
Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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For US readers and buyers, it looks like the announced Movie Moment move to Target is finally moving forward. The “regular” Movie Moments cases are now listed as unavailable for Mattel resellers. There wasn’t much left that was available to order – I believe just the E CASE but again, that is no longer available […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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For those who favor the large sized Mack with the wildly large size car carrier, there are a few more coming … Presumably the version with the 3 tuners is being swapped out for this one – and maybe a price drop to around $20 since there are only 2 diecast CARS. You’ll notice that […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 22 January 2009
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Leak Less Haulers have arrived and is shipping out from Children’s Toy Closet today from Michigan. As far as we can tell, you cannot find it on the store shelves as these are only available as a Direct Import and of course, only CTC has agreed to air freight it in. The rest of the […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 19 January 2009
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Cars4Lars won the contest to spot the difference in the Race and Chase Box set – correctly guessing that Lightning McQueen now has a Rust-Eze decal on his spoiler … And the second contest was a random entry in the COMMENTS section. There were 84 comments that made the midnight deadline and the random winner […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 18 January 2009
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Ho … humm, yea, yea, the “new” Target 4-pack … seen it … been there … OR HAVE YOU? 🙂 Yea, spot what’s DIFFERENT and win a prize … This time, it’s FIRST in the comments with the CORRECT answer wins … Good luck! I’ll check back in a couple hours, I’m sure you’ll get […]

Posted in Advertising, Apple, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Toys, TV on 17 January 2009
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Somehow Aroldo (Pongetti) got it in his head his Pit Crew Mack’s gas “catch” cans were not quite right … so he redid them … Maybe he figured the other way was too easy … I’m not exactly sure how he molded a 3-dimensional thing out of a tube of goo but good luck to […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 16 January 2009
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Our friends and CARS collector David from France sends us a great link to a page he put together … a great recap of all the McQueen’s from the film and all of the direct diecast release from that scene … Check it out here. Here’s his mini bio … sounds pretty much like every […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 January 2009
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Okay, who’s up for this? A compilation of all the sponsors we have evidence of … logos … etc that are not the main sponsors (like Gask-Its or No Stall). Someone sent me these (before I instituted an actual tracking feature of who sent me what – sorry!). Some of the “new” sponsors … Alzr […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 January 2009
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You might have noticed we have added a new “permanent” page thanks to Niki P. All the ongoing and current CARS products UPC & DPCI numbers will be maintained on an ongoing basis in the page on the right called UPC & Target DPCI Numbers for Store Stock Thanks again Niki for pulling all the […]

Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 15 January 2009
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From “BMW,” …. “I called 4 Macy’s today here in Houston with the UPC codes, and found out that they just finished inventory. Â The Mattel cases they had over the holidays turns out were seasonal items only, not regular inventory stock. I spoke with two managers at two separate stores and got the same exact […]