Mattel Disney Pixar CARS

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Holiday CARS 2010
By metroxing
[2 Sep 2010|21 Comments]

All signs point to the holiday CARS returning to Target … will they return to other retailers? That’s unknown as of now. For those who can’t remember back that far, Target got the rounded velcro packaging (much like normal Storytellers) and TRU got the mock snowglobe … of course, Target also got the 5-pack … [...]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Movie Moments Still Alive in the EU
By metroxing
[1 Sep 2010|18 Comments]

“Rippers” sends us some photos of the latest Movie Moments in the UK & EU … Thanks. They’re not exactly “new” new but Damaged King was probably not easy to find as a single … and um, the less said about Tumbleweed McQueen said, the better  The cardback shows a sampling of the “old” ones [...]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS

Disney Pixar CARS: Disney Store 1:43 CARS Coming This Holiday
By metroxing
[31 Aug 2010|21 Comments]

Collecting the Disney Store 1:43 CARS lineup is going to get more complicated but for now, here are the basics (visual checklist coming soon!) … The main releases come on cards (that look like this now) … The nice thing is you can pretty much start collecting at any time as all the 1:43 singles [...]

// Books

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: COMPLETE Visual Opener Checklist Magazine Issue is Complete!
By metroxing
[31 Jul 2010|21 Comments]

Everyone kept asking for it and until now, the releases kept overlapping each other but since we have had a natural-unnatural CARS release break, this seemed a good time to make a symbolic linkage & recap of June 2006 to June 2010. This OPENER CHECKLIST issue includes EVERY single CAR release from Mattel as a [...]

// Checklist

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart Would Like to Know (Survey + Contest!) – UPDATED – Comments Fixed
By tizmanian
[28 May 2010|117 Comments]

The good folks at Kmart are looking for some honest feedback about what you, our dear readers, as collectors of Mattel Disney Pixar Cars think about a few different aspects of this fun pastime. The extra good news:  Each person who completes the survey will earn one (1) additional entry into the case giveaway contest! [...]

// Video Games

Cars Mater-National Video Game Cheat Codes
By tizmanian
[19 Jul 2010|7 Comments]

For all of you Mac OSX video game Cars race fans – now you can take on the Cars: Mater-National with a little old help from yer friends here at Take5!  That’s right, this fun game from THQ that came out a few years ago now has a few ‘assistance’ codes (ahem *cheat* *cough* *Chick [...]

// Uncategorized

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Next Mater Tall Tales Toons Singles – Case H
By metroxing
[29 Jul 2010|42 Comments]

Coming next for the Toon singles (Nearly all the Wrestling CARS will be in the Toon Megasize-Deluxe lineup). Finally scheduled! Dr. Mater Mask Up. And Komodo … these are the new two in the case … of course, both have been out in Europe already. The rest in case you haven’t seen them yet. It [...]

// Apple Mac

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Aroldo CARS2 Apple Piston Cup Racer Custom
By metroxing
[12 Mar 2009|16 Comments]

Of course, the official Apple logo is not a flat gray anymore but a beveled gray … So Aroldo has updated his Apple Piston Cup Racer to be compliant – ready for CARS 2. For typeface geeks, the “84″ looks like it’s the Myriad Pro Black SemiExtended font. Myriad Pro is the quasi official current [...]

// Computing

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online Free To Play This Weekend
By tizmanian
[23 Jul 2010|7 Comments]

Metro passed along the news that there is free online play this weekend only with Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean online! Want to be like Jack Sparrow?  Why, not?  I signed up to play as Lightning McBeard but that was my screen name only apparently. I then had to choose a new handle from three [...]

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New TakeFive Tip Jar Available Using PayPal
By tizmanian
[14 Jul 2009|62 Comments]

You may have noticed the recent addition of a PayPal logo on the upper right side of the TakeFive website that says “Donate” similar to this: I have added the PayPal Donate link on our site for those so inclined to help us ensure Metroxing stays hopped up on pocky and Jolt to keep pumping [...]