Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Now, I Know It’s Christmas … Christmas Gardening, That Is
For many – the signs of Christmas are unmistakable.
Snow starts to fall.
The air turns crisp.
Your electricity bill goes into 4-digits.
That guy down the street takes his annual bath …
You build a snowman that looks like the Padre from El Materdor and he asks if you’re married. And you say – you’re not Frosty – I don’t talk to snowmen.
Gone away is the bluebird.
Children laughing.
Sleigh bells start ringing.
You suddenly start drinking eggnog like it’s free even though any other time of the year someone offers you eggs and milk in a glass, you turn them away …
But for us here in California where the air turns a bitter cold 68 degrees, and the skirts get hiked down just a bit … it’s sometimes hard to tell when it’s really Christmas time …
Reindeer don’t roam the streets and while people do say ho-ho-ho, they don’t put the accent on the ho just right …
If only we had a sign so we all know it’s Christmas time in the city …
Finally, a tradition all our own!
Hark, what’s that yonder!
Could it be? Could it really be?
YES!
It’s true! It’s true! It’s really Christmas! Now I believe!
Do they know it’s Christmas? YES, we do! It is that magical time of the year where we can see miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of cardboard and shrink wrap and pallets.
Old man winter is really here and YES, Virginia Madison Zane, it’s really Christmas! Do you believe? Are you glistening? I am!
I feel all warm aglow and like a kid again with a motorized pallet truck of my own!
Hey, look all the Hot Wheels boys and bois have already helped themselves – ho ho ho ho ho …
And all the lenticulars (non chase) for all the boys and girls of the world (aka: WM gardening section store 1578).
Merry Christmas one and all!
The WM CARS singles rollback has started already.
And more to come!
And to a good night!
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3 November 2009
21 Comments
That is impressive!!!!!!! I may have to sneak into our Gardening section for a peak……
You lucky gits! Good weather and Cars! Anyone want Wally in trade for a Green Card? I want to move!!!!
Haha..I don’t think you would trade a clean air for a smokey one!
WOW..!! :8O:
One of those boxes says “Cars Character Car Sidekick”. What does that mean?
(P.S. I LOVE TOYS!!!)
I saw one today and snapped a photo. Sent it to Met so maybe he will update.
It’s a cardboard “shelf” that hangs on the side of an endcap. You might usually see batteries displayed like that. Or perhaps even Sharpie’s:
http://www.behmer.com/images/dalejr_sidekick.jpg
Is it wrong to get excited every time you see a palette of toys?
As long as you don’t get excited BEFORE you see the pallet! 😉
I know Christmas is around the corner because I saw Tunerz at the Disney Store last week, the Cars Wii wheel this week and I see more Cars I want that are still not here 🙁
I want the Wally Hauler too!
Everybody grab your HO’s and Dosy Do in to the Gardening Section…if they ask what you are doing in there, tell them you are looking for Fertilizer (lenticulars to us)
Cute
I’ll take two!
… loads of cars that is!
Lets just hope that they actually don’t just sit in the gardening and never put them out as I believe that is what happened to a few Walmarts last year trying to find the Sally w/cone. Oh well it was fun trying to sneak into the garden section to look for Cars last year anyway.
Did you beg to open the lenticular box and did out the chase cars?
Can’t wait to get wally hauler.
email me if you dont find one lranslam at verizon net
so did you open that lenticular box?
I hope the walmart hauler is different then the last one.
Pretty sure it will be the same. Why would you want Wally to be different?
(MET: There was a rumor we would get Christmas “boxes” instead of “crates” of Rust-eze).
Well because so far that hauler has been the hottest one and it makes me feel a little bit better about all the money I’m throwing into the cars pit.
They are the same…I was just at a store that had just put them out.