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Mattel Disney CARS: Riplash Racers Ripstick Multi-Launcher
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 13 September 2013
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There is a new series of Ripstick CARS coming called RIPLASH RACERS. Basically a long stick can be pulled and you can launch multi-CARS!   2-Packs include: Lightning & Jeff Gorvette, Snot Rod & Hot Rod Mater and Chick Hicks & The King.   Singles at launch include: McQueen, Francesco, Raoul & the King. There […]

Disney Infinity Videogame & Video World Review!
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Video Games on 12 September 2013
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Thanks Ted Sallis for your indepth look and review of the game! Disney INFINITY  offers fans of Disney Pixar properties and especially fans of the Disney Pixar Cars franchise a unique way to play. Now obviously the game Skylanders was the pioneer, being the first game to incorporate collecting toys that you could then use […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: The Closing of the Year – Case P Singles
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Posted in Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 12 September 2013
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This post has been UPDATED to reflect the FINAL CASE P – HERE. I’ll leave this up just for reference. While we don’t have definitive proof yet that the oddball case posted last week is the Kmart Case (see this post) for 2013, this listing for CASE P might clinch it. One clue is the […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: And Ruka Was Her Name-O
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS 3 on 11 September 2013
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I think she might be the last listed release of 2013 without a name … “Quercy” sends along photos – Airport Waitress is RUKA. Thanks, “Quercy!” While Ruka seems to be a repaint of the Super Chases, she’s actually a slightly different sculpt. Her smile is different than the other Super Chases/Cartney – they cannot […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS Diecast: One More Deluxe Case
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS on 11 September 2013
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Looks like there will be one more Deluxe case to close out the remaining Deluxe CARS … A great deluxe case would be 2 Dracula Maters, 2 Waiter Mater and 1 of each of the other 2. There are only 6 CARS in each Deluxe sealed case. But there is the possibility there are are […]

Disney Toon PLANES: An International Hit!
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Posted in Disney Planes on 10 September 2013
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PLANES the movie is still going strong since no one else had the foresight to release another major studio brand animated film in the late summer period – until Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 opens at the end of September. PLANES will pass up TURBO this week – only a few hundred thousand […]

Make Your Own Disney Store Chase Rip Clutchgoneski Variant
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar CARS 3, Disney Store on 10 September 2013
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“Toyfountain” did not like the yellow rims on the new Disney Store Gold Metallic Rip Clutchgoneski so with a little screwdriver, he made the switch … Pretty easy with screws in the base – and another Rip. So, the Gold Metallic Rip Clutchgoneski’s are CHASES or not? Though it also hardly matters as the plastic […]

Greenlight Blues Brothers 23rd Street Bridge Diorama
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Posted in Toys on 10 September 2013
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Pretty fun diorama from Greenlight. Must be nice to get a diorama with “extras” cars … (1) 1974 Dodge Monaco Bluesmobile (2) 1974 Dodge Monaco Chicago Police (2) 1974 Dodge Royal Monaco Chicago Police (2) Police barricades Pretty cool! Available at Amazon. There’s also an older 2-pack with a different Illinois State Police car plus […]

High Tide – Low Tide: Michael Marten
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Posted in Science on 9 September 2013
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Sometimes we forget just how dramatic high tide and low tide are … These are 6-18 hours apart … I wonder if we set a camera to record the arrival of a Super Chase case on the pegs if it would match this high tide and low gifs. 🙂 You can check more at Marten’s […]

Toy Exclusives: You Should Be Free to Buy As Many As You Like
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Posted in collecting, Disney, Disney Pixar, Mattel, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 9 September 2013
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As I noted in my post on exclusives post a few weeks back, toy companies do not get it – if they really, really wanted just to thank their biggest fans – they should do so by giving them something – how do they determine that? I do not know. But short of them driving […]