I have my Fan Art T-shirts online now. Pick your favorite officer. 10 for now but will be adding more. One shop for Europe and one for the US. Europe: toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/ US: toysoldiernostalgiaus.myspreadshop.com/
Bloody lovely. Thank you. These wonderful Matchbox sets must have been fantastic for a child. The use of anachronistic vehicles was not unusual for sets like this. Even different scales would make no difference to a young person's enjoyment. I became hooked on table-top wargaming at an early age and these play sets like this had their role in getting me started. Great stuff Jerry. Thank you. Cheers.
@@derekmcmanus8615 You are correct. They did indeed. Along with the APC and the SP Gun, they were beautifully portrayed on each box cover as well. Even the Dukw was out of place in participating in the Beachhead assaults. Still, they were great fun and excellent value as a child's gift. At least they didn't include Space Rangers, or transforming Submersibles!
As a guy that grew up in the 60s and 70s, I am really enjoying your channel. My toy soldiers were from the plastic bag…just your typical molded green plastic. Every once in a while I’d save up and buy a Britains figure and I was in heaven. I would see these sets in books, and think they must be the best thing going. A couple of the rich kids at my school would talk about getting these. So it really is a lot of fun to see you go through these. Thanks
Brilliant! My favourite playset as a child. Nice to see two sets together. I never thought about combining them like that, but then me and a friend used to have one each so set them up longways facing each other with the water making a big river between 2 towns joined up with the Airfix pontoon bridge. Sticking the building's down to the playmat was also a tactic.
These kind of toys brought me countless hours of fun, my dad would buy me extra tanks, boats, planes and soldiers from a very small corner store that sold them in dusty packs. He had huge greenhouses so I often added real dirty to my play, and would be amused for hours on end. Great fun. 👍🏻
I think I had that gold Sherman as a kid! It was supposed to be desert camo, but they glossed it up 70s style. Green-gold was a very popular color scheme back then. My parent's living room furniture had that color scheme!
The weapons mounted on landing craft on D-Day, to destroy beach landing defences were a spigot mortar system, called 'Hedgehog', and later 'Hedgerow'. The latter was used to set off landmines - each projectile had a long proximity fuze nose, that stuck in the beach, and the shockwave of it's explosion was enough to set off buried mines. The decks of the landing craft were constantly sprayed with seawater, as it was found that after a few volleys - 16-20 missiles at a time, the deck plates were warping with the heat. Another system like this, was 'Sea Mattress' which was slightly smaller.
Great buildings, Accessoires, Big plated figures and Playmate. But awful vehicles, dated out of the 70s. Love to play this with my Airfix or Matchbox WW2 Tanks and all the Little Matchboxdioramas. Thanks for watching it 👋🙂👍
Such a great post, it brings back memories of toy soldier rivalry me and my childhood best friend had...It came down to scale, His dad and mom got him this Beach Head Assault and I received the Counter-Attack, we brought them to play with last day of term as well as many hours of play. They were both wonderful playsets though and the play and great times together were the important thing...I miss my friend and our times...this brought some warm nostalgia..thankyou again..
I would have loved this as a kid. My favourite toy tank the king tank silver model. it also won when i played. Good times. So cool you still have you toy soldiers from a kid 😀👍
Another great find. Looks like I missed out on many cool items back in the day. I used to collect the 1/72 scale Matchbox soldier sets but never got to see those play sets. Good find. I remember that vehicle with the soldiers sitting and i think the turret gun turns as you roll the truck?🙂👍🇭🇲🦘✌️👋
Awesome, I have lots of soldiers including my original early 90s childhood toys from when I was a toddler. I sort of wish I could have experienced the 80s or even the 70s, but I'm a 90s kid. Older things sometimes are more characteristic. I used to have an old PC. Many fond memories playing the old pixel games. Toy soldiers I'm my opinion arecthe most iconic toy spaning many decades, well the plastic ones. Other toys come and go but army men will be with us always.
