When I was 10 years old I remember staring at the Matchbox, Dinky and Corgi diecast cars in the neighborhood hobby store. My buddy and I had ridden our one-speed bikes to the shopping center, drooled ...

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It feels like a new golden age is opening up for diecast collectors. With Hot Wheels and Matchbox both under the supervision of Mattel, more and more castings are coming off of the assembly lines. For ...

When it rains it pours right? I had just wrapped up the Hot Wheels preview for 2026 and 2027, and I discovered the upcoming ...

One thing my parents did right was to save my collection of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars from when I was a kid. Thanks to them I have about 100 cars from the 1970s and ’80s. I gave them to my stepsons ...

The privileges of fatherhood are many and varied. A repertoire of corny jokes suddenly pops into your head. You develop uncanny Dad Strength, and gain secret and arcane knowledge about exterior ...

At the present moment Mattel, the maker of Hot Wheels and Matchbox toy cars, is worth $6.2 billion, putting it at a premium to GM, worth a mere $5.7 billion. Created in 1952, Matchbox cars were ...

Last week, Elliott Handler passed away. For those unfamiliar with the name, Mr. Handler was a founder of Mattel Inc. toy company and the creator of Hot Wheels. Political correspondent/columnist ...