The Matchbox Car Story

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Matchbox is a popular British toy brand which was introduced by Lesney Products in 1953, and is now owned by Mattel, Inc. The brand was given its name because the original die-cast Matchbox toys were sold in boxes similar to those in which matches were sold. The brand grew to encompass a broad range of toys, including larger scale die-cast models, plastic model kits, and action figures.
During the 1980s, Matchbox began to switch to the more conventional plastic and cardboard "blister packs" that were used by other die-cast toy brands such as Hot Wheels. The box style packaging was re-introduced for the collectors' market in recent years, particularly with the release of the "35th Anniversary of Superfast" series in 2004.
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@christopherpappas7474 4 года назад

I loved my Matchbox cars:) As a child my mum would take me to J.L. Hudson's in Detroit and if I was 'good' she would let me pick one from the display in the toy department. I wish I had them still but hope that some collector has my loved Matchbox toys in their collection and they are continued to bring joy :)

@8176morgan Год назад

I loved their motorcyles with side cars that they had in the mid 1960's. There were three in total and I still remember them well. #4 was the blue Triumph. #36 was the light green Lambretta scooter. And then the best of them all was #66 a bronze Harely-Davidson. All three worth a lot more than 49¢ each nowadays! 🙂

@TheHelado36 4 года назад

As a kid I remember hating those fantasy cars, that is why I ended always choosing Matchbox !

@Brookhavenpolicedept 6 месяцев назад

i hate hot wheels

@Brookhavenpolicedept 6 месяцев назад

for some reason

@iNIMATEstudio 19 дней назад

@@Brookhavenpolicedept i love hotwheels premium but yeah the regular suck

@tonyppe 4 года назад

Wow I didn't realise how many of these cars I had. I had the Baird's custard, the red London bus, tons of cars and a red and white plane. I was born in 85. I think I had these cars when I was around 3 years old and up. I used to like making pretend stock car racing so they were pretty banged up 🙈 I may still have a red Porsche 928 in the loft though

@JJMCB26 4 года назад

Tony P No way! I used to have the Bird's Custard Ford van too, I remember buying it in shop as a kid back in the early '90s :)

@tonyppe 4 года назад

@@JJMCB26 I just remembered I had a Golden Wonder branded Ford Granada (I think it was a granada) :) Good times :)

@alecboyyes 4 года назад

Regretfully, my mates and I used to smash ours with bricks to see who could create the coolest wrecks. Nowadays you'd just load up GTA and create virtual smashups.

@martycrush6412 4 года назад

alecboyyes me too, then we would use mums hairspray and a lighter to finish them off. Wish I’d kept mine as all the ones I had left were customised in my own style. Would love to see my imagination from 35 years ago.

@alecboyyes 4 года назад

@@martycrush6412 Haha, so true!

@bilbobaggins4710 4 года назад

Hahahaha same ....I was fascinated by salvage yards so I made a miniature one

@southpineshooligan 4 года назад

@Tyler Bossard it does, until it doesnt lmao

@PhilAVega 4 года назад

Very cool😎 We also smashed a few. Thanks for sharing your memories.

@bobmmann3917 Год назад

Thanks for the wonderful trip down memory lane. I loved my matchbox cars. Had many of these shown here back in the day.

@mrc7966 4 года назад

When I was a kid in the late 80s/90s I had hundreds of matchbox cars. None of them were kept packaged, all of them were played with until the paint had worn off, they'd get repainted and passed down to my brothers, then onto cousins and then cousins kids. They're all still around somewhere in the family being played with. The idea of "driving your collectible cars" has stuck with me into my adulthood. I've owned over 30 cars, mostly collectible stuff. None of them were garage queens. Yesterday I drove a 1 of 500 car through a rainy Peak District, I once drove an E-Type Jag' to the supermarket in the snow. All are looked after meticulously but played with until the paint comes off, at which point they get repainted and eventually passed down for somebody else to enjoy after I'm too old to play with them. For me matchbox is where a love of cars began, the toys, the bills, and the love just kept getting bigger as I did!

@althejazzman 4 года назад

I'm absolutely with you there. I have a few classic cars, one of which only 60 are left on the road. It doesn't look tidy but runs very well.

@raymondmartucci2049 4 года назад

I played with them too. If I knew how some are valued I wouldn't have kept them in good shape.

@jparky1972 4 года назад

@@althejazzman If you got the information about your car being only 1 of 60 left from that website. Don't take it as gospel. I've got a "SuperRare" mk2 1.1 Fiesta Festival that I KNOW and have SEEN more of than are registered on that site.

@althejazzman 4 года назад

@@jparky1972 It's accurate for what's road legal surely? I realise there could be twice as many sitting in garages and barns. Mine was one of those 3 years ago.

@stephenwright8824 4 года назад

Likewise, but in the Seventies and the Eighties.

@MiKeMiDNiTe-77 4 года назад

Who didn't grow up with Matchbox cars in the 70s and 80s...legendary and iconic toys

@rambunctiousmedia3350 4 года назад

Matchbox's Battle Kings and Adventure 2000 series (though not the success they hoped for) have supplied more input into my self-designed sci-fi wargame system with mere PICTURES than you can imagine. I won't use everything I was able to make out, but this video was unexpected welcome help. Thank you, Little Car!

@alphyheeler 4 года назад

This was the best history video ever. I love matchbox and hot wheels when I was a kid to know. I get some to play and keep on the package in 2017 and now I get two of the same to keep in packaging and to mess with.

