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TakeFive Community: Say Hello to Buckland Blowouts, Brown Fury, Popeye, & BeautifulSorta

For anyone who wants to introduce themselves, step right up and answer these questions three (or more) (or make up your own- we’re not picky other than answering the FIRST one so we know who you are) 🙂

SIGNIN NAME?

BIO?

WHEN DID YOU START?

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CAR YOU GOT?

HOW LONG BEFORE YOU HAD CAR #2?

WHEN DID YOU DECIDE/REALIZE YOU NEEDED MORE THAN ONE?

WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU HAD TO GO BIG INTO THIS THING?

WHAT WAS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE HEARD ABOUT COLLECTING THESE CARS? (NEVER YOU, SOME OTHER PERSON’S CRAZY STORY 🙂 ).

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE CAR?

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION?

Send an email with photos to: metroxing@takefiveaday.com

(If you’re under 18 and sending a pic, be sure and include a note of permission from parents/adult, etc … thanks!)

SAY HI TO Buckland Blowouts & Parker (Cute Baby ALERT! 🙂 ).

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Sign in Name – buckland-blowouts

Bio –
Hey there!  Philippe here!  I am a 34 year old Cars-o-holic.  Professionally, I act for a livin’ in Toronto Canada. (I plan on becomin’ a rock star too! HA!)  I am very lucky as my wife supports me in my arts and finds my passion for collecting Cars “healthy”!!! Together, we have a great lil’ three year old Dude named Parker who loves Cars almost as much as I do.  Our new addition to the family, Chase, is only two months old and garsh darn it, she hates being in the car! AHHH!!! Gonna have to fix that!!!

When did I start –
Some time in the spring of ’07…We fell in love with the movie and watched it every day – Parker and I that is – That’s probably around when we started collectin’.

What was the first car you bought
My wife picked up a set from the Disney Store with five or six characters in it.  Parker immediately fell in love with Doc and Luigi.  He slept with them every night and took them wherever he went.  So far, they have seen Mexico, England and the sand dunes of Prince Edward County! As far as the first die cast Car is concerned, I would have to say it was either a Yellow or green Ramone we found at the Supermarket…

How long before you had car number two –
Well, when we realized Parker’s adoration for those silly little Cars, we searched high and low for the second set of plastic Cars from the Disney Stores… That I remember very vividly!!!  Oh the horror!!!

When did you realize you had to go big into this thing –
I got lucky and scored a SOTS set from RLC (I almost didn’t get my membership for reasons beyond my control) and thought: “OK, this is the start of a wonderful thing called ‘collecting’ which I have never done, but am lucky enough to have found something that I love – Cars – and it is something I will give to, and share with, my lil’ guy for years to come!!!”

What is the craziest thing I’ve heard about collecting these Cars –
Spendin’ ten-times-too-much-money on a LSMQ from SDCC because HE thought for sure they would be impossible to get unless you were actually in San Diego!!! – DUH!!!

PS – We are very lucky to be part of a great community of collectors who help each other and support the addiction!!!

What’s your favorite Car –
That would be Ramone; In his “Cruisin’/Old School” outfit.

What are you waiting for to add to your collection –
Well, other that the prized Takefiveaday Ramone, the Hydraulic Ramone in Super-sized format definitely tops the list…  And that Red Ransburg VI would be pretty sweet too!!!

SAY HI TO Brown Fury. First picture, exactly what you want to see as a UPS truck is screaming up to your rear view 🙂 … this family photo is clear a fake, everyone looks normal though they are all dressed in brown 🙂 …

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Emma, my lovely wife Donna, (the dork in the middle is me!), Forrest and Brittyn).

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A WM Mack Hauler is nice but I wanna see Del in CARS 2 or at least have UPS as sponsor! If McQueen is gonna race CARs all over the world, what could be more perfect than to race a UPS Truck? Dale Jarrett can do his voice – it’s practically writes itself!

SIGNIN NAME? Brown Fury

BIO?
I’m a big dork who cannot act my age.  I’m the resident UPS driver for takefiveaday.  I’ve been married 15 years and have three kids (though my wife could argue that I’m her 4th child…).  My collection centers on the Piston Cup racers and pittys (but not necessarily the crew chiefs) mixed with a smattering of everything else.  My cars habit is second to my model railroad habit, though I can find and “afford” more cars than I can trains.

WHEN DID YOU START?
I guess it was Spring 2007 based on my next answer.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CAR YOU GOT?
I think it was Fred.

HOW LONG BEFORE YOU HAD CAR #2?
Not sure, but it was very soon after, and if it wasn’t Fred, it was Snot Rod.

WHEN DID YOU DECIDE/REALIZE YOU NEEDED MORE THAN ONE
?
Once I started to pay attention to the Piston Cup sponsors, and it all began with Leakless’s adult drip pans!  Re-Volting and Tow Cap are by far the funniest!

WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU HAD TO GO BIG INTO THIS THING?
Once I had essentially given up on my Star Wars habit and Johnny Lightning became boring I needed a new habit, didn’t I?  Doesn’t help these things are relatively plentiful and SOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!

WHAT WAS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE HEARD ABOUT COLLECTING THESE CARS? (NEVER YOU, SOME OTHER PERSON’S CRAZY STORY  ).
Craziest?  Stories and miscellaneous harassment on the message boards is enough to make any of us crazy, but I think PirateDad is the craziest among us!  (Thanks for enabling us MET!)

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE CAR?
Only one?? I’m rather fond of Re-Volting, Mood Springs, Trunk Fresh, Mood Springs, RPM, Mood Springs, Tow Cap and Mood Springs!

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION?  MOOD SPRINGS,
Hank, Greta, Tach-O-Mint (gotta have the brown one!), Mood Springs Pitty, Hugo Fast (Oops, sorry, Mattel revoked his name, it’s Nitroade Pitty now… way to make it boring!).  I would love to get a MSOS, but I’m only 11 cars short of building my own!

SAY HI TO Popeye (What, no picture of you shirtless on a Vespa? (see below) 🙂 ).

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SIGNIN NAME? Popeye

BIO?
I’m Jason, to pay the bills I’m an Antique Auto Trimmer and Vintage Italian Scooter restoration specialist..I’m 38 (hah, cracks me up everytime I see that) and have been with my lovely wife Ricki since 1991, we have to unbelievably awesome boys, Jackson and Reese.. My wife is a waitress and Friday night is always a big night..so the boys and I make that our movie night,  we always go to opening night premieres..I still have the TrU free Cars movie ticket promo from back in the day. Oh Yeah, I also have a few tattoos…my back is the animals of the zodiac…My 1st son Jackson is the Year of the Dragon, Reese is the Horse, Ricki is the Rat and of course I’m a Dog!

WHEN DID YOU START?
Prior to the movie being released, we love everything Pixar and we knew this Cars thing was gonna be right up my alley…Our local Mickey D’s saves the promos and posters for me and the boys have the big Lightning and Sally poster in thier room

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CAR YOU GOT?
McQueen and Doc

HOW LONG BEFORE YOU HAD CAR #2?
As soon as I could find him

WHEN DID YOU DECIDE/REALIZE YOU NEEDED MORE THAN ONE?
Hah! When you’re kinda OCD

WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU HAD TO GO BIG INTO THIS THING?
See comment above! (but this site certainly hasn’t helped matters)

WHAT WAS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE HEARD ABOUT COLLECTING THESE CARS? (NEVER YOU, SOME OTHER PERSON’S CRAZY STORY :-) ).
I like the KM collector day story someone posted on Take5 about not being charged for all their Cars and were allowed to walk out as if they were free.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE CAR? T
he Fabulous Hudson Hornet is my favorite (I’m actually looking to buy a real one) Fabulous Hudson Hornet Pit Crew is definatley tops on my list….I also really like Faux Wheel Drive…

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION
Working on the SOTS guys…They’re finally starting to add up!

SAY HI TO BeautifulSorta (Another who started the collection from Long’s – interesting …)

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SIGNIN NAME? beautifulsorta

BIO?
23 year old college student hoping that she is finally entering her last semester *keep your fingers crossed*! I reside in Folsom, CA.

WHEN DID YOU START?
April/May 2006. I went to Longs Drug store before heading home and they had the set out. I always liked cars, and I thought they were cute.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CAR YOU GOT?
Wingo, Boost & Snot Rod set

HOW LONG BEFORE YOU HAD CAR #2? A couple of weeks 😛

WHEN DID YOU DECIDE/REALIZE YOU NEEDED MORE THAN ONE?
Well, as I stared at the back of the package, I had the urge to have all of the cars, since I have no self control. In the beginning there were so few, it seemed manageable.

WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU HAD TO GO BIG INTO THIS THING?
I have no life! I needed a reason to hit up the 24 hour Walmarts LOL! Well, actually… once I saw the movie, and then once Supercharged came out, I kind of figured this would keep growing and growing… so I just went with it

WHAT WAS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE HEARD ABOUT COLLECTING THESE CARS? (NEVER YOU, SOME OTHER PERSON’S CRAZY STORY :-) )
I went to the 24 hour Walmart and got into one of the new boxes and got what I wanted. Right after that, some other guy just picked up that box and all the other ones and began sifting through them for the rare cars and when I began to talk to him about it, he said he was turning around and selling them at his store. I thought that was kind of shady ;

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE CAR?
Transberry Juice! But I also love Mia and Tia…because they have so many variants and were somewhat inconsequential characters

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION?
Tank Coat, because I love pink cars.

THANKS for sharing all. Good luck with the hunt in 2009 – WE WILL all need luck and that green paper thing 🙂

More Profiles Coming!



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