Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Lightning McQueen – You Complete Me
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 February 2009
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For the longest time, Lightning McQueen #1, the original was missing something … Not our love, not our admiration and not our purchases over and over and over again πŸ™‚ No, he was missing the Rust-Eze decal on his back spoiler as for most of the film, he was wearing that decal … The first […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Welcome to the Show … CASE F & MINI CASE D
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 10 February 2009
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The mainline singles CASE F and the Mini’s CASE D have arrived … While CHUCK the car itself is great as usual, his artwork on the front is definitely weird. It’s almost like Pixar sent over the artwork that’s not fully rendered. What makes a 1-dimensional illustration come to life is shading, shadows and details. […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Walmart Gets Their Own Hauler Case (UPDATED!)
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 9 February 2009
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Yes, Walmart is getting a special Hauler case for the WM Mack Hauler. CORRECTED UPDATE (previous) Of course, as it’s Walmart, it will leak out and arrive at completely different parts of the country at different times IF IT ARRIVES at all. πŸ™ So, as some have noted, it arrived in Arizona but for the […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Check Lanes (Short Cards) Now on Race O Rama
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 9 February 2009
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They are now available on Race O Rama cards … And the cardback which interestingly enough has already appeared on the back of some of the WOC Check Lane cards … Of course, generic across all the CARS to save on coordinating cardbacks … Yes, still an oddball series since most stores don’t seem to […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Megasize Al Oft the Lightyear Blimp – I’m Baacccckkkkk
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 February 2009
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Well, so much for Australians being able to make millions thousands hundreds a couple sawbucks on an “early” release of Megasize Al Oft the Lightyear Blimp … CASE E is hitting the shelves … This is the Australian release but our card front should look the same … If it’s any comfort, he’s not in […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Danny’s Thoughts on the Motor Speedway of the South Set
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 8 February 2009
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Danny left this in the COMMENTS section of the Motor Speedway of the South post (from months ago) so I thought a wider audience might appreciate it … Take it away, Danny … Good Evening of the 5th of February, 2009 to yooz β€œguys”. I have been looking for current info about the β€œCars” lineup. […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Photo Odds & Sods
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 7 February 2009
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Some new great & interesting photos from around the CARS-osphere … Collectormom founds these at a Disney Outlet Store … I feel a nap coming on … Buzz: “I know I can fly, just give me a nudge …” Matthew L. sends us pics on where to look for the dreaded clear circular glue patch […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Mater Tall Tales Addition – It’s Official – The Greatest Diecast Line EVER
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 6 February 2009
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WE can call it. Friday, 2/6/2009 – 12:01 AM. Now, the greatest diecast line ever. The CARS line went from really nice to amazing to now, birth-of-universe bright dazzling you get when a billion Suns are born … usually the auxiliary lines are really ancillary – life is fine without them, they’re cute but you’ll […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: CSI: Piston Cup Racers Pit Row Clues
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, CARS, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 February 2009
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As if Aroldo P. of Italy hasn’t already done enough for us, he discovered a great screenshot of Pit Row that appeared in the CARS Magazine – Italian version. It is obviously shrunk down to fit our pages here but you can see it’s a puzzle for kids (cut out squares on the right) to […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Report From Turkey
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Posted in Advertising, collecting, diecast, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys, TV on 4 February 2009
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While Australia just reported in that their situation is better …, not so much in Turkey. Altan reports in he has to resort to this exotic bazaar called eBay … where everything is RARE! πŸ‘Ώ As he writes … the situation sadly sounds all too familiar … “Yes. My ebay control panel says, I spent […]