Diecast Drawer Explore! - Episode 2 - Monster Trucks and Construction Machinery

Welcome back to the channel, guys. It's been a while since I uploaded a video, about two weeks. I do apologize for that. Let's check out what's going on in my mystery drawers. Down below the die cast junkyard diorama, there are nine big drawers filled with die cast. Most of this stuff from years ago, some of it from decades ago. We're gonna be looking at one of these drawers. This is the one we're looking at today. This is pretty cool stuff. I've got Majorette in here, Corgi, Harvey toys or Hardy toys, lock ups, Matchbox, Yat Ming. Even some giant 164 scale construction equipment, including material handlers. And everything is coming out of this drawer for a full explore with you guys today. Lots of stuff I wanna show you. Still buying die cast. Maybe not as much of the mainline current stuff, but I've got tons and tons of vintage die cast to share with you guys from my collection that amasses basically most of my life. So let's go through that and I hope you enjoy. Leave a comment, of course, subscribe, and do me a big solid and hit that notification bell if you do like my videos. Well, and of course, we've got Nina in the house. She's always curious to see what comes out of the die cast museum videos. And of course, she's always happy to see you. Maybe a little too happy. Okay, let's get on into this drawer explore. And wow, so many cars I haven't looked at in a while. And neither has Nina. So she's extra curious as what is going on here. Look at these Majorette monster trucks. We've even got the Big Mudder. I've had this truck. My mom gave me this truck when I was about seven years old, I think, seven or eight years old. It is the Cherokee 164 scale, made in France, number 2013-2016. These are incredible. They have like a really, really solid spectra flame-like finish, a mirror-like finish. In fact, there isn't a single chip on this Survivor, although the base is a little bit frosted and textured over the years from all the playtime it's had. In fact, I've even worn off all of the white lettering on the tires, which you'll see on, well, I mean, it's like a silver-white lettering that's also worn off this Snake version of the Cherokee, another truck I've had for a very long time. And these things have suspension, sort of. They kind of click down and click up. Drop tailgate, it's pretty cool. I'm not really sure what's in the back of this truck, but, I mean, the suspension doesn't look incredibly realistic but these were toys. These were like three, $4 toys you could find at your local Zeller's or wherever the case may be here in Canada. Dollar stores, perhaps, in the United States, Walmarts. Majorette used to be a pretty big player in the die-cast market. I don't know really what happened, but I guess they kind of lost out to some competition here, other bigger competitors, i.e. Hot Wheels and Matchbox. I love the Majorette trucks. Here's interesting casting variation, too, between the two trucks. For some reason on the Cherokee, if we could focus here, the grille got kind of this big, huge line across the front of it, and I never understood that, even as a child. I remember thinking, what is that big bar across the front of the grille that isn't on this other version? If you can tell me, let me know in the comments. I would be curious to know. Before we look at these other two monster trucks, here is another Cherokee, still in its Coca-Cola packaging, with the dropped tailgate, smaller suspension, of course, and this is gonna be newer than what we're looking at currently, Series 200. I don't see it. Copyright 1997, so we're going back 14 years on that one. Quite a ways. And let's just get these other monster trucks out of the way. This one I've also had as a youngster. It's got a little bit less play wear, perhaps, based on the tires. Those super radial 4x4s, roaring monster. Opening hood on this particular model. It's got that yellow engine mixed in with the grille and the mirror bits. Kinda silly, but it's cool that it's got that functionality. This, of course, is a Toyota, Toyota pickup truck. Very, very cool. Absolutely love the roll bar. It's got a hitch, even. I'm not sure what good that will do on a monster truck. But it, too, does really well, driving over all the other junk that's in the diorama. And here is one I've had just as long as Big Mudder. Big Mudder. Let's have a look at this one. This one is all American, is what I call it. It doesn't actually have a name on it anymore. Long since had the packaging for it, but check out the flame. Not the flame. Check out the chrome and flag coloration of this all-American Chevy Dependuce, I think these are called. This one is known as the Blazer. That's very Americanized, but they used to call this truck the Dependuce, which I think is French for tow truck, because oftentimes this Chevy was depicted as a tow truck. And this one almost looks like it has boat speakers going on the outside. I think those are supposed to be fog lights, but it's a party truck. We've got the top big signal light on the roof. Love it. Absolutely love this truck. And these things have crushed many a tinfoil car