Hi Jerry... I'm from 1966 and what you talk about still floods my veins, heart and soul... so many fabulous memories when I was a child... I started collecting toy soldiers from Airfix to Zvezda more than 30 years ago but unfortunately a flood in May 2023 in Romagna - Italy (the region where I live) took me over 80% of my collections stored in a cellar and a garage... I did't give up and immediately restarted collecting my little armies in plastic (Airfix, Atlantic, Matchbox and then Starlux and Elastolin for now). I want to thank You very much because with these videos you contribute to enforce and help to keep the fire of our passion on... passengers of a travel trough the years of our childhood... 😊🙏
Sorry to hear about your collection. Glad my videos can a bit of an inspiration. All these toys sure bring us back to those childhood days. Cheers my friend.
I was born in 1970 in England and your videos are ao nostalgic! Sometimes I see something i haven't seen in 5 decades and it will trigger memories i forgot i even had!
Me too and you're right the nostalgia floods in. In this video the thing that I remember most was the Kubelwagen with MG and the Commandos, had a lot of those Britain toys and wonderful memories of playing with the Airfix WW2 playsets. We grew up in the best decade I think. I've done a bit of collecting of Action man recently and managed to grab some really cool items from ebay before it started drying up. I showed them to my older brother this afternoon and he was aghast haha and I think, slightly jealous 😂
@@toysoldiernostalgia They are, I checked out ebay a couple of evenings ago and there was barely anything related, glad I struck just before it dried up. I'll guarantee, if anything does get posted on there now, it will be insanely expensive. I paid around £130 for a single SAS AM figure in very good order just before last xmas, but there were collections going for hundreds and thousands of pounds. But I'm delighted with my buys, they really zoom me back to those wonderful days.
@toysoldiernostalgia And too expensive when you do find them. If I was in the UK, I might have a better chance of picking something at a more reasonable price up at a flee market.
For Christmas 1966 I was given the Airfix Wild West set as a surprise present from my grandma. I really enjoyed setting it up and playing with it. From then on I was always buying Airfix with my pocket money. The Wagon Train that comes with this set is particularly characterful with its civilians needing protection by the cavalry. Your collection is a real window into the past, thanks for sharing it with us.
I am from germany! We had something very similar to the Corgi Rockets. It was called Darda Bahn. And we used to built the tracks throughout the whole domicile! What a great memory to our childhood! 🤗👍
Your video just popped up on my feed…Absolutely brilliant!! I had all the airfix soldiers and the britains ones. Took me right back. Love your enthusiasm. You have a new subscriber👍🏻
It’s funny, watching your content reminds me of toys I had but that I’d totally forgotten about! Seeing some of them awakens that childhood excitement of getting a new toy and thinking of the play possibilities with it once I got home. I was a big fan of the corgi type diecast military toys.
another brilliant video! the enthusiasm is amazing, you get far more excited than i ever did as child receiving these kinds of toys! i was a lucky boy as i always got plenty of great stuff for christmas and birthdays, i still have my Britains Kubelwagen, mine being the Afrika Korps version in a very good box, some of the stuff you opened here is brilliant, one of the best things about 60s/70s toys is the brilliant artwork on the boxes, no wonder boxed items fetch such good prices, the Dinky military toys were wonderful as were the Corgi Rockets, those Rockets transport me back to 1971/72, best wishes
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FLASH-BACKS YOUR VIDEOS GIVE ME THIS YEAR.MAY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.MAY THIS THIS YEAR BRING YOU MANY MORE BLAST FROM THE PAST TREASURES TO ENJOY.GOD BLESS AND REMEMBER"WE WON'T GROW-UP,NEVER NEVER"
Brilliant brings back many good memories I collect this era too!However I still have a large amount of my childhood tos including the corgi skypark set and the Sahara fort set sadly the boxes have long gone!!
As I recall, those Airfix HO/OO railway kits are really good and make great accessories for a Hornby railway set. Also fun to build and paint and much cheaper than the Hornby buildings.
Don’t remember ever seeing those Airfix play sets and we had a 2 or 3 good model shops when I was a kid in the 60/70s.Great to see the Airfix train sets and I collect those and the locos/rolling stock.I keep them unmade in the box .I have a train layout with all that sought of stuff on it anyway.I was blown away by Bluebox .I can’t for the life of me remember what i had as a kid as far as Bluebox goes but I know I had some things.
I absolutely loved the tiny HO scale figures. I still remember the day I went into Woolworths and they had a huge selection of HO figures in a bag. American soldiers were green. Germans were gray. Japanese were sand colored. Romans were silver. Indians were red. Cowboys were blue and three or four others. I only had enough money for two bags. I bought the cowboys and indians.
