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Jon, that's a cracking haul of Solidos! And, once again, some fantastic photography there... I need to up my game, rather!

Yes, I think MC Toy/ Maisto were different brands within the same company, with Maisto being the later one.

Edocar were a Dutch distributor in the 1980s and early '90s that repackaged and marketed models from a number of different Far-Eastern manufacturers - in my big box o' tat I once had MC Toy, Welly and Yatming models that I'd also acquired in Edocar boxes, and with Edocar branding on the base.

They did some really odd stuff, like Trabants - and I seemed to only ever find them on carousel displays in independent newsagents and campsite general stores, never in toyshops.

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Jon, that's a cracking haul of Solidos! And, once again, some fantastic photography there... I need to up my game, rather!

 

Yes, I think MC Toy/ Maisto were different brands within the same company, with Maisto being the later one.

 

Edocar were a Dutch distributor in the 1980s and early '90s that repackaged and marketed models from a number of different Far-Eastern manufacturers - in my big box o' tat I once had MC Toy, Welly and Yatming models that I'd also acquired in Edocar boxes, and with Edocar branding on the base.

 

They did some really odd stuff, like Trabants - and I seemed to only ever find them on carousel displays in independent newsagents and campsite general stores, never in toyshops.

Does anyone remember Woolworths selling Maisto/MC Toys cars under their Chad Valley name? Their wheels always seemed suspiciously similar to Matchbox ones but they did some odd chod Matchbox wouldn't touch like that Samurai, Trabant and a Mk2 Granada.

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Interesting concept, reminds me of the Superkings Team Honda truck:

 

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It reminds me even more of this:

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I had one but never liked it - even as a youngster I wanted realism and thought gullwing doors on a truck were a bit far fetched. Nonetheless I'll be watching the project with interest.

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I don't recall that but I'll need to check the 2 different versions of the Granada I have to see what the baseplates say, I'm sure both are Maisto.

 

Its an excellent wee model and a nat's chuff off a Matchbox in terms of quality and detail.

IIRC the Chad Valley name was only on the packaging (special boxes for Woolies I guess) and the baseplates had the standard MC Toys logo.

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Aye, I'd forgotten about the Chad Valley range... I didn't buy much from Woolworths as a kid, but I remember seeing them.

I know in later years they sold Hongwell Cararama toys under the Chad Valley brand - though the branding was on the box only, not the cars.

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Tesco carried the same range too, under their own name.

 

Funny you should mention the MCToy Mk2 Granada, I picked another one of them up at my preferred market stall the other week:

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The baseplate isn't that easy to make out, but it says:

FORD GRANADA 2.3GL

EDOCAR ®

©1988 S

MADE IN MACAU

Yes, I always thought the MCToys/Edocar/Maisto wheels were very Matchbox-like - although, as quite a few Matchbox cars were made in Macau from the mid-80s on after Universal Toys took over the brand from Lesney's bankruptcy, I wonder whether the same injection mould tooling was used?

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I don't remember Cararama being sold as Chad Valley, I'm sure I would have bought a load from the local Woolies if they had them. I had a similar transporter from Tesco in a blue Tesco-branded box though.

 

That Granada is exactly like mine except I'm sure mine had an MC Toys base rather than Edocar and I think it came new from the local market. It and another marked up as an ambulance went to cms206 in my great Shitefest 16 toy giveway and is hopefully enjoying a new life north of the border.

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On 4/15/2019 at 1:40 PM, quicksilver said:

I don't remember Cararama being sold as Chad Valley, I'm sure I would have bought a load from the local Woolies if they had them. I had a similar transporter from Tesco in a blue Tesco-branded box though.

That Granada is exactly like mine except I'm sure mine had an MC Toys base rather than Edocar and I think it came new from the local market. It and another marked up as an ambulance went to cms206 in my great Shitefest 16 toy giveway and is hopefully enjoying a new life north of the border.

Yeah, the Tesco sets were the same composition, though seem to have had a different selection of cars included than the Chad Valley sets:

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Tesco also did packs of other Cararama as part of their Junior Explorers range.

