Articles in the Gadgets Category

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Walmart – More iPods, Wii’s – Less CARS?
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Apple, Film, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, diecast on 18 May 2009
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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 [...]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Take Five With You Where Ever You Go!
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Books, CARS, Checklist, Design, Film, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Mobile, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, diecast on 17 May 2009
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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 [...]

Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: It’s a Phone, Home …
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Film, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 23 March 2009
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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 [...]

Disney Pixar CARS: Global Warming Averted!
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Disney Pixar, Film, Gadgets, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys on 19 September 2008
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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 [...]

Esquire E-Ink Cover: 21st Century 0, Recycling Police 1
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, Magazine, Marketing, Retail on 12 September 2008
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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, [...]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The State of the Retail Buying State
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 27 August 2008
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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, [...]

The New 1:1 Scale Pitty
By metroxing
Posted in CARS, Gadgets, Toys on 23 August 2008
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“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. The [...]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Kobalt “Carrying Case”
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Gadgets, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 19 August 2008
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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 [...]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Gift 3-Pack Assortments (Fall 2008 Update)
By metroxing
Posted in Advertising, Checklist, Computing, Film, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 15 August 2008
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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 [...]