Adult Toys
The Statue of Liberty (French: Statue de la Liberté), officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World (French: la Liberté éclairant le monde), dedicated on October 28, 1886, is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, given to the United States by the people of France to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution. It represents a woman wearing a stola, a radiant crown and sandals, trampling a broken chain, carrying a torch in her raised right hand and a tabula ansata, where the date of the Declaration of Independence JULY IV MDCCLXXVI is inscribed, in her left arm
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Day 164: Statue of Liberty
As you may already know, the Kmart Cars Collector Event 2010 is being held in Kmarts across the US on June 12th at 11 AM. Yesterday, I posted about the Kmart.com pre-sale and the details of the case that will be offered
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Kmart Cars Collector Event 2010 Update
Miffy is a small female rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. Her original Dutch name is Nijntje which stems from a toddler’s pronunciation of the word “konijntje” meaning “little rabbit”. The first Miffy book was produced in 1955, and almost 30 others have followed
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Day 165: Miffy
Cars Collectors Day this year will be held on June 12th, 2010. If you can’t make it, or you just want to get a jump on everyone else, you can pre-order cases of this years exclusive assortment tomorrow starting at 11 am ET. The assortment this year again features previously-released vehicles, now rolling on synthetic rubber tires.
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Cars Collector Day 2010 Pre-sale Starts Tomorrow
Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. Originally created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short entitled The Mouse of Tomorrow. The original name of the character was Super Mouse, but it was soon changed to Mighty Mouse.
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Day 163: Mighty Mouse
The 4th of the five limited edition Toy-A-Day CDs containing the PDF of the first 100 toys is now up for grab! All you need to do is to go to our Facebook Fan page and tag your name on this picture . You can also click on the above picture to go directly to the page. Good luck!
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The 4th Toy-A-Day CD giveaway
This year’s Mattel San Diego exclusive for the Cars line is Tokyo Mater! Mater will have the flames shooting out the back, and it looks like he will have the special “Ransburg” chrome paint job that all the other SDCC exclusives have had. The price will be $20, and will include special packaging for this exclusive.
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San Diego Comic Con 2010 Exclusive Cars Toon Tokyo Mater
Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield (named after Davis’s grandfather); his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle’s dog, Odie.
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Day 162: Garfield
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy horror fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. The plot revolves around a recently dead young couple who become ghosts haunting their former home, a quaint and quiet house on a hill overlooking the fictional town of Winter River, located in Connecticut.
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Day 161: Beetlejuice
I mentioned this in my last post, but Final Lap Cars have not been getting wide distribution. That may be changing however.
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Final Lap Case E, Jay Limo, Vern, Mood Springs and Wet McQueen
This is old news, but if you are like me, you have not even seen these in the stores yet. Final Lap case D has been showing up at Targets for several weeks now. New Cars in Final Lap case D are Donna Pits , Nick Stickers and One Eye Mater
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Final Lap Case D, Donna Pits, Nick Stickers and One Eye Mater
Wallace is a fictional character from the “Wallace and Gromit” series of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters in the films are made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion animation. Wallace, an absent-minded inventor from Wigan, Greater Manchester, is a cheese enthusiast (especially for Wensleydale)
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Day 158: Wallace
The New York Toy Fair 2010 starts today, and Mattel will have a big presence there this year. Toy Fair 2010 will be held on February 14-17, and we will be bringing you all the Cars Toy Fair news we can find. Mattel has already issued a press release for 2010. Based on the popular film CARS and the hilarious CARS Toons, a series of original cartoon shorts airing on Disney Channel, Disney XD and streaming on Disney.com/Cars, Mattel has the toys that are sure to win the checkered flag racing into imaginations everywhere
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Mattel’s 2010 Toy Fair Cars Press Release
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen’s distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director.
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Day 155: Woody Allen
Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by Midway. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and features two-dimensional graphics
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Day 154: Space Invaders (Video Game)
The Spirit (Denny Colt) is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared in Spirit Section #1 (June 2 1940), a seven-page insert into American Sunday-newspaper comics sections. He currently appears in comic books published by DC Comics.
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Day 153: The Spirit (Will Eisner)
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre
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Day 152: Edgar Allan Poe
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers
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Day 146: Twitter
Moshi Monsters is an online game site where you can adopt a virtual pet monster. The monsters have to be fed and tickled. You can also buy clothes and other items for the monster.
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Day 151: Moshi Monsters (Katsuma)
Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse, a fictional universe created and used in most films, comics and television by Kevin Smith, which began in the film Clerks. Download the PDF of Jay and Silent Bob and make your own toys! Find out what’s the next toy by visiting our Facebook Fan page .
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Day 149 & 150: Jay & Silent Bob
Little Twin Stars is a pair of characters made by Sanrio. The little brother is called Kiki while the elder sister is called Lala. Kiki has blue hair, while Lala has pink hair (sometimes, Kiki’s hair is brown, while Lala’s hair is blonde).
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Day 147 & 148: Little Twin Stars
Mega Man, also known as Rockman in Japan, is a video game character, created and developed by Capcom since 1987. Since then, he has become one of the company’s primary original characters and continues to be one of the video game industry’s most recognizable icons
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Day 145: Mega Man
Lego Minifigures (sometimes abbreviated as “minifigs”) are small, plastic figural toys produced by Danish toy manufacturer Lego, which are customarily sold with Lego sets, as characters intended to populate modular Lego environments. When first released in 1974, Lego minifigures were at the same scale as the current minifigures
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Day 144: Lego Minifigure
Fillmore is a fictional character from the movie Cars by Disney Pixar. He is a Volkswagen Type 2 microbus of late 1950s/early 1960s vintage as evidenced by his pointed front turn signals and small rear window. Fillmore’s license plate reads “51237″, which is a reference to May 12, 1937, the birthdate of George Carlin.
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Day 143: Fillmore (Cars)
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. David Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when the song “Space Oddity” reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart.
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Day 142: David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust)
Naruto is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.
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Day 141: Naruto
Son Goku is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama. He is loosely based on Sun Wukong, a central character in Journey to the West
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Day 140: Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
More and more Final Lap Cars are starting to show up, and we have made it to case C right before year end. New Cars in case C are Pit Crew Sarge , Muddy McQueen and Costanzo Della Corsa
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Final Lap Case C, Pit Crew Sarge, Muddy McQueen and Costanzo Out Now