Separate Comment: A GOLD SHERMAN ?! I guess it wasn't just Dinky (with their blue Thunderbird 2 and green Shado Interceptor) that had a colour blind drunk in charge of the paint shop....😊
I had a friend that lived on the next street over and he loved playing with army men just like me. My backyard was very rough and hilly allowing great wars. We would start real early making our bases and different forward outposts. We both had hundreds of toy soldiers along with tanks, cannons, and vehicles. It would take hours to dig and construct our fortress. It would end with us getting lunch and then returning and allowing the other to quickly view the enemy. We would then collect our b?mobs and their different sizes ( they were stones and the bigger ones were 1,000 pounders. Regular bullets were smaller rocks so we hid our artillery and mortars. We would continue rite up till street lights went on and always had a great time. It was funny how we would do research on Vietnam, Korea, ww1, and WW2 at the local library sometimes hours but when it came to regular school subjects I would not even think of using the library. To this day I have a box full of different types of figures and it includes many generations of the plastic soldiers I played with. It includes metal, different thickness of figures and vehicles made in England. I should have a collector look at them including the queens honor guard
You are right about toys like this are almost taboo today I dont know why. My mom was really against toys like this. Luckily, kids across the street had them.
what I have used to repair boxes (from the inside) in the past is the brown paper "tape" that has adhesive on 1 side and is applied after making it wet. love seeing all the playsets! here in the States we had Marx. when my Dad returned from Viet Nam we were stationed in Giessen, W Germany and did get some of the airfix soldiers.
Watching your video brings back good memories of playing with toy soldiers as a Gen X kid. The set I remember the most was an old west fort for cowboy & indian fights, I need to find one and it would of been a 70s set. Yes, i'm from the U.S. I don't remember Matchbox doing anything but diecast vehicles, perhaps you Europeans got better toys than us.
I´m gonna start trying to repare boxes and sets myself. Some good guides here on RUclips. Not at the level you are talking about but then again it´s free :)
Roy Huxley. Box/catalogue artist for Matchbox throughout the 70s. His art triggered the imagination. Roy Cross did the same for Airfix. I love all this stuff and personal favourites being the Speed Kings artwork of the 1970s.
Jerry your diorama at the end is like the attack of the French commandos on the Ouistreham Casino on D day 6 June 1944. Your NATO Troops could be French commandos? it looks great😊
@9:10 they appear to me to be British paratroop regiment soldiers dressed in 1960s- early 80s uniforms holding an L1A1 rifle, I am curious as did you say they were NATO? It's a fantastic set which would have made any boy's Christmas complete.
I think they are great. I bought a bunch of Airfix Napoleonic figures from a friend of a friend when I was a kid. Loved setting them up like on a marsch. I don´t have them anymore I can´t remember were they went.
@@toysoldiernostalgia If anything like my childhood toy soldiers, Action man etc, probably mum was the culprit, as in my case passing them on to a younger cousin, as I entered my early teens and it deemed I should have grown out of them. I forgive you mum RIP.
THIS IS WHAT MY BROTHERS AND I DID WITH ALL OUR MARX'S PLAYSETS BACK IN THE 50S.YOU MIGHT TRY CLEAR PLASTIC STRIPS TO HOLD UP THE BUILDINGS.THANK FOR THE FLASHBACKS AND TAKE CARE
😊 I can imagine the state of the kids room and the mess once the battle was over , I guess thats when the United Nations ( mum or dad ) intervened to stop the war...
Great layout using multiple sets of soldiers and tanks as you would have done as a child bringing in all sorts of reinforcements. It’s a shame the buildings were not available separately as a giant diorama could have been constructed using Matchbox 1/76 scale kits. 🪖
I have my Fan Art T-shirts online now. Pick your favorite officer. 10 for now but will be adding more.
One shop for Europe and one for the US.
Europe:
toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/
US:
toysoldiernostalgiaus.myspreadshop.com/
Gerry could you scan the box art then make a totally new box ? 🔥
@@zaynevanday142 I guess you could but I don´t know how to print something that big onto cardboard.
Amazing. I'm in the UK, but I wasn't even aware Matchbox did sets like this. Thanks for sharing this.
