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    Fold 'N Go Playsets

    Showed these before at Swfty's, but it's been a few years, so why not post them here.

    I believe that is what Matchbox had called these sets, Fold 'N Go, either way they are a couple pop up playsets MBX had done in about 2006.

    Afriend found these at yardsales, amazingly still with their exclusive models, but being loose then I don't know the names of the sets, I thought the snake one was called Snake Pit, but I saw it listed on ebay as something like Amazon Jungle Adventure, so if you know please let us know, the fire set I guess we can call Fire Station or Fire Rescue, who knows.

    Snake w/ Emergency Rescue 4x4 or Emergency Response 4x4















    Fire w/ Highway Pumper, or Highway Rescue Fire Truck










    Last edited by Douglas; 10-27-2019, 07:09 AM.
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    Amazing that these still had the exclusive models still in the sets. I do remember these but never picked any of them up. Not sure why I didn't as that little fire engine would be a nice one in the collection.
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    • #3
      I did pick up the set with the fire rig, I have the rig the kids have the folding case.
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        I never bought any of these myself, they were a little expensive for the one exclusive car I thought, and they mostly included generic castings anyway, but these and a few other smaller ones I have were from some friends who go yard sale'ing a lot, and they give me stuff like this to me for gifts on different occasions over the years.

        Great fun for kids I bet though, and they really are cleverly designed in how they fold and unfold, so I do appreciate that design element a lot about them