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I've seen, that the range of available toy-cars was different in different countries. So when I look at oldtimer-markets or toy-collector-events at the stuff, toy-collector's or -dealers from Holland or Sweden for example, are offering, it's often different than the toys from local dealers.
Nowadays the differences aren't that big any more. Here you can find all these China-made stuff, which you can find everywhere else, too.
But in the past, so ca.until the end of the 80ies, it was different. Yes, Matchbox was well known, but they have sold just the toys, as they've produced. No special models for other countries. Corgi was similar, too.
A bit strange for German kids of the 60ies and early 70ies because the most models, they never have seen in reality on the streets.
I still have the 1:43(?) Corgi-Police-Ford Cortina GXL. I remember, that, when I was small, I was wondering about that strange Ford Taunus. I've recognized the car as Taunus, but the little different shape has irritated me indeed
My toy-cars from the 70ies were (still are, the most of them have survived) mainly from SIKU and Majorette, Matchbox, too. I also have some single cars from Corgi, Norev, Schuco, Efsi, etc. Except the ca.400 WIKING, which I've collected in the 80ies.
A propos special toy-versions for different countries: were there some companies, which realy have made them? I remember just WIKING, which, for example, had sold in Denmark and Switzerland the local post-cars and -buses.
At my childhood in the 70ies, good toy-shops had WIKING, MÄRKLIN, SCHUCO, also SIKU and Matchbox for sale (and some minor popular brands, too). SIKU and Matchbox were available in supermarkets, too. Sometimes supermarkets had Majorette, too. Majorette often you could find at gas-stations either.
Norev was harder to find, more at dealers on open markets, not in shops. From Norev I own a Citroen Dyane and a Chrysler 180.
I was interested in Majorette, too, so I was always happy, when we went on vacations to Holland - there the Majorette-variety was bigger.
A propos Holland: as a special holiday-souvenir I've bought in 1983 in Middelburg the ANWB-wegenwacht-Renault 4 from Bburago. I thought, that this was something very special, which my friends will never get
Nowadays the differences aren't that big any more. Here you can find all these China-made stuff, which you can find everywhere else, too.
But in the past, so ca.until the end of the 80ies, it was different. Yes, Matchbox was well known, but they have sold just the toys, as they've produced. No special models for other countries. Corgi was similar, too.
A bit strange for German kids of the 60ies and early 70ies because the most models, they never have seen in reality on the streets.
I still have the 1:43(?) Corgi-Police-Ford Cortina GXL. I remember, that, when I was small, I was wondering about that strange Ford Taunus. I've recognized the car as Taunus, but the little different shape has irritated me indeed
My toy-cars from the 70ies were (still are, the most of them have survived) mainly from SIKU and Majorette, Matchbox, too. I also have some single cars from Corgi, Norev, Schuco, Efsi, etc. Except the ca.400 WIKING, which I've collected in the 80ies.
A propos special toy-versions for different countries: were there some companies, which realy have made them? I remember just WIKING, which, for example, had sold in Denmark and Switzerland the local post-cars and -buses.
At my childhood in the 70ies, good toy-shops had WIKING, MÄRKLIN, SCHUCO, also SIKU and Matchbox for sale (and some minor popular brands, too). SIKU and Matchbox were available in supermarkets, too. Sometimes supermarkets had Majorette, too. Majorette often you could find at gas-stations either.
Norev was harder to find, more at dealers on open markets, not in shops. From Norev I own a Citroen Dyane and a Chrysler 180.
I was interested in Majorette, too, so I was always happy, when we went on vacations to Holland - there the Majorette-variety was bigger.
A propos Holland: as a special holiday-souvenir I've bought in 1983 in Middelburg the ANWB-wegenwacht-Renault 4 from Bburago. I thought, that this was something very special, which my friends will never get