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CARS 2 New Teaser Trailer With Concept Art
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Posted in CARS, diecast, Disney Pixar, Film, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 20 October 2010
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Holy Moley! Check out the new teaser trailer for Cars2! Can you say Summer 2011? I can’t wait! How about you? You can check it out over at GeekTyrant too (my new favorite website for all things movies).  Full disclosure – I nabbed the video and the three screen grabs from their site. Gotta give […]

Take5 Housekeeping – New Comment Deletion Ability For Readers
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Posted in Uncategorized on 15 September 2010
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That is what the new option to delete your own comments without submitting it for moderation looks like.  Metro and I thought you might like that option so we enabled it yesterday. Let us know what you think!

Greenlight Collectibles New 1:64 Motor World Releases Update
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Posted in diecast, Toys on 11 September 2010
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The third release of the nice 1:64 scale line of real world cars in diecast is coming very soon from Greenlight Collectibles. There are what we in the U.S. would term ‘domestic and foreign’ automobiles represented in the release so maybe we should just say the cars are represented globally. There are three sub series […]

World of Cars Stickers and Sticker Books By Panini Video Review
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Posted in CARS, collecting, Disney Pixar, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 3 September 2010
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Here is a snapshot in the retail wilds of Target for the Panini sticker packs self liquidator merchandiser (which is retail geek speak for box thingy that holds stuff). The collector books are $1 and each sticker pack of eight stickers are $1 as well.  Rather than post a sequence of photos from this first […]

TakeFiveADay Has A New Facebook Fan Page!
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Posted in Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 12 August 2010
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Our existing page on Facebook was not set up as a fan page, so we went ahead and created a new Facebook page that is built to operate like a true fan page. This new Facebook fan page is not meant to replace our main website here at Take5 (perish the thought!) but the hopes […]

Landmarks Of Route 66 And Other Quirky Roadside Attractions
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Posted in CARS, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Music on 4 August 2010
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ABCnews.com has a nice slideshow of many of the wacky, weird, and quirky roadside attractions that were built alone Route 66. They also include other interesting bits of Americana that while not on the Mother Road, they are bizarre or interesting enough to merit a look. I have to say that during my travels throughout […]

Take A Look Under the Hood of Greenlight Collectible Toy Diecast Cars
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Posted in collecting, diecast, Toys on 28 July 2010
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The hobby of collecting, buying, trading Disney Pixar Mattel CARS diecast line of cars is obviously a passion of yours and ours.  The sculpts of the CARS cars have been faithfully recreated to follow the canon of the digital mastery we have all enjoyed by watching both the movie CARS and added bonus-cum-line extension Mater’s […]

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online Free To Play This Weekend
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Posted in Computing, Disney on 23 July 2010
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Metro passed along the news that there is free online play this weekend only with Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean online! Want to be like Jack Sparrow?  Why, not?  I signed up to play as Lightning McBeard but that was my screen name only apparently. I then had to choose a new handle from three […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Mater Wrestling CARS – First …
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Posted in CARS, collecting, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Toys on 22 July 2010
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The wrestling short will air on the 30th and the wrestling die casts are here to revitalize toon die casts sales … In 1:55 scale – metal bodies with plastic tires and base … Mater as Tormentor The hilarious Rastacarian Lightning McQueen as Mater’s tag team partner … And the dullest of the wrestling CARS… […]

Cars Mater-National Video Game Cheat Codes
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Posted in CARS, Computing, Disney Pixar, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Video Games on 19 July 2010
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For all of you Mac OSX video game Cars race fans – now you can take on the Cars: Mater-National with a little old help from yer friends here at Take5!  That’s right, this fun game from THQ that came out a few years ago now has a few ‘assistance’ codes (ahem *cheat* *cough* *Chick […]