Article Archive for September 2013

LEGO Star Wars Ewok Village
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Posted in Lego on 25 September 2013
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This set will take you a while to assemble … The Ewok Village! Comes with 16 minifigures. Set contains 1990 pieces. If you buy it from the LEGO Store directly in the next week, you get free shipping, plus a free mini VW camper. (No coupon code required, automatically included). And since the Ewok Village […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: T Case Sure Looks Like Case A – 2014
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 25 September 2013
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As “BMW” has chimed in and “Quercy” sends along a photo of the new 2014 cards … As you can tell, it’s essentially the 2013 cards – carrying over the same “themes” motif (changing out the background to a different speedway screenshot), and bringing back the World of CARS banner – so I guess we […]

Animation News: Pixar’s “Good Dinosaur” & “Finding Dory” Delayed + Dreamworks “Dinotrux”
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Posted in Disney, movies on 24 September 2013
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“Finding Dory” has been delayed – moved to June 2016 – originally November 2015. The Good Dinosaur moves to November 2015 delayed from May 2014 … as a result, for the first time since 2005, there will be no Pixar film in 2014. You can read more about the reasons at the Telegraph (UK). So, […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: T Case, The Weirdest of Them All
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 24 September 2013
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As the toy years wind to a close – the CARS factory cases has gotten pretty weird, some great, some pretty good and some now we’re not quite sure what is accurate … (still investigating!) … but the T case is the weirdest of them all. I double checked, it is definitely the “T Case.” […]

Fly Like an Eagle – On the Back of an Eagle
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Posted in Science on 23 September 2013
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If you ever thought, if I shrunk down to 6″ tall, I would ride around on the back of an eagle … here ya go … About the only annoying thing is it’s only about a minute long. I think I could watch about 30-minutes of this without blinking. I would also like to feel […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: The Unofficial Metallic Silver Francesco Variant
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Posted in Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 3 on 23 September 2013
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“John H.” sends along a nice unofficial Kmart CARS Day Silver Metallic Francesco that was never officially released. The official one is on the right. He does look nicer with the red helmet to break up the contrast of just silver.   Though the final releases corrects the base plate which should be black. There’s […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecasts: THE Final Deluxe Case?
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 22 September 2013
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It looks like there might be one final Deluxe Case after Case G? While Case G was pretty good with 2 Dracula Mater and 2 Waiter Mater (out of 6). CASE P is a basic case for retail … One of everything so the shelf looks interesting enough. That’s Ivan Mater, not Ivan in case […]

Mattel Disney PLANES: New Singles Jolly Wrenches Dusty & 86 LJH Special
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Posted in Disney Planes, Mattel Disney Planes Diecast on 22 September 2013
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Looks like CASE C of PLANES has arrived (for stores still stocking singles). Thanks for the heads up & photo “Snosno.” 86 LJH Special What the Disney Store called Navy Dusty, Mattel calls Jolly Wrenches Dusty Crophopper. There are 2 of each as the “NEW” PLANES released, the rest of the case is a re-release […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Radiator Springs Classic – What’s Next?
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 21 September 2013
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TRU seems to have gotten a new case of Radiator Springs Classic but sales seems to have slowed down quite a bit. Was this a one-shot deal to see how sales might go? Will there be more next year? The 3-pack box sets seem to have sold okay but not not very rapidly. The 10-pack […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: Movie Moments E Case Available to Order
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 21 September 2013
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Every once in a while, there’s a 2-pack/Movie Moment Case where it might be easier just to buy the case. CASE E The weakest “2-pack” in this case is probably Lightning with Rust-eze Sign & Fred though some collectors might not have seen Fred in a while and of course, the sign is new. Doug […]