Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: One & Done?
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 11 March 2009
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SOME THINGS OVERHEARD AT TARGET … This line is easy to collect. He is the chosen one. We’re putting out one color at a time. Each Target gets a different color. The other CARS are for illustration purposes only. If you don’t waddle in here at 8 AM, you lose, dude. There are plenty of […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Return & News of Sarge
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 11 March 2009
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Returning in mid summer … Chase Salutin’ Sarge will be returning first … I know there are a couple hundred reasons this is not logical as ‘chase’ generally implies something that might be as less desirable so you want to goose sales a little with variants and ‘chase’ variants but then, why ask why did […]

TakeFiveADay Questions & Answers …
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Universe on 11 March 2009
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If you have some questions – we might have some answers … So, ask away and maybe the answers will be useful to many others …

Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The New Tomica Box Set
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Uncategorized on 11 March 2009
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The only other ongoing diecast CARS series is from Japan, from Tomica. Unlike the Mattel line which other than the love of re-re-releasing McQueen’s in each box has given us over 200 CARS – Tomica is pretty much sticking to a few dozen CARS and has been re-issuing them with different eye positions. They do […]