New York CNN —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.
The new carriage will be in the traditional 1/64 scale used for Matchbox cars.
Courtesy MattelDecades later, Elliot Handler, one of the founders of Mattel, noticed his son playing with Matchbox cars.
Hot Wheels cars had flashy paint jobs, outsized wheels, impossibly huge (relatively speaking) plastic engines, and only occasionally looked like cars you might actually see on the street.
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