![]() ![]() The Barbie doll debuted on March 9, 1959, going on to become the company's best-selling toy in history. Mattel ultimately acquired Fisher-Price on August 20, 1993. 1957 saw the release of the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, and the Xylophone. Mattel started advertising on TV when it became the first sponsor of the Mickey Mouse Club TV series. Carter and Abe Bookman the toy is now owned by Mattel. In 1950, the Magic 8-Ball was invented by Albert C. The company was incorporated in 1948 in Hawthorne, California. In 1947, the company had its first hit toy, a ukulele called "Uke-A-Doodle". Matson sold his share and stake to the Handlers due to poor health the following year, when Handler's wife, Ruth took over. The company began selling picture frames, and later, dollhouse furniture out of offcuts from those frames. Harold "Matt" Matson, Ruth Handler, and Elliot Handler founded Mattel as Mattel Creations in January 1945 in a garage in Los Angeles. The name of the company is a portmanteau of the names of two of the company's founders the surname of Harold Matson and the first name of Elliot Handler. Two of its historic and most valuable brands, Barbie and Hot Wheels, were respectively named the top global toy property and the top-selling global toy of the year for 20 by The NPD Group, a global information research company. It is the world's second largest toy maker in terms of revenue, after The Lego Group. The company operates through three business segments: North America, International, and American Girl. The company has presence in 35 countries and territories and sells products in more than 150 countries. ( / m ə ˈ t ɛ l/ mə- TEL) is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. They are mostly Action vehicles and off road cars.Mattel, Inc. There are several packs released so far, and we do not know all of them, but some vehicles included are the exclusive Playset vehicles and Mainline 2012 Matchbox Vehicles. Matchbox released several playsets with Mainline vehicles and Sky Busters. International Brush Workstar Fire Truck / Black Here is the list of each of the regular matchbox car: The Jungle Set's Land Rover is modified of 3/4 of the roof to part of the window. Also, in the Military set that will be released in the future, the Humvee will make a return to the series, in Enamel Med. Mission Force Fire, Space, Crime, Military, and Arctic Crew are already released. There will be six sets of 4-packs of two Skybusters, one Real Working Rig and a Regular Model. The vehicle is the same as the vehicle in the 2009 5-pack, but this vehicle is modified with no front triangle window, but molded onto the plastic body. Matchbox released a playset with a modified Rescue Boat released in this playset. ![]() No Lightbar - MB775, first time released with disc hubs MBX 4x4 - Lime Yellow or 2011 1-100 VersionĪlso, Several cars were released in exclusive Matchbox Playsets. Note: The Mountain set is also released on the 2011 1-100 versions.Ĭliff Hanger - White or 2011 1-100 Version Playsets with 3 trucks with exclusive decorations, the 2 sets released are shown below. Also see David Tilley's page at Matchbox Forum for more info. Released with no exclusives, 6 cars were selected to go in the eggs. Here are the regular models of each set.ġ: Construction Zone Trio: Regular Model - Power Lift ( 2010 1-100)Ģ: Blaze Buster Trio: Regular Model - Pierce Dash Fire Engine ( 2011 1-100) See Matchbox Forum in David Tilley's page for more info. ![]() 2 sets of non-exclusives were released in July 2011.The Sets contained 1 Super Convoy, 1 Real Working Rig, and 1 regular model. ![]()
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