Articles in the Magazine Category
Posted in Advertising, Film, Magazine, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, diecast on 30 October 2008
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Sure, a single car might cost $8 USD after conversion or a launcher for $22 after conversion but this magazine will make you pine for Italy - never mind the history, the food, the weather and the people …
“Welcome to Italy? Your reason for a visit to our beautiful country?”
“Your CARS magazine!”
Of course - for [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, Magazine, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting, diecast on 6 October 2008
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(This is a post that was originally part of a post on answering the cost of what Chase ‘Stickers’ McQueen future value will be but it was hard to find and search for so split up & moved here).
Basically, every CARS limited item has increased in value and held steady for long periods of time. [...]
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, updated and [...]
Posted in Advertising, Checklist, Magazine, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, collecting on 4 September 2008
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The Target Value 2-Packs have been reduced to $7.48
This includes both the Movie Moments packs and the Pit Row Race Off (launchers) 2-packs.
It might’ve been some grand plan that Mattel & Target worked out - we’ll sell you Value Packs at $6 and see how many you can sell at $14.99 and then you can [...]
See You at the Con! (The Comic Con)Posted in Advertising, Checklist, Film, Internet, Magazine, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, TV, Toys, Video, Video Games, collecting, comics on 21 July 2008
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Here’s a schedule of things to do.
Um, no way to see or do it all so pick and choose and as noted, sometimes the people in the room are not leaving so you might not get into everything.
Eat lunch early or late but do not eat lunch between 11:45 and 1:15 … everyone else decides [...]
Disney Pixar CARS: McQueen’s “Japanese Cousin” Wins GT Round 3Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, Disney Pixar, Film, Gadgets, Magazine, Marketing, Media, Politics, Sports, TV, Toys, collecting on 7 June 2008
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(Shhh, nobody tell Al Oft and those Lightyear Guys)
Lightning McQueen #95 wins the 3rd Round of Super GT300 Series in Japan (click on the 300GT Tab) at the Fuji Speedway (all in Japanese, BTW).
Official Circuit Website page for the #95 Team with driver info.*
Cool - actual working headlights, I like it.
Here’s some quick video clips [...]
