Siku Toys
Description: Sieper Werke Company, Ludenscheid Germany. Makers of great die cast toys similar in size to Matchbox and Hot Wheels. They also make a larger 1:43 series of trucks and cranes
Added on: 26-Feb-2005 Hits: 1021
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Racing Champions / Ertl Toys (RCErtl) web site
Description: Racing Champions is Die-cast collectibles in a variety of scales and detail-including Authentics, the ultimate race car replicas-at affordable prices. We also offer a wide selection of NASCAR apparel and souvenirs.
For more than 50 years, Ertl has set the standard for quality and detail in agricultural die-cast replicas. Their 1/64 and 1/16 line of Toy tractors and implements are some of the best representations of North American agricultural equipment.
Added on: 12-Sep-2005 Hits: 1029
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TV Cream - Top 100 toys
Description: (With a UK flavour) We polled TV Cream's readership to find the most well-remembered - for better or worse - toys that turned up in the stockings of yesteryear, from the tiniest fifty [pence] rubber novelty to the many bulky Bakelite candidates for that hallowed "main present" status. Quite often the little things, mainly through having lower expectations to live up to, went down better than the battery-hungry robo-gun-battleship thing mouldering in its box in the airing cupboard by Boxing Day. Anyway, enough of all this - it's now 6.30AM, and we've just been told by hungover parents that we can go downstairs and start sorting out the presents into piles. Let the blizzard of Mr Men wrapping paper commence... ... (Zoids were there, Legos were conspicuously absent. And did I miss Matchbox cars?)
Added on: 15-Nov-2005 Hits: 1074
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My Little Pony - Hasbro
Description: My Little Pony is a product line of colorful toy ponies marketed to young girls and is produced by Hasbro. The toys were first introduced in 1982, following the related "My Pretty Pony" toy which was introduced in 1981. They became enormously popular throughout that decade. The original toy line inspired several animated specials, an animated feature length movie, and two animated television series. Redesigned toys have been introduced to the market twice since then, one near the end of 1997 and again in mid-2003. Collectors refer to each line as a "generation."
Added on: 18-Mar-2006 Hits: 1116
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Care Bears
Description: The Care Bears are a set of characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner took the characters and made the first in a line of very successful teddy bears based on the Care Bears. Over 40 million units were sold between 1983 and 1987.
Each Care Bear comes in a different colour and with a specialized insignia on its belly: for example, "Bedtime Bear" is pastel blue and sports a sleepy-looking anthropomorphised crescent moon, and "Cheer Bear" is pink with a rainbow insignia. A spin-off collection of toys, the Care Bear Cousins, feature stuffed monkeys, lions, and other such animals in the same style as the teddy bears.
Added on: 18-Mar-2006 Hits: 1127
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Matchbox Community - Christian Falkensteiner
Description: Christian has a large number of Matchbox superfast pictures, including close ups of wheel variations and Matchbox carrying cases (known in German as Tragekoffer)
Added on: 23-Mar-2006 Hits: 1161
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Shabbirs Matchbox site
Description: Probably the longest running site for Matchboxes on the web.
Added on: 19-Jul-2004 Hits: 1176
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Malcom's Die Cast Showroom
Description: Malcom collect sVintage Hot Wheels® and Matchbox® 1:64th scale diecast toy cars and accessories from 1965 to '72. He has been collecting since January 1996 after a 23 year break. While browsing through an antique/collectable store he saw a lot of cars for sale he had as a kid. He was temporarily lost in the store because he was having so many flashbacks of his childhood, playing with the cars, racing them down the track and my playroom floor. The purpose of this Showroom is to display some of his favorite diecast cars, trucks, race sets, accessories and catalogs. This Showroom is for everyone who enjoys collecting diecast toys.
Added on: 20-Dec-2005 Hits: 1192
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Playing Mantis - Johnny Lightning
Description: Playing Mantis is the home of Johnny Lightning® die-cast cars, Polar Lights® model kits, and Memory Lane™ fun toys and collectibles.
Added on: 03-Mar-2005 Hits: 1209
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Littlest Pet Shop - Hasbro Toys
Description: This is a line of toys released by Hasbro in 2005. They are small bobblehead style collectible animals with play sets and accessories.
Littlest Pet Shop was an animated tv series which follows the lives of five different animals. Chloe is a purple cat, Stu is a blue dog, Viv is a pink rabbit, Squeaks is a red monkey, Harriet is a parrot, and Chet is a yellow horse.
These animals live in a pet shop that is run by humans, but they have their own treehouse inside of the store. They go on all sorts of adventures together. Elwood owns the store and is always getting calls or receiving odd packages from his mother, Mumsy, as she travels the world. Delilah is Elwood's gila monster that lives in the shop and is always trying to eat the littlest pet shop animals.
The only complaint might be that the packaging is extremely complex with lots of tape, rubber bands, wire ties, and plastic inserts. Based on how long it takes an adult to get all the parts out, it must take a long time to assemble in the factory...
Added on: 28-Mar-2006 Hits: 1214
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