This afternoon I picked up a new-in-box Matchbox Battle Kings DAF Ambulance from an antique market in a town about one hour away from Ottawa. Cheers from 🇨🇦!
I am envious of you with all those unopened boxes in front of you. It must be almost like Christmas morning has a kid. Looking forward to seeing what is inside as you open them. Happy opening...
I can see the flight deck box in the background Got to be my worst present. , my uncle had served on carriers for many years. He visited on boxing day and nearly split his sides when I set the game up. Great times great memories. Great video
Yes I can kinda tell from just the box and instructions that it´s not gonna be all that much fun. Just had to have it though. As an adult even crap toys are fun. Thanks bud!
Great vid, we had 2 model shops in Newquay Cornwall and Woolworths for selection had to go by train to get there . Then they started selling Matchbox box kits in the local shop so that was very handy from first series aircraft and vehicles 👍.
Great video! My Dad and Sister worked at Airfix packing factory in Wandsworth South London in the 70s. My sister got me into the internal factory worker shop where they got discount. Chose quite a few Gerry Anderson Dinky toys over the time they worked there!
Oh, and you save me having to collect all those things…! Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the model railway. I started my model railway hobby in the mid-70’s with those Airfix kits. So good 😊
Hi there! I really enjoyed the unwrapping of the boxes, its like xmas came early! I had the sahara fort but the Bedouin troops were yellow, not white! Great video!
Hi,Jerry, I love the early Airfix packaging. I had the Sherwood castle for one day when I was a boy. We were visiting Palm Springs, California, and I accidentally left the castle in the Motel room when we left. Mom bought the toy for me and I left it behind on the floor.
JERRY, When I first started watching you the area behind you had some boxes, but now you have so much I worry you will be buried alive! I love it! Merry Christmas Jerry!@toysoldiernostalgia
I thought i had a good knowledge of Airfix sets but had no idea there was a 1/72 version of the 1/32 Commandos (as distinct from the early HO set). It looks amazing.
What a great mega-haul! I feel your pain when you mention that you have to replenish your savings account. When the holidays come around a lot of sellers lower their prices, thus making it a great opportunity to purchase some things..... goodbye savings account!
I had the Spypark Tower Garage. What a brilliant toy that was. I''ve been trying to find pictures of it for ages but couldn't remember the name. Awesome to see it again!
Another great trip down memory lane. As a kid I had the Corgi Grand Canyon Speed Circuit that's in the catalogue you got. I tuned in for the toy soldier nostalgia and it was an unexpected pleasure to be reminded of that. 😀👍
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yeah, I certainly enjoyed it at the time. The mechanism for the cable car was really cool . The speed of the car taking it across the "Canyon" then releasing the car and resetting.. Simple but effective. I seem to remember you had to fill up those brown support towers with water for stability otherwise they would sway as the car went into the cable car.
One of my favorite playsets from my childhood was actually my fathers that my grandparents held onto: an Alamo playset (not sure of who made it). The walls and the alamo itself were made of metal (i think tin) but the gate and all the figures were plastic. I had hoped to inherit it when they passed, but a fall out within the family after my parents’ divorce makes that prospect unlikely. I ultimately bought a few used lots to make up for it, though without any of the figures. The second is I believe a reissue of a Marx wild west fort. Four solid walls that clicked together, a watchtower, an HQ and varying figures and accessories. It didn’t survive the years and I too bought another to replace it recently.
Fantastic! So many memories. The blue box service station is a copy of a matchbox one. Remember Corgi rocket set I had one for Christmas when I was 7😊 I've just started collecting Britians😮 Keep filming 🎥 Happy Christmas 🎄
If you don’t want to use the MIB Airfix they are (in the main) available from Dapol. Great vid, some memories rekindled and those Airfix commandos wow….
Awesome unboxings! Everything so vintage and so cool ! You gonna open a museum soon lol 😆 Merry Christmas my friend...years ago theyvpublished an interesting book about Atlantic toy soldiers..I lost my copy but it was very interesting
Thanks buddy. I think there`s a few books on Atlantic available right now. In Italian though. I want to get them but right now I`m holding of on buying a lot of stuff. Merry Christmas to you to 😀
Hahaha Jerry, I bet birthdays & Christmas Day is a bit of let down after receiving all these boxes all year 😂📦📦📦📦📦📦📦 Have a Wonderful Christmas & a Merry New Year ⛄️🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻
I had the Airfix British commando set. I bought it in 1979 and if my memory is correct, instead of those kayakers, my set had 1 or 2 inflatable dingies where there was just enough room to put one soldier in.
