It was an onslaught that caught Matchbox completely off-guard and forced then-parent company Lesney to come out with their own, more play-oriented models called ‘Superfast’ a few years later.

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It is the true Holy Grail of Matchbox cars. The company never put the actual truck into production. However, chief model maker Ken Wetton built between six and eight prototypes. Lesney Products ...

Then, one day, O'Dell's daughter complained that the only toys she could take to school were those that fitted inside a matchbox. He made a tiny replica of his Lesney road-roller that fitted ...

Matchbox is the story of a group of childhood friends who reunite to stop a global disaster while rediscovering their bond. The movie is based on the iconic Matchbox car line, which originated in ...

Inside was an unboxed, die-cast set of Matchbox Thunder Jets. Die-cast Matchbox models started up in the early 1950s by Lesney Products, a British company. In the early 80s, Universal Toys purchased ...

The inventor of Matchbox toys Jack Odell (right) in 1968 with Leslie Smith, who co-founded the British company Lesney, which originally made the die-cast toys.Credit: Getty Images, digitally ...

EXCLUSIVE: Arturo Castro (Road House) will star alongside John Cena in Apple‘s live-action Matchbox film, inspired by Mattel‘s iconic die-cast toy vehicle line, from Skydance and Mattel Films.

At least that's the case for Matchbox. Matchbox is a dating and matchmaking service designed to bring people together through shared core values, partnering with social clubs and dating companies ...

"I think I have almost every single car that Matchbox put out between 1953 and 1969," he said. The toys were first introduced by Lesney Products in 1953 and dominated the market until Hot Wheels ...

It was a disaster for Lesney. Rodney, convinced that the end had arrived, sold his shares to Jack and Leslie, and went into farming. (Later, he’d return to the diecast industry, working for one of ...