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| oblivious | Sep 4 2017, 02:25 PM Post #1 |
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For my own purposes, I have divided Matchbox into several chronological eras, that range from five to thirteen years. These are: Original Expansion - 1953-1959 Regular Wheels - 1960-1969 Lesney Superfast - 1970-1982 Universal -1983-1992 Tyco - 1993-1997 Mattel Mt. Laural - 1998-2004 Mattel El Segundo - 2005 on Now I'd like to split the latest era starting at 2016 with the expansion to 125 models and the great turnover in the Matchbox staff. So I'm looking for new names for the 2005-2015 era and the 2016-onward era. Thoughts? Dean |
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| Douglas | Sep 4 2017, 03:57 PM Post #2 |
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Well that is difficult Dean, I can pretty much only be humorous in my thoughts for names, like for instance the '05 to'15 era could be called "Some Good, but With Too Much Bad and Ugly". And then maybe '16 onward, "Old School Returns" Or maybe '05-'15, "Corporate (Focus)" And '16 onward, "Model Design or Designer (Focus)" |
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| DinoMom | Sep 4 2017, 04:23 PM Post #3 |
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2005-2015 produced some excellent castings I believe but became horrible around about 2010, when a lot of unlicensed generics flooded the brand and the licensed models started sporting very unpleasant decos. You might call the 2016+ period the "MatchboxWorld" period, since that is the handle the design team have been using on Social media in order to promote the brand. |
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