We Got Super Into Toy Cars, Part Two: Rivalry and Nostalgia

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As the toy car industry exploded, new companies entered the market -- but the Matchbox/Hot Wheels rivalry remained front and center for collectors and distributors alike. In the second part of this special two-part episode, we explore what happened to all those old toy car companies... and why you should always (always!) hold on to your old toys.

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1:52.1	Skirt skirt. Welcome back to the show. Ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning
2:05.2	in. This is part two of our continuing series on toy cars, which we promise is much more
2:14.8	interesting and involved than a lot of people might assume. Let's give it up for the referee of our
2:20.3	race super producer, Mr. Max Williams. What? So can we argue that this is actually part four?
2:26.9	Because we did two parts about the toy cars in Japan. So this is kind of thing. I think it's more
2:34.4	than a Zach got really into toy cars for a little bit. Our research associate, Dr. Z. We're
2:41.0	nothing if not complete us here. I'm ridiculous history. We do our best. And you're in the
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