Matchbox Mobile Action Command Find

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Like a lot of you, my summer plans kinda fell apart in 2020, so I've been doing small day trips with my wife hitting some familiar antique and flea haunts. It's been slim pickings but it's still fun to get back to scrounging in a limited fashion.

The best find I've had all summer is this beautiful carded Matchbox Mobile Action Command (M.A.C for short) vehicle complete on Canadian card (which if you watch Toy-Ventures, you know is a fetish of mine).

M.A.C is one of those toylines I only purchase "in the wild", I refuse to look on eBay, it's just more fun and appreciated like this. This was tucked in behind something, it was almost impossible to see, I almost felt like it was waiting for me.

Here's to small victories!


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[Wee67]

M.A.C is one of those toylines I only purchase "in the wild", I refuse to look on eBay, it's just more fun and appreciated like this.
Here's to small victories!

I totally get that. I'm like this with vintage vinyl. I was so excited to recently score two albums I've been hunting for some time- Died Pretty's 'Free Dirt' and Ruin's 'Fiat Lux'- at the same time.

Here's to small victories!

[PNGwynne]

Congratulations, these are tantalizing. I've been smitten since the Toy Ventures review. I had two Action-Jack knock-offs purchased in a convenience grocery, around 1979 I think.

[Werewolf]

Congrats. What a super cool find.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I built my collection of DC Pepsi Glasses from "in the wild" excursions only, so I totally understand that mentality. It makes the hunt that much more fun.

And that is a super find! Congrats!

Chris

[palitoy]

I built my collection of DC Pepsi Glasses from "in the wild" excursions only, so I totally understand that mentality. It makes the hunt that much more fun.

And that is a super find! Congrats!

Chris

My 7-11 cups were the same way, fortunately, Canada only did 7.

[phil]

That was a seriously fun toyline!

[Myoldtoys]

That is a great find. I have not seen one of these in the wild ever. Not at a vintage store, antique shop, or toy show. I only had one of these as a kid. It was the green military medical unit.

[scott metzger]

It's weird, and maybe because it's the versions I got as a kid, but I actually prefer the more blocky, Lego-like original versions of the figures than the more humanly sculpted versions that came later. It might also be because they fit all the vehicles and such better. This is a truly underrated line that had a LOT of play value.