@enriquelopez9124 4 года назад

I remember back in the day, having a huge collection of matchbox cars , instead of buying candy, I would add to the c0llection, they would also have catalogs.

@josephcostello695 4 года назад

Still have some cars under my Christmas tree for the little town I make.

@davidbarnes1955 3 года назад

Im from Sydney Australia and grew up in the late 60s- early 70s on Matchbox cars, Tonka toys, Airfix , Revell kits, Hornby and Lima trains..Hotwheels were regarded as a second rate because quite often their axles would bend at the chassis plate and render them useless ..Matchbox didn't do that and their larger scale vehicles of yesteryear were highly sought after

@noUGames 4 года назад

A really well done video. Including the rare looking footage from the factory

@SIBERIANDEATH 4 года назад

I never heard of hot wheels when I was a kid my collection of cars was from two brand Matchbox and Majorette and this last one were highly looked after.

@johnbrentford5513 4 года назад

Johnny Lightning came out in 1969? I never heard of Johnny Lightning until the mid 90s. I was a kid in the 70s and 80s Hot wheels was the most popular but Matchbox was always on the shelf next to them.

@fatbuddy719 4 года назад

They tried to compete with Hotwheels and quickly went bankrupt, then the name was revived by Playing Mantis in 1994.

@johnbrentford5513 4 года назад

@@fatbuddy719 I was a grow ass man by 1994. All my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars I played with they got worn out.

@glennhecker4422 Год назад

Absolutely. I had some as a small child in the late 1960's.

@TheStobb50 4 года назад

This takes me back to my childhood Matchbox dinky corgi I’ve been a petrol head ever since

@26TptCoy 4 года назад

They were made to be played with and played with they were. For years anyone digging in the garden would unearth an old lost matchbox toy, badly corroded with wheels missing.I used to build toads and bridges then place the cars and trucks in position with firecrackers in place. Kaboom kaboom they would all be blown up.

@chrisb1978 4 года назад

You have no idea how many Matchbox (and other brands, but mostly Matchbox) cars I have smashed up in my life, summer holiday daytimes I spent at my grandparents, smashing a fresh bag of cars up with my cousin each day. Bricks, fire but mostly high speed well aimed throws (pushes) at the other car, and sometimes at the cousin (lol), were their fate.

@AndySmallbone 4 года назад

I have tons of the lledo cars never realised they were made by matchbox as such

@K-Effect 4 года назад

At 3:06 the GT-40 looks like a nice model.

@shaneellasdaicastrestorati3675 4 года назад

New subscriber hear, very much enjoyed this and the corgi videos.

@df5295 4 года назад

I have some of the cars in the video. They're in a closet at my mom's house!

@kylesoler4139 4 года назад

You forgot about the Japanese models they did around the late 70's. I have a Red Galant Eterna that was one of the few castings that were made exclusively for the Japanese market. They are quite crude even for the time, considering brands like Tomica who did Japanese cars quite well. Have you ever thought of doing a video on Tomica?

@glennhecker4422 Год назад

Ah, yes: "Pocket Cars!" Mid-1970's onwards (but long gone 😢) Incredibly accurate and detailed!

@brewcrew5854 4 года назад

i dont know why but for some reason the matchbox series with the boxes was the best if hot wheels had boxes back in the 70s i think they would been even more desired . those blister packs just arent the same . look at the value of matchbox cars with original mint boxes !!!

@garbage854 4 года назад

Cool 😀

@American-Motors-Corporation 4 года назад

Now do a video on Johny lighting race track toys!! My dad would like that video!! Please look into it!!

@Countryboy-2009 3 года назад

Do the matchbox sky busters story

@stephenwright8824 4 года назад

The Mattel buyout was a product of sheer greed. I'd have preferred if Matchbox had simply disappeared, rather than be produced *secondhand* by a rival company. Now that I know about it, I'm almost ashamed to have owned either brand of car.

@troygillis3499 4 года назад

My mum worked for lesney in the 70’s she brought me home a new toy everyday! No joke.

@raymondmartucci2049 4 года назад

That had to be exciting having your mom to bring home a new car.

@billmarsh1971 4 года назад

Maybe your mum and my grandmother worked together. I'd get a new car or three every time I went to visit. Is your mum still alive? If she is could you ask her if she knew of Phyllis Wotton? It would be amazing if she did.

@troygillis3499 4 года назад

paul chambers Yea she’s still alive my mum worked in the packaging department in the rexdale Ontario Canada office I remember walking in the front reception and there was a huge round table with all there products displayed, funny how I remembered it so well.

@billmarsh1971 4 года назад

@@troygillis3499 ahh, a big organisation and it seems they were an ocean apart. My dear old nan worked at the Abbey Wood site in South East London. Be well, Troy. m.facebook.com/AbbeyWoodHistory/photos/a.239477732734705/2068149279867532/?type=3

@troygillis3499 4 года назад

paul chambers thanks Paul

@rogerw3818 4 года назад

When I was a youngster, my Grandmother asked what she should get me for Christmas. She was puzzled when my Mother told her to get me Matchboxs. Imagine my surprise when I opened the wrapping to see actual matches. She must have thought I was a pyromaniac. It was always a wonderful family story.

@PhilAVega 4 года назад

Very cool 😎 I'm smiling rt now. Thanks for sharing your memories.

@mr99boxer30 4 года назад

Every little kid worth his salt would know what a Matchbox was. And take them out on the playground to show off a new model.

