Articles in the Media Category

TakeFiveADay YouTube – Join Our YouTube Group
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, Computing, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 November 2008
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Our YouTube Group is up & running. It was hard work. I had to click and type 10 words and then click a bunch more times but we’re up & running. If you haven’t checked out the video links from CARS, be sure and do so. Feel free to link any CARS (or Mighty Muggs) […]

Take Five With You – Our Widget
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 11 November 2008
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If you blog or spend time on the little thing called FaceBook or MySpace, you can now add a widget of OUR RECENT POSTS to see what we’re up to … Just follow the LINK TO OUR PAGE HERE. It’s pretty straightforward to add to FaceBook, MySpace, Blogger, etc, etc … You even have size […]

PsychCARS – The Halloween Tale To Make You Leak Oil …
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Toys, TV on 30 October 2008
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A tale that will make you tuck your tailpipe … A CARS scary story … make sure the kids are in bed and most but all but the stoutest adults … carsmama will make you cry like a mama’s baby 🙂

CAAF Dream Halloween October 25, 2008 – Mattel & Darth Mater
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Design, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Toys, TV on 16 October 2008
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Every Halloween, Mattel creates special one of a kind items to benefit CAAF, the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation for their auction event & fundraiser – Dream Halloween. Of course, last year, for CARS fans, this was the item that really caught their attention … Ultimately won by the President of TRU for @$13,000 … […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: Printable Holiday Shopping Guide
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 13 October 2008
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For those trying to sort through what’s out there, I have made you a nice October chart that should be printable – just drag off and drop into any other app. If you like, I’ll do one for November in a few weeks. Of course, this is NOT inclusive of every single store in America […]

Mattel Pixar Diecast CARS: The Storyteller’s Book & Full Story …
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 October 2008
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Thanks to CollectorMom who found the book at Target, we know everything there is to know about this Expanded Universe line … the reason the book as not listed was that the book is called WORLD OF CARS (nothing about Storytellers) and what we thought were individual books was actually chapters with this book. So, […]

TakeFive EVENTS Calendar: CAAF Mattel Dream Halloween
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Toys, TV on 22 September 2008
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BTW, we have added an EVENTS CALENDAR to the bottom right (not to be confused with out POSTS CALENDAR) … so you can keep a calendar view of what’s going in CARS world … with of course, Kmart CARS Collector Day, the Mattel CAAF Dream Halloween Auction and the WM Endcap … making us and […]

TakeFiveADay.com – Yes, You Can Haz Avatars
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Posted in Design, Internet, Marketing, Media, TV on 7 September 2008
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I had to test it out but it seems to be working. Go to www.gravatar.com It’s some cross platform multi-site avatar thinger, click on SIGN UP and upload an avatar. Next time you comment, your avatar should show up. You do need to use the same Gravatar signup EMAIL address in our comments section here. […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Gift 3-Pack Assortments (Fall 2008 Update)
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Posted in Advertising, Checklist, collecting, Computing, Film, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 August 2008
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With Movie Moments moving to Target, it looks like the 3-packs will absorb some of the CARS scheduled for Movie Moments. So while it won’t be exclusively racers, pit crew & crew chiefs going forward – it does still have a Piston Cup leaning … What hasn’t changed, Cases D, E, F & G. They […]

Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Contact Numbers & Websites for Comments, & Polite Suggestions
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, Computing, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 2 August 2008
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© Copyright Disney/Pixar Collecting CARS is nirvana and we’re all a giddy as schoolboys and schoolgirls – life could not be finer, full of rainbows, 32-oz steaks and free parking … well, at least for the first 3 days 🙂 … after that, we tend to get a little grouchier. So, if collecting CARS or […]