Sad is correct.😥 By trying to compete with HotWheels, they sold out their loyal customers, most of whom never bought another MB after Superfast were introduced - I certainly didn't. Even most of the King Size were embarrassing junk. Trains, planes, boats - none of them *proper* Matchboxes. If you're going to broaden the range - do it with quality products, not rubbish.👎 Having said all that, there were a very small number of good models in the new range; I seem to remember the Concorde was rather nice. Sorry for the rant but I've never forgiven MB for that sell-out.😁
of course that's all right. You just have to take into account that the first years of Superfast were high-quality production. Later, when all futuristic models started, matchbox clearly lost its popularity. But there are also enthusiasts who had their childhood in the 90s and for them these models are very cool. Best wishes
@@PaulRestorer Yes. There is definitely a personal childhood factor here. Yes, too, the early superfasts were good models and I did find them fun on the matchbox track sets. The later matchbox were to me almost indistinguishable from modern far eastern, characterless tat. Cheers, and keep it up !
@@Twirlyhead It would have been interesting if Lesney had continued production of the original models after Superfast cars were introduced. If *both* ranges had been available, side by side, I wonder which would have sold better?
I really love these videos of old catalogs...hope you make plenty more! I recently bought the K-67 fire chief super king at a flea market here in Sydney. 🇦🇺🚒 Jim.
Witaj, Paul. Jeszcze kilka lat temu sam miałem ten katalog. Niestety, tak jakby zniknął podczas naszego ostatniego ruchu. Ale to wspaniale, że dałeś mi możliwość przynajmniej wirtualnego przejrzenia tego. 😁👍🏼 Czym byłby ten weekend bez waszej wspaniałej podróży w czasie 🕙? Nie jest nawet w połowie tak miły. Dzięki za podzielenie się. Ty i twoja rodzina macie wspaniały weekend i pozostaniecie zdrowi. Pozdrowienia z Morza Północnego, Paul 😁👍🏼🇵🇱👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁 Hello, Paul. I had this catalogue myself until a few years ago. Unfortunately, it sort of disappeared during our last move. But it's great that you gave me the opportunity to at least flip through it virtually. 😁👍🏼 What would the weekend be without your wonderful time travel 🕙? Not even half as nice. Thanks for sharing. You and your family have a great weekend and stay healthy. Greetings from the North Sea, Paul 😁👍🏼🇵🇱👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁 Hallo Paul. Diesen Katalog hatte ich bis vor ein paar Jahren selbst noch. Leider ist er bei unserem letzten Umzug irgendwie verschwunden. Toll aber, daß du mir hier die Möglichkeit gibst, ihn wenigstens nochmal virtuell durchzublättern. 😁👍🏼 Was wäre das Wochenende ohne deine wunderbare Zeitreise 🕙? Nicht Mal halb so schön. Vielen Dank für's teilen. Dir und deiner Familie ein schönes Wochenende und bleibt gesund. Gruß von der Nordsee, Paul 😁👍🏼🇵🇱👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁
Muito obrigado por me fazer lembrar de meus carros favoritos da minha infância!! Nasci em 1977 e meu pai me presenteou com a maioria desses modelos ! Grande abraço Paul !!! 👏👏👏👏😀👍🇧🇷
Eita o ano que meu neto nasceu,ele apaixonou no catálogo e a coleção,lembrando que sou uma senhora de 92 anos,obrigada por lembrar de uma época que vivia sem preocupação de netos,era só os filhos,mas quando vc virá avó vc quer ser melhor com os netos,pois os filhos foi uma experiência nova agora netos e outra coisa,a gente fica mais companheira deles e curte,coisas novas e apoia as escolhas deles.
Wow, now this is starting to look like my childhood. Do you know what the last year was they did a catalog like this? I'm curious. I remember this used to be how we'd find out what new toys were out there. Well, this and Saturday morning cartoons.
