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Posted in Advertising, collecting, Computing, Design, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 February 2009
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Once upon a time TakeFiveADay.com (and TwoADay) actually posted about other topics besides Mattel Disney Pixar CARS (yea, hard to believe) but we have now cleaved the blog into two parts as we build our EMPIRE! So, be sure and check out our other blog at www.Acmeplex.com … where we will talk about the 11% [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV, Video Games on 3 February 2009
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For those who need an introduction, on the back of the name plate “ticket” on each of the Mattel Disney Pixar diecast CARS is a number. Then go to www.WorldofCARS.com. Be sure and register first(free) and then enter codes to help you build a race car and unlock tracks to race … for now, the [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 23 November 2008
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Once upon a time, the day after Thanksgiving was so named because retailers began to turn a profit for the year with the amount of stuff they would sell in the next 5 weeks … that is not really the case anymore but it sounds IMPOSING – BLACK … FRI-DAY! Still not as good as [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 23 November 2008
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For those who have not seen it, ScoobyDoo (not the real one, our friend here at the site) points out that YouTube has it online … not sure how long it will stay up but here is the inspiration for John and the gang at Pixar … that if you put the eyes on the [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 19 November 2008
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McQueen has paid a visit to the “greatest toy store in France.” (PicWic) Yea, makes me sad to see that there are very few giant toy stores left in the US (if any) where you could drive a McQueen into a store and still have room to drive another car through … Oh oh, looks [...]
Posted in Advertising, Disney Pixar, Film, Internet, Marketing, Media, Retail, TV on 17 November 2008
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I don’t think I really need to sell anyone on the merits of Pixar’s Wall•E … but just wanted to give you a heads up that you might want to consider the 3-disc DVD version of Wall•E coming out tomorrow. There are a planet-full of extras for film fans, Pixar fans and fans of Wall•E [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, Computing, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 November 2008
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Our YouTube Group is up & running. It was hard work. I had to click and type 10 words and then click a bunch more times but we’re up & running. If you haven’t checked out the video links from CARS, be sure and do so. Feel free to link any CARS (or Mighty Muggs) [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 11 November 2008
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If you blog or spend time on the little thing called FaceBook or MySpace, you can now add a widget of OUR RECENT POSTS to see what we’re up to … Just follow the LINK TO OUR PAGE HERE. It’s pretty straightforward to add to FaceBook, MySpace, Blogger, etc, etc … You even have size [...]
Posted in Advertising, collecting, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Toys, TV on 30 October 2008
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A tale that will make you tuck your tailpipe … A CARS scary story … make sure the kids are in bed and most but all but the stoutest adults … carsmama will make you cry like a mama’s baby Tweet This Post
Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Design, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Toys, TV on 16 October 2008
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Every Halloween, Mattel creates special one of a kind items to benefit CAAF, the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation for their auction event & fundraiser – Dream Halloween. Of course, last year, for CARS fans, this was the item that really caught their attention … Ultimately won by the President of TRU for @$13,000 … [...]



