Disney Pixar CARS: When in Kansas, Say Hi To Tow Tater ..
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 20 February 2009
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From a feature in TampaBayOnline … about a Pixar CARS Route 66 inspired restaurant. “When the Pixar folks were doing research for “Cars,” they took a trip down Route 66, Renee said. As they passed through Kansas, they spotted the old truck with its boom up, and a tree growing through its middle. Just like […]

TakeFiveADay: MegaHeat Contest #2 (CLUESou!)
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 20 February 2009
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Thanks to MegaHeat’s non clue clues … everyone is scattered everywhere … so you have 36 hours to submit an entry where the weather is much warmer … hint, hint, hint … Meanwhile, BostonScoot will provide travelers aid from one end with his newly restored …1963 Vespa Puma 200 ..old frame with newer 200 cc […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Collectors Field Guide to the Singles – Supercharged: Parts 3 & 4 of 10
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 20 February 2009
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The CARS singles are known as the “mainline.” It is borrowed from the Hot Wheels line connoting that the single CARS on the blister pack is the mother trunk line of CARS, the diecast. But for new collectors or those who for some unfathomable reason were not collecting these in 2006 🙂  , it can […]