Article Archive for June 2009

CARS CARES Newest Auction – Nathaniel B. Cars Care Racer
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 27 June 2009
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Here’s your newest chance to bid and win the great Nathaniel B. Cars Cares Piston Cup Racer … 3-Day eBay Auction LINK is here. Good luck and help some kids and help yourself to this CAR! (Yourself as the neediest biggest kid of all) 🙂

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: 1:24 Scale Lightning McQueen & Mater …
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Posted in diecast, Film, Internet, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 26 June 2009
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Hey, the 1:24 scale Lightning McQueen & Mater have actually arrived! Photos courtesy of Chiildren’s Toy Closet. These are the non-Matty versions with plastic and not non-rubber rubber tires … except that NO ONE knows what happened to those that were supposed to appear on Mattycollector.com/ It’s not easy to misplaced X thousands of giant […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart Cases Future Sealed Value
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 25 June 2009
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Several people have asked if they are “saving,” the Kmart CASE K case for their collection or for resale down the line, if they should keep it sealed. Normally, of course, a factory sealed case is always worth more as “factory sealed,” for obvious reasons and not so obvious reasons. Of course, factory sealed means […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Mater Super Stunt Show Playset!
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 25 June 2009
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Finally, a new playset! CANNONBALL! One for the money, two for the show … + “Cannon” launcher (that is canon). + Plastic Ring of Fire … Nice. I wonder who designs this stuff? It’s really nice. Cute, functional and cool – plus it works. Must be some genius guy 🙂 Everything you see here! “Helmet” […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Great SDCC News – Buying Limits Not So Limited
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 25 June 2009
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Major update – thanks Tom D. for pointing this out. There is NO LONGER a limit of 6 per day but 6 PER line visit so if you don’t mind doing the Disneyland lining up over & over & over again – buy as many as you freakin’ want! “PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT COMIC-CON Products will […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Other Mini’s From the Kmart Cases
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 24 June 2009
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In the slight hub-bub regarding the Piston Cup racers from the Kmart CARS Day & cases … a couple CARS have been forgotten. Hello. It’s MINI! Finally … Of course, it’s unclear why she’s this shade of purple versus the more mauve-purple from the film … but maybe after you go through Crazy Days at […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart Piston Cup Racers 9 – Here & Open
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 24 June 2009
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9 Simple CARS … 1,700 comments on TakeFiveADay.com (including taking down one webhost 🙂  ). 4,000 text messages 39,000,000 visits to Kmart.com 38,156,000 visits to a error page at Kmart.com 11,523 emails from or to Kevin NascarBroncosFans. 13 Heart Attacks. 563 Full Fledged Panic attacks. 0 Emails from Kmart.com notifying us the cases were on […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart CARS Cases – The Soap Opera (UPDATE!)
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 23 June 2009
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As the cases are arriving from Illinois to your doorstep, the correct to incorrect ratio is not high enough – right, now, as I’m writing this – from those who voted in the poll (see right side of the page), it’s running about 80-20 … 🙁 The evidence is not very conclusive yet but here’s […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Your Kmart CARS Day Cases Correct or Not? (UPDATE – Number Range)
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Posted in diecast, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 22 June 2009
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Take the poll on the right as your box comes in … (If you bought more than 1 box, you have to REFRESH or RELOAD this browser page to vote again. I’m working on showing you results). Should look something like this (photos courtesy of Kevin Nascar-BroncosFan) And NOT like this … While some have […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: A Golden McQueen For The Golden Age of CARS …
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys on 22 June 2009
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It’s gold, baby … It’s all gold. Well, Gold Ransburg. Final details are still murky but it’s coming with a DVD at Christmas time. Possible Configurations? CARS movie DVD packaged with this Gold Ransburg McQueen? CARS movie DVD and Mater Tall Tales Shorts on a separate DVD + this Gold Ransburg McQueen? Mater Tall Tales […]