Wow...well once again you just blew me away. The Limos are wild. I loved the suspension on these. Some Matchbox had it to. They were fun as a kid with little ramps. The bounce, who would land and win the jump races. So many memories. Unfortunately I dont have my youth collection. I do have a couple older Majorette cars with the fat tires. One is a white mobile racer. I also got a jeep 4x4 in a lot I bought off eBay. It was the only Majorette in it. But I was happy to get it. Those police cars with the working lights....also amazing. The ambulance NY city is so wicked. If there is a die cast Hall of Fame....YOU ARE A FIRST BALLOT ENTRY. 👍👍👍👍
I had a couple of Majorette cars of the "Matchbox" scale as a child (still have them) and recall the brand with fondness. I honestly wasn't aware until now of the broad range of scales produced by Majorette so thanks for the enlightenment. It seems they have had a bit of misfortune over the years (such as the factory rebuild and the TRU fiasco you mentioned), despite them producing great models. Here in NZ we still have some of the more recent models available at a couple of stores, but they don't seem to be getting actively restocked. Majorette's RACING CARS line over the past couple of years is my favourite - the WRC cars are especially good with their realistic rally tampos. All the best and enjoyed your video =)
Never seizes to amaze me with this massive collection you have, thank you for always sharing your diecast museum with us O-Dawg I for sure appreciate all the videos you put and look forward for more to come keep up the awesome work.
Majorettes and Matchbox cars were my childhood, Hot Wheels came much later when i started to collect diecast cars again. This is a great collection. Sadly, i only kept a handful of my played cars, the rest are lost in time or given away. Thanks for this video!
I was HOPING you'd do a Majorette video. THANK YOU. I live in Wisconsin and the only retailer that had Majorette was our Toys R Us. I was so happy we finally got them. Our Wal-Mart's never sold Majorette. Unless I missed out. Maybe after TRU closed. Either way this is why I love this channel. Awesome cars and a TON OF INFORMATION. I appreciate your knowledge of die cast cars and the creator's of them. I never knew all that about Majorette. Probably due to out of sight out of mind. Once I got heavier into die cast I started looking into all manufacturers. Add to it your video's, and a few others I got a good idea there was a LOT more out there. Companies that failed and closed. But still had great cars. So please keep up the great work. Your far beyond just entertaining. You provide a lot of information. THANK YOU.
Awesome video bro! I'm your American friend from Maine! I laughed my ass off when you through that limousine on your diorama! The door flew off! Hahahahaha! I like the way you say:"out" too! Keep the awesome videos coming!
Great video, very informative as always. I have been lucky and actually found a few Majorettes out in the wild during my Thrift Store hunts, but, very rarely indeed. I did not understand the numbering system for them until now so I will definately have to pull them out and see which ones I did attain. I do remember as a child in the 70's I would collect cans & bottles and that would be my Diecast money, mostly going for the Matchbox and superhero Corgi ones. Great memories watching all these videos and seeing many of the vehicles I had back then.
Very nice collection! A other type of majorette wheel is the ''hudcap'' style. Produce in the 60s. I have a few sample in my collection with this type of wheel. A yellow citroen / maserati SM, a blue datsun 260z, a plymouth police car and a Jaguar E type :) I'm quite jealous of your unique military vehicules and the car at 4:30, she looks pretty!
I grew up with that cars, as they were sold at our local shop, my dad often bought me one when we did the shopping. I started restoring some of them now!
Wow....you have at least 100 of those badboys or more ....I saw a old Honda Prelude I really liked...I like the Police cars, Porches, and VW Beetles also...very cool...that BP oil tanker truck....should be worth 100 bucks...it is real nice!
Big thumbs up! I used to have so many of them. Good to see them again. I used to have a white Toyota 4x4 with arrows on the hood, going to have to find that one again.