in the days that I have been playing with them. And certainly even now as a 38-year-old adult male, the play just does not stop. Let's move on into some other interesting stuff. Probably need to get a tripod here at some point, but we're just winging this, because that's kind of fun. Got these, I think these are Hardy Toy, Coca-Cola cars. They don't really have any branding on the base. $1 off coupon, so surprising to see these still in the package. Toy distributed in Canada by Irwin Toy Limited, Toronto, Ontario. Pretty, pretty cool. Opening doors, suspension, and cars I remember having as a kid. Well, there's another one of those Coca-Cola Jeep Cherokees. It's got the grill across the front. Different packaging than the one we just looked at. We've got the short card and the long card. Same truck though. Has this got the grill piece on this one? Yes, it does. So for some reason they added that grill slot on the front of the Cherokee at some point in time, and I'm not really sure why. As we go through, a couple of Corgis, Corgi cars. Opening doors on these ones. We've got like a Ford Escort and a Citroen. I don't know the model off the top of my head. Citroen Diane, Diane? Hmm, strange. I thought, oh, it's got an opening rear hatch too. Wants to be open too, but I mean, the packaging is so old on these. The nostalgia keeps me from ripping them open because these are a rare find with all this advertisement on the back. And I probably do have a couple of these loose. I don't have this car loose though, Ford Escort. My parents actually had a red Ford Escort exactly the same as this, minus the trailer hitch, as I was a small boy growing up. And I remember on road trips, we would fold down that back hatch area. And I would sleep across the rear hatch interior deck lid. You don't find people doing that these days, I don't think. I was just a little kid by then. Majorette Series 200, 99 cents at Bargain Herald's price. And this is a pretty common model of the Oldsmobile Omega with trailer hitch and an opening hood actually, revealing a fairly detailed engine. So quite a cool little car. There it is, 175th scale. Really like that one. I've got a few loosies, so I definitely don't need to open that one up. Road Champs, price tag's been ripped off. Spring wheels that advertise. It's got a removable top, made in China. Hot wheels, imitation wheels on it, as you can see. They were doing their very best to imitate hot wheels back then. And they pulled it off fairly well. All die-cast metal. Any of these loose versions of this car I have in my collection are destroyed. They never have the doors. I would say they're fairly fragile, but then again, maybe just because it wasn't like a mainline collectibles brand, they were subject to more playwear. I'm not really sure. But then we've got the Kidco Gold Key Lock-Up. This one's from Kmart, $1.97. The only die-cast cars with locking wheels and doors. Here we have a Fox Body Mustang with a protective car cover. It says, of course, you've got the key, and the key goes in the bottom of the car and locks it all up. Some demonstrations there. You can lock the doors, lock the wheels, and the thing won't roll or open. Unlock it with the key or a toothpick. And you can return the car back to a functional state. So there's a whole bunch of cars. I have most of these cars now in my collection. Not all, but most. Very few rare, very few in mint condition, which I would say is rare. Here we have a die-cast Hot Shots. These are obviously Yat Ming cars. That's a very Yat Ming recognizable dump truck and version of the 63 Corvette split window Stingray. But here we have, looks to be a 65 Ford Mustang, open doors. These cars have suspension. I'm not gonna crunch down on the plastic. I'll probably crack it. Separate chrome plastic bumpers, metal base, insert plastic red taillight pieces, and insert front chrome plastic grill. A lot of parts go into this car. Very well-crafted mechanical spring for the door openers. I know because I have one of these cars completely smashed to the point where I can take it all apart, but I have all the pieces. It's heavily plain worn, but all the parts are there. And it's pretty cool. Look, there's nothing on the back. So that's a Yat Ming casting, which is pretty cool. All right, I think I'm gonna take this drawer down because I'm kind of levitating my arms here the whole time and the old shoulder's getting a little sore. So let's bring this thing down a bit and continue the explore. So that's a whole bunch easier. Taking the drawer completely out for the full-on explore. Down on the floor where gravity is working with me and not against me. 99 cents for the Roadmates. This was sold at Sears, now defunct here in Canada and most, I think, the entire world. Street Machines and a very cool model. What do we have here? I don't remember which car this is. It says made in Thailand. We'll see on the base, but of course there's no information on the package. Very reminiscent to that car that we just looked at. Where did I put it? Yat Ming type cars. I'm pretty sure they were all owned by the same company, Hot Shots, Roadmasters. These were all originally Yat Ming cars and I have all