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Ridermakerz Comes to Hawaii!

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I thought Hawaii Five-0 could have provided the impetus for custom toy car shop, Ridemakerz, to open shop in Hawaii. Just imagine building and customizing your take on Danno’s Camaro or a throwback of Senior McGarrett’s Grand Marquis. But nope, not the case. Regardless Ridemakerz has made it to Hawaii thanks to Disney, Cars 2, and Toys R Us.

Part of the Cars 2 craziness, you can pick up a prepackaged starter kit or fully stocked kit and customize your own Cars vehicle. Unlike actual Ridemakerz stores, you don’t assemble your custom car in the store, taking away from the overall Ridemakerz experience. But I guess this is as good as it gets.

Old School Lightning McQueen Kit
Body Kits
Customize with accessories

Just don’t expect top quality plastics and fine details with the prepackaged kits. Obviously, the Ridemakerz stores have more selection of parts and availability of the remote control engine, but I think you still can construct a cool Cars car with these kits.

Cars 2 Craziness Begins

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Disney’s Cars 2 doesn’t come out until June 24, but the push of its products has already begun. There’s the Cars 2 Lego sets found at Toys R Us.

And special deals like getting a Cars 2 backpack after purchasing $10 worth of Cars 2 merchandise at Safeway.

If you can’t find the Cars Lego locally, Amazon has a wide range of sets.

Is Hawaii’s Next Fire Hazard Due to Disney?

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From the Star Advertiser
Here I thought those flying lanterns in the Disney movie Tangled were fictitious. Not so as these new sky lantern novelties are set to take flight in Hawaii this New Year’s Eve.

These mini hot air balloons are not controlled and go where the winds take them like on top of your home’s roof. Supposedly these flying flames are safe and will extinguish themselves after a duration or at a certain altitude. I wonder how many people will fire off aerials to shoot down these flying targets? Maybe the $13 each price tag will deter some pyromaniacs.

The Real Prize of Pixar

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I, Cringely has a new post about the real prize in Disney acquiring Pixar is getting Steve Jobs. Some interesting snippets:

What we have are people in power who have no muse and wouldn’t recognize one if they could even hear her. Steve Jobs knows his muse.

Against a century-old tradition of corporate bloat, Jobs successfully preaches (and proves) that smaller is really better. How else can Apple compete with Microsoft AND Dell and HP, and still have $8 billion in the bank? Because smaller is better and cheaper, too, when it comes to creative development.

I still don’t like Steve Jobs. I’ve known too many people he has hurt. But this is clearly his time, maybe even his century. And what of Bill Gates? Bill Gates is a very successful philanthropist, but he’s no Steve Jobs.