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The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire
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NaOH
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15 Oct 24 20:51 UTC
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pge
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17 Oct 24 11:19 UTC
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As an American growing up in the late 70s/early 80s, we called all die-cast metal cars “matchbox cars,” even though many (all?) of them were Hot Wheels. I never knew there were two competing brands.
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parpfish
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Same. I also referred to all transforming robot toys as “gobots”
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17 Oct 24 14:43 UTC
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Gobots were Transformers for poor kids.
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parpfish
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17 Oct 24 21:01 UTC
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are you telling me that the rich kids never got to experience the excitement of an awesome robot transforming into... a rock?
https://gbwiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Rock_Lords_(toyline)
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Gosh I shudder to think what the Eastern Euro kids had to settle for.
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