of these cars in my Yat Ming collection. Most of them saying Yat Ming on the base, but neither of these do that. Anyways, interesting stuff. Here we have my little tackle box full of Majorette limousines. So let's say we crack that open. These are my mintest examples of my Majorette limousines sold over the years. In similar packaging to these larger packages for 164 scale vehicles approximately. Here we've got a helicopter. Looks to be a Llama. Is that a Llama? Won't say much. That's a series 300. These are going back a ways. Copyright on that, uncertain. It's on here somewhere, but I mean, they haven't sold these things in years here in Canada. So probably about 15, 20 years old. Very cool helicopter. I got one of those loose as well somewhere. So no need to open that up. And then the tractor. This is a rare find, especially when loose to find your original tractor with those very clever looking wheels on the back, the wagon wheels, these big old logs that have been kind of very carefully crafted. And this all metal trailer will carry those. So don't have any of these trailers in my loose collection. It says 165 scale, but I have a few of these tractors, none in good condition. So that's kind of the reason for keeping that together. That's another series 300 in the Majorette. We're all over the place here with brands, but I mean, that's the point of the mystery drawer explore. It does seem like we are off to a start with some Majorette. Oh, one of the few Mercedes limousines. It just says Mercedes limousine, 158 scale. This car is gonna feature opening doors all the way around, opening skylight, partially open there, but just a really sweet model, metal body, plastic base, little chrome antennas. The taillights go all the way through, some suspension, a little bit. But yeah, plastic base on this one. Hard car to find in mint condition. And also, I think these are 157 scale. These are far more common, but getting ever more difficult to come across, especially in mint condition. Got the sunroof, four opening doors again. So whenever I find these cars for a reasonable price, I will pick them up because I have a strong nostalgia to these as a child. I still have the first limousine I ever got as a kid. Mine's a little bit chipped up, and it's not in here actually. They have since replaced its holding spot in this case with mint versions that I've bought. Some of these are openers. I mean, the packaging usually is destroyed, but just a sweet-looking limousine. And we've got a variety of colors here. Let's just put them down. We're gonna get a closer look at them. Got the white one. This was the first version I ever got as a kid. Yellow windows, of course, all around, plastic antenna on the back. And we've got the cream version. This is extremely rare. I don't have any other cream versions in my collection. I'm not sure where this came from. It's not discolored, as you can see from the inside of the doors that it was originally cream, but very, very hard to find a cream version. Black is kind of hard to find. This is an original black. It's got a big chip on the windshield, a few other kind of play chips, but still in very nice condition. Interestingly, it has that white antenna. Some suspension on these models as well. So kind of kept a nice little hoard, and certainly I probably have about three times as many in terrible condition elsewhere. But this is my mint limousine collection. In here, I don't know what we've got. We've got tires that I've peeled off of various vehicles over the years. I don't even know if I can hook them up with the original vehicles. It's been so long since I've been through this. I mean, we've got Goodyear tires. I feel like these are off slot cars, but I'm not really sure. These are off some interesting 164 scale tanks and their associated equipment that I've had over the years, which are actually in one of these drawers. I don't know which one it is exactly. One of these drawers has a bunch of tanks in it. Ooh, an empty drawer. That's weird. Gotta get into that drawer and fill it up. There, there's a whole bunch of those kind of interesting military tanks that we're gonna look at. That's probably the next drawer we'll look at in the Mystery Drawer Explorer episode series. So I think we've covered the limousines, and that brings us to the rest of the drawer, which appears to be a lot of Majorette, a lot of Ertl, and some off-brand stuff. So I'm not really sure to begin. I'll begin with actually what I think is the coolest, which is these material handlers. These are 164th scale, one of these guys. 164th scale material handler. Mostly plastic, some die-cast metal, rubber treads, actual pistons, and an actual piston-powered grappler. I bought these on eBay from a guy in Iceland years and years ago, so I don't really have the packaging anymore. I bought them for stop-motion video, I think, back then, but they still sell them. Just look up 164th scale material handler, and they are a no-name kind of non-branded item. Well, at least this one was. But really, really nice, functional, functional everything. Not super well-built, though. I've kind of broken one of the pistons on the grapple, so you do have