DAPOL in the UK have the moulds for many of the Airfix railway kits and they are still on sale. useful if you want to keep your Airfix collection intact.
For the age of some of those sets the boxes are in incredible condition. Dalpol now ella lot of the Airfix railway stuff. Man, you have afun collection now (but less money) Merry Christmas and have a good 2025!
Oohh how wish I could remember exactly what was on the shelves in toy stores in the 1970s 😊I mean stuff like cars, castles, train sets, soldiers etc. I've said it before on this channel: my main focus was on toy soldier sets and hard plastic model kits you have to glue and paint. Some of it was by Airfix but not all. Did some ''painting by numbers'' but by Ravensburger I think. I'm not British so in the toy stores there would probably be lots of equivalents of the toys made by other (non British) manufacturers. Back home we had lots of board games but hardly from the UK. I do recognize some of the toys presented here. The 1/72 scale Commandos set rings a bell, but I had (and still have) the 1/32 scale set. Carry on the good work!
Try getting some Airfix Betta Bilda. This was a more refined version of Lego that allowed you to make 1/72 scale buildings of any type. My favourite was Set 10, which had castle components like a portcullis and drawbridge.
Most people that comment about the flight deck seem to think it wasn´t that great. Nice to hear that someone liked it. Makes me hopeful for when I set it up and try it out.
the britains toys were cool when i was a kid then they vanished :( / I had everything but the kettengrad which I really wanted the figures were amazing
13:10 Did you mean to say Hotwheels? Mattel released Hotwheels "Sizzlers" in 1970. There was a jack port in the side of the cars and you would recharge them from a large gas pump shaped charger with 2 D-cell batteries. Amazing toys for the era. Very fast and ran quite a long time on the track before needing a fill up! My brother and I played with these things for hours on end trying to replicate the Daytona 500. 😅
Yes that’s what I meant. What did I say? Or wait did you mean when I talk about the Corgi Rockets? Matchbox had a series called Scorpions that also were battery powered.
Thanks Jerry for having us in,You introducing me to more of the AIRFIX line ,As I have only been familiar with with basic figures British,Germans ect. Merry Christmas.🙂🧯🎄
You mentioned the Toy Fairs, well try to develop short arms and deep pockets otherwise you’ll be done for, but what a way to go! Oh apparently even though made in Scotland Timpo is best found in Germany, tons of collectors there! One of the best model soldier sets ever released was their Napoleonic Highlanders, but then they also made some really awful ones too! Merry Christmas!
Several of the moulds for kits and figures went missing during the transfer of ownership to Heller. Some of the original moulds were lost when Airfix first went bankrupt, as they were sold for scrap!
Jag fullkomligt älskar din glädje när du öppnar dina paket. Så härligt att barnasinnet sitter i och hur det kittlar i fingrarna över att få ta på dessa godbitar. Jag förstår precis hur det känns, som att vara barn på nytt...eller rättare...låta barnet i dig få fullt utrymme att njuta av dessa "leksaker". Det är som att titta i de gamla katalogerna live.
On the Matchbox 'Bazooka' - there was a thankfully short period of time when stuff like this was being produced. A classic case of 'The Suits upstairs' getting things hopelessly wrong. They thought that kids wanted big dragsters, in garish colours, with motors the size of Belgium. We didn't. We wanted a model of the car that our parents drove. The occasional bright pink car was fine, but to alter the tooling of the exquisite E-Type Jaguar, to create the horrible 'Draguar' was inexcusable.
I mostly wanted work vehicles but I didn´t mind the crazier cars. Some of my favorites I had as a kid was Hotwheels silver streakers (I think that´s what they were called).
The Britains Kübelwagen. I am currently trying to restore two of these old toys. They were in a terrible state. One of the vehicles is progressing nicely, it was held together by a single screw. The other is a pig. It has been welded together and is proving impossible to break down and gain access to the headlights. Oh well, I shall keep persevering.
@@toysoldiernostalgia First off, I apologise for not waiting 'til tomorrow to watch this episode. I couldn't wait! I was too excited. Ho Ho Ho. I do not usually restore old Dinky, Matchbox, Britains Vehicles (I Usually Restore Dinky Aircraft). So the Kübelwagens are new to me. I never thought to take photos before I started. I have already restored a couple of Motorcycles, I will send you pics of them. Judging by your enthusiasm for old toys, I expect you would be really good at restoring them. Provided one can dismantle the toys, one can strip them of paint. Polish them with ultra fine wire wool and a Brass Brush, then use dental tools to get into the crevices. Wash them in Methylated Spirit, Prime and Paint. Reissue spares are fairly easy to buy, or one can make one's own with a bit of effort. There are plenty of tutorials online. Is it fun though? Sometimes.it can be quite rewarding to bring an old toy back to its former glory. Sometimes, it is soul destroying when everything goes wrong. After weeks of working on a Dinky Phantom, all was excellent. Then the final coat of lacquer reacted with the decals and last coat of paint. Sod it! I had to start from scratch. I will look for your email address. Have a bloody good Christmas.
