Articles in the Books Category

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Take5 World of CARS Magazine Now Available
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Posted in Books, Magazine Checklist, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 11 April 2010
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The 32-page issue #3 of our magazine is ready. It’s the Visual checklist for World of CARS which includes the Motor Speedway of the South Box Set … Here is a sample of the pages (actual pages @8.5″ by 11″ – 32 pages) Yes, it includes everything released for the World of CARS series (aka: […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Take Five With You Where Ever You Go!
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Posted in Advertising, Books, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Design, diecast, Film, Gadgets, Internet, Magazine Checklist, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Mobile, Retail, Toys, TV on 17 May 2009
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Take Five A Day: The Magazine! You asked for it and now, you can on-demand it! Issue #1 of our magazine is available for order! 20 full-color pages devoted just to the DESERT ART series … Other than a few pages of text, the magazine is entirely comprised of full color checklists for however you […]

Mattel Pixar Disney Cars Checklist: The Book
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Posted in Advertising, Books, Checklist, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 14 March 2008
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If you love CARS, if wonder if your collection is complete complete and if it’s really been 2-years, how about a book that collects EVERY item released and one long run on sentence about collecting CARS from Day 1? Well, wonder no more – we have put together the perfect book for you. It’s 100% […]

Peter Jackson to Helm The Hobbit
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Posted in Books, Film on 19 December 2007
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Peter Jackson apparently is burying the hatchet and will be involved in creating the long-awaited Hobbit film! The adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s 1937 novel (talk about longevity in a property) is set to be split into two films which are scheduled for release in 2010 and 2011. Of course, denials abound from both Jackson and […]

Peter Jackson to Helm The Hobbit
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Posted in Books, Film on 5 October 2007
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At least we now have hope! According to Entertainment Weekly, the legal battle that’s kept The Lord of the Rings‘ prequel, The Hobbit, hung up for years (what the industry likes to call ‘in turn around’). If you are not in the LOTR ‘know’, a bitter feud has been ongoing between Rings director Peter Jackson […]

Stephen King’s Review of Harry Potter Series
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Posted in Books, Media on 14 August 2007
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Over at Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King has posted a  very nice article about why the series created by JK Rowling has been such a success.  WARNING:  there are de facto plot spoilers in his review of the last book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading King’s thoughts as he lays down a very well reasoned train of […]

Harry Potter Deathly Hollows SPOILER
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Posted in Books on 18 July 2007
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It’s another few days of waiting but if you’re the spoiler sort who wants to get a beating by a group of 8-year olds, their parents and Potterheads, here is the link to a SPOILER. NOTE – SPOILER Did I mention that if you click on the link, the VERY FIRST words are the spoilers? […]

New Harry Potter Book – The Order of the Phoenix
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Posted in Books, comics, Film, Internet, Media, Toys, Video Games on 16 May 2007
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Ok, so J.K. Rowling has completed her series about the boy wizard. What does she do now? Launch into a new series? Most certainly but how soon? Say what you will, the lady has created an appealing universe to legions of young readers and that is a good thing. According to this blog, the Ellen […]

Pulp SciFi Magazine Covers are a wonderland of design
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Posted in Books, comics, Film, Media, Science, TV on 1 May 2007
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Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories…name your lurid moniker. These old pulps are wonderfully art directed considering they were designed to do one thing – sell. These covers helped to set the adolescent mind into motion like throwing gas on a fire. The cover lines were wonderfully leading and many of these old pulps […]

Classic films that were as good as the books
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Posted in Books, Film on 20 April 2007
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In no particular order, my top three picks: 1. Where Eagles Dare by Alistair Mclean. This is one of the best action/suspense films ever imo. The film came out just one year after the books release due to the author writing the screenplay as well as the book. The first time you watch you find […]