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Some odd colour choices, anyway. Very much toy-like.

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I think I picked these up around 2002 - they were all really cheap.

I had the paramedic Granada too; think it was Maisto branded on the base, and came as a two-pack with the adjacent Ford Econoline.

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155V6 has them both now, if memory serves.

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Yeah, the Tesco sets were the same composition, though seem to have had a different selection of cars included than the Chad Valley sets:

 

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Tesco also did packs of other Cararama as part of their Junior Explorers range.

 

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Some odd colour choices, anyway. Very much toy-like.

 

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I think I picked these up around 2002 - they were all really cheap.

 

 

I had the paramedic Granada too; think it was Maisto branded on the base, and came as a two-pack with adjacent Ford Econoline.

 

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155V6 has them both now, if memory serves.

I think mine was the top one, it definitely had the red S-class and silver Jag but I'm not sure what the other two were. The transporter and accessories are long gone but I still have the cars. If only you could get a set of Cararama like that for £2.79 nowadays.

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Toe Jam Sporter is almost ready for paint now I've completed mock-up on it.  Proportions look pretty much spot on now and everything lines up really nicely.  All six wheels roll too.  Undecided on colour at the moment, probably end up with something lairy.

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New pound shop One Below has loads of new Matchbox in. This was my haul.

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The camper thing was always going to be a donor. I'm going to make a trailer out of the pick up bed. It should be easy to cut as the body is plastic.

The detachable camper bit fits nicely on the Ranchero.

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The back door fits nicely too.

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Toe Jam Sporter is almost ready for paint now I've completed mock-up on it.  Proportions look pretty much spot on now and everything lines up really nicely.  All six wheels roll too.  Undecided on colour at the moment, probably end up with something lairy.

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I'm really liking your work Vulgalour,they're the kind of things I tried to make as a young teenager,like this roof chopped Transit.Please be kind,I built this nearly 40 years ago  :-D

 

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Remember back when I said that I only collected 1/43 scale things, plus the odd foray into 1/64s?

 

Well, apparently that did used to be a thing but seemingly not any more, as I descend more into old toy hoarder man, rather than 1/43 connoisseur*.

 

 

Trawling Trademe one evening, this popped up:

 

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It's a Greenlight 1:18 scale rendition of an Impala that features in a hitherto unbeknown (to me) hit TV show, called Supernatural. I thought the dark moody shot suited the subject quite well, due to the, erm, supernatural element of the series. Plus it also helped reduce a load of reflection from living room furniture, which was pinging off that shiny black paint job. You don't seem to get such issues with smaller stuff! 

 

 

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I must admit, I was rather looking forward to picking this up and marvelling at the sheer weight and scale of it, as I haven't bought a 1:18 since I owned a few Maisto models bought from Tesco back in the mid-90's. Sadly, this one has no opening features at all! So really, it's more of a highly detailed Tonka than the stuff I was buying for £12.99 or thereabouts 25 years back.

 

That said, this one came in a faded and slightly careworn box and has an A pillar search light that needs gluing back on but I think it's OK value for the £10 I paid. I'll no doubt try and hawk it off to my favourite toy shop for store credit, if they're at all interested.

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On 4/15/2019 at 9:04 PM, morrisoxide said:

New pound shop One Below has loads of new Matchbox in. This was my haul.

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That Nissan Junior pickup's an unusual one for them to have modelled; great haul!

Unfortunately I don't believe there are any branches of One Below over here (yet?), but good to see that Matchbox haven't gone completely off the radar.

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On 4/16/2019 at 10:11 AM, sierraman said:

Serious want for the new 2019 stuff they do with opening doors etc.

I noticed the other week that a local model shop was carrying a few of the Road Trip range with opening doors - any idea if these two are just cleaned-up Lesney castings, or entirely newly modelled versions?

They were priced at the rather odd amount of £5.10 each, and while they were indeed rather nice I felt they were mebbe a bit pricey to buy just for comparison purposes against my old Lesneys.

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