Factory Lesney Matchbox

[@simonManleeeee]

My dear old mum worked at the Lesney factory in Rochford, Essex, so toy cars found their way into every birthday present and Christmas present. Happy days.

[@chriswright8464]

Those matchbox cars in the 60 and 70s were built very well!

[@tomsvenkesen2476]

Chris Wright yes it was outstanding made when matchbox leseney was made inn Great Britain, and allso corgi and dinky toys. today toys is complet crap shit.

[@NandiCollector]

Wow! I so wanted to watch a video like this, about diecast manufacturing! Finally I found it and really gave me a big smile. 😁

[@lg_believe333]

This is painful to watch when I use to live a couple of miles away from the original Matchbox factory in Hackney, England. Lesney Matchbox is British and always will be, but when it was sold to its rival Hot wheels it was a betrayal to the independent British toy industry. One day I have hopes Hot wheels will sell matchbox back to a british entrepreneur who will bring matchbox back home, to its birthplace. Nobody made matchbox cars like we did in Britain.

[@mathewbsaenz]

I always liked matchbox and the attention to detail they had over hot wheels and the crazy fantasy car designs and two size too big wheels they had.

[@principe1216]

Lo mejor que ha tenido Matchbox es sus carritos que abren puertas sus accesorios y todos sus buenos acabados que tuvieron inicialmente, ahora ya son comunes y corrientes ya no son los mismos

[@lorddiosliving]

Lesney and Corgi did the best toys in the late 70ies

[@Raven240994]

This was art.

[@scruffsbycartoonfish2301]

Such meticulous work, makes you wonder how they did so many models over the years, a lot easier with CNC machining these days!

[@tianovski79]

Yeah and the 3D software make them more easy to make nowadays with superb detailed like the actual vehicles.

[@randybock82]

Not another camaro.I want a 68 coupe deville. We are drowning in a sea of muscle cars. Do some family cars please.Oh the humanity!

[@Bigbadsmallcars]

awesome absolutely crazy about old Matchbox

[@nigelcarren]

Fascinating upload thank you! 🏆⚒️🇬🇧 Edit: Dartboard in the boardroom!! 😉🏆

[@shinigami117s8]

Tomica is the way to go for quality stuff

[@josephdeffendoll3056]

I've had matchbox and hot wheels since 1968. I'm now 54. I own 3000 of them. We the public would like you to stop making the wierd ones and make some actual pick up trucks. The 1962 Ford , and the 1970s Chevy, make different years. Make the campers the trailers to haul things or cows n horses. Make some tractor trailers. Make some double and triple trailers with the old cab over trucks like Mack or peterbuilt. Make some farm trucks, trailers, tractors, farm equipment to pull. use the old colors, black wheels.The collectors and the consumers market is huge for this type of stuff. We're tired of the weird paint jobs the ugly wheels ,and designs. We want old school and lots of it. Trust me you will see a jump in sales if you make the vehicles I have mentioned. Let's have another good 50 years. Woodbury ,TN.

[@manoman0]

I'm not alone. Thank you.

[@wibowoedie8130]

Definitely you are right Joseph.

[@ShadoHHR]

anyone notice that the narration is done by Star Trek's 'Next Generation' Geordi La Forge?

[@kruleworld]

I was thinking it did sound like Levar Burton

[@williamgottlieb8723]

Actually, the narration is done by Reading Rainbow's Levar Burton.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Annoying Levar Burton.

[@NandiCollector]

Yes ;)

[@Bigbadsmallcars]

I believe this was a Reading Rainbow video

[@shitleshyadav6162]

Great! Thank you for the video ❤

[@aaronneumeyer5572]

Very nicely done! I wonder how the paint job would look if you copied the original Matchbox method of just two spray coats of enamel with no primer and no clearcoat. I think the detail would show through much better and since these restored cars are more for show that to be played with, there'd be little worry of chipping the paint later. Perhaps if you come across two identical old cars that need restoring you could try it and see.

[@Donleecartoons]

This isn't restoration; it's the prototyping for factory production of a toy car.

[@HuskyGamersUNITE]

how stupid are you? this is how matchbox cars are made.

[@dmapittsburgh]

Not the Matchbox cars I knew from the 60s. Mattel ruined them. Just made them an extension of Hot Wheels. Now most of them are fantasy cars and don't resemble the real cars.

[@HuskyGamersUNITE]

you must be a narcoleptic and sleeping away the entire years that go by. i have not seen fantasy cars yet.

[@noahbossier1131]

Rename it this is from the Tyco era. Leseney went under in 1982 and was sold to Universal Toys which was sold to Tyco in 1992. This is from 1994.

[@GMO--ge4ir]

I need those machines. 🤩😍

[@Rich77UK]

What a shame it all was moved from the UK. Lesney and Matchbox was quintessentially British.

[@douro20]

It takes a good amount of skill to do copy milling properly.

[@literacylabyrinth4018]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing

[@haveanicedave1551]

I always wondered, I thought maybe they did half the car then mold it a couple times then put the two halves together and so on.

[@Wandanish123]

Does Hot Wheels make like this too??

[@Sonicfan1661]

Holy fuck it's been years since I saw this last, I forgot it even existed.

[@PedroMarco94]

Now: 1.grab a STEP. 2. CNC. 3. The end.

[@randomconsumer4494]

Is this from reading rainbow?

[@AsociacionHalligandelPer-pl9do]

they're tyco toys matchbox not lesney's matchbox

[@kjamison5951]

I’m surprised that they don’t do this in a CAD/CAM setup.