So cool , when toy companies knew how to make cool toys . Unlike today sadly !
It's because there's no market for them well if you don't count us adult kids 😅
With toy soldiers,Too much is never enough! Great pick ups!
There IS nothing better to do with your time than play with toy soldiers!
Well there is, but, it's pretty up there.
So very true
Toy soldiers make me happy.
Bloody lovely. Thank you. These wonderful Matchbox sets must have been fantastic for a child. The use of anachronistic vehicles was not unusual for sets like this. Even different scales would make no difference to a young person's enjoyment. I became hooked on table-top wargaming at an early age and these play sets like this had their role in getting me started. Great stuff Jerry. Thank you. Cheers.
Indeed I remember getting a WW2 set that had a Centurion tank!
@@derekmcmanus8615 You are correct. They did indeed. Along with the APC and the SP Gun, they were beautifully portrayed on each box cover as well. Even the Dukw was out of place in participating in the Beachhead assaults. Still, they were great fun and excellent value as a child's gift. At least they didn't include Space Rangers, or transforming Submersibles!
As a guy that grew up in the 60s and 70s, I am really enjoying your channel. My toy soldiers were from the plastic bag…just your typical molded green plastic. Every once in a while I’d save up and buy a Britains figure and I was in heaven. I would see these sets in books, and think they must be the best thing going. A couple of the rich kids at my school would talk about getting these. So it really is a lot of fun to see you go through these. Thanks
Thank you for the lovely memories. I had this....
No problem dude :)
New subscriber and will use your older videos to try and identify some of my older toy soldiers
Great that they can help :) Not every set is up on the channel yet and only 1/32 so far. Starting 1/72 (ho-oo) soon.
Brilliant! My favourite playset as a child. Nice to see two sets together. I never thought about combining them like that, but then me and a friend used to have one each so set them up longways facing each other with the water making a big river between 2 towns joined up with the Airfix pontoon bridge. Sticking the building's down to the playmat was also a tactic.
Wow that´s cool. Never thought about putting the sets oposed to each other.
These kind of toys brought me countless hours of fun, my dad would buy me extra tanks, boats, planes and soldiers from a very small corner store that sold them in dusty packs. He had huge greenhouses so I often added real dirty to my play, and would be amused for hours on end. Great fun. 👍🏻
Fantastic as usual Jerry! You're helping me relive my own childhood and the way I used to play with my soldiers. Cheers buddy!
I think I had that gold Sherman as a kid! It was supposed to be desert camo, but they glossed it up 70s style. Green-gold was a very popular color scheme back then. My parent's living room furniture had that color scheme!
Great memories once again, thanks
Awesome stuff. Memories.
Indeed!
Brilliant as always Love this channel
Fantastic! I always wanted this set😊
The weapons mounted on landing craft on D-Day, to destroy beach landing defences were a spigot mortar system, called 'Hedgehog', and later 'Hedgerow'. The latter was used to set off landmines - each projectile had a long proximity fuze nose, that stuck in the beach, and the shockwave of it's explosion was enough to set off buried mines. The decks of the landing craft were constantly sprayed with seawater, as it was found that after a few volleys - 16-20 missiles at a time, the deck plates were warping with the heat. Another system like this, was 'Sea Mattress' which was slightly smaller.
Great buildings, Accessoires, Big plated figures and Playmate. But awful vehicles, dated out of the 70s. Love to play this with my Airfix or Matchbox WW2 Tanks and all the Little Matchboxdioramas. Thanks for watching it 👋🙂👍
Such a great post, it brings back memories of toy soldier rivalry me and my childhood best friend had...It came down to scale, His dad and mom got him this Beach Head Assault and I received the Counter-Attack, we brought them to play with last day of term as well as many hours of play. They were both wonderful playsets though and the play and great times together were the important thing...I miss my friend and our times...this brought some warm nostalgia..thankyou again..
Glad it could bring some good memories.
Brings back memories of ads inside comic books
I had that set as a kid. I loved it.
