I loved Matchbox Car. Me and my brothers collected them instead of Hotwheels.
I had a pretty big collection of match box cars once. My mom said those are going to be worth something some day, but one by one I ended up losing or destroying them. Why oh why didn’t I listen?
All of my Matchbox, Hot wheels, and GI Joe stuff was burned, blown-up, shot, smashed, or dropped from very high places. My brother had a Evel Knievel action figure that took some particularly serious abuse.
My old toys would be worth a tidy sum if I had kept them.
I still collect Hess trucks....
Like the big ones too.
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The cool kids had HotWheels!
I love Matchbox cars (my favorite) as well as Hot Wheels, Corgi, Majorette, Jonny Lightning and so on. I still collect them.
Always think it’s cool when my elementary school aged Son and Daughter play with some of my old matchbox cars. My Son however has a giant collection - we got in the habit of always buying 2-3 him cars whenever we went to the store. And no surprise, he’s a car nut like I am.
I remember when Mattel had a big issue with employees stealing Hotwheels and pissed them off istituting all sorts of anti-theft measures.
I have a bunch in near mint condition.
Still have the original boxes for most.
HotWheels!
explains where the band, Matchbox 20, got it’s name??
I still have about 40 of my old Hot Wheels from 1967-69. Also have some track. Some of them can be quite valuable.
My sister’s Barbies didn’t fare well against her misogynist brothers with gasoline, firecrackers and .22 shorts.
I gave away a whole box full of Matchbox and other toy vehicles to a friend’s grandson years ago. Kind of wish I’d kept them. I still have a box full of old HO scale slot cars in the attic though - wonder if they are worth anything? I even have some of the old Aurora vibrator slot cars that moved by a plate vibrated by a rod inside a coil which turned the back axle - very slowly and noisily I might add.