Am a bit jalous about the sherwood castle 😂. Never got one as a child 😢 By the way, where did you get that wonderfull T-shirt from ?( British paratroop Officer ) My absolute favorite A. set
I made the T-shirt design myself. You can get it in my little shop. There´s ten different T-shirts to choose from. toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/
Hi Jerry... I'm from 1966 and what you talk about still floods my veins, heart and soul... so many fabulous memories when I was a child...
I started collecting toy soldiers from Airfix to Zvezda more than 30 years ago but unfortunately a flood in May 2023 in Romagna - Italy (the region where I live) took me over 80% of my collections stored in a cellar and a garage...
I did't give up and immediately restarted collecting my little armies in plastic (Airfix, Atlantic, Matchbox and then Starlux and Elastolin for now).
I want to thank You very much because with these videos you contribute to enforce and help to keep the fire of our passion on... passengers of a travel trough the years of our childhood... 😊🙏
Sorry to hear about your collection. Glad my videos can a bit of an inspiration.
All these toys sure bring us back to those childhood days.
Cheers my friend.
I was born in 1970 in England and your videos are ao nostalgic! Sometimes I see something i haven't seen in 5 decades and it will trigger memories i forgot i even had!
That`s why I do these videos. 😀 glad you`re enjoying them.
Me too and you're right the nostalgia floods in. In this video the thing that I remember most was the Kubelwagen with MG and the Commandos, had a lot of those Britain toys and wonderful memories of playing with the Airfix WW2 playsets. We grew up in the best decade I think. I've done a bit of collecting of Action man recently and managed to grab some really cool items from ebay before it started drying up. I showed them to my older brother this afternoon and he was aghast haha and I think, slightly jealous 😂
@ I want to collect Action Man and Big Jim. But are they getting harder to find?
@@toysoldiernostalgia They are, I checked out ebay a couple of evenings ago and there was barely anything related, glad I struck just before it dried up. I'll guarantee, if anything does get posted on there now, it will be insanely expensive. I paid around £130 for a single SAS AM figure in very good order just before last xmas, but there were collections going for hundreds and thousands of pounds. But I'm delighted with my buys, they really zoom me back to those wonderful days.
@toysoldiernostalgia And too expensive when you do find them. If I was in the UK, I might have a better chance of picking something at a more reasonable price up at a flee market.
Watching you unbox is like a return to Christmas 1965.
Thanks for the fun and the memories.
Glad you like it.
Wow, seeing the canoes in the Commando pack has just taken me back 45 years when I last played with them 😁
For Christmas 1966 I was given the Airfix Wild West set as a surprise present from my grandma. I really enjoyed setting it up and playing with it. From then on I was always buying Airfix with my pocket money. The Wagon Train that comes with this set is particularly characterful with its civilians needing protection by the cavalry. Your collection is a real window into the past, thanks for sharing it with us.
That`s some grandma 😀
Glad I bring a bit of happiness.
Sehr schöne Erinnerungen an Spielzeuge der Kindheit.Matchboxautos und besonders Soldatenfiguren der Napoleonischen Kriege.👍🇩🇪
I am from germany! We had something very similar to the Corgi Rockets. It was called Darda Bahn. And we used to built the tracks throughout the whole domicile! What a great memory to our childhood! 🤗👍
I need to check that out. Thanks.
Your video just popped up on my feed…Absolutely brilliant!! I had all the airfix soldiers and the britains ones.
Took me right back.
Love your enthusiasm.
You have a new subscriber👍🏻
Thanks a lot bud. Happy new year.
It’s funny, watching your content reminds me of toys I had but that I’d totally forgotten about! Seeing some of them awakens that childhood excitement of getting a new toy and thinking of the play possibilities with it once I got home. I was a big fan of the corgi type diecast military toys.
Your enthusiasm and joy are contagious, I love it. Also, I got my Airfix American infantry T-shirt, which I also love!
You got a T-shirt. How was the print? I got a few test samples which I thought was good.
