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Matchbox in movies and adverts
Topic Started: Sep 25 2013, 02:41 AM (559 Views)
David Tilley
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Crazy Matchbox guy
I always smile when I see a Matchbox model appear on something I am watching, and recently watched the final Hangover film (The Hangover part III). There is a scene where the guys visit the old stripper who was in the first film, who now has a young child and Zach Galifianakis thinks the child is his and spends some time with it. When he first approaches him I saw the Matchbox model....
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If you can't see it, look closely at the wooden train track, and you will see a silver Highway Rescue Fire Truck sitting on it....
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But that was not the only one. I have also recently watched "This is the End", which is a comedy about the end of the world, where Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Emma Watson and various other people appear as themselves at a party at James Franco's new house. While there the apocalypse happens and everything goes wrong. As the TV has nothing to show, they decide to make their own film and create a homemade sequel to Pineapple Express. As it all takes place in his house the car scenes are done with....
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A Cadillac Sedan DeVille in lilac and....
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A Gas Tanker in yellow. This one has 2 lit matches on the back of it and eventually falls off the table. It is just daft. But it made me smile.

I found this funny as I watched both films last week and saw two instances of Matchbox model.

But then last night, I saw the latest Lloyds Bank TV advert for the UK. For those outside of the UK Lloyds is one of the major UK banks, and their latest advert is about a young man talking about moving out of his parents house. It is quite an amusing advert where he talks about still living at his parent's house and the embarrassing things happening because of it. There are a number of still shots of various events, and then about half way through we get a set of flashing images. Basically just a load of single frames of various things. One of them was this....
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I had to rewind and move forward frame by frame to see the picture again as I thought I saw something Matchbox-related. I sure did!

So in the last week I have seen 2 films with Matchbox in them and one television advert too.
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realgone58
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Some nice stuff in the last pic. Look at the condition variations too. I see a Majo '71 Plymouth in there!
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

I spotted the Fury in the last pic right off as well. Strange it takes a movie of stoners to give MB some publicity but MB seems timid on advertising.
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Douglas
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craftymore
Sep 25 2013, 10:19 PM
I spotted the Fury in the last pic right off as well. Strange it takes a movie of stoners to give MB some publicity but MB seems timid on advertising.
Me too, spotting that Fury, and I wonder how they managed to get one in such nice condition just to use in an advert, I wouldn't expect they'd have paid what that model usually goes for.
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juantoo3
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That is too cool!

My guess on the last image is that whoever was in charge of props found an actual childhood collection and bought it, then the art department arranged it "just so." For one, the models are early 70s...much too old for a young man still living at home (unless he has some serious health issues). These would likely belong to his father or grandfather. Interesting that all but the purple dune buggy at bottom right are in primary colors (green is often counted as a primary color), and the little purple dot at the bottom corner seems to serve as a punctuation mark. Quite well done, actually. The dune buggy is also the only one that seems to have condition issues that are readily seen. If this image flew by in an instant, it wasn't intended to be analysed...it was supposed to simply represent a collection of toy cars.
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