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Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Birds Top of the Food Chain?

I know some of you think I’m crazy and that all I see is birdseed when I go to Walmart … well, thanks to Amy/Bravo1616 who is a thousand miles away from me - she snapped a typical pic that proves they’re not just trying to drive me crazy in NoCal …

I think that’s enough food to choke a parakeet the size of a horse …

Now if we did have parakeets the size of horses, I’d be all for feeding parakeets tons and tons of food but were all birds laying prone on the sidewalk weak from hunger before Walmart?

Is Walmart run by a giant bird race of aliens I’m unaware of? (if so, I apologize for inferring that we should not bow before our sparrow overlords).

Don’t most birds in North America have wings?

There’s no way they can find something to eat?

Don’t we want them to fly around and eat flying insects and small creepy critters?

We on the other hand are weak and need others to heat metals to pour into molds, paint them and then ship to within a distance we can fossil-fuel to …

We cannot fly. We prefer not to eat flesh off the side of the road (unless of course, it’s served by a guy wearing a paper hat, then give us two and that cinnamon stick thing).

Of course, if you want to know what roadkill tastes like …

Or we don’t want CARS on a pallet because they would cheapen our stores and clutter it all up …

But yet - smack dab in the middle of the front of the store, um … is that a sample of Canola Oil for tasting … um, yum … all the free generic brand canola oil I can do shots of?

What kind of sampling is that?

So, summary - no CARS, no Hydrox Cookies … but all the canola oil shots and hernia-sized birdeseed boxes I can carry off.

If Kmart replaced Woolworth’s and Walmart replaced Kmart, I think we need a new meglomart in the US …

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18 Comments »

  1. That’s funny, except there that it isn’t bird seed around here; it’s batteries. There are THREE (yes, three!) battery cubes in my local WM alone, not counting all the other crazy stores. And, as is well documented, I have never in my life seen a Cars cube. Oh well, I’ll think positive: Black Friday will be my lucky day! :D

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    Monica Reply:
    November 17th, 2008 at 10:00 am

    I saw one once at the Clairemont WM long ago. It was the Spring one with Stacy in it. I nearly died of shock. I’ve never seen once since.

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    racerguyinsd Reply:
    November 17th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Wow, there has actually been a cube in Southern California?! Maybe I will go there on Black Friday… ;)

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    //racerguy
    15 November 2008 at 9:56 pm

  2. oh no…at my WM, there are 3 cubes of “Now You Can Dress Just Like Barbie, matching clothes so your little girl can look just like me!”….yeah like we want our daughters and granddaughters to look “just like Barbie”!

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    //Flik'sFriend
    15 November 2008 at 10:09 pm

  3. No bird seed in Tacoma/Lakewood Washington State. Plenty of Hulk action figures on one cube. Yards and yards of peg board with other Hulk figures. There’s another cube with Indiana Jones action figure sets, in addition to another end cap of more Indiana Jones figures. The Speed Racer end cap is still going strong with absolutely ZERO sales activity.

    Again, Hot Wheels and cars pegs are bare! Even the Hasbro exclusive Marvel Legend figure pegs are bare.

    The newspapers and media service lament daily about the lack of consumer spending. Heck, if the stores asked customers what they wanted and provided it, some of the greenbacks in my wallet would get spent. Actually, retailers cannot blame this old guy for not spending $$$. I went to a model train EXPO in Puyallup, WA where there was $$$ being tossed around like confetti. We got money honey! You just don’t want to give me what I want. I think I’ll go get my granddaughter and go buy some High School Musical dolls!

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    crazyforcarsakajim Reply:
    November 16th, 2008 at 1:10 am

    hello in Tacoma area… transplanted Federal Wayan here!!!