Sorry to say I only managed to sit through one catalogue Paul. Camera work was as good as ever but, by this period, Matchbox were selling embarrassing rubbish, not the fine models of the 60s and late 50s. After the first catalogue, I left the video playing and went and made tea - a trick I usually reserve for the ads.😁 Cheers for now, Dougie.
I am very grateful to you for commenting on my video so often. The latest catalogs are not exactly my cup of tea either. It's like I wrote to you a moment earlier under another comment. But there are younger people who were born in those years and they want these kinds of movies too. Best wishes
@@PaulRestorer I quite agree Paul. It depends on what was "normal" at the time. The kids who grew up with Superfast probably saw the original series as old-fashioned and slow, compared to their modern, free-running cars. It would be a boring old world if we all liked the same stuff and each new generation always likes the contemporary stuff, rather than what they see as out-dated - same with music. I'm quite happy to watch *some* of the more modern stuff and it would be interesting to hear from some of the guys who grew up with the newer cars. Cheers for now, Dougie.
Cześć Paul. A jednak z każdą nową wersją możesz sprawić, że marki takie jak samochód itp. Będą coraz lepsze i piękniejsze. Że technologia z każdym rokiem jest coraz lepsza. Niezły film Paul. Pozdrowienia Jan
Way back in 1979, we bought, with our own allowance money, a Matchbox Harbor playset. Included was a 1979 US catalog. Interesting to see the difference between it and the UK version. Ours had a listing of Matchbox 75 releases through the years but omitted the Motorway, Playmats, Playsets, Steer 'n Go, Streaksets, Chumblies, non-Shufflies Live n' Learn and Mobile Action Command sets. Along with the shown Garage and Service Station set, (which were noted as not available in the US) our catalog had a multi-level Parking Garage set that's not shown in the UK catalog.
This is one of my favorites years of issue. Thanks Paul!!!
Best wishes Carlos
Thanks for another great video. Golden and silver years of Matchbox long gone by the time of this catalogue. Documenting a sad fall from greatness.
Sad is correct.😥 By trying to compete with HotWheels, they sold out their loyal customers, most of whom never bought another MB after Superfast were introduced - I certainly didn't. Even most of the King Size were embarrassing junk. Trains, planes, boats - none of them *proper* Matchboxes. If you're going to broaden the range - do it with quality products, not rubbish.👎
Having said all that, there were a very small number of good models in the new range; I seem to remember the Concorde was rather nice.
Sorry for the rant but I've never forgiven MB for that sell-out.😁
of course that's all right. You just have to take into account that the first years of Superfast were high-quality production. Later, when all futuristic models started, matchbox clearly lost its popularity. But there are also enthusiasts who had their childhood in the 90s and for them these models are very cool. Best wishes
@@PaulRestorer Yes. There is definitely a personal childhood factor here. Yes, too, the early superfasts were good models and I did find them fun on the matchbox track sets. The later matchbox were to me almost indistinguishable from modern far eastern, characterless tat. Cheers, and keep it up !
@@Twirlyhead It would have been interesting if Lesney had continued production of the original models after Superfast cars were introduced. If *both* ranges had been available, side by side, I wonder which would have sold better?
@@2H80vids Good point. Or superfast wheels that looked more like real wheels. Management decisions, hey.
Awesome brings back so many memory's of being a kid of 8 in 1979
Cool. Best wishes
Oh wie schön 🙂. Da werden Erinnerungen wach. Viele von diesen Modellen hatte ich früher mal und letztes Jahr noch mal gekauft
Vielen Dank
The matchbox beachhead assault play set was my favorite toy growing up, some great memories in that catalogue thanks
Cool
Ahh the memories 😎
Many thanks Paul
😃🍻👍🏻
Best wishes
As always, thanks for the memories! I forgot how many different products Matchbox made!
Best wishes Mark
super Prezentacja wszystkich modeli Matchbox
Dziękuję bardzo
I really love these videos of old catalogs...hope you make plenty more!
I recently bought the K-67 fire chief super king at a flea market here in Sydney.