@@toysoldiernostalgia It's perfect, no complaints
@ great.
another brilliant video! the enthusiasm is amazing, you get far more excited than i ever did as child receiving these kinds of toys! i was a lucky boy as i always got plenty of great stuff for christmas and birthdays, i still have my Britains Kubelwagen, mine being the Afrika Korps version in a very good box, some of the stuff you opened here is brilliant, one of the best things about 60s/70s toys is the brilliant artwork on the boxes, no wonder boxed items fetch such good prices, the Dinky military toys were wonderful as were the Corgi Rockets, those Rockets transport me back to 1971/72, best wishes
Thanks I realy appriciate the kind words :)
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FLASH-BACKS YOUR VIDEOS GIVE ME THIS YEAR.MAY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.MAY THIS THIS YEAR BRING YOU MANY MORE BLAST FROM THE PAST TREASURES TO ENJOY.GOD BLESS AND REMEMBER"WE WON'T GROW-UP,NEVER NEVER"
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
Brilliant brings back many good memories I collect this era too!However I still have a large amount of my childhood tos including the corgi skypark set and the Sahara fort set sadly the boxes have long gone!!
Oooh that skypark sey is one I want to get. Looks super cool.
Great video, thanks! I got the Foreign Legion fort for Christmas sometime in the 60s and was so excited!
your enthusiasm always makes me smile , have a happy Christmas
Thanks. Merry Christmas 😀
Wow, some awesome toys! Love seeing your videos - it's so much fun seeing these toys... You're doing us all a great service! :)
Thanks man 😀 glad you’re liking it.
Thank you for making this fantastic content. Always puts a smile on my face.
No problem, glad you like them 😀
As I recall, those Airfix HO/OO railway kits are really good and make great accessories for a Hornby railway set. Also fun to build and paint and much cheaper than the Hornby buildings.
Oh wow, great video, that's an amazing collection. Many thanks for the upload. 👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers :)
Great video so many memories watching, brilliant
Don’t remember ever seeing those Airfix play sets and we had a 2 or 3 good model shops when I was a kid in the 60/70s.Great to see the Airfix train sets and I collect those and the locos/rolling stock.I keep them unmade in the box .I have a train layout with all that sought of stuff on it anyway.I was blown away by Bluebox .I can’t for the life of me remember what i had as a kid as far as Bluebox goes but I know I had some things.
I absolutely loved the tiny HO scale figures.
I still remember the day I went into Woolworths and they had a huge selection of HO figures in a bag. American soldiers were green. Germans were gray. Japanese were sand colored. Romans were silver. Indians were red. Cowboys were blue and three or four others. I only had enough money for two bags. I bought the cowboys and indians.
Cowboys and Indians, classic 😀
Thanks for the memories! As a kid in Canada I remember many of these kits in the stores; I wanted them all :) Merry Christmas!
You`re welcome. Merry Christmas 😀
had the western fort and that gas station back in the day...the western fort always seem to come apart really easy
This afternoon I picked up a new-in-box Matchbox Battle Kings DAF Ambulance from an antique market in a town about one hour away from Ottawa. Cheers from 🇨🇦!
Awesome haul amazing to see toys in their box they seem hardly used at all
I am envious of you with all those unopened boxes in front of you. It must be almost like Christmas morning has a kid. Looking forward to seeing what is inside as you open them. Happy opening...
I can see the flight deck box in the background
Got to be my worst present. , my uncle had served on carriers for many years. He visited on boxing day and nearly split his sides when I set the game up.
Great times great memories. Great video
Yes I can kinda tell from just the box and instructions that it´s not gonna be all that much fun. Just had to have it though. As an adult even crap toys are fun.
Thanks bud!
Agreed. Flight Deck was absolute pants
Another top collection!! Happy collecting in 2025!!
Great vid, we had 2 model shops in Newquay Cornwall and Woolworths for selection had to go by train to get there . Then they started selling Matchbox box kits in the local shop so that was very handy from first series aircraft and vehicles 👍.
Britians always made the best toys !
Great video! My Dad and Sister worked at Airfix packing factory in Wandsworth South London in the 70s. My sister got me into the internal factory worker shop where they got discount. Chose quite a few Gerry Anderson Dinky toys over the time they worked there!
Wow what a family connection to have.
F.A.B!
The vehicle's reminds me of my childhood thanks for sharing 👍
No problem 😀
Oh, and you save me having to collect all those things…! Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the model railway. I started my model railway hobby in the mid-70’s with those Airfix kits. So good 😊
I had a Märklin train layout my dad built. Miss it.
Hi Jerry. Tom here... I am really looking forward to this one. If you do not mind, I am going to watch this on Christmas Morning. See you Wednesday!
