The Matchbox catalog for the 2024 model year is complete. It contains more than 550 listed cars. It is an incredible number, although the record from 2022 is more than 100 cars higher. The numbers given are for hardcore collectors who must have everything that comes out. Softcore collectors only need new releases, either new castings or liveries, in short, no reccurent, and there were "only" 289 of them. Although for some it is not enough and it is necessary to add the remaining cars in the...

Today, a photo with serial number 4000 was added to the database. And since we had a Honda S2000 in style for the 2000 photo, we continue in the same direction and it is a Mega Tractor JSE 4000 from the Working Rigs series. It was first released in 2010 in two colors - blue and green. The green one then appeared 12 years later in 2022.

In the article about the addition of the photo with se...

I am pleased to announce that I am no longer alone in creating the catalog and Petr Čermák from Rakovník has joined the team. Welcome! Petr is an expert in the Convoy section and also deals with the Tyco era from 1993 to 1996. However, other areas are not completely unknown to him. He is therefore a great addition and I believe that this will make the work on the catalog more intensive and of better quality.

And if anyone else would like to join, we will be happy to do so. Contact us!...

Today, a photo with the number 2000 was added to the database. Stylistically it is Honda S2000 model in lime color, which was released for the first time in the Japan series in 2022. And it was also released this year in the same series.

The first photo was added to the catalog on 8.7.2021, so it took exactly 630 days to...

I have been going to swap meet in Brno or Prague since I was a teenager, but for the first time I found myself in the role behind the table, in the role of a seller. So actually, not directly the seller, but the presenter. Equipped with a laptop with a weak battery, that's why still with an extension cord and a monitor so that I can present the first development version of the web site to visitors.

True, the queue did not directly form in front of the table, but a few brave curious...

And here it is. On my birthday, after the painstaking process of choosing a name, I register the MATCHBOYZ.COM domain. I believe that its playful name is understandable enough for all boys with the soul of a child who have been absorbed in the world of Matchbox cars.

The practical realization of my long-standing dream and desire to create a website about my hobby begins with the establishment of the domain. But it's not the first time. Already in the years 1999 - 2002, I ran my own we...