Looks like Walmart is changing up the mix of their stores to go after former Circuit City customers …
As the WSJ reports …
“Wal-Mart also is leveraging a more subtle advantage it boasts over standalone electronics chains: a mom-heavy clientele. Retailers say women often have final say over household purchases of new video games and televisions.”
People [...]

Take Five A Day: The Magazine!
You asked for it and now, you can on-demand it!

Issue #1 of our magazine is available for order! 20 full-color pages devoted just to the DESERT ART series … Other than a few pages of text, the magazine is entirely comprised of full color checklists for however you are collecting [...]

Complete your Disney Pixar CARS CARS decoratin’ with a Lightning McQueen phone.

It’s look very nice, it’s the 1:24 Lightning but with a cord
Of course, you’ll have to explain to the kids that the headset portion actually is attached by a wire to the phone base …

How quaint.
Kids will be stumped how they can [...]

Finally, a solution that we can all get behind … the Fisher-Price Power Wheels Lightning McQueen …
SWWWWEEEETTTTTT!!!!!!!

Battery Powered to save the environment!
No Dinoco Gas needed here, thank you very much.

Shifter – all the settings anyone needs – fast, twice as fast and reverse*.
okay, in this case – fast means 2.5 MPH and twice as fast [...]

Hey, I’m all about the gimmicky … I mean, who doesn’t want candy you can reconfigure 33 different ways?

For the Octover issue, Esquire mag added an e-ink element to the front cover …
E-ink in theory will be cool one day, a wafer thing sheet of an LCD like screen that can be re-fresh, updated and [...]

While the calendar year has a few more months to run (119 shopping days until you know what day) … the CARS year is just about over. In the next week or so, CASE T should ship and 2008 by the CARS Calendar will have come to a close. As part of the ancient ritual, [...]

“PirateDad” says anyone can collect the Mattel Disney Pixar Pitty’s – only a real pirate collects 1:1 scale Pitty’s. Here’s his “Stacy” and “Trunk Fresh’s Pitty.”

Or alternative caption, “PirateDad” typical CARS collector readies his backup forklift to bring in this months shipments of singles, 3-packs, movie moments, value packs, playsets, box sets, exclusives. [...]

Now that we have a couple hundred loose CARS, playsets and trailers coming – we really need something to carry it all around – and of course, we want wheels so it’s mobile …
I think this 53″ Kobalt tool chest might fit the bill, I think the MSOS set might even fit in the top [...]

With Movie Moments moving to Target, it looks like the 3-packs will absorb some of the CARS scheduled for Movie Moments. So while it won’t be exclusively racers, pit crew & crew chiefs going forward – it does still have a Piston Cup leaning … What hasn’t changed, Cases D, E, F & G. They [...]