Articles in the Film Category

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 December 2008
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Buying CARS is not like most things – any pansy can just kudzu to the section marked on the canopy, drop it in a cart and pay for it … CARS, holy fertilizer, it is the winter of our discontent. With CARS, it not just hit or miss but after checking the toy section, you […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 December 2008
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These are available (in theory), has any retailers actually ordered them? Anyone actually see one on the store shelf? Maybe it’s in a box under a tarp in gardening? Children’s Toy Closet just let me know that they are arriving in a few days so if you want to order one from them. Otherwise the […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 December 2008
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Keep in mind they just finished these a month ago so it will take a while to sculpt, get approvals, create molds, make them and ship them to us … so don’t start holding your breath just yet, we still have 6 months but clear out your shelves, convert your gold hoard to cash … […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 9 December 2008
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Main post yesterday – details on release. Here are some more pics courtesy of Pixar & Entertainment Tonight – a slightly different preview trailer. Mater tricked out as a tuner … Some nitroade, naturally … And as Mater is drift racing through Tokyo … he slides through the lobby of a building … guess who […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 9 December 2008
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Case D is just starting to ship from the warehouse and CASE E should be out in January. Case D singles should be the last ‘new’ CARS item to leave the warehouse in calendar year 2008. Keep in mind, January cases are generally the hardest to find at the big three retailers. And yes, a […]

Posted in Advertising, Apple, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV, Video, Video Games on 9 December 2008
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Added to the front of BOLT this Friday is the latest CARS TOONS short – Tokyo Mater. This will be the 4th Mater’s Tall Tales short – though the longest – almost 6 minutes long and maybe the last – at least for a while. So, for those hatin’ on Expanded Universe CAR TOONS – […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 December 2008
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Luca was nice enough to send a copy of the WORLD OF CARS and the Storytellers series story – released in Italy and in Italian as “Story of Radiator Springs.” The front cover art has a lot of raised reflective effects so it scans a little dark … In Italy, he’s also Saetta (Lightning) McQueen […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 December 2008
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This looks like the best deal of the week at Kmart … of course, if you live near my Kmart’s … not so much on the actual choices … Please, for the love that is holy and plasticky, please take these off our hands … (Toys R Us) Um, really? Okay, I guess if you […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 December 2008
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Walmart apparently has a new strategy … we’ll order a bunch of stuff, we’ll make sure it’s shipped to us first and then we’ll stack it sky high in gardening and cover it with a tarp. I’m not exactly sure this is a money making strategy but it is a strategy. Humm, what could be […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 December 2008
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Also beating Walmart, Target & TRU to the launchers … Now appearing at a GIANT Supermarket near you, CASE B of the launchers … (this was Samuel R’s photo from Lewis Drugs in South Dakota) Jason T. found them at his GIANT Supermarket in the Virginia-Maryland-Greater DC metro area so you might want to pop […]