Sounds like a plan buddy :)
Merry Christmas.
OMG. I remember owning the Jetspeed Circuit with those track supports. I think you filled them with water? And that car launcher, WOW!
nearly half an hour of box opening, time to sit and grab a beer and be taken back in time....a Christmas treat.
Lol I think I could manage two beers in 30 minutes :)
Enjoy and Merry Christmas.
Hi there! I really enjoyed the unwrapping of the boxes, its like xmas came early! I had the sahara fort but the Bedouin troops were yellow, not white! Great video!
Thanks man!
Wish they still made playsets like they did back then!!
The TV episodes of Thunderbirds used a lot of the Airfix girder bridge in one form and another if you look carefully.
If you don't post another video before Christmas, season's greetings, Jerry, from Australia!
Nah it`s all family and chill for the next week.
Merry Christmas 😀
Christmas came early this year! I always wanted that Sahara fort set.
Those Britain's vehicle boxes just reminded me why as a child i had Timpo, used too look at them in awe
Hi,Jerry, I love the early Airfix packaging. I had the Sherwood castle for one day when I was a boy. We were visiting Palm Springs, California, and I accidentally left the castle in the Motel room when we left. Mom bought the toy for me and I left it behind on the floor.
Oh no Iggy that’s so sad.
Merry Christmas to you my friend.
JERRY, When I first started watching you the area behind you had some boxes, but now you have so much I worry you will be buried alive! I love it! Merry Christmas Jerry!@toysoldiernostalgia
Great to see your excitement opening the boxes. Some nice kits there. Love to see the Sherwood kit when it’s built .
Thanks man. Yes next year I will focus a lot more on all the 1/72 scale Airfix stuff.
Great stuff.Enjoyed that.Thanks👍🇬🇧🫶
I thought i had a good knowledge of Airfix sets but had no idea there was a 1/72 version of the 1/32 Commandos (as distinct from the early HO set). It looks amazing.
I loooove those Zoo sets, they are amazing.
For sure 😀
What a great mega-haul! I feel your pain when you mention that you have to replenish your savings account. When the holidays come around a lot of sellers lower their prices, thus making it a great opportunity to purchase some things..... goodbye savings account!
Through the years on Ebay I have gotten my best deals from november through februari.
Those months before and after christmas are the bargain months.
I had the Spypark Tower Garage. What a brilliant toy that was. I''ve been trying to find pictures of it for ages but couldn't remember the name. Awesome to see it again!
Was it fun?
Regarding the Airfix filmoscope, from only 4 films, fast forward to 2024, a smartphone can show you more than a hundred movies 🤣. Nice video
Another great trip down memory lane. As a kid I had the Corgi Grand Canyon Speed Circuit that's in the catalogue you got. I tuned in for the toy soldier nostalgia and it was an unexpected pleasure to be reminded of that. 😀👍
Was it any good?
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yeah, I certainly enjoyed it at the time. The mechanism for the cable car was really cool . The speed of the car taking it across the "Canyon" then releasing the car and resetting.. Simple but effective. I seem to remember you had to fill up those brown support towers with water for stability otherwise they would sway as the car went into the cable car.
One of my favorite playsets from my childhood was actually my fathers that my grandparents held onto: an Alamo playset (not sure of who made it). The walls and the alamo itself were made of metal (i think tin) but the gate and all the figures were plastic. I had hoped to inherit it when they passed, but a fall out within the family after my parents’ divorce makes that prospect unlikely. I ultimately bought a few used lots to make up for it, though without any of the figures.
The second is I believe a reissue of a Marx wild west fort. Four solid walls that clicked together, a watchtower, an HQ and varying figures and accessories. It didn’t survive the years and I too bought another to replace it recently.
Those Marx playsets are so cool. A bit expensive to have tham shipped to Sweden from the US. But maybe one day.
Great haul again Jerry, looking forward to a few more in-depth reviews of your buys.
Have a great Christmas, Cheers Neil
Yes got some great toys in this one.
Merry Christmas Neil.
Brilliant, I have got some amazing stuff there for your collection, think u need a bit more storage 🤔😆👍💪🙏😊
My apartment is getting to full of toys. Need to rent some kinda space for it.
Härliga tider, strålande tider som de säger....
God Jul och Gott Nytt År från Glasgow, när de knackar på dörren....
God jul och gott nytt 😀
Your channel is so good Jerry! Merry Christmas 😊
Thanks. Merry Christmas 😀
Fantastic!
So many memories.
The blue box service station is a copy of a matchbox one.
