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DIECAST Collectible Model Cars And More
| Item# |
Description |
Stock
Status |
| 90338BK/6 |
Jada Toys Dub City - Mercury Hard Top (1951, 1:18 scale diecast model, Black w/ flames) 90338 |
Restock |
| 92025BU/3 |
Jada Toys Bigtime Muscle - Chevy Corvette ZR1 (2009, 1:18 scale diecast model, Jetstream Blue) 92025 |
Restock |
| 92194W/3 |
Jada Toys Dub City - Nissan GT-R Hard Top (2009, 1:18 scale diecast model, Beige) 92194W/3 |
Restock |
| 92120 |
Jada Toys Bigtime Muscle - Chevy Camaro SS Hard Top (2010, 1:24, Asstd. w/ Stripes) 92120 |
New |
| 92411 |
Jada Toys Dub City - Ford Hard Top (1940, 1:24, Asstd.) 92411 |
New |
| 91671/6 |
Jada Toys Road Rigz Got Milk - Peterbilt 387 Hauler Tractor Trailer (1:32, White) 91671/6 |
Restock |
| 73861 |
Motormax Reel Rides - Grease Diorama at Auto Body Shop w/ Ford Deluxe Convertible (1948, 1:43, White) 73861 |
Restock |
| 73863 |
Motormax Reel Rides - Rain Man Diorama at Big 8 Motel w/ Buick Roadmaster Convertible (1949, 1:43, Yellow) 73863 |
Restock |
| 73864 |
Motormax Reel Rides - The Usual Suspects at RMX Airlines Diorama w/ Dodge Diplomat Salon Police Car (1983, 1:43, Blue) 73864 |
Restock |
| 73865 |
Motormax Reel Rides - Robocop Diorama at 24/7 Mini Mart Gas Station w/ Ford Taurus LX Police Car (1986, 1:43) 73865 |
Restock |
| 73866 |
Motormax Reel Rides - Old School Diorama w/ Pontiac Firebird Hard Top (1977, 1:43, Red) 73866 |
Restock |
| 56010A |
Greenlight Dioramas - 1968 Ford Mustang & 1968 Dodge Charger / 2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police & 2009 Chevy Corvette C6 w/ Figure (1:64) 56010A |
New |
| 56010B |
Greenlight Dioramas - 2010 Chevy Camaro / 1972 Chevy C-10 w/Camper (1:64) 56010B |
New |
| 56011 |
Greenlight Dioramas Bullitt - 1968 Ford Mustang & 1968 Dodge Charger (1:64) 56011 |
New |
| DC59AM05SV |
Shelby - Aston Martin DBR1 Convertible 50th Anniversary (1959-2009, 1:18 scale diecast model, Silver) DC59AM05 |
New |
| 77700B |
American Diorama Figurine - Single Japanese Model Naomi Figure (1:18 scale diecast model, Black) 77700B |
New |
| 77700W |
American Diorama Figurine - Single Japanese Model Naomi Figure (1:18 scale diecast model, White/ Black) 77700W |
New |
| 51591 |
American Diorama Buildings - Double Garage Building (1:24) 51591 |
New |
| 9205AD |
American Diorama Accessories - Fire Hydrant (1:24) 9205AD |
New |
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God and the Art of Toy and Diecast Marketing
Assisting Insisting Authorities
By Lu Su
I've been article less for a few weeks now. I have a good excuse though. During the Christmas holidays, Inadvertently left my laptop at my sister-in-law's place and only recently got it back. Why did I say, "sister-in-law's place"? After thinking about it, I could have just as easily said, "brother-in-law's place". Why did "sister-in-law's place" pop into my head first. I think I know why.
You see my wife and her sister (my sister-in-law), do all the decorating for their respective houses. They pick out the paint colors, the furniture, the curtains, the furniture, and determine exactly where each piece of furniture is to placed. My participation involves affirming my wife's choices, applying paint, fastening the curtain rods, driving all over NJ that my wife finds on Craig's List so that I can haul back furniture. Lately it seems there has been a big push to replace our used furniture with newer used furniture. So, after more than a decade of co-habitation with my wife, I have made an observation.
The only rooms I have free reign to exhibit my my deeply repressed interior decorating skills are: 1) the garage, 2) the shed, and 3) the unfinished basement. I admit that I have not solved world hunger yet, but I have figured out why so many women so easily relinquish control of those three rooms. It is because 1) there is no furniture in these three rooms, 2) they seldom enter those rooms, and 3) those rooms are technically NOT inside the house. So you can go hang that singing fish up and they can still say that thing isn't hanging in their house. It only took me about 15 years to figure that out. So, I thought I would share that with you men and save some of you men some unneeded aggravation and time.