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    //Steve AKA: Poppa
    15 November 2008 at 10:55 pm

  4. We have boat loads of birdseed at our Wm’s since Canada has no mosquitoes and no vegetation to speak of! Our ailses are clogged with Transformer Cubes AND Transformer Cage Bins Of Death!! Which, is actually okay, since PirateSOn’s bday is the 26th, and there is NO cars gift he could recieve he does not already have that is available in Canada, we have been forced to ask guests at his cars bday party to buy him transformers… For anyone wishing to donate to the PirateSon bday find, donations can be made at your local paypal under PirateDadCarsFund!!

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    Flik'sFriend Reply:
    November 16th, 2008 at 1:03 am

    hahahahahaha, have that marked in my paypal contacts!!!! ;)

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    crazyforcarsakajim Reply:
    November 16th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    ok, check this out. tonight after music practice I go to walmart with my daughter. 8 stacks of toys in the aisles that are all over 7 feet tall. NOT ONE CASE OF ANYTHING RESEMBLING A CAR!! I didnt however check the stock of birdseed.

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    //PirateDad
    16 November 2008 at 12:57 am

  5. hey Met~
    don’t know about the parakeets laying on their side dying of hunger where you live, but where I live it’s the dang SEAGULLS, and I don’t even live close to the ocean!!!!

    (MET: Dying seagulls strewn about? They probably don’t put that in the tourist guide :-) ).

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    //Flik'sFriend
    16 November 2008 at 1:18 am

  6. If the birds don’t get their WM birdseed…the human race will suffer the consequences!

    http://www.walmart.com/catalog/detail.gsp?image=http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/02/70/84/54/0002708454746_500X500.jpg&product_id=9729218&iIndex=1&isVariant=false&corpCard=false&type=0

    (MET: Great picture - damn, I wish I knew there was a BIRDS MOVIE BARBIE … or is that just STROLLING IN THE PARK BARBIE :-) ).

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    Flik'sFriend Reply:
    November 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    hahahahaha!!!! That is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!!!! Are they going to come out with a “Physcho” Barbie next??? :)

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    //Fiddleheads in Maine
    16 November 2008 at 7:01 am

  7. Walmart info-I had the assistant manager check the new upc codes. The launcher are there, but the sigles are not.
    He did not know, however, where any new “Cars” cases were. He did not offer to go check, or really to even care that
    I was there with money to spend. The pallet was not there. The “scanner gun” did say that a lot of new single cars were
    coming. Just a little info. Hope it helps.

    (MET: Thanks for the update. The singles are probably shipping next week as the warehouses seem to be finally shipping again … whether they get on the shelf is the next question but still good to know. Thanks).

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    //jason
    16 November 2008 at 8:01 pm

  8. On my way to work I stopped at a WM I went to last week and had them check the numbers for the singles and the launchers, well this week his telzon gun tells him there are 324 singles on order where as last week it only said 108! But it still says 72 Launchers on order. Tomoroow is the 18th and that is the day I was told that all black Friday blitz items are supposed to be coming in on the trucks to the stores!

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    //Tommy
    17 November 2008 at 2:53 pm

  9. tommy thought u said they already had the haulers which would be in the cube with all the singles,launchers ?

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    Tommy Reply:
    November 17th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    This is not the same Walmart! I dont carry the numbers to the haulers with me so I cant check for them I just take a car or launcher to him and he scans it with his telzon and tells me whats there and whats on order or in transit. This paticular Walmart is right next to my work, the other Walmart is about 20 minutes to the north of it.I did go there today also and they did not have anything except a couple oversized and some older singles, and 3 packs. Im going in the morning really early to see if maybe, the pallet is sitting out on the floor, because if not it should be the next night, since its the 18th,because if it comes in and they dont put it out right away, they will put it back in the back room,and who knows when it will come out again!

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    scott Reply:
    November 17th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    awesome let us know

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    //scott
    17 November 2008 at 4:42 pm

  10. Fred is a Trabant. These were made in the former East Germany & are vying for honors as the world’s worst car.

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    //Art L
    17 November 2008 at 8:58 pm

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