@elizabethalexandra5270 4 года назад

That is hilarious, matchbox = pyromaniac. 🏎🔥. Well this actually does happen in Formula One racing. Even before all the safety. Lol. Little did your grandma know. Probably why there aren’t anymore blue tip stick matches being sold. We used to play with them. I have all brothers and loved all of these cars and tracks. I wasn’t around to see the matchboxes they came in but I still love them to this day. Great funny story. 👍🏼💥

@harrybriscoe7948 4 года назад

Around 1968 My brother went to the store and asked me if I wanted some thing. I asked him to get me a pack or 2 of cards . He came home with playing cards mot baseball cards

@ramblingrob4693 3 года назад

Thats Brilliant. Love it

@snich63 4 года назад

Ooh, I had that one! And that one! And that one! etc Half my childhood flashed before my eyes in this video.

@muskokamike127 4 года назад

yeah, the ford gt, the honda motorcycle on the trailer (in good condition with a box I bet that's worth a fortune) and many others. Even had the original steam roller in green.

@davidkrueger3584 4 года назад

Me too.

@AndyMangele 4 года назад

Welcome to the club!

@trueknowledgeispower 4 года назад

...lol

@stephenwarhurst6615 4 года назад

I remember back in the 1970's being a kid walking into the toy shop with pocket money and the Matchbox cars where stack in rows on a shelf behind the counter and the Toy shop owner would take the cars out of the boxes and let me test drive them on the counter top till I made my mind up and he would say after sale see you next week.

@TheHorsebox2 4 года назад

You've just described the memories of a million childhoods. Spot on.

@JJMCB26 4 года назад

Stephen Warhurst Best comment on here, sounds a lot like my '90s childhood. When me and my family go out on a weekly shop to the local supermarket, my dad gives me a pound and I spend it on a Matchbox car. Ah, fond memories :)

@prp3231 4 года назад

Your lucky, my old man wouldn't give me any pocket money so I had to browse and dream like a one cat peeping thru seafood store.

@obelic71 4 года назад

yes 2 racks in those shops Matchbox and Majorette. how often i couldn't decide as a kid wich car when i could choose only 1 car!

@mro-aviation 4 года назад

@@JJMCB26 a pound of what?

@vichungerford8960 4 года назад

I used to be a driver at Lesney Products from 1963 to 1965. I used to take truckloads of the toys down to the London Docks to be exported; they were packed into cartons and there were many hundreds of cartons in a truckload, loaded by hand onto the truck and held on by sheets and ropes, no containerisation then. Lesley’s had a fleet of double decker buses and in the evenings we truck drivers used to drive the buses to take the workers home. They were happy days; Jack Odell had a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and Les Smith had a Rover 3-litre, both of which I drove on the odd occasion.

@Dsdcain 4 года назад

All I can say about this is when I was a kid in the seventies I always like Matchbox over Hot Wheels for the accurate details on the Matchbox cars. I really did appreciate the details even back then. Man after seeing some of the stuff about Matchbox collectors I wish I had held onto all the toy cars I had.

@debeerpaul 4 года назад

I lost my bag of 60 cars in the garden during heavy rains over 30 years ago. I bought a metal detector the other day and Im hoping to find my long lost treasure.

@bugler75 4 года назад

Good luck! It would be great if you found them. Check out Marty’s Matchbox Makeovers on RU-vid if you need help in restoring them 😊

@johannahjohari2915 4 года назад

Did you finds the cars ?

@rods6405 4 года назад

I found mine under the kitchen sink in my mums house

@FamiliarGecko 4 года назад

Don't leave us hanging! Did you find your cars?

@nameruse1817 4 года назад

Did you find them?

@louisvidalinc2678 4 года назад

Even as a Hot Wheels fan, I loved this video! Any possibility of seeing a video on Majorette?

@LittleCar 4 года назад

Maybe. I wasn't aware of Majorette before now.

@louisvidalinc2678 4 года назад

@@LittleCar I guess it's (or was) more of a continental Europe brand. But is was huge back in the day and many French and German kids grew up with them !

@nunofernandes4501 4 года назад

When I was a kid I was always disappointed when someone offered me a Majorette. Matchbox were the golden standard.

@louisvidalinc2678 4 года назад

@@nunofernandes4501 when did you grow up? In the 90s majorettes were fantastic. They had suspension and pretty good models. They went severely downhill in the mid-late 2000s.

@nunofernandes4501 4 года назад

@@louisvidalinc2678 I was born in '73 and the Majorettes had bad suspension and poor casting compared to Matchbox. Never knew they got better in the 90's but by then I was in the university and playing with other things rather than miniature cars ;)

@raymondhambleton9452 4 года назад

A great history video. I used to be one of the tool room draughtsmen for Lesney. Back in 1979 we were doing cost saving economy version of the diecast cars. By 1980 some of the Lesney plants were shutting down. I used to work at the Chingford Hall lane factory. One of our draughtsmen came back from a holiday in Hong Kong and came in the drawing office with a briefcase full of brand new Matchbox cars, we were shocked to find they were made in Macau. We had no idea Jack Odell and Les Smith has opened a factory out there. Within a week, the whole company knew about this new Macau factory. Two weeks later we were being offered redundancies. They kept some of the staff and the factories stayed working for another year, but in the end they all closed. Entire families worked for Lesney, so entire families were jobless overnight, it was a horrible time athe factories.

@LittleCar 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing and making the story so much more personal.

