Articles in the Financial Category

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Rule the Known Universe? Well, The WorldofCARS.com Part?
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Disney Pixar, Film, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media Companies, TV, Toys on 27 October 2008
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Thanks for the heads up Danny … You will remember us at TakeFive, right?
Marketing Manager (Cars) @ The Walt Disney Company - Disney Interactive Media

Job Description
Marketing Manager (Cars) – JOB ID 142604Come play a leading role in the growth of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG), the online division of the Walt Disney Company. Disney [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Smart Union Toy Factory - No Direct Effect on CARS
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Financial, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, diecast on 20 October 2008
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Some of you may have read about the SMART UNION TOY FACTORY closing due to the economic slowdown but as we might selfishly ask, “How does this affect me, CARS collector extraordinare?”
This particular factory did not work on any CARS 1:55 diecast items.
Though they are probably cursing Mattel for making them work on these …
At [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The Cards of World of CARS
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, Design, Film, Financial, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 20 October 2008
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While the card design changes again this autumn, for the third year in a row for those keeping track, the World of CARS banner actually continues as the umbrella name. The new singles mainline is now called WORLD OF CARS: RACE O RAMA …
And now as the last WORLD OF CARS cards (without the Race [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart CARS Collector Day - Online Phase
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, Financial, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, diecast on 19 October 2008
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For those that missed out, Kmart.com has the following banner on their website. It downloads a PDF which is just the CARS flyer except the words on the top have been replaced with this:

Since Kmart.com does sell the Hot Wheels cases after an “event,” it looks like they will sell CARS cases online also. Not [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart CARS Collector Days Recap
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Financial, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, diecast on 18 October 2008
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It seems for 95-98% of CARS buyers who were able to get to a Kmart, it was rated as acceptable to good to ‘no one else is here?!’ great
In my case, there was the long waiting since they would only allow one box open at a time and I was nearly last but [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The UK Poster & Promotions
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Financial, Magazine, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, comics, diecast on 17 October 2008
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Jon in the UK was kind enough to send us a scan of the new poster from the UK CARS magazine - along with the latest UK promotional offer of BUY 6, send in UPC’s and get a free CAR:

Or log onto www.carstoys.co.uk for more details - though strangely, nothing is up yet, guess they [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The Peg Pictorial
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, Financial, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 14 October 2008
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First, the best supermarket to find CARS - Fred Meyer … not only always supporting CARS but usually with a nice sale … as noted by Pete, Mattel probably gave them a deal on 2008 B Cases … a nice deal if you’re just starting out …
(funny, my local TRU seems to have gotten some [...]