Remember Corgi rocket set I had one for Christmas when I was 7😊
I've just started collecting Britians😮
Keep filming 🎥
Happy Christmas 🎄
Is that the white Matchbox service station? Was the Corgi Rockets any fun?
Merry Christmas.
Yes mate.
Gorgi was brilliant fun. You had to get booster wound up right or car would jump off at first bend😮
If you don’t want to use the MIB Airfix they are (in the main) available from Dapol. Great vid, some memories rekindled and those Airfix commandos wow….
Yeah someone else mentioned Dapol. I`ll have to take a look.
Loved this video… brilliant 🤩 keep it up! 👍🏻
Thanks man. 😀
very nice Airfix Playsets in good condition
Some of the Airfix railway stuff is still available from other manufacturers. Britain's models were always cool, but expensive.
Just bought several airfix models from Lidle
Haven't made a model for years
Awesome vid here ! Thx ! 😊
Great assortment of 79s toys. Very enjoyable.
Awesome unboxings! Everything so vintage and so cool ! You gonna open a museum soon lol 😆
Merry Christmas my friend...years ago theyvpublished an interesting book about Atlantic toy soldiers..I lost my copy but it was very interesting
Thanks buddy. I think there`s a few books on Atlantic available right now. In Italian though.
I want to get them but right now I`m holding of on buying a lot of stuff.
Merry Christmas to you to 😀
Hahaha Jerry, I bet birthdays & Christmas Day is a bit of let down after receiving all these boxes all year 😂📦📦📦📦📦📦📦
Have a Wonderful Christmas & a Merry New Year ⛄️🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻
They are all about family and no gifts so pretty awesome 😀
Merry Christmas.
Love your videos!
Thanks man! 😀
I had the Airfix British commando set. I bought it in 1979 and if my memory is correct, instead of those kayakers, my set had 1 or 2 inflatable dingies where there was just enough room to put one soldier in.
I think that was the Matchbox set ☺️
DAPOL in the UK have the moulds for many of the Airfix railway kits and they are still on sale. useful if you want to keep your Airfix collection intact.
I think you gave me a heads up on this before I think. Great tip. Thanks.
For the age of some of those sets the boxes are in incredible condition. Dalpol now ella lot of the Airfix railway stuff. Man, you have afun collection now (but less money) Merry Christmas and have a good 2025!
Merry Christmas dude 😀
Fascinating!
Increibles Jugetes,un saludo desde España.
Oohh how wish I could remember exactly what was on the shelves in toy stores in the 1970s 😊I mean stuff like cars, castles, train sets, soldiers etc. I've said it before on this channel: my main focus was on toy soldier sets and hard plastic model kits you have to glue and paint. Some of it was by Airfix but not all. Did some ''painting by numbers'' but by Ravensburger I think. I'm not British so in the toy stores there would probably be lots of equivalents of the toys made by other (non British) manufacturers. Back home we had lots of board games but hardly from the UK. I do recognize some of the toys presented here. The 1/72 scale Commandos set rings a bell, but I had (and still have) the 1/32 scale set. Carry on the good work!
It would be my firat trip if I had a time machine.
Try getting some Airfix Betta Bilda. This was a more refined version of Lego that allowed you to make 1/72 scale buildings of any type. My favourite was Set 10, which had castle components like a portcullis and drawbridge.
I will get some in the future but I have a few things I need to get before that.
You buy the stuff I (mostly) never had but always wanted, lol. Born in 66 :-)
Noticed Airfix Flight Deck behind you. Spent hours playing with my set.
Most people that comment about the flight deck seem to think it wasn´t that great. Nice to hear that someone liked it.
Makes me hopeful for when I set it up and try it out.
Would love to see you get into MARX toys 👍💪🙏✌️
I would love to see that to. Right now though my bank don`t agree on that so have to wait a bit with that lol.
the britains toys were cool when i was a kid then they vanished :( / I had everything but the kettengrad which I really wanted the figures were amazing
Please,please do a setup video of your foreign legion sets.
I never had any and ive wanted them for 60 years.
Merry Christmas, pal!
Sure will. When I´m not sure of.
Merry Christmas.
13:10 Did you mean to say Hotwheels? Mattel released Hotwheels "Sizzlers" in 1970. There was a jack port in the side of the cars and you would recharge them from a large gas pump shaped charger with 2 D-cell batteries. Amazing toys for the era. Very fast and ran quite a long time on the track before needing a fill up! My brother and I played with these things for hours on end trying to replicate the Daytona 500. 😅
Yes that’s what I meant. What did I say? Or wait did you mean when I talk about the Corgi Rockets? Matchbox had a series called Scorpions that also were battery powered.
