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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Remember toy cars? Ben, Noel and Max investigate the surprisingly weird evolution of old-school, die-cast car models from their origins to the modern day, ultimately asking what happened to the fad. Bonus points for everyone taking a Matchbox or Hot Wheels toy and vrooming-vrooming around as we explore this one.
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1:49.0 | Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. Let's hear |
2:09.5 | it for the man, the myth, the legend, Max, two computers, Williams. Let's hear it for the other |
2:16.4 | myths, men and legends. We've got Noel Brown, I am Ben Bullen. Noel, this is one that's been a long |
2:25.6 | time in our docket. We're talking about toy cars. And did you ever have any of those like race track |
2:35.4 | sets where they do the little loop, do you loop and so on? Yeah, I have friends, I think that had |
2:39.6 | them. And I would, you know, I had a neighbor in my neighbor where I grew up whose parents were |
2:44.0 | doctors. So they always had like the newest coolest stuff and they had like a whole upstairs that |
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