THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FLASH-BACKS YOUR VIDEOS GIVE ME THIS YEAR.MAY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.MAY THIS THIS YEAR BRING YOU MANY MORE BLAST FROM THE PAST TREASURES TO ENJOY.GOD BLESS AND REMEMBER"WE WON'T GROW-UP,NEVER NEVER"
I was born in 1970 in England and your videos are ao nostalgic! Sometimes I see something i haven't seen in 5 decades and it will trigger memories i forgot i even had!
It’s funny, watching your content reminds me of toys I had but that I’d totally forgotten about! Seeing some of them awakens that childhood excitement of getting a new toy and thinking of the play possibilities with it once I got home. I was a big fan of the corgi type diecast military toys.
What a great mega-haul! I feel your pain when you mention that you have to replenish your savings account. When the holidays come around a lot of sellers lower their prices, thus making it a great opportunity to purchase some things..... goodbye savings account!
As I recall, those Airfix HO/OO railway kits are really good and make great accessories for a Hornby railway set. Also fun to build and paint and much cheaper than the Hornby buildings.
I am envious of you with all those unopened boxes in front of you. It must be almost like Christmas morning has a kid. Looking forward to seeing what is inside as you open them. Happy opening...
I had the Spypark Tower Garage. What a brilliant toy that was. I''ve been trying to find pictures of it for ages but couldn't remember the name. Awesome to see it again!
Oh, and you save me having to collect all those things…! Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the model railway. I started my model railway hobby in the mid-70’s with those Airfix kits. So good 😊
Hi,Jerry, I love the early Airfix packaging. I had the Sherwood castle for one day when I was a boy. We were visiting Palm Springs, California, and I accidentally left the castle in the Motel room when we left. Mom bought the toy for me and I left it behind on the floor.
JERRY, When I first started watching you the area behind you had some boxes, but now you have so much I worry you will be buried alive! I love it! Merry Christmas Jerry!@toysoldiernostalgia
Another great trip down memory lane. As a kid I had the Corgi Grand Canyon Speed Circuit that's in the catalogue you got. I tuned in for the toy soldier nostalgia and it was an unexpected pleasure to be reminded of that. 😀👍
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yeah, I certainly enjoyed it at the time. The mechanism for the cable car was really cool . The speed of the car taking it across the "Canyon" then releasing the car and resetting.. Simple but effective. I seem to remember you had to fill up those brown support towers with water for stability otherwise they would sway as the car went into the cable car.
Don’t remember ever seeing those Airfix play sets and we had a 2 or 3 good model shops when I was a kid in the 60/70s.Great to see the Airfix train sets and I collect those and the locos/rolling stock.I keep them unmade in the box .I have a train layout with all that sought of stuff on it anyway.I was blown away by Bluebox .I can’t for the life of me remember what i had as a kid as far as Bluebox goes but I know I had some things.
Fantastic! So many memories. The blue box service station is a copy of a matchbox one. Remember Corgi rocket set I had one for Christmas when I was 7😊 I've just started collecting Britians😮 Keep filming 🎥 Happy Christmas 🎄
On the Matchbox 'Bazooka' - there was a thankfully short period of time when stuff like this was being produced. A classic case of 'The Suits upstairs' getting things hopelessly wrong. They thought that kids wanted big dragsters, in garish colours, with motors the size of Belgium. We didn't. We wanted a model of the car that our parents drove. The occasional bright pink car was fine, but to alter the tooling of the exquisite E-Type Jaguar, to create the horrible 'Draguar' was inexcusable.
I mostly wanted work vehicles but I didn´t mind the crazier cars. Some of my favorites I had as a kid was Hotwheels silver streakers (I think that´s what they were called).
Oohh how wish I could remember exactly what was on the shelves in toy stores in the 1970s 😊I mean stuff like cars, castles, train sets, soldiers etc. I've said it before on this channel: my main focus was on toy soldier sets and hard plastic model kits you have to glue and paint. Some of it was by Airfix but not all. Did some ''painting by numbers'' but by Ravensburger I think. I'm not British so in the toy stores there would probably be lots of equivalents of the toys made by other (non British) manufacturers. Back home we had lots of board games but hardly from the UK. I do recognize some of the toys presented here. The 1/72 scale Commandos set rings a bell, but I had (and still have) the 1/32 scale set. Carry on the good work!
DAPOL in the UK have the moulds for many of the Airfix railway kits and they are still on sale. useful if you want to keep your Airfix collection intact.