@sleipnir694 3 года назад

I used to work at the Rochford factory, friends thst i worked with, had moved from Nth London to Essex , due to the factory move. Had some good times , and very cheap models from the shop 😊

@jamesfrench7299 3 года назад

I remember seeing made in Macau on the base and being disappointed as a child.

@DrLoverLover Год назад

Capitalism is working great, isnt it?

@markweston3242 11 месяцев назад

I worked at Rochford from 1978 until jan 2 1988, it was the best company anyone could have worked for until management from Lee Con Road started being transferred to Rochford , they thought the were gods but only came to Rochford to stay on a year longer.

@The_R-n-I_Guy 2 года назад

I grew up in the 80's and I loved Matchbox cars. Hot Wheels were okay, but I liked the realistic cars from Matchbox. I remember begging my mom for a new car every time we went shopping. Much simpler times

@TamaMaehe 3 года назад

By the time I was 12 in the 90’s I had 200 matchbox toys. I ended up giving them to my eldest nephew in about 2000 & when he was finished with them. He gave them to his younger brother. All of the toys have been well used & most have very little paint on them. Lots of fun had.

@lancerevell5979 4 года назад

Growing up in 1960s America, I had Hotwheels cars. Later as a young adult, I finally discovered Matchbox cars, as well as other brands. I mostly collect Johnny Lightning and Hotwheels nowadays, but do look for Matchbox cars too. Also have a couple Matchbox plastic scale aircraft model kits. This history video is excellent!

@MrWoWgaming 4 года назад

i got a sick johnny lightning car wich ive never heard of the brand before i bought it here in europe, a nice pink dodge charger although the package is not that pristine the car luckily is. Great quality on johnny lightning i must say.

@crazybrit-nasafan 4 года назад

I too have some Matchbox model kits. quite a few actually. Mostly Aircraft but some tanks and even the huge 1/72 scale Corvette warship they did. There are some built up on the "Unofficial Airfix Modellers forum" Google it to find it. (they don't just do Airfix, they cover all model kits new and old) The members there are a great bunch and very helpful if you are into or getting into model making.

@lancerevell5979 4 года назад

@@crazybrit-nasafan Thanks, mate. I just registered on the Unofficial Airfix Modelers Forum. Looks like an interesting site.

@LucasOliveira-tt2ll 4 года назад

Matchbox history is quite similar to the british automotive history, had it's heyday until crisis struck in late 70's early 90's and then went bankrupt and the most successful brand went to a bigger company while production was outsorced in China. Sad but true

@kelvinpeterson6169 4 года назад

Globalization

@kelvinpeterson6169 4 года назад

@Vez Akino The rich benefit and the poor get shafted and sold cheaper goods that aren't up to standard

@jimtaylor294 4 года назад

Ironically not "globalization", so much as overarching economic woes, misguided mergers, import and export costs to the wider world as a result of being in the EEC, and the industrial disease of militant strikitus. A combination of those four killed the UK mainstream car industry, and almost killed Italy's too. Lesney-Matchbox only fell foul of the first of those issues. China was a main beneficary of both in the end though, coincidentally.

@edwardblake3277 3 года назад

Hiya I worked in the matchbox factory ,making the cars ,every Xmas we could buy a box filled with great cars ,in the 1980s they were very popular

@timberwolfpowler8747 4 года назад

When I was a kid in the 60's I dedicated 50% of my allowance to these. Now I have a hairy horde of Match Box and Hot Wheels.

@claudiobizama5603 4 года назад

The older I get, the more I'm getting really into Matchbox over HotWheels. I love the regular cars they have. I will be waiting for a Majorette vid

@jammygamer8961 4 года назад

The old hotwheels are cool but very expensive compared to matchbox

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

I genuinely agree, I would rather have a matchbox over a hot wheels 99% of the time, the vehicles are mostly officially branded but most of the more fantasy cars still feel like something you would really see out on the road.

@paxhumana2015 4 года назад

I like them both equally and I also find it sad that Tonka/Maisto cars get no love.

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

@@paxhumana2015 Oh, I love both of those brands as well. I prefer Maistos licensed cars, but some of their "Fantasy" cars are good too.

@MADMAX839 5 месяцев назад

Perhaps my most treasured of childhood toys.

@-abacchus 4 года назад

Wow. This video brought back so many memories. Plenty of the cars shown used to be bashed about by a younger me... Happy times :)

@57Jimmy 4 года назад

- ̗̀A Bacchus ̖́- Ahem... a MUCH younger ‘me’? Lol! Me too!👴🏻

@jeffreyrainey1015 4 года назад

I still collect diecast cars as an adult. To hell with the boxes.

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

As a middle schooler can confirm ALWAYS take them out of the package, even as a collector. TO HELL WITH THE PACKAGE!

@joelaugustestudios 4 года назад

Jeffrey Rainey same. I mostly buy my diecast models now on eBay than in stores. I do diecast reviews on my channel as well.

@GrilloTheFlightless 4 года назад

If you want an heirloom that might be worth some money later on, keep the package. If you want to actually enjoy them, which is what they were made for, rip the box open, take the toy out and chuck the package away.

@scottouellette9411 4 года назад

Jeff I think the artwork of the boxes are more fluid than the actual toy.

@EjOnBloxYT 3 года назад

But Mattel who own hot wheels own it its quite not original

@prp3231 4 года назад

I remember how vibrant the colours were on these cars and vehicles back in the early 70s. Metallic burgundy was my favourite, Jensen Interceptor, Aston Martins, Mustangs, Mercury, London buses... great memories.