AMAZING
Thanks Jerry for having us in,You introducing me to more of the AIRFIX line ,As I have only been familiar with with basic figures British,Germans ect. Merry Christmas.🙂🧯🎄
You`re welcome buddy.
Merry Christmas 😀
You mentioned the Toy Fairs, well try to develop short arms and deep pockets otherwise you’ll be done for, but what a way to go! Oh apparently even though made in Scotland Timpo is best found in Germany, tons of collectors there! One of the best model soldier sets ever released was their Napoleonic Highlanders, but then they also made some really awful ones too! Merry Christmas!
Yes I`m a Facebook group from Germany on Timpo. Some realy big collectors over there.
Merry Christmas.
wow nice haul.
I used to have a tin full of airfix toy soldiers used to prefer them to Britain's toy soldiers but I love to get them back
Can't beat 70"s toys.
That`s for sure 😀
Several of the moulds for kits and figures went missing during the transfer of ownership to Heller. Some of the original moulds were lost when Airfix first went bankrupt, as they were sold for scrap!
I saw a documentary or something on UA-cam just recently were they said that previous management at Hornby had scrapped a bunch as well.
So sad.
Jag fullkomligt älskar din glädje när du öppnar dina paket. Så härligt att barnasinnet sitter i och hur det kittlar i fingrarna över att få ta på dessa godbitar. Jag förstår precis hur det känns, som att vara barn på nytt...eller rättare...låta barnet i dig få fullt utrymme att njuta av dessa "leksaker". Det är som att titta i de gamla katalogerna live.
On the Matchbox 'Bazooka' - there was a thankfully short period of time when stuff like this was being produced. A classic case of 'The Suits upstairs' getting things hopelessly wrong. They thought that kids wanted big dragsters, in garish colours, with motors the size of Belgium. We didn't. We wanted a model of the car that our parents drove. The occasional bright pink car was fine, but to alter the tooling of the exquisite E-Type Jaguar, to create the horrible 'Draguar' was inexcusable.
I mostly wanted work vehicles but I didn´t mind the crazier cars. Some of my favorites I had as a kid was Hotwheels silver streakers (I think that´s what they were called).
Super Flight Deck was better because the plane took off, turned and landed. Only had that set when my children were little. Still fun though.
I want to get that one but I haven´t seen one complete on Ebay so far.
Awesome
With KI translation in german, nice.
The Corgi Rockets are approved by the Corgi Technocrats!
What I really want to get is Fort Sahara, but I've no interest in paying the equivalent of my monthly mortgage payment for a bit of nostalgia.
I wish they did some cool 1/32 WW2 Tanks 😂
Happy. Memories .in. Little. Boxes. Of. Vintage. Toys
I'm sure I had the American jeep with cannon
I had the Sky Park.
Was it any fun?
The Britains Kübelwagen. I am currently trying to restore two of these old toys. They were in a terrible state. One of the vehicles is progressing nicely, it was held together by a single screw. The other is a pig. It has been welded together and is proving impossible to break down and gain access to the headlights. Oh well, I shall keep persevering.
@@tomsenior7405 is it fun restoring old toy vehicles? I don`t think I would have the patience. Would be fun to see some before and after pics.
@@toysoldiernostalgia First off, I apologise for not waiting 'til tomorrow to watch this episode. I couldn't wait! I was too excited. Ho Ho Ho. I do not usually restore old Dinky, Matchbox, Britains Vehicles (I Usually Restore Dinky Aircraft). So the Kübelwagens are new to me. I never thought to take photos before I started. I have already restored a couple of Motorcycles, I will send you pics of them. Judging by your enthusiasm for old toys, I expect you would be really good at restoring them. Provided one can dismantle the toys, one can strip them of paint. Polish them with ultra fine wire wool and a Brass Brush, then use dental tools to get into the crevices. Wash them in Methylated Spirit, Prime and Paint. Reissue spares are fairly easy to buy, or one can make one's own with a bit of effort. There are plenty of tutorials online. Is it fun though? Sometimes.it can be quite rewarding to bring an old toy back to its former glory. Sometimes, it is soul destroying when everything goes wrong. After weeks of working on a Dinky Phantom, all was excellent. Then the final coat of lacquer reacted with the decals and last coat of paint. Sod it! I had to start from scratch. I will look for your email address. Have a bloody good Christmas.
Am a bit jalous about the sherwood castle 😂.
Never got one as a child 😢
By the way, where did you get that wonderfull T-shirt from ?( British paratroop Officer )
My absolute favorite A. set
I made the T-shirt design myself. You can get it in my little shop. There´s ten different T-shirts to choose from.
toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/