Post #222955 by johntiki on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 9:18 PM

On 2006-03-24 19:27, bigtikidude wrote:
P.s. No Offense to anyoone, but I hated Matchbox, thought they were crappy,
construction, and looking.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

I'll tell you the real reason the Matchbox was perceived as an inferior product... Matchbox cars were always a tad bit larger than Hot Wheels and thus didn't work well with Mattel's flexible plastic tracks, you know the ones that always ended up being used as weapons when squabbles broke out. You could really slap the hell out of someone with a Hot Wheel track!

I was firmly in the Matchbox school of die-cast automobiles and I think that's what most likely started my lifelong quest to conflict with the mainstream. Now don't get me wrong, it wasn't that I didn't own and love a ton of Hot Wheels but I just felt it was necessary to proclaim my Matchbox preference to the other guys in the neighborhood... just to throw a wrench into their "group mentality." :)