2:57 We can see your "Plymouth Police", a casting lauched in March 1973. Your variation is from 1979. Rarest variation ever is a KHAKI Plymouth with a number on the hood, released in 1976 in USA and Canada in Super Singles blisterpacks. Super Singles and Super Tandems cards read "Distributed by Charles Merzbach Company, NYC".
I had a few of these from the late 80's. I remember having a Toyota Hilux, a Fiat Strada hatchback, a Renault Encore with opening sunroof, Volvo 760, 2 Cadillac Sedan Deville stretch limos, an Excaliber and a morgan roadster.
wow! what an amazing majorette collection , you have. I learned something today about series 100. I didn't know nothing until now. Thanks for sharing your video.
In my country town in Australia the only place you could buy these in the 80s to early 90s was the chemists (drug store for North Ameracans). Great memories of these making you feel better after picking up medicine when crook. I've seen these in Toyworld in Ballarat with pretty good rotation over the last few months but still more of a fan of the originals.
I had a few hand me down sonic flashers as a kid, those batteries did last really long, I was playing with them back in the early to mid 2000s. Really neat gimmick! I alwayed prized the few 90s majorette’s I had.
I saw a lot of majorettes that I have in this video. I have one no 201 ford model A pickup in blue colour. Paint was bad so I did a custom . Also have one 4×4 toyota pickup no 292. Great video.!
those oldies are goldies! I've got 2 Majorettes, a Gull Wing BMW M1 Turbo & a Lambo Countach, 200 series) 2 Hot Wheels, a Schuco, a Yatming and a few Corgi Juniors on my non Matchbox display amonst 200 Lesney's, still love em esp their 3 spoke wheels, thanks for the overview on Majorette, quite a collection! or several collections by most standards.
Great selection of cars on display... I have had some Majorettes in my collection and used to play with them... also I remember they were one of the few brands in 1:64 scale which offered opening doors hoods etc. and had suspension. The variety of models was also varied from normal cars to tractors and trucks... infact I have restarted collecting majorettes recently and even did a review of one of their theme sets. Lovely video and as my motto goes.. collect and show!!!
Majorette we’re rare to have in shops when I was a kid mostly matchbox and corgi but I did have a few they had the best suspension, the casting could be a bit brittle, they often came with extras like trailers with boats. Cool to see thank you for sharing brother
I had some sweet *Tomica* and *Siku* cars during the early 80's, I remember our local Chemist/Pharmacy/Drug Store had a massive selection of Majorette probably the best in town 👍
I started looking at Majorette cars when they came out with the Sonic Flashers. I still have several that still activate, as you said, over 20 years later. Having just recently started collecting again and realized that I have a couple of the military versions still on the card. Great series but were heavily undervalued here in the US when they started. Great episode.
I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't thought of buying majorette because think about it, Currently in the USA, MATTEL has a monopoly for toy cars aimed at children yet Hasbro is the leading toy company in the USA yet they don't have a diecast brand, if they did buy majorette, they would become king since Hasbro has been trusted by many families for years now for price and high quality, and that's what's majorette's goal has been as well.
They wouldn't even have to buy them completely, they could just buy the distribution rights and then both companies make money. And if Majorette wants to cancel USA involvement again then they can and it's no big loss to them.
Do you really believe that Hasbro didn't consider that? There's colossal market research to evaluate whether the money spent is worth it and/or it would bring more profit being invested in other toy areas.
That Chevy truck with the (really well modeled) gun on the back should be WAY more popular. It looks better than a biwayman or snow plow. Maybe even the beloved '83 Silverado Premium Hot Wheels. Thanks for the show!
Omg the memories of me playing with this cars i just turn 29 and i remember playing with my 1st majorette in 1992 that's 27 years ago wow thanks for the nostalgia
Something I grew up with too. I like how their die cast buses and trucks are compatible in size with their 1:64 cars whereas Matchbox, Tomica & Hotwheels had buses in much smaller scale. And way back in 1984 my dad bought me a Renault Taxi but was stolen. A few years ago I managed to get it back, thanks to Ebay and the internet. Also lost a green Paris bus while moving house but got it back the same way.