[@NathanChisholm041]

Didn't exist yet!

[@HuskyGamersUNITE]

this was in around 1992 dude.

[@manoman0]

It's not a Lesney die cast anymore.

[@andrewhaines8603]

Sorry, but when the Matchbox cars were British by Lesney, the details and scale were really good as were the paint finishes. Now they are poorly made with basic detail and just rubbish.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

We Yanks excel at making a mess of things that were once great. Matchbox died when it ceased being a Lesney product. R.I.P.

[@patrick280zx]

I like both Matchbox Lesney and the early 2000s ones.

[@wibowoedie8130]

My father bought for me the 1st Lesney on 1976. Itu was really great to have a present from my father. But today the quality is very poor compare to original ones

[@NathanChisholm041]

@@wibowoedie8130 Who makes quality diecast models these days?

[@lg_believe333]

So bloody true.

[@principe1216]

Que bno seria que salga al mercado nuevamente esos carritos tan bonitos clásicos Matchbox, q abren las puertas, el baul etc los compraría todos.

[@megaman2099]

Si los venden, nada mas que son muy acaparados. Los puedes encontrar como matchbox movile parts y unos abren la cajuela, otros las puertas. Tambien estan otros llamados matchbox super fast y estos tienen hasta llantas de goma y partes moviles tambien. Lo malo es que son muy acaparados y llegan pocas unidades :(. Los puedes conseguir creo en Walmart.

[@bullygram]

Hey can some one help here, can 3d printers replace pantograph machine and also the milled version of the car? I am not an industry expert, out of curiosity I am raising this question!

[@OANNHSEA]

O came on!!! This video is from middle ages!!! Now they have cad for drawing and 3D model prototyping!!!

[@funkolog]

and quality is gone..

[@OANNHSEA]

You are right....

[@megaman2099]

@@funkolog not at all, in 2020 there was so many great Matchbox cars, not all have bad quality.

[@scruffsbycartoonfish2301]

When did America aquire Matchbox?

[@elmerkilred159]

Funky FRESH!

[@zamoragera13]

These guys are way too excited about this camaro.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

They're dreaming of doing donuts in your lawn, with Tony Orlando and Dawn. Totally Bitchin', man.

[@jdhsjjjsjjjjndjsh6515]

I like to know only one thing the rest I can create , what is that material called which is been used as for the base body?

[@NathanChisholm041]

Is that you Geordi La Forge?

[@hotgummi4953]

Se la papea el negro

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Lesney (producers of Matchbox) went under because all you people on the web started playing video games. It's as simple and as sad as that.

[@jamescrow4078]

Lesney went into liquidation(bankruptcy) in 1979. The internet came on 1997 as widely available by the public. Online video games were years after that. Get your facts straight before you make invalid proclamations.

[@mlight6275]

@@jamescrow4078 im 56 video games were around before the internet....think zx80 etc...

[@HuskyGamersUNITE]

was this from reading rainbow? that sounds like levar burton narrating.

[@kjamison5951]

That's LeVar Burton narrating, isn't it? His voice is distinctive.

[@santiagoarestegui]

I loved them when I was a little kid......

[@santiagoarestegui]

back in the 1970s

[@HuskyGamersUNITE]

this is from reading rainbow series 15, episode 3.

[@Xxxxxx.5303]

👏👏👏

[@carllheureux3324]

I have a sea kings helicopter.carrier, k307, made in England,1976

[@ewennicolson4342]

Gammon sandwiches all round!

[@shortywarn]

panna graph machine,,, what was it called ???? the machine that transfers down to match box size????

[@HacknBuild]

It is a panograph milling machine.

[@ferencgobor749]

I'm sorry, but it's called Pantograph. The Panograph make 360 degrees photos, or X-ray images.

[@stevewilson6390]

OH DEAR ! HOW SAD ! NEVER MIND .

[@Wandanish123]

I wonder why Hot Wheels was successful than Matchbox.

[@originalfiremancancelled7303]

Too many Camaros already how about a Dodge Dually 4 wheel drive Cummins 3500

[@megaman2099]

Wow! The model shop was the hardest part or the creation of a car, all was manually before, nowdays that part is easier thanks to the 3d printers that do automatically that work. Now the guy of model shop needs to know how to use software instead of analog tools like the one of the video.

[@jasonmeehan1269]

I thought America had hot wheels and UK had matchbox. Yet everyone is American.

[@aaroncook8964]

American Tyco... Then Mattel took hold. Downfall and yo-yo this brand was placed from there.... Not available in UK most products... Just Tesco's a supermarket.

[@haroldellis9721]

Where are the British accents?

[@ModMokkaMatti]

That wasn't stipulated in the contract, or in the script.

[@daviddjaddah4376]

The americans use to build cheap and ugly things, is very sad the match box are not made in england any more they use to be perfect and fine toys

[@MapleTalkative2]

u mean hot wheel

[@royp8645]

Technically correct, but never american acting. Where's the canned laughter.

[@wanderleyapparecidovieira2282]

It'd be better to do bigger models,1/18 for example,not this microscipic model that a microscope should be furnished together !

[@TheCombatartist]

Made in China

[@royp8645]

I watched this again. What a load of b....cks. they do not measure a car with a rule. They get dimensions from the manufacturer who are more than pleased to have their production used.

[@TheCombatartist]

Made in China

[@tt-rs1457]

Wo genau ?