do you have a mint to spare? For the variant o mint? Spare us some Variant Mint? What was once Spare Mint is now? O, Spare us! We once had names and apparently now taken over by the Tach-O-Mint corporation? … Or it’s a Scottish ancestry thing? Thanks for spotting the name change, MackDaddy or […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Value of Open & The Value of Sealed
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 17 March 2009
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Kari C. asked an interesting question about what would be more valuable – CARS cards that are sealed or CARS & cards opened … and of course, the general and quickest inclination would be to answer – sealed. Which is generally correct but CARS presents an interesting and usual set of further circumstances that might […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Return & News of Sarge
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 11 March 2009
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Returning in mid summer … Chase Salutin’ Sarge will be returning first … I know there are a couple hundred reasons this is not logical as ‘chase’ generally implies something that might be as less desirable so you want to goose sales a little with variants and ‘chase’ variants but then, why ask why did […]