Speaking of time, did you make the time to hear President Obama's State of the Union address? He covered much. Some of the topics I recall were our economy, jobs, healthcare, medicare, global warming, unemployment, terrorism, tax credits, new taxes, our country's debt, homosexuals in the military, judicial appointments, Haiti, return of our troops, renewable clean energy, Iran, nuclear proliferation, aid to veterans of war, and fair trade. Enough stuff to make your head spin. What interesting times we live in. So, what kind of time is it now? What kind of time are we moving towards?
This very skilled 19th century writer answered this question well. He wrote the answer to this question during a time of political upheaval and economic turmoil. This writer actually provided a timeless answer. His answer worked well in the 19th Century. His answer works well in the 21st Century too. And he did it in a single sentence.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
-Charles Dickens, English novelist (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
- I think without question, the most difficult portion of this sentence to comprehend is what Dickens meant by "that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received," If you were to read on, it becomes evident (at least to me)that the "authorities" he was referring to were those in power in England and France -hence the catch title A Tale of Two Cities. So if the royalty of England and France were the "authorities" what did they "insisted" that their citizens accept. After all it was a time when their economy and their power was at a very fragile state.
Let's fast forward to the 21st century and ask this same question. What are the authorities insisting that we accept? As I listen to the President's speech the other night as well as other "authorities" (aka the Fed), there seems to be a unified message being foisted on its citizens. And it is presented like it is a statement of fact. Since it is fact, nobody is allowed to question or debate it. The people in authority seem to want us to believe that through very aggressive action, the United States has "averted" a total collapse of the financial markets and its institutions.Our authorities keep using this word "averted". And I keep hearing phrases like, "We have averted a near financial collapse in the banking sector". I question the validity on whether we have "averted" anything. I think "postponed" may be a more accurate word.
Much of our financial distress coincided with our residential housing bubble popping, along with other things like Americans inability to save.. I spoke at length with a commercial realtor. He's been doing this trade for over 40 years. He informs me that he personally believes that most of the correction for residential housing has already occurred; but contends that the correction for commercial retail property is no where near completion. He mentioned that if we take just a 10 mile radius from our office, this agent claims there is over 10 million square feet of vacant office and warehouse space. He shook his head and told me that he is at a loss on naming what types of industries can grow into that space. So he seems to think a commercial property correction is to come.
But it seems necessary for the authorities to insist that its citizens believe things have stabilized and that we have indeed "averted" a financial collapse. Why? So we can get out there and keep consuming. There are two contradictory philosophies here at work. One says that when economic times are rough, you need to SAVE money. The other philosophy is when the economic times are rough, you need to SPEND money. Our government has taken that the latter philosophy is the better of the two. And its recently our government policies support this claim. The Feds action to keep interest rates low encourages spending not saving. Big tax credits for purchases of big ticket like houses, encourage spending. Cash for Clunkers was a program I believe to encourage spending too. So the current economic philosophy is to keep spending so we can get our economy humming along.
I'm reminded of those pyramid schemes. You buy in, but in order for you to make money, you need to other people who will find other people to buy in and pay you. You don't want the pyramid to collapse right? Well then, keep find more people to buy in or get existing people to buy more. But in the end, the pyramid will collapse because the rate of spending to keep the structure up is unsustainable. I don't know how long the world can count on the US citizens to keep on spending. With less than 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. was responsible for about one- third of the world’s total material consumption (from 1970 to 1995). Should it be our goal to be 5% of the world's population but consume half of the world's total materials?
Also our consumption is not sustainable because of the huge shift into the consumption of non renewable resources. In 1900, 41% of the materials used in the U.S. were renewable (e.g., agricultural, fishery, and forestry products); by 1995, only 6% of materials consumed were renewable. The majority of materials now consumed in the U.S. are nonrenewable, including metals, minerals, and fossil-fuel derived products.
I don't know. Maybe with some luck, we have "postponed" the collapse of the American financial market, which would certainly cause the collapse of other smaller foreign financial markets. Maybe we have postponed "IT" until you and I have departed this Earth. So be wary of assisting the insisting authorities, it can hurt your children or your grand children far more than you realize.
Sources:.
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/inforesources/pubs/vision2.pdf
