Manufacturer “Sunny Toys Co., Limited” Hong Kong All cars have Pull back and go mechanism “Russian Series” was released in September 2022. GAZ Gazelle (police, FD, Ambulance) UAZ UAZ-2206 “Bukhanka” (police, FD, Ambulance) UAZ-315196 (UAZ-469 new) (police, FD, Ambulance)

MPO – Minskoe Proizvodstvennoe Obyedinenie Minsk Order of the Red Banner of Labour Production Association named after Lenin, Kletsk Mechanical Plant. BSSR, Minsk Region, Kletsk, Pobedy Street 46 Kletsk Mechanical Plant was founded in 1969 as a branch of the Minsk Production Association named after V.I. Lenin. The plant belongs to the machine-building industry. As of today, it is an operating enterprise that is part of the BELAVTOMAZ holding. Now Amcodor-Belvar. The first models had opening front doors. There were several colors: light green, turquoise, burgundy, orange, and gray. The bases were attached to the body with rivets and painted with silver paint. For the 1980 Olympics, souvenir cars were…

Welly (Welly Die Casting Factory Limited) is a Hong Kong-based company founded in 1979–1980 and one of the largest Asian manufacturers of die-cast metal model cars. Its factories are located in Guangdong Province, China, and at its peak employed more than 3,000 people. The company specializes in affordable yet reasonably detailed replicas of real vehicles produced under official licenses from more than 40 automakers (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Lada/VAZ, GAZ, UAZ, and others). History and Production In the early 1980s Welly mainly produced small cars roughly 3 inches long (approximately 1:64 scale). Later it added a popular “toy” line of about 4.75 inches (roughly 1:36–1:38), often fitted…

Технопарк (commonly written as Technopark, TechnoPark, or Tehnopark in English) is a well-known Russian diecast and toy car brand. The models are manufactured in China (primarily by factories such as Daxiang Plastic Toy Products in Shantou) specifically for the Russian market and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Unlike pure collector brands, Technopark focuses on affordable, durable, and feature-rich models designed both for play and casual collecting. Technopark models typically combine metal bodies with plastic parts. Many feature pull-back (inertia) motors, opening doors, hoods or trunks, and sometimes working lights and sound effects. The brand covers a wide range of subjects, with a strong emphasis on Russian and Soviet…

The History of Toy Production at the Tula Cartridge Plant TPZ / Tula Cartridge Works / Tulammo – Soviet Russia The Tula Cartridge Plant was opened on 16 September 1881 as a private joint-stock company with foreign capital. From the very beginning it produced cartridges. In 1886 a brass-rolling mill and a copper foundry were built nearby, fully supplying the cartridge production. During the First World War the plant supplied the Russian army with about a quarter of all cartridges made by domestic factories. During the Civil War this figure rose to 75 percent. In 1929–1931 the old buildings were declared unsuitable, and production was moved into new premises. In…

The History of the Astretsovo Metal Toy Factory In the small village of Astretsovo in the Dmitrovsky District of Moscow Oblast once stood one of the first and the largest metal toy factories in Russia. Today almost nothing remains to remind us of it, yet for nearly a century and a half tin cars, toy soldiers, locomotives and many other toys that are still remembered by several generations travelled from here across the entire country. It all began in the second half of the 19th century. In 1858 the peasant Pyotr Talayev moved with his family to Astretsovo from the neighbouring village of Andreyevskoye. Before that he had skilfully made…

In reality, there are not two different brands — Autotime and Autogrand are one and the same. Stores and packaging often list both names with a slash (Autotime / Autogrand), which is why questions about these brands sometimes arise. Essentially, Autogrand is simply an alternative spelling or marketing name for the same line of scale models. On the bottoms of the cars, Autotime Collection is more commonly found. The “Autotime” brand existed from the early 2000s until October 2017, when it officially changed its name to “Autogrand”. “Autotime” originated as an independent project that split off from the Chinese brand “Welly”, and production continued for a long time at the…

In 2005 the Sternquell Brewery (Brauerei Sternquell) from Plauen, Germany in collaboration with Grell Modell High Speed released a collection of of diecast model cars. Series was named The “Jugendträume in der DDR” (Childhood Dreams in the GDR). The scale was about 1/64. There were 5 models of the USSR cars. All models were in the big green blisters. GAZ Wolga GAZ M2410 Limousine Wolga GAZ M21 Limousine AZLK Moskwitsch 412 Limousine Moskwitsch 423 Kombi ZAZ Zaporoshets ZAZ 968 Limousine 2 Turen GAZ GAZ Volga M-21 GAZ Volga M-24 AZLK Moskvitch-412 Moskvitch-423 ZAZ ZAZ-968

XCARTOYS: The Chinese Brand Bringing Automotive Culture to 1:64 Scale XCARTOYS (also known as XCarToys or 拓意) has become one of the most interesting Chinese diecast manufacturers in the 1:64 scale market. Founded in 2018, the company quickly established itself by focusing on subjects that matter to Chinese collectors while steadily expanding into international models and special editions. Company History XCARTOYS was created with a clear mission: to document and celebrate Chinese automotive culture through high-quality miniature models. While many global brands concentrated on European classics or Japanese icons, XCARTOYS began by modelling vehicles that Chinese drivers and collectors actually see on their roads — cars like the FAW-Volkswagen Jetta,…