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Collectible Toy: The Magirus-Deutz Crane Truck Matchbox Toy Car

When you try to start to collect toys from your childhood, a girl will most likely to choose doll, a Barbie in particular. On the other hand, a boy might always choose to collect a toy car, I don’t know about you guys but when I was young, Matchbox is the brand most children want to have. The Matchbox name originated in 1953 as a brand name of the British die-casting company Lesney Products, whose reputation was moulded by John W. "Jack" Odell (1920–2007), Leslie Charles Smith (1918–2005), and Rodney Smith. The name Lesney was a portmanteau of Leslie and Rodney Smith's first names. In the earliest years of the regular, or 1-75 series – well before the series actually numbered 75 models – Lesney was marketed/distributed by Moko (itself named after its founder, Moses Kohnstam). Boxes in that era mentioned this, with the text "A Moko Lesney" appearing on each. Lesney gained its independence from Moko in 1959[5] by buying out Moko's share in the joint enterp

Collectible Toy: The Perfect Grade Unicorn Gundam unit 2 Banshee Norn

When I was a kid, I have so much fascination about robots. This might be due to the Japanese cartoons I have been watching on a daily basis during those times. Voltes V, Mazinger Z, Daimos just to name a few. When I get older, I came across with Gundam, and it was amazing! According to Wiki, Gundam is a Japanese military fiction media franchise/media mix. Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks), the franchise features giant robots, or mecha, with the name "Gundam". The franchise began on April 7, 1979, with Mobile Suit Gundam, a TV series that defined the "real robot" mecha anime genre by featuring giant robots called mobile suits (including the original titular mecha) in a militaristic setting. The popularity of the series and its merchandise spawned a franchise that includes 50 TV series, films and OVAs as well as manga, novels and video games, along with a whole industry of plastic model kits known as Gunpla which makes up 90 perc