Mattel's Matchbox SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft comes packaged in a display-ready box that suspends the die-cast capsule against a backdrop of the blue Earth and blackness of space. After flying 10 ...

Ten years ago, I didn't have any Matchbox cars in my collection, and I hadn't even bought my first Tomicas. Hot Wheels were the only thing I cared about, but I also had some other lesser-known brands ...

The Bolton branch of the International Plastic Modellers’ Society will be celebrating 50 years of Matchbox model kits. Today, May 12, the club will hold its AGM at St Catherine's Church in Horwich. As ...

Matchbox, the tiny model car brand of giant toymaker Mattel, Inc., first began in 1952 when Jack Odell created a tiny, brass road roller and put it in a matchbox-sized container so his daughter could ...

Today, I had to drive to the nearest city to my home for errands. I'm always happy to do so for two reasons: I love driving and can visit the local toy stores to see if I can find new cars. I only ...

Shi Ming, a 28-year-old engineer, lingered inside a toy shop for hours last Friday afternoon to buy more than 10 Matchbox toy cars. The most popular brand of scale model cars in the 1980s will ...