to be careful. They're definitely not like a sandbox toy, and thankfully I had the foresight to buy two of them. So I've got two material handlers, which look amazing, in the junkyard. Let's see if I can get off my ass here and put it in a more appropriate spot. Maybe a couple of them, actually. Yeah, so these things definitely should be placed in the junkyard. It's been a little while since they've been there. So let's go back to the drawer, Explorer, and other interesting models. We've got some Ertl in here, some very old Ertl stuff, Ertl Bobcat. There you go, made in China. But nice little piston action. Bought these all from an antique store a couple years back. Hard to find this stuff nowadays. You really gotta look around for it. Some of this stuff's still available in stores, like farming stores, like PV Mart or TSC. PV Mart took over TSC, so I think I got some of these there. That's like a tree grappler thing there. You can actually, it's got like earwig pincers on it. Then we've got like the old Ertl stuff. This is heavy duty. The dresser, 56, 560B payloader, fully functional. And not a whole lot of information on it, but you know, about 164 to 187 scale, really. Here's a Majorette Rogue Raider. This was like another series 300 from the late 90s, mid 90s, nothing crazy. I think I paid about $3 for that back in the day. Now Ertl, of course, makes a nicer version of that. Here's a much more realistic looking Caterpillar with, I think we have to put it down on the ground and get some actual look at it and how that suspension works. It's got the rotating scraper, high die cast content. We've got the scraper turned around, but I'm doing this one handed. Still got stickers. Quite an impressive piece, Caterpillar. Some of those screws. Actually, I'm not seeing anything on the base, so I can't even say who that's from, but it does have the feel of Ertl quality. And here's an old scoop. What does that say on it? Ertl. That's an Ertl. So this one's got the real treads on it, as you can see. Very nice metal running wheels. Fully articulated bucket. Super great detail. And of course, 164 scale. Looks terrific. In amongst the other vehicles of the junkyard, really these things need to come out to play a little bit more often. Here's an interesting dump truck. Dually, a Dually dump truck from Ertl. It's got all the information I can share with you. But we've got this interesting dump truck. It's a little dusty. Definitely looks great in the collection. Some terrific action on that. Look at all that. Got this farm equipment here. So this is a tractor that you would see out in the farm fields. Let's take it out into the wild here and do some crop spraying. So we've got these booms that spread out. It's got like this big, huge, probably three foot wide, four foot tall tire on the front. Got the herbicide tanks on the side. And who makes this? Ertl. 2109U is the only identifier. It's actually got drive shafts on it and everything. Assemble the screws. Very, very cool. So they probably still make this stuff. I'm sure you can still find it. But all this stuff has been in my collection for a good long time. So, pushing it off the track, just got this generic kind of a gooseneck trailer. Probably a hay trailer of some kind. We've got the little mini backhoe John Deere. John Deere's got the supports. There's terrific functionality with that too. I think that's an Ertl. Ertl, there you go. And that one, number 2927G. It's even got the suspension on the front. So pretty cool stuff. I don't know where you can still find this stuff. I mean, it's rare. It's rare around where I live. The rest is gonna be, looks like a lot of majorette, but let's look at some of the more interesting stuff. These camper vans I've had, these Winnebago's. I got my first one from my mom. It was when I was less than 10 years old. And one of them is still in this collection. Road Champs made this. And all metal, extremely detailed. I mean, check out, you've got the whole kitchen in there. Looking through the windows, you've got the bed with some textured sheets on it even. Removable chrome ladder. These metal air conditioners across the top. Just a solid piece. And a nice, like, a true kind of 164th scale piece if you look at it compared to all these other pretty realistic 164th scale pieces in my junkyard. It's actually quite a nice little unit. So that is one of the originators, I think. Well, one of the two. It's either this one or that one. Probably this one, because I know my ladder's loose. And even after all these years, since I was 10 years old, 28 years ago, I've never lost the ladder. Go figure. OCD, I guess. We'll chalk it up to that, maybe. But that's not a bad thing in this case. It also came out in white. I bought this one not too long ago. Well, a few years ago, but it's kind of like just reminiscing. Wow, and that's where I got the second one. And then the third one in white, so. And while I was searching for Ertl, I also got this postal USPS postal delivery van opening rear doors. It's got a plastic base. Chevrolet Stepvan by Road Champs. 