I would have loved this as a kid. My favourite toy tank the king tank silver model. it also won when i played. Good times. So cool you still have you toy soldiers from a kid 😀👍
You’re right it looks better with the battle kings and some more figures. Really enjoyed seeing this set
I knew I should have been a toy manufaturer :)
What a good creation at the end, and the Matchbox Commandos would be fit perfect eather for a norway theme 👍
Another great find. Looks like I missed out on many cool items back in the day. I used to collect the 1/72 scale Matchbox soldier sets but never got to see those play sets. Good find. I remember that vehicle with the soldiers sitting and i think the turret gun turns as you roll the truck?🙂👍🇭🇲🦘✌️👋
this was a funny one, and one could really tell that you enjoyed playing with that as a kid
I used to buy stuff like this as a kid.
Awesome, I have lots of soldiers including my original early 90s childhood toys from when I was a toddler. I sort of wish I could have experienced the 80s or even the 70s, but I'm a 90s kid. Older things sometimes are more characteristic. I used to have an old PC. Many fond memories playing the old pixel games. Toy soldiers I'm my opinion arecthe most iconic toy spaning many decades, well the plastic ones. Other toys come and go but army men will be with us always.
"I really like having two out of every playset I own." Man, I am the same way with Commodore 64 game originals. Love the channel.
Man Gerry thats freakin Awesomeness ❤❤❤
Nice set, would love to have that set and some of airfix sets also.
Separate Comment: A GOLD SHERMAN ?! I guess it wasn't just Dinky (with their blue Thunderbird 2 and green Shado Interceptor) that had a colour blind drunk in charge of the paint shop....😊
Memories x
I had a friend that lived on the next street over and he loved playing with army men just like me. My backyard was very rough and hilly allowing great wars. We would start real early making our bases and different forward outposts. We both had hundreds of toy soldiers along with tanks, cannons, and vehicles. It would take hours to dig and construct our fortress. It would end with us getting lunch and then returning and allowing the other to quickly view the enemy. We would then collect our b?mobs and their different sizes ( they were stones and the bigger ones were 1,000 pounders. Regular bullets were smaller rocks so we hid our artillery and mortars. We would continue rite up till street lights went on and always had a great time. It was funny how we would do research on Vietnam, Korea, ww1, and WW2 at the local library sometimes hours but when it came to regular school subjects I would not even think of using the library. To this day I have a box full of different types of figures and it includes many generations of the plastic soldiers I played with. It includes metal, different thickness of figures and vehicles made in England. I should have a collector look at them including the queens honor guard
What a great story, thanks. We did almost the same but mostly in the sandbox. We set up and then take turns throwing rocks.
Как всегда шикарній набор, спасибо за видео!!!
Awesome ! I would buy this even just for the box art !!!😊
Gorgeous box art indeed and great set and i liked your upgrades! Another great video😊
Thanks man :)
You are right about toys like this are almost taboo today I dont know why. My mom was really against toys like this. Luckily, kids across the street had them.
what I have used to repair boxes (from the inside) in the past is the brown paper "tape" that has adhesive on 1 side and is applied after making it wet. love seeing all the playsets! here in the States we had Marx. when my Dad returned from Viet Nam we were stationed in Giessen, W Germany and did get some of the airfix soldiers.
I have that kind of tape but in white.
I’ve been keeping an eye out for these on eBay but they demand a hellah price!! Great video matey
Yeah they get quit pricey.
Watching your video brings back good memories of playing with toy soldiers as a Gen X kid. The set I remember the most was an old west fort for cowboy & indian fights, I need to find one and it would of been a 70s set. Yes, i'm from the U.S. I don't remember Matchbox doing anything but diecast vehicles, perhaps you Europeans got better toys than us.
Marx made some amazing playsets but they are to expensive to ship over here.
Love it..!
Love this set
You could send the bits of box to a vintage book repair person. They are excellent at seamless repairs of paper based things. Not cheap though.
I´m gonna start trying to repare boxes and sets myself. Some good guides here on RUclips. Not at the level you are talking about but then again it´s free :)
Ahaaa ! D-Day Time 😂👍 Now i understand your childhood mind 😅
Nice ❤
Roy Huxley. Box/catalogue artist for Matchbox throughout the 70s. His art triggered the imagination. Roy Cross did the same for Airfix. I love all this stuff and personal favourites being the Speed Kings artwork of the 1970s.