Awesome unboxings! Everything so vintage and so cool ! You gonna open a museum soon lol 😆 Merry Christmas my friend...years ago theyvpublished an interesting book about Atlantic toy soldiers..I lost my copy but it was very interesting
Try getting some Airfix Betta Bilda. This was a more refined version of Lego that allowed you to make 1/72 scale buildings of any type. My favourite was Set 10, which had castle components like a portcullis and drawbridge.
For the age of some of those sets the boxes are in incredible condition. Dalpol now ella lot of the Airfix railway stuff. Man, you have afun collection now (but less money) Merry Christmas and have a good 2025!
If you don’t want to use the MIB Airfix they are (in the main) available from Dapol. Great vid, some memories rekindled and those Airfix commandos wow….
Several of the moulds for kits and figures went missing during the transfer of ownership to Heller. Some of the original moulds were lost when Airfix first went bankrupt, as they were sold for scrap!
I had the Airfix British commando set. I bought it in 1979 and if my memory is correct, instead of those kayakers, my set had 1 or 2 inflatable dingies where there was just enough room to put one soldier in.
I thought i had a good knowledge of Airfix sets but had no idea there was a 1/72 version of the 1/32 Commandos (as distinct from the early HO set). It looks amazing.
the britains toys were cool when i was a kid then they vanished :( / I had everything but the kettengrad which I really wanted the figures were amazing
You mentioned the Toy Fairs, well try to develop short arms and deep pockets otherwise you’ll be done for, but what a way to go! Oh apparently even though made in Scotland Timpo is best found in Germany, tons of collectors there! One of the best model soldier sets ever released was their Napoleonic Highlanders, but then they also made some really awful ones too! Merry Christmas!
Thanks Jerry for having us in,You introducing me to more of the AIRFIX line ,As I have only been familiar with with basic figures British,Germans ect. Merry Christmas.🙂🧯🎄
@ ww1 stuff mixed eras and medieval stuff. I’m collecting renaissance Italian states figures. A lot of it Redbox. Along with some Russian plastic flats. I’ll have to post some pics somewhere at some point.
Am a bit jalous about the sherwood castle 😂. Never got one as a child 😢 By the way, where did you get that wonderfull T-shirt from ?( British paratroop Officer ) My absolute favorite A. set
I made the T-shirt design myself. You can get it in my little shop. There´s ten different T-shirts to choose from. toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/
Had a few of those Britains deetail figures as a kid in the early 80s., can't remember having vehicles though. And i remember having something like that orange track with the loops, not sure if it was corgi rockets though. did another company do something like it?
my fetish was HO scale plastic soldiers I had thousands If I was lucky my mom would buy me the metal based Britains LTD they were expensive...she would tell me ....dont let your father see them.....Thanks mom RIP
Watching you unbox is like a return to Christmas 1965.
Thanks for the fun and the memories.
Glad you like it.
Wow, some awesome toys! Love seeing your videos - it's so much fun seeing these toys... You're doing us all a great service! :)
Thanks man 😀 glad you’re liking it.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FLASH-BACKS YOUR VIDEOS GIVE ME THIS YEAR.MAY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.MAY THIS THIS YEAR BRING YOU MANY MORE BLAST FROM THE PAST TREASURES TO ENJOY.GOD BLESS AND REMEMBER"WE WON'T GROW-UP,NEVER NEVER"
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
I was born in 1970 in England and your videos are ao nostalgic! Sometimes I see something i haven't seen in 5 decades and it will trigger memories i forgot i even had!
Oh wow, great video, that's an amazing collection. Many thanks for the upload. 👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers :)
It’s funny, watching your content reminds me of toys I had but that I’d totally forgotten about! Seeing some of them awakens that childhood excitement of getting a new toy and thinking of the play possibilities with it once I got home. I was a big fan of the corgi type diecast military toys.
your enthusiasm always makes me smile , have a happy Christmas
Thanks. Merry Christmas 😀
Great video so many memories watching, brilliant
What a great mega-haul! I feel your pain when you mention that you have to replenish your savings account. When the holidays come around a lot of sellers lower their prices, thus making it a great opportunity to purchase some things..... goodbye savings account!
Through the years on Ebay I have gotten my best deals from november through februari.
Those months before and after christmas are the bargain months.
As I recall, those Airfix HO/OO railway kits are really good and make great accessories for a Hornby railway set. Also fun to build and paint and much cheaper than the Hornby buildings.
Your enthusiasm and joy are contagious, I love it. Also, I got my Airfix American infantry T-shirt, which I also love!
I am envious of you with all those unopened boxes in front of you. It must be almost like Christmas morning has a kid. Looking forward to seeing what is inside as you open them. Happy opening...
Hi Jerry. Tom here... I am really looking forward to this one. If you do not mind, I am going to watch this on Christmas Morning. See you Wednesday!