1994 is the copyright on that. Pretty cool. I think that's a sliding front door, actually. Yes, it is. The door slides open and the back doors do open on this truck. So that's pretty incredible for kind of like a low cost 164 scale truck. As we go through, we've got some, the only matchbox in the collection, we've got this garbage truck. This is from about mid 2000s, I think. Can't really see it, but you know, they've got the little garbage kind of flingy wingy thing and it lifts up. And it's actually a lot more functional than any other toys I've seen on the market lately. Seems like toys are getting pretty static now. So this older stuff is really cool. You don't have to go too far back in the past, it seems. Although you're gonna find more plastic, but to find some really cool pieces, you can just do some searching. So we've got a whole bunch of Majorette 187th scale trucks. These are all 187th scale and just gorgeous. I got these in a group lot a while back. I think I paid pretty good money, about $10 a truck. Then they're probably worth about 20 to $30 each, sold separately nowadays. Got the cattle truck. It's got the opening hood, beautiful. That's a rare one, beautiful paint job. And got the tanker truck. This one is the Nalco something, well white. No opening hood on this one. It's like a newer model of the cab without the opening hood. The older ones had the opening hoods. Here's another opening hood version. Beautiful chrome tank, it's like in mint condition. I don't know if that would have had any tampos or decals on it, but a tri-axle trailer, all metal. Absolutely beautiful. And I mean, these haven't been out for a while. Collection certainly, we may have seen them in a video from years ago, but maybe not. Always adding to the collection. So here we have the factory tractor carrier. It's like a big old international by the looks of it. Drove a truck like that real similar when I was a younger man. Cab over, 18 speeds forward, four reverse. Called it a stump puller. I was on an aerial spray program at the time. But these definitely are reminiscent. I mean, here we have a B-train. This is a beauty, I mean, just beautiful condition. And so happy to have that opening box doors on all of it. It's just a gorgeous little model. This is an originator from my youth. Had this one since I was a very young man. Eagle truck, not a chip on it, despite. Again, I just, I'm always surprised even by myself that I've somehow managed to hold onto these trucks all of these decades through childhood and they didn't get destroyed. Including these two, got the Sea Explorer and the Racing Team. These futuristic looking trucks with these clipped on plastic elements. The Transportier, it's called, 1-100 scale. This one has a submarine. And I actually played with this thing in the bathtub as a child. And it's still got its decals, how is that possible? Obviously glue back then was a little stronger. And I've also had this one in the bathtub many times. Racing Team, the boat, there we go. Well, I mean, we know they're durable. So there's the boat. It's very lightweight, it's plastic. These actually do float and they still clip on just fine. Another Eagle truck. This is a one I picked up later on. It's the only difference really from the first one that you saw there was the cab. It's got the same trailer, all American Eagle truck with different cabs. And here is the first Majorette truck I ever got as a kid. So this is my oldest truck, 1-87 scale. It's called the Nighthawk opening hood. And I always used to play this as the Black Bandit carrying truck for the Black Bandit car. And although it's seen significant play time, it's only really evident on the edges of the chrome grill and a few little chips across the top and the sides. But amazing. That it still survives to this day with a little bit of care. And of course, rounding out the final collection here, we've got the Miami Giant Speedboats, a four-engine or four-propulsion jet boat pulled by another rig. This is another one I've had as a kid. This is the Crane truck. You've probably seen my videos from 15, 20 years ago, almost now that I've been on YouTube for, since 2006, I've been on YouTube. So coming up on a long time. But this one's been in many videos. It's got the extension crane. And I think it's probably one of the best trucks ever. It's got the stabilizers. Oh, there's that little ladder. Anyways, perfect condition truck. Many memories playing with that one. The NASA Space Shuttle, United States Space Shuttle truck with the quadruple axle trailer, all metal. Very cool. This whole rig will actually stand up and launch the Space Shuttle. There you go. The shuttle itself has multiple stages. You can remove one, two, three parts of this rocket. The final truck we're looking at is another speed boat, jet boat. Racing team, it says on it. Generic, majorette truck with a hot pink interior. That is my Mystery Drawer Explorer. I hope you enjoyed it. I know it was a little off the cuff compared to many of my videos, but hey, we're having fun here. And that's the whole point. So if you're after any of this stuff and you're out in the flea markets or you're out shopping the internet, of course, happy hunting. My recommendation, happy hunting. Take care, everyone. We'll see you in the next video.