@crazybrit-nasafan 4 года назад

Well worth watching. I still have some of my old Matchbox toys in the loft. (I'm 54 yrs old now) including that DAF car transporter and a few Capris amongst others. How about an episode about Matchbox model kits? I have quite a few of those unbuilt up in the loft too.

@bostonblackie9503 3 года назад

Every Friday my Dad would bring my brother a matchbox car. It amazes me how he could remembered what cars he had bought before. No duplicates! It was a great event for all of us we couldn't wait to see what car my Dad had bought each Friday. They were great toys!

@montyzumazoom1337 4 года назад

Oh yes, me as a kid in the 1960’s - I loved Matchbox toys. Every week I would pester my Mum to get me another one..... Apparently I used to run them along the outside of shop window frames whilst Mum was either chatting or getting something in the shop. When it was time to go, I took Mums hand and inadvertently left the toy behind 😢 I did manage to build up quite a collection, but the boxes meant nothing to me then, it was what was inside that counted.

@muskokamike127 4 года назад

I remember the first time I was allowed to "buy lunch" in grade 7. There was a lunch counter at the plaza by the school. Of course I took the money and bought a matchbox lol. I still remember it: was the esso 6 wheeled artic explorer vehicle with the yellow plastic roof...my mom was pissed lol.

@joshbacon8241 4 года назад

Monty Zumazoom I bet you must have had a brilliant childhood...

@montyzumazoom1337 4 года назад

Josh Bacon Actually I had a very lonely childhood. When I was born, I screamed like a baby, and until the age of 11 the only people I met were scientists.......😢

@joshbacon8241 4 года назад

Monty Zumazoom Oh... 😢

@montyzumazoom1337 4 года назад

Les Dawson jokes are the best😂😂😂

@fernandomarques5166 4 года назад

I always loved matchbox because they did stuff you would see out there on the streets, on construction yards, on airports, etc. best thing was actually seeing the real counterpart, the prototype, of your model.

@bentullett6068 4 года назад

My brother collects the Matchbox, Corgi and any other diecast car that was made in Britain. Although I recently noticed that they are starting to bring back features such as opening doors on the newer matchbox cars and the detail is so much better than some of the hot wheels cars.

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

Yeah. They really do have some decent details on some of them, but its mostly the same built quality as hot wheels nowadays with only decals on the side and whatnot. I know Greenlight is good if you want the extra detail and decent scale.

@bentullett6068 4 года назад

@@Truckerboy1234 in the UK Greenlight aren't readily available, but we do have Corgi and another company called Oxford diecast who produce cars, trucks, tractors, construction machinery and military vehicles in 1:43 scale and 1:76 scale. The 1:76 scale vehicles are very useful if you have a UK 1:76 scale 00 gauge model railway. They have recently done a 1:87 scale range of cars from the USA as well. We can also get the diecast cars from European manufacturer Siku and they are pretty decent diecast cars and vehicles.

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

@@bentullett6068 Ah, apologies. I'm down here in Canada. I can confirm Siku is sold here, I have a little collection of those cars myself and I really enjoy them. I'm not sure if we have Oxford around here, and I do have a few Corgis from the 70's or 60's. Thanks for the info buddy! 😊

@paxhumana2015 4 года назад

@@bentullett6068 , does Oxford Diecast sell internationally as well?

@bentullett6068 4 года назад

@@paxhumana2015 I think they do as they have done special edition replicas of the open top London routemaster buses used in certain cities in the world including New York and Sydney. Best enquire on their website to see if they can ship overseas.

@modelcars9493 4 года назад

Meine Kindheit seit den Ende der 60ziger Jahren❤️❤️❤️🤗

@guangzhouguide 3 года назад

I made at least 30+ Matchbox's PK series plastic models, includes planes, tanks and vehicles. She is not only a toy brand to me but also my childhood memories. Thank you Matchbox!

@SaturnCanuck 4 года назад

Thanks. I had (still have) many Matchbox and Speed Kings from the late 1960s and early 1970s. I look forward to your Dinky video so I can see all the Gerry Anderson toys. :)

@Brera011 2 года назад

I also grew up with these cars. They were afordable for a kid with a little pocketmoney. Hope there will be a new little car episode soon, let's say about Bburago. Keep up the good work!

@tavarix5893 4 года назад

I had an Crown Victoria Highway Patrol car, it was my favorite car from Matchbox. I used to have a box filled with little cars from diferent brands, but I used to store the Crown Victoria separeted from the rest kinda in a display on the shaft. Unfortunatelly it vanished and I still mad about it almost 10 years after. _Deep Fried Grrrrr_

@stevesloan7132 4 года назад

I remember being disappointed in Hot Wheels because even as a child I could see that many of them were not models of real cars. Accept no substitutes. Go for the real thing. Match Box all the way! The one! The only! And still the best . . . Match Box!

@jammygamer8961 4 года назад

All of the original 1968 cars where either real life cars like the Dodge deora or based of real life cars such as the Custom Mustang which was meant to be a customised mustang but still completely real. It was at 1969 when they started to produce truly fantasy cars

@user-s1o3nr532 4 года назад

Yes, I remember the introduction of fantasy models and all-plastic all-in-one wheels and tyres in Dinky Toys as well as Matchbox models as a kid - I pretty much became interested in older models and lost interest in new ones at that point.