Sounds like a plan buddy :)
Merry Christmas.
Awesome haul amazing to see toys in their box they seem hardly used at all
I had the Spypark Tower Garage. What a brilliant toy that was. I''ve been trying to find pictures of it for ages but couldn't remember the name. Awesome to see it again!
Was it fun?
Oh, and you save me having to collect all those things…! Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the model railway. I started my model railway hobby in the mid-70’s with those Airfix kits. So good 😊
Hi,Jerry, I love the early Airfix packaging. I had the Sherwood castle for one day when I was a boy. We were visiting Palm Springs, California, and I accidentally left the castle in the Motel room when we left. Mom bought the toy for me and I left it behind on the floor.
Oh no Iggy that’s so sad.
Merry Christmas to you my friend.
JERRY, When I first started watching you the area behind you had some boxes, but now you have so much I worry you will be buried alive! I love it! Merry Christmas Jerry!@toysoldiernostalgia
nearly half an hour of box opening, time to sit and grab a beer and be taken back in time....a Christmas treat.
Lol I think I could manage two beers in 30 minutes :)
Enjoy and Merry Christmas.
Another great trip down memory lane. As a kid I had the Corgi Grand Canyon Speed Circuit that's in the catalogue you got. I tuned in for the toy soldier nostalgia and it was an unexpected pleasure to be reminded of that. 😀👍
Was it any good?
@@toysoldiernostalgia Yeah, I certainly enjoyed it at the time. The mechanism for the cable car was really cool . The speed of the car taking it across the "Canyon" then releasing the car and resetting.. Simple but effective. I seem to remember you had to fill up those brown support towers with water for stability otherwise they would sway as the car went into the cable car.
Those Britain's vehicle boxes just reminded me why as a child i had Timpo, used too look at them in awe
Great to see your excitement opening the boxes. Some nice kits there. Love to see the Sherwood kit when it’s built .
Don’t remember ever seeing those Airfix play sets and we had a 2 or 3 good model shops when I was a kid in the 60/70s.Great to see the Airfix train sets and I collect those and the locos/rolling stock.I keep them unmade in the box .I have a train layout with all that sought of stuff on it anyway.I was blown away by Bluebox .I can’t for the life of me remember what i had as a kid as far as Bluebox goes but I know I had some things.
Great haul again Jerry, looking forward to a few more in-depth reviews of your buys.
Have a great Christmas, Cheers Neil
Yes got some great toys in this one.
Merry Christmas Neil.
Great stuff.Enjoyed that.Thanks👍🇬🇧🫶
Christmas came early this year! I always wanted that Sahara fort set.
Loved this video… brilliant 🤩 keep it up! 👍🏻
Fantastic!
So many memories.
The blue box service station is a copy of a matchbox one.
Remember Corgi rocket set I had one for Christmas when I was 7😊
I've just started collecting Britians😮
Keep filming 🎥
Happy Christmas 🎄
Is that the white Matchbox service station? Was the Corgi Rockets any fun?
Merry Christmas.
Awesome vid here ! Thx ! 😊
Brilliant, I have got some amazing stuff there for your collection, think u need a bit more storage 🤔😆👍💪🙏😊
My apartment is getting to full of toys. Need to rent some kinda space for it.
wow nice haul.
Increibles Jugetes,un saludo desde España.
Fascinating!
Your channel is so good Jerry! Merry Christmas 😊
Härliga tider, strålande tider som de säger....
God Jul och Gott Nytt År från Glasgow, när de knackar på dörren....
On the Matchbox 'Bazooka' - there was a thankfully short period of time when stuff like this was being produced. A classic case of 'The Suits upstairs' getting things hopelessly wrong. They thought that kids wanted big dragsters, in garish colours, with motors the size of Belgium. We didn't. We wanted a model of the car that our parents drove. The occasional bright pink car was fine, but to alter the tooling of the exquisite E-Type Jaguar, to create the horrible 'Draguar' was inexcusable.
I mostly wanted work vehicles but I didn´t mind the crazier cars. Some of my favorites I had as a kid was Hotwheels silver streakers (I think that´s what they were called).
Oohh how wish I could remember exactly what was on the shelves in toy stores in the 1970s 😊I mean stuff like cars, castles, train sets, soldiers etc. I've said it before on this channel: my main focus was on toy soldier sets and hard plastic model kits you have to glue and paint. Some of it was by Airfix but not all. Did some ''painting by numbers'' but by Ravensburger I think. I'm not British so in the toy stores there would probably be lots of equivalents of the toys made by other (non British) manufacturers. Back home we had lots of board games but hardly from the UK. I do recognize some of the toys presented here. The 1/72 scale Commandos set rings a bell, but I had (and still have) the 1/32 scale set. Carry on the good work!
