The Matchbox Road Museum showcases 50,000 pieces of Matchbox memorabilia, including the well-known miniature models, concept cars, one-offs for special events and even board games. Everett Marshall is ...

Car and cargo bounce over the rocks and clumps of grass on the makeshift road, yet seem unstoppable. The GT40 recovers from its miscue and sets off in pursuit of the Beetle/bike/trailer combo-but not ...

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 ...

Along a sleepy, tree-lined street in a small South Jersey community sits a gigantic toy box. It’s a one-story, 2,100-square-foot building that houses 70 years of childhood memories in the form of ...

My wife is extremely supportive of my hobbies. She doesn't mind me being away from home for international test drives, and she's okay with having to constantly pick up my diecast packages when I'm not ...

Golden anniversaries are a wonderful thing. Sometimes they sneak up on us. Sometimes they make us think, "Can it really be that so many years have passed?" Matchbox is 50 years old. Well, at least in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Matchbox was making tiny die-cast cars more than a decade before Hot Wheels rolled onto the scene. It might be even more surprising to learn ...

You can thank Queen Elizabeth II for the birth of one of your favorite all-time toys. Back in 1953, the British toy company Lesney Products unveiled a miniature model of Her Majesty's coronation coach ...

Matchbox, maker of tiny toy cars, is bringing back one if its most important models. It's not a car, but a little horse-drawn coach, and its success led to the creation of Matchbox toy cars. And it ...