@TheLexiconDevils 4 года назад

Hot Wheels are superior

@jammygamer8961 4 года назад

@@user-s1o3nr532 Yea the rubber tyres on matchboxs are cool i even have a few in my collection. One thing i liked about the 1968 to 1969 produced hotwheels is the plastic bearings the wheels have (They have a certain name but i don't remember)

@user-s1o3nr532 4 года назад

@@jammygamer8961 Yeah nothing wrong with Hot Wheels - I just found there was suddenly not much in the way of realistic cars you saw every day once Dinky, Corgi, and Matchbox all decided they would try to be Hot Wheels too. Having said that though, the very first narrow wheeled Matchbox Whizzwheels were great - better than what went before, which had mainly plastic one piece wheels anyway. The biggest disappointment was Dinky, which having embraced awful clunky speed wheels", seemed to then lose its way completely.

@mattashman4040 4 года назад

My father in law was head tool designer for matchbox thru the 70’s working with Jack Odell. He celebrated his 40 th birthday whist at the company, he was presented with a special edition Rolls Royce silver shadow matchbox car. However with a number plate reading GNF 40T - standing for his initials Gerald Norman Fanthorpe, 40 for 40th birthday and the letter T for the year of registration (in the United Kingdom the last letter denoted the year of manufacture of a real car). As a postscript every Rolls Royce Silver shadow has that registration plate to this day. Unique.

@LittleCar 4 года назад

Awesome story! Thanks.

@kellyashfordtrains2642 4 года назад

I was more into Micro Machine toy cars, when I was younger. Of the Matchbox range, I recovered something dating from 1978. Not cars, not trucks or even a bus. No, what I now have in my possession from Matchbox is the hard-to-find toy tank engines with a carriage each. I'm a steam engine fanatic and that's why I found them (on a few separate occasions) in a charity shop in Llangollen. OK, I don't play with them much, but I'm too attached to them to give them away. This leads me to a certain song. Now that you can do it, let's make a chain now; Chugga-chugga-motion like railway train now. Do it nice and easy now, don't lose control, A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul. So come on, do the locomotion with me.

@Cortinaman63 4 года назад

I used to live near the Matchbox Factory (09;50) and was sad when it closed, as a kid it was where all my MUCH LOVED toy cars I bought with pocket money came from, my car collection ended up at 1,500 made up of Matchbox, Corgi, Dinky, and the odd Spot On, Budgie, and Hot Wheels brands which I sold a few years ago for £14.000 to help fund the restoration of my real full sized Mk3 Ford Cortina, which my Dad used to drive past the Lesney Factory back in 1976, with me in it, so Thanks to Lesney my passion for their models as a child has helped my passion for the Cortina being restored on my channel, i liked this video a lot as you showed many of the models I once owned, and there is even a shot of the Mk.3 Ford Cortina outside the Lesney Factory in the B/W photo

@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary 4 года назад

Played with my friend's ginormous Matchbox collection a couple times and I was SOLD!! It was the 70s and I loved the realistic models as compared with Hot Wheels.

@kenlim13 4 года назад

I had collected about 100 matchbox cars in the 70's but gave all away. Now, I am regretted to give them away. It could be priceless now.

@mxrclxst 4 года назад

Finally! Some love for Matchbox. This is what I grew up with. Hotwheels is cool too, but... Matchbox for the win.

@justinobrien9164 4 года назад

I remember going into the newspaper shop on ridge hill estate in stalybridge I was 8 and buying a matchbox car twice a week they were displayed in a glass cabinet with the car on top of its box and cost 39p in 1980 I have still got a few left still boxed to this day, happy days.

@BrianSmith-vl7xu 4 года назад

I used to love Matchbox toys when I was a kid in the 70's

@johnrettig1880 4 года назад

I've been waiting ever since I was a kid for one or the other to come out with a small scale " Bat Mobile " and " Black Beauty " from the "Green Hornet " TV shows back in the 60's . Over the years I've come across a wide range and variety of other cars and trucks . Now a days I'm trying to go with the HO scale for certain reasons. But 3 years ago I got lucky Hot Wheels came out with an HO scale " Bat Mobile " . But as I was going through my collection of both Match Box and Hot Wheels I discovered that one of my specials was missing . It was the Aston Martin from 007 that had the pop up bullet proof plate and matching machine guns in the front . I'm upset would be a great understatement . That car and several of my late Wife's collection are also missing too . I guess that where ever our whom ever has them are enjoying them .

@josephdeffendoll3056 4 года назад

It's hard when someone that doesn't understand steals our memories. I went through a rough divorce after 20 years. And I am a collector of 1/64 die-cast. And my ex had taken several from my collection. And it hurt but one day I was going over some oldies and found her Dukes of hazard cars and other old Nascar cars. So I figure karma stepped in for me lol. I have 3,000 different 1/64 models and probably more but each one represents a person or a certain time of my life.Each one has a story that people don't understand.

@johnrettig1880 4 года назад

@@josephdeffendoll3056 Yea you've got that right Steals or also in my case throughs out part of my earlier collection Thanks Mom .

@robsterbob580 4 года назад

Fantastic stuff! Love the old ad for the Matchbox Powertrack Race and Chase set thay I once had as a kid. All the factory footage was great too! Lots of those toys I had too. Used to sometimes swap them with my mates in the school playground at break time!

@Марк.Фетнов 4 года назад

Saw a few in there that I owned as a kid in the 70s / 80s. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and all your other interesting videos.

@TheAlignmentGuy_TM 4 года назад

A video on Tomy Pocket Cars would be great. Those were actually my favorites. Thanks. JMF TAG.

@simonrussell4986 4 года назад

I've just realised I've still got the Liptons Tea van in the next room. It didn't get played with much because, well, it's no Starsky and Hutch.