DAPOL in the UK have the moulds for many of the Airfix railway kits and they are still on sale. useful if you want to keep your Airfix collection intact.
I think you gave me a heads up on this before I think. Great tip. Thanks.
Awesome unboxings! Everything so vintage and so cool ! You gonna open a museum soon lol 😆
Merry Christmas my friend...years ago theyvpublished an interesting book about Atlantic toy soldiers..I lost my copy but it was very interesting
Regarding the Airfix filmoscope, from only 4 films, fast forward to 2024, a smartphone can show you more than a hundred movies 🤣. Nice video
Try getting some Airfix Betta Bilda. This was a more refined version of Lego that allowed you to make 1/72 scale buildings of any type. My favourite was Set 10, which had castle components like a portcullis and drawbridge.
I will get some in the future but I have a few things I need to get before that.
For the age of some of those sets the boxes are in incredible condition. Dalpol now ella lot of the Airfix railway stuff. Man, you have afun collection now (but less money) Merry Christmas and have a good 2025!
Would love to see you get into MARX toys 👍💪🙏✌️
If you don’t want to use the MIB Airfix they are (in the main) available from Dapol. Great vid, some memories rekindled and those Airfix commandos wow….
Several of the moulds for kits and figures went missing during the transfer of ownership to Heller. Some of the original moulds were lost when Airfix first went bankrupt, as they were sold for scrap!
I saw a documentary or something on TH-cam just recently were they said that previous management at Hornby had scrapped a bunch as well.
So sad.
I had the Airfix British commando set. I bought it in 1979 and if my memory is correct, instead of those kayakers, my set had 1 or 2 inflatable dingies where there was just enough room to put one soldier in.
I thought i had a good knowledge of Airfix sets but had no idea there was a 1/72 version of the 1/32 Commandos (as distinct from the early HO set). It looks amazing.
Please,please do a setup video of your foreign legion sets.
I never had any and ive wanted them for 60 years.
Merry Christmas, pal!
Sure will. When I´m not sure of.
Merry Christmas.
very nice Airfix Playsets in good condition
the britains toys were cool when i was a kid then they vanished :( / I had everything but the kettengrad which I really wanted the figures were amazing
I wish they did some cool 1/32 WW2 Tanks 😂
You mentioned the Toy Fairs, well try to develop short arms and deep pockets otherwise you’ll be done for, but what a way to go! Oh apparently even though made in Scotland Timpo is best found in Germany, tons of collectors there! One of the best model soldier sets ever released was their Napoleonic Highlanders, but then they also made some really awful ones too! Merry Christmas!
Awesome
Thanks Jerry for having us in,You introducing me to more of the AIRFIX line ,As I have only been familiar with with basic figures British,Germans ect. Merry Christmas.🙂🧯🎄
Last time i saw that elephant he was tossing a car over his shoulder.
It was a terrible day at the Zoo :)
I didn’t know you collected 1/72 scale. I have tons.
Also I think you know what you have to do with those zoo animals…a bad day at the zoo video.😂
Part 2.
@@Revengance6 oh yes. I have a pretty decent 1/72 collection. What do you have?
@ ww1 stuff mixed eras and medieval stuff. I’m collecting renaissance Italian states figures. A lot of it Redbox. Along with some Russian plastic flats. I’ll have to post some pics somewhere at some point.
@ those Russian flats look pretty cool. Makes want to do like a viewing cabinet diorama kinda thing.
Am a bit jalous about the sherwood castle 😂.
Never got one as a child 😢
By the way, where did you get that wonderfull T-shirt from ?( British paratroop Officer )
My absolute favorite A. set
I made the T-shirt design myself. You can get it in my little shop. There´s ten different T-shirts to choose from.
toysoldiernostalgiaseu.myspreadshop.net/
hi, do you have any tips on removing mold lines on matchbox figures?
Had a few of those Britains deetail figures as a kid in the early 80s., can't remember having vehicles though. And i remember having something like that orange track with the loops, not sure if it was corgi rockets though. did another company do something like it?
my fetish was HO scale plastic soldiers I had thousands If I was lucky my mom would buy me the metal based Britains LTD they were expensive...she would tell me ....dont let your father see them.....Thanks mom RIP
Great mom 😀
Where did you get the T-shirt
Hi!Har du boken Airfix mobiliserer,utgitt på Ares forlag i Norge?Mvh Alf Jostein Dale
Gerry does your wife know what you spend ??????????????