🇦🇺🚒
Jim.
Cool Jim .Best wishes
Love the catalog reviews!
Thank you very much
Good memories. I found some cars of my mini colleciton here. I would like to find this catalogue and buy it... Excellent!!!
Thank you
Witaj, Paul. Jeszcze kilka lat temu sam miałem ten katalog. Niestety, tak jakby zniknął podczas naszego ostatniego ruchu. Ale to wspaniale, że dałeś mi możliwość przynajmniej wirtualnego przejrzenia tego. 😁👍🏼
Czym byłby ten weekend bez waszej wspaniałej podróży w czasie 🕙? Nie jest nawet w połowie tak miły. Dzięki za podzielenie się. Ty i twoja rodzina macie wspaniały weekend i pozostaniecie zdrowi. Pozdrowienia z Morza Północnego, Paul
😁👍🏼🇵🇱👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁
Hello, Paul. I had this catalogue myself until a few years ago. Unfortunately, it sort of disappeared during our last move. But it's great that you gave me the opportunity to at least flip through it virtually. 😁👍🏼
What would the weekend be without your wonderful time travel 🕙? Not even half as nice. Thanks for sharing. You and your family have a great weekend and stay healthy. Greetings from the North Sea, Paul
😁👍🏼🇵🇱👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁
Hallo Paul. Diesen Katalog hatte ich bis vor ein paar Jahren selbst noch. Leider ist er bei unserem letzten Umzug irgendwie verschwunden. Toll aber, daß du mir hier die Möglichkeit gibst, ihn wenigstens nochmal virtuell durchzublättern. 😁👍🏼
Was wäre das Wochenende ohne deine wunderbare Zeitreise 🕙? Nicht Mal halb so schön. Vielen Dank für's teilen. Dir und deiner Familie ein schönes Wochenende und bleibt gesund. Gruß von der Nordsee, Paul
😁👍🏼🇵🇱👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁
Vielen Dank Paul
Great matchbox toys use to get them at payper shop and woolworths great days still cool
Thank you very much
OMG I still have many of these.
Cool. Best wishes
Yeah , i have so many from this cars , 80 was my birthyear i love this toy.
cool
Gracias por el catálogo Paul! Yo tuve de pequeño el número 66 Ford Transit, que recuerdos😃 👍
Los mejores deseos
Wspaniała prezentacja!
Dziękuję za możliwość oglądania.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie.
dziękuję serdecznie
Had some of them in early 90s, different colors
Me, my brother and cousins.
Memories..
Please make more videos about newer ones from 80s and 90s
I will try my best. Best wishes
Muito bonito esse catálogo. Gostei de ver. Parabéns.
Muito obrigado
Interesting video Paul, thanks for sharing.
All the best Martin
Thank you very much Martin
Fantastic stuff Paul- thank you 🙏
Best wishes Nathan
Muito obrigado por me fazer lembrar de meus carros favoritos da minha infância!! Nasci em 1977 e meu pai me presenteou com a maioria desses modelos ! Grande abraço Paul !!! 👏👏👏👏😀👍🇧🇷
Muitas felicidades
Saludos Paul magnífico cátalogo 👍👋
Muchas gracias
Wieder ein sehr schöner Rückblick - danke!👍 - allerdings aus einer Zeit als mich Mädchen mehr interessierten als Matchbox😉😁....
Vielen Dank
Gracias paúl por tomarte tu tiempo para entretener a un montón de personas!!!!!!!! Muy bueno el video👏👏👏👏👏👏👏☝️☝️☝️
Muchas gracjas
Que se souvenirs ! Je me rend compte que j'avais une bonne partie du catalogue. J'en ai d'ailleurs encore certains mais parfois dans un triste état.
les souvenirs sont les plus importants. Meilleurs vœux
Eita o ano que meu neto nasceu,ele apaixonou no catálogo e a coleção,lembrando que sou uma senhora de 92 anos,obrigada por lembrar de uma época que vivia sem preocupação de netos,era só os filhos,mas quando vc virá avó vc quer ser melhor com os netos,pois os filhos foi uma experiência nova agora netos e outra coisa,a gente fica mais companheira deles e curte,coisas novas e apoia as escolhas deles.