@TheBlueCorolla 4 года назад

As a kid I mostly had Matchbox cars, but I got cars I liked regardless of brand, I had a collection of over 300 cars ranging from Matchbox, corgi, hot wheels and Majorette and a few non branded cars too, some were passed to me from my dad and older brothers. The cars now lay in a couple of boxes waiting for my kids to start playing with them

@mannbrand 3 года назад

The quality of Matchbox was unsurpassed, even today I continue to collect and recover models that I lost as a child. Hot Wheels was for the poor!

@plee4790 4 года назад

Didn't know that matchbox was that much connected to Hong Kong and Macau. Tomica has been dominating here sice the 1980s.

@AtomicReverend 4 года назад

I am an American that grew up playing with these in the dirt in the 1980s, I always disliked hotwheels as they were generally so fake looking and piss poor made then matchbox went down hill as they played copy cat. By the early 1990s I was to old to be playing in the dirt but I would occasionally still buy a random car and remember the tyco take over, like everything tyco made the cars became so cheap and full of plastic and it just got worse once matel bought them... I as a adult don't buy any so cast cars anymore unless I am at a flea market and see one from the 1950s to mid 1980s. New toys all absolutely garbage. Tonka trucks are then metal and plastic now. Most hotwheel sized cars are a plastic base. Even bicycles are junk if you purchase them in a retail store it is sad that safety and globalization mixed with cost cutting has ruines so many things including toys

@intel386DX 4 года назад

Yes you are absolutely right! New toys are rubbish, not only toys, but everything!

@muskokamike127 4 года назад

@@intel386DX not really everything. I mean, tv's are 100000000x better quality than they were even 20 years ago. Stereos sound 100x better than even studio equipment from the 60's. Are you seriously going to tell me that the smartphone you hold in your hand isn't as good as the bakelite black one you used to have on your desk in the hall? How about medical care and medicine? You think medical care now is worse than the early 60's? Now you can have a defilbrilator in a box the size of a kid's lunch box and back then it was so huge it needed to be wheeled around on a dollie and usually hospitals only had 1 "crash cart". And don't even get me started on computers. I have easily 10000000x the computing power in my PHONE than my first desk top in 1980 nevermind the 60's. Hell, my video card from my 10 yr old computer has more processing power than my 1980's 286.

@intel386DX 4 года назад

@@muskokamike127 I mean that materials that are used in today's products are worse then back in a day!

@muskokamike127 4 года назад

@@intel386DX everything though? that encompasses a lot of materials. I mean, the titanium drill bits you can buy for $2.00 is definitely NOT worse than the cheap steel ones you paid the same price for in the 70s. I mean, you should tell the F1 teams who build the cars out of carbon fibre that they should go back to using steel like in the 60's because it is better........ Here, I saved you the trouble of looking it up. YOu can contact Scuderia Ferrari (their F1 team) and let them know they're doing it wrong. If you scroll down to the bottom you'll see the "contact" link. (you can thank me later) formula1.ferrari.com/en-ca/

@intel386DX 4 года назад

@@muskokamike127 for example old computers or TV sets are build with wood and metal ,and are very attractive , now everything is made of plastic junk . Now the toys and bicycles for children even from fucking plastic and are total rubbish . Yes now things are cheaper tho .

@Chris.Davies 4 года назад

I have very fond memories of my spring-driven Matchbox Motorway!

@Michaelbos 4 года назад

I wish I saved all my cars from the 60’s and 70’s. The price for perfect condition is amazing.

@paulspeakman551 4 года назад

I collected Matchbox in the late '60's and very early '70's as a kid in the U.S. I played with them but always took very good care of them. I remember when Hot Wheels were introduced and thinking they were junk. I'm kicking myself today for giving my Matchbox collection to my stepson in the '80's - he absolutely trashed them. No good deed goes unpunished.

@S-Ltd1000 4 года назад

Still have a load of models of yesteryear somewhere. Often used to pass by the factory on hackney marshes which is now long gone. A friend's parents used to work there in its heyday.

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

Must have been nice, eh?

@paxhumana2015 4 года назад

Did you ever get any of the cars from your parents, out of curiosity?

@drewlovelyhell4892 3 года назад

In NZ, Matchbox (and to a lesser extent, Corgi) was the brand we grew up with, but on the playground we referred to them as "Dinkies". I never realised that Dinky was an actual brand. I tend to think of Matchbox as being the higher quality product (compared to Hot Wheels which dominates toy-shelves these days) with opening doors etc. They were more of a scale model than a toy.

@gspkmr 4 года назад

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen and it’s first time hearing the brand.👍 The concept of putting it in a match box and making itself a brand name is the coolest branding idea!

@howardkerr8174 4 года назад

Excellent video. I didn't know exactly what happened to MATCHBOX after the 60s and early 70s but realized 15-20 years ago that Hot Wheels-MATTEL must have bought out the company. When I was a child I thought MATCHBOX cars were the best. Very good details and small size making them easily transported was a great concept though I often wished they were bit bigger. For me, Hot Wheels were never in the same category being more into their "fantasy" vehicles. Where I lived, a small town, there were no stores selling Dinky or Corgi brand cars...that I remember, so I didn't know much about them until I was an adult. By then, I would buy real cars and not tiny models.

@av8tor261 4 года назад

Well Done. Canada loves Matchbox.

