Hi all,
Does anybody know what happend to the old matchbox series of aircraft and vehicles?
At my place, you can still buy a few kits of the aircraft from 1989 but more I cannot find.

....................... ....................... ANYBODY?!?!?!?!

Try eBay. There's usually loads on there. I recently bought a Phantom, a Sea Harrier and a Buccaneer there.

Some of the old Matchbox kits have been turning up in the Revell range. The armour have been available as combi-kits with figure, and some individual vehicles are listed as "new releases" on their web site. As for aircraft, I bought a Helldiver which proved to be ex-Matchbox and not so long ago the Wellington and Swordfish appeared under the Revell banner. I'm pretty sure there are many more.

Some of the old Matchbox 1/72 scale aircraft kits have been released by Revell of Germany in Revell boxes. Some of the old 1/76 scale armor kits have been reboxed by Revell of Germany in Revell boxes as well but labeled as 1/72 instead of 1/76.

The Matchbox kits that are reboxed Revell kits are mainly the kits with figures include, although not all of them are old Matchbox kits.

Tanks! Komet

Bytheway, At Bakx in Bussum (The Netherlands),
you can get a few of them still, for 3,99 euros

http://uk.geocities.com/minixcars/matchbox.html

this may be a good lead for ya

reb