Wow, now this is starting to look like my childhood. Do you know what the last year was they did a catalog like this? I'm curious. I remember this used to be how we'd find out what new toys were out there. Well, this and Saturday morning cartoons.
Cool. Best wishes
Music choise is perfect
Thank you
Hallo Paul
Das ist ja echt cool ich bin 1979 geboren 😀👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Ich wünsche dir ein schönes Wochenende.
LG Michael
Vielen Dank Michael
Красивые модели молодцы.
Большое спасибо
My childhood! ❤
Cool. Best wishes
Ale nowa kolekcja konkrecik pozdrawiam serdecznie 👍👍👍
Dzięki dziki
Добрый вечер. Отличный обзор моделей.
Большое спасибо
great presentation :)
Thank you very much
Sorry to say I only managed to sit through one catalogue Paul. Camera work was as good as ever but, by this period, Matchbox were selling embarrassing rubbish, not the fine models of the 60s and late 50s. After the first catalogue, I left the video playing and went and made tea - a trick I usually reserve for the ads.😁
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
I am very grateful to you for commenting on my video so often. The latest catalogs are not exactly my cup of tea either. It's like I wrote to you a moment earlier under another comment. But there are younger people who were born in those years and they want these kinds of movies too. Best wishes
@@PaulRestorer I quite agree Paul. It depends on what was "normal" at the time. The kids who grew up with Superfast probably saw the original series as old-fashioned and slow, compared to their modern, free-running cars.
It would be a boring old world if we all liked the same stuff and each new generation always likes the contemporary stuff, rather than what they see as out-dated - same with music.
I'm quite happy to watch *some* of the more modern stuff and it would be interesting to hear from some of the guys who grew up with the newer cars.
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
awesome :) presentation :)
Thank you very much
Cześć Paul. A jednak z każdą nową wersją możesz sprawić, że marki takie jak samochód itp. Będą coraz lepsze i piękniejsze. Że technologia z każdym rokiem jest coraz lepsza. Niezły film Paul. Pozdrowienia Jan
Vielen Dank Jan
You know... I have DL'd all Your car booklets, yes? This way I ain't gotta buy em :)
And that's it. Best wishes
Cool !
Cześć. Łapka w górę i pozdrawiam serdecznie. Życzę miłego dnia 😃 👍
dziękuję bardzo
Nice Paul ps l think you missed a few pages haha Brian Thailand
Thank you very much Brian
I did not know the diversity of matchbox toys l am interested in there milatiry range Mick Thailand
Each year, they exhibited some military vehicles practically from the beginning of the 1960s. Best wishes
Way back in 1979, we bought, with our own allowance money, a Matchbox Harbor playset. Included was a 1979 US catalog.
Interesting to see the difference between it and the UK version. Ours had a listing of Matchbox 75 releases through the years but omitted the Motorway, Playmats, Playsets, Steer 'n Go, Streaksets, Chumblies, non-Shufflies Live n' Learn and Mobile Action Command sets.
Along with the shown Garage and Service Station set, (which were noted as not available in the US) our catalog had a multi-level Parking Garage set that's not shown in the UK catalog.
Best wishes
Matchbox 1979-1980 🗓👍👏👏👏👏👏👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🎊🎊🎊🎊🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉
Best off
Thank you very much
Model dari korek api tahun 1979-1980an.
Thanks
🤩
Thank you
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Mam tą straż:)
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Range rover mam
Super . Pozdrawiam serdecznie
mega
Dzięki wielkie
👍👏🤗🤗🤗
N'en possédais quand même une vingtaine.
Cool
Yes. So. Cool 😎. To. Be. 8. 9. Again. Do. Remember. Giving. My. Cars. Hell. Lee
Cool . Best wishes