Article Archive for September 2008

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The Shadow Guide
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Posted in Advertising, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 20 September 2008
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And now, for something completely different … Yes, it was all so simple then …

Mattel Kmart Hot Wheels Event – Maine
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel, Retail, Toys on 20 September 2008
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Here’s the scoop from a Fiddlehead in Maine about how the Hot Wheels event this morning at Kmart … if it goes as smoothly for CARS, there will be much rejoicing … The KM Event went a little differently for us because there were more cases than people. I arrived 15 minutes before 9am and […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Collecting Packaging Variants – Twice as Nice?
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Posted in Advertising, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 19 September 2008
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I didn’t set out to collect them but when you have piles of CARS around you and the odds of selling off Crusin’ McQueen now for $150 are pretty remote … might as well stack them by my gold bullion collection … Basically, the original WOC cards featured the CARS in a relatively flat position […]

Detroit City: Say Hello to Children’s Toy Closet This Sunday
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 19 September 2008
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Traver and his staff of Children’s Toy Closet will at the Detroit City Hot Wheels Club Show this Sunday, September 21, 2008 from 10 AM to 3 PM (early bird entry & extra fee is at 9 AM). He will have CARS, Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightning and he will be dressed as the Children’s Toy […]

When Eating Chocolate, Um, Make Sure It’s NOT “Chocolately.”
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Posted in Advertising, Food, Marketing, Retail, Science on 19 September 2008
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It sounds pretty much the same thing … chocolate? chocolatey? FROM RawGuru.com, um, looks good enough to eat … Well, this process is apparently too complicated for the Hershey, the “Great American Chocolate Bar?” is now sadly, the “Middling ‘Chocolate-like’ thingermajigger … Yep, for “Whatchamacallit, Milk Duds, Mr. Goodbar and Krackel no longer have milk […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Honey, We Need More Bling Bling …
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Posted in Advertising, Checklist, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 19 September 2008
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Who doesn’t need more Bling Bling? Yes, the shiny kind. Yes, it’s got wheels and it’ll fit in the garage … And yes, it’s Bling Bling Lightning McQueen variant #2 Hard to tell from photo but in real life – the “headlamps” on the Supercharged Bling Bling McQueen (first appearance) is more light orange while […]

Disney Pixar CARS: Global Warming Averted!
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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 […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Speedway of the South – 42 Losers
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Toys, TV on 18 September 2008
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In one of the first lines we hear in “voice-over” from CARS is the line … “1 winner, 42 losers, I eat losers for breakfast.” Meaning, of course, there are 42 OTHER racers out there … just as with a typical NASCAR starting grid – 43 cars out there. We were sure of the 36 […]

eBay PayPal: Auction Problems, Filing Claims & Charges
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Retail on 18 September 2008
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EM was kind enough to send along the new FBI online fraud website so here’s a brief recap of your possible courses of actions when an auction goes awry. YOU ARE YOUR OWN KEEPER Unfortunately, the first onus is on you to read everything carefully and see if the auction and the seller passes the […]

Paging Scott of Charter.Net – Stickers McQueen is Waiting For You
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Posted in Uncategorized on 17 September 2008
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Scott, you won the sub contest of a ‘stickers’ McQueen – we have your IP address but not your email so send us an email from your charter.net email address and we can send you a Stickers McQueen. If we don’t hear from you by Friday night, it’ll go back into the pool …