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New Image Zoom on Take5
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Posted in collecting, Gadgets on 4 February 2012
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Hey Taker5ers! Tizmanian here with a little housekeeping… We just installed a new image zoom feature which should work on most of the images we place here. Click on an image and you’ll see a control bar overlay. Looks handy so let us know what you think in the comments. Not sure about how it […]

A ‘Clean’ Contest Courtesy of Fuller Brush Co – WINNER!
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Posted in Contests on 28 January 2012
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 And the winner is…..Mike Manifold!  Mike, shoot Tizmanian an email at tizmanian (at) yahoo (dot) com with your physical address so we can get your prize mailed out! We loved all of the entries in this one so we had to select the winner randomly.  More contest fun to come! Occasionally we get asked to […]

Sears and Kmart to Close 100 to 120 stores in 2012
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Posted in Sears on 27 December 2011
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  Bad news especially if you happen to have a nearby Sears of Kmart location as a toy collecting resource. No word on which stores for either store operation will be closing. We’ll post those locations once we hear from Sears Holdings what / where they are.  If you would like to know more, you […]

TakeFive Now Optimized For Mobile – Update2
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Posted in Internet, ipad, iPhone, Mobile, News on 8 December 2011
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UPDATE 2: Bingo!  I was able to toggle the drop down menu to include all of our navigation pages. What you most want to know is that YES – YOU CAN ACCESS THE FORUMS FROM MOBILE NOW! Touch / Click that triangle in the upper right hand corner and MAGIC! An expanded drop down menu […]

Super Secret Spy Video: Metroxing Revealed!
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Uncategorized, Video on 22 September 2011
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Who said there’s no Santa Claus!  And he’s early! That’s right!  Many Bothan squirrel-spies died to bring us this information… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AmSsM2A5NV8 Oh, yes!  Now you have seen both Metro in the video flesh….we weep for your retinal dispersion fields.  Especially if you watch this oldie but goodie: So there you have it – unless the […]

Recent Server Outage aka Squirrels At Play – WINNER UPDATE
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Posted in Contests, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 24 August 2011
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Fellow Take5ers! It is without further embellishment, our pleasure, to announce the name of our Head of Security courtesy of T5er – ‘Lorri’: Welcome “VLAD”… Congrats, Lorri! We have sent an email out to you to get your mailing address for your grab bag of goodies which include: * One (1) copy each of Volumes […]

Disney D23 – From The Trenches
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Posted in Disney Pixar, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 22 August 2011
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Stalwart Co-Founder Metroxing is pounding the aisles at D23 and sent in this pic over the wire: Metro says he has more photo goodness coming our way soon…

Recent Server Outage aka Squirrels At Play
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Posted in Disney, Disney Pixar, Disney Pixar CARS 3 on 6 August 2011
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Dug was not on the job last night apparently.  As some of you may have noticed, our top of the line (ie expensive wallet sucking monthly payment) server went offline. While we try and determine just what in the pho happened, I blame these guys: A guy can’t go into his lair of Disney Pixar […]

Time Ranks The Top 25 Animated Films Of All Time – And Gets The List Really Wrong
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Posted in Film on 29 June 2011
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So the TIME Senior Movie Critic, Richard Corliss, thinks he can pass of a Top 25 list of Animated Films of all time and not have CARS on that list? Well, I imagine the folks here at Take5 might take umbrage with that fact.  But beyond parochial leanings from this perch, there are some really […]

Free CARS 2 Backpack With $10 Purchase
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Posted in CARS, collecting, Retail on 27 June 2011
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So I was digging through the seven (yes, seven!) master cases at the Kmart Collector Days this weekend looking for some extra posters for some of my fav-O-rite readers on Take5 when I saw a pad with an offer and grabbed it for later reading. Turns out that Mattel is offering a FREE CARS 2 […]