Article Archive for 22 January 2009

Disney Pixar CARS: Mater Tall Tales in Francais
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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Mater’s Tall Tales are up on Disney France … so if you would like to hear Mater speaking French … or as he is called in France, Martin* … Does the Tow Martin thing work in French? 🙂 Tokyo Drift is NOT included in the choices … LINK is HERE – though it not direct […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Faux Wheel Drive UK Promo Ending Soon
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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You have until the end of January to call in your numbers … In other words, 1/31/2009 or of course, those on the wacky-as-metric-system date thing of 31/1/2009.  🙂 Naturally, since you have about a week left, they are starting to appear in stores … more specifically, as Gevart reports from London, UK … “Was […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Movie Moments – The Switchover & UK Road Trip
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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For US readers and buyers, it looks like the announced Movie Moment move to Target is finally moving forward. The “regular” Movie Moments cases are now listed as unavailable for Mattel resellers. There wasn’t much left that was available to order – I believe just the E CASE but again, that is no longer available […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Walmart Mack & Mack’s Only at WM
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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For those who favor the large sized Mack with the wildly large size car carrier, there are a few more coming … Presumably the version with the 3 tuners is being swapped out for this one – and maybe a price drop to around $20 since there are only 2 diecast CARS. You’ll notice that […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Leak Less Hauler Shipping
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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Leak Less Haulers have arrived and is shipping out from Children’s Toy Closet today from Michigan. As far as we can tell, you cannot find it on the store shelves as these are only available as a Direct Import and of course, only CTC has agreed to air freight it in. The rest of the […]