Great video, history lesson and cool collection you have there. Was a bit sad to see only 1 Mustang SVO, if you need some of the different variations let me know. Since this video is a bit older you have probably added to this collection
A great video and a lot I did not know about Majorette, I did not like them much as a child, but they made some good stuff here and there and their modern stuff is great, I have and early toyota celica by them that I bought at TK max and it has great suspension and is a cool car and one of my treasures, so give majorette another look as they are good cars for the money!
Majorette is still cool today. I am in Ontario and just found a store that stocks some of their latest releases. I am in Ontario, and just found a store that stocks some of its recent models.
For those interested, there is a very useful database with all the Majorettes from the 200 and 300 series on Fandom, called the Majorette Diecast Database. Edit November 2020: the Majorette Diecast Database on Fandom sadly no longer exists, but there is a new one so search for Majorette Model Cars Wiki instead.
Thanks for showing your nice collection:-) I have a small collection of Majorette cars from the 70 sand 80s. Some of them never been opened from the blister cards. I do think the quality from the 70s and 80s are the best with opening parts, the working suspensions and metal base and same size as Hot Wheels and Matchbox. From mid 90s and up till today the quality differs, e.g. going from metal base to plastic and the metal base IMO from the 90s are slightly thinner. And today’s Majorette seems slightly bigger, just like German Siku, than Hot Wheels and Matchbox. I definitely like the size better from Hot Wheels and Matchbox better than Majorette and Siku. And I think Majorette today focuses to much on French cars - or at least they used to back in the 90s and early 2000s. And I’m not really a fan of a French cars although some of the cars today actually are quite good looking IMO. But I would never buy a French car though. But I guess you don’t see many French cars on the road as a Canadian or in the US for that matter. Have you any new 2018/2019 Majorette cars not featured in the video or are you out collecting them and what are your thoughts on the new Majorettes? I do like the new Majorettes. I just think it’s a shame they don’t have a “premium” line with metal base and rubber wheels and the and still not a fan of the size of the cars. But I’m thinking of starting to collect or buy at least some of the cars that I like. Only thing is in Denmark Majorette is pretty hard to find as well as Hot Wheels and Matchbox. 1/64 diecast collecting isn’t very popular in Denmark. In Europe 1/64 scale isn’t very popular amongst collectors
@@wtffor majorette literally disappeared here in ireland around 1990 & have only begun hitting the shelves here again in 2018 but much more limited compared to the 70s - 1990.Glad I have a lot of my childhood majorette in decent condition.
O Dawg! Have you ever thought about restoring or customizing? It seems a natural progression for collectors, and is a great way to spend some quality time without the old ball 'n' chain demanding "favors" on those terrifying cold winter nights. Seriously though, my old hag was serviced not 8 months back and is already hassling me for num nums. he he he he! Oh crap...she's standing right behind me, isn't she?....gulp...goodbye cruel world. ;) Jack - Canada R.I.P.
Great diorama. I was a big fan of the Series 3000. I had the blue Saviem truck with the yellow & blue trailer with the Michelin wordmark. What about the F1 transporters with the opening window and the two Formula 1 cars inside? I seem to remember I had the Ferrari one but I'm not so sure - it's been more than 20 years since I have last seen it :D
It's funny when I was really young I had a huge collection of Micro Machines, but for some reason I sold them off years ago... regretting that nowadays...
I know what you mean about your favourites and the military also used have lots of vans and tow trucks and Jeep Cherokee the sheriff's one my favourite is the little Avis van think it's a Renault they are a big part of my childhood we used go to Spain and i bought must of them from there i'm trying to buy as many as i can there very hard to find apart from E-bay they rarely see them in UK shops i'm not into the new ones at 25 i have many more years of collecting ahead 👍
