#553 Con-Nec-Tors – Skateboarder Together With Wrestler (1990)

Matchbox has rarely produced other toys than die-cast cars in addition to vehicles. This is i of the exceptions. After the success of the Connectables Line (see entries #471, #472 in addition to #473), Matchbox launched approximately other draw of piece of employment alongside a like approach, solely instead of creating vehicles yesteryear combining parts, you lot could shape unlike activity figures yesteryear combining torso, caput in addition to limbs.

Because each figure is composed of vi parts, at that spot are multiple combinations to generate novel figures, fifty-fifty if you lot solely ain a couplet of figures. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 sticker inwards a 2-pack blister bubble said: “Over 3.5 Million Combinations!”, which should move if you lot ain the whole collection

The characters chosen are pop characters of the 90s in addition to before: at that spot are several monsters in addition to creatures, merely equally good a policeman, a cyborg (in the Terminator style), an american football game player, a soldier... all easily identifiable characters.

To my knowledge, at that spot were xvi figures made for this collection, which could move purchased individually, inwards two-packs or inwards bigger gift sets. In English, the characters had pretty tedious names, encounter list:

Monster Fly
Football Player
Dinosaur
Rock Star
Vampire
Swamp Monster
Skateboarder
Pterodactyl
Sheriff
Robot
Mummy
Cyclops
Wrestler
Mutant
Soldier
Indian

In Italian, curiously, the names were a Little flake to a greater extent than inventive.

By the way, this toyline was non solely a Matchbox line, it was equally good produced yesteryear Giochi Preziosi. Maybe for this reason, the province inwards which this toyline had the biggest success was inwards Italy.