Brian Knight who did most of the Airfix 1/32 and 1970s 1/72 Ho/oo scale is my favorite.
@ matchbox forgot the child when they adopted the blue boxes when production went to Macau.
are those nato figure poses unique to this set? they look different than the matchbox 1/76 nato paratrooper set.
Not sure actually. I should look into that.
HAHAHA I loved it! Only 1 question remains? Where's the airsupport? Couple of 109s and a spit maybe?
Jerry your diorama at the end is like the attack of the French commandos on the Ouistreham Casino on D day 6 June 1944.
Your NATO Troops could be French commandos? it looks great😊
@9:10 they appear to me to be British paratroop regiment soldiers dressed in 1960s- early 80s uniforms holding an L1A1 rifle, I am curious as did you say they were NATO? It's a fantastic set which would have made any boy's Christmas complete.
I think Matchbox called that set of toy soldiers Nato for some reason. Airfix did the same with a set of US infantry.
Top video as always
Great Video
We are still, at the end of the day, just big kids who want to keep on playing!
every day is xmans with du im calling Magnus Samuellson as i misspell his name lol
What are you thinking about napoleonic soldiers (toys)?
I think they are great. I bought a bunch of Airfix Napoleonic figures from a friend of a friend when I was a kid. Loved setting them up like on a marsch. I don´t have them anymore I can´t remember were they went.
@@toysoldiernostalgia If anything like my childhood toy soldiers, Action man etc, probably mum was the culprit, as in my case passing them on to a younger cousin, as I entered my early teens and it deemed I should have grown out of them. I forgive you mum RIP.
Loving the tee-shirt!
You will be able to buy one of your own by next week :)
We had a backyard with a giant sandbox, so the playsets weren't so important to us but I love seeing them.
Same here. Most fub was had outside in the sandbox. Both with toy cars and toy soldiers.
I've got this. Got is as a kid.
Nice set up how many box set do you own now?/
Depends on which box sets you mean.
More than I need, but not as many as I want?
only set i ever had we did not have much of this sets in the netherlands
Who painted the tanks Silber and Gold?? Dali? I had the german infantry by airfix and matchbox 1:72 76. Missed many sets.😭
Nice haircut.
Finally got it cut.
THIS IS WHAT MY BROTHERS AND I DID WITH ALL OUR MARX'S PLAYSETS BACK IN THE 50S.YOU MIGHT TRY CLEAR PLASTIC STRIPS TO HOLD UP THE BUILDINGS.THANK FOR THE FLASHBACKS AND TAKE CARE
I had a 1/32 version think was called Counter strike, had some town buildings and a guard towwer etc was great.
I have that to. Great set :)
I made a video on it.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I do still have thee trains from the container port one.
How many of these can you collect....? 😊
Broken landing craft door ? Have a look at some Toy Polloi videos for some fixing tips....
I realized I have three not two. Forgot I bought one some time ago that wasn’t complete. Great I’ll check those videos out.
😊 I can imagine the state of the kids room and the mess once the battle was over , I guess thats when the United Nations ( mum or dad ) intervened to stop the war...
Did you get a haircut?
Yup. It was about time :)
More money than sense?
Just enough money to get by. The other word I´m not sure I ever heard of.
Strange dude. Collecting multiple copies of same sets.
Well we all get our kicks in different ways 😀
You spoiled brat!!! You already have this Playset. You didn't need this😂😂😂... I'm just as bad😂😂👍🤳
When I was looking through some of my cabinets for something else I realized I had one more. So I guess I have three not two then :)
@toysoldiernostalgia Yes. You made a video of it.. I think it was you 🤔🤔
Great layout using multiple sets of soldiers and tanks as you would have done as a child bringing in all sorts of reinforcements.
It’s a shame the buildings were not available separately as a giant diorama could have been constructed using Matchbox 1/76 scale kits. 🪖