@raymondmartucci2049 4 года назад

I been a fan of matchbox since I was little. I have tons of them and their cars today are really nice and simple. They have real nice cars. Thank you for sharing this. Matchbox cars are more real than hot wheels cars are the hot wheels have to much details matchbox is simple. I like your trucks as well

@mercoid 4 года назад

So much joy. That’s absolutely right!

@bodieofci5418 4 года назад

Can we have one on airfix :) The matchbox Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am was my favourite. I found it in the Co-op department store toy section. I had to help my mum around the house for a week to earn it. Happy memories.

@LittleCar 4 года назад

Great idea - thanks!

@burntorangeak 4 года назад

Kids these days would choke not only themselves, But also their little friends with all the small pieces. How did we ever survive?

@NGKGMR 4 года назад

I still play with toy cars. I always did and im 13. A kid in my school was playing with hot wheels (at his home) and when people learn that he was playing with toy cars, he got bullied real bad. I'm playing, customizing and collecting toy cars and its my biggest secret

@Cacowninja 4 года назад

@@NGKGMR Did you tell the teacher that he was getting bullied?

@NGKGMR 4 года назад

@@Cacowninja yes, and he said that if we dont like a person, then dont be friends with him.(im not joking)

@paxhumana2015 4 года назад

@@NGKGMR , the kid should have kicked the bullies in the nuts and said, "I collect these cars because I like them. I also plan on going to a junkyard to buy an old muscle car, restore it to showroom condition, and to keep repeating the process, as well as make a shit ton of fucking money, in the damn process. What do you plan on doing, flipping burgers at McDonald's for the rest of your life? Yeah, you keep being bitter, fake, and jealous that your life sucks because you know damn well that you do not have a plan for your future, whereas I am going to make a fucking mint. These cars, they are the ones that I will be working on, as well as restoring, and every time that you try to attack me, I am going to post the video on World Star Hip Hop Fight Comp fight videos until you get the damn point that starting shit with me is a bad idea in your life. Now either help me to succeed, or get the fuck out of my way, you damn dimwitted trolling, and bullying, tyrant!". Let the bully recover from that conversation!

@paxhumana2015 4 года назад

@@NGKGMR , where do you live?

@michelbaguette3106 4 года назад

Great video. I saw many of the matchbox cars I had in the seventies. In fact, these cars are still neat in my attic.😁👍 For us in belgium, the main competitor of matchbox was the french brand «majorette». Clearly of less quality for my opinion.

@raleighburner1589 4 года назад

Corgi was my favourite brand I still have two fire engines from the 70s to this day

@GeorgesMiniatureCars 4 года назад

I was born when Corgi started in 1956. I started collecting toy cars in '88 and was always happy to find a play worn, but in decent condition car. I don't buy on line, cost too much. So finding a Corgi toy that someone once had and played with makes me proud to be the new owner. I have a nice collection that one day hopefully someone else will enjoy. 😊

@martinevans7090 4 года назад

9:32 - WOW!! Race & Chase! I had one of those when I was a nipper! (Probably still in my loft, lol!)

@catjudo1 4 года назад

Well THAT was fun! I played with Matchbox, Hot Wheels and a few Corgi as a kid. I always thought the Matchbox cars were nicer, but the Hot Wheels cars were flashy and faster. They're the only way I could get my very own Tyrrell P34 that sits on my desk, as I'm just a bit too poor for a real one. Little cars are still so much fun!

@acm_1985 4 года назад

06:52 I just remembered to have owned such an Hover-Raider! This is long time ago… but I always loved to play with Matchbox Cars. Most of them got lost in the sand sadly ;)

@paulmezhir8354 3 года назад

Wow! So much great information! Matchbox models were my greatest collecting passion in the 1970s, along with plastic scale model kits and Lego kits. I accumulated over 400 Matchbox models. I had all the catalogs, several petrol station building kits, and a very big "Build-A-Road" roadway kit. I collected every line except Battle Kings, with the Models of Yesteryear and it's multiple variations being my favorites. I still have most of them, hidden away somewhere in storage....most of them still possess their packaging, being in mint condition. This video might prompt me to find them. Thanks for the inspiration!

@christopping5876 4 года назад

Excellent! Takes me back to my childhood in the early 70's. Thank you.

@stevedolesch9241 4 года назад

It might be funny, but at 64, I'm glad to see this video. My favourite matchbox car is the James Bond one, the original. I was 11 or 12 at the time. Take care.

@IamRobotMonkey 4 года назад

I'm a little too young to remember the hay day (being born a year before their bankruptcy) but I certainly remember getting a few of these as a kid. Dad certainly had a load as a lad too, being born in the mid fifties. I also collected a load of Walkers Crisps et al vintage vans back when that was a craze (guessing late 80s early 90s). Many thanks for another excellent video.

@paxhumana2015 4 года назад

Walker's is like Lay's over in the USA, right?

@IamRobotMonkey 4 года назад

@@paxhumana2015 Yes indeed. Owned by PepsiCo. They of Doritos (and a billion or so other brands) fame.

@davidparry1982 4 года назад

I loved my matchbox cars as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s and still have many of them in my matchbox carry case 👍😍 Just this week my 4 yr old daughter has discovered the joys of racing toy cars so we’ve had our own 80’s Superfast vs brand new Hot Wheels face off. Needless to say my No.1 racer Porsche 911 circa 1983 still has what it takes 😂

@Truckerboy1234 4 года назад

lol I have a couple of old matchbox 48 car carry cases, but they've turned into mostly modern cars. Still have a full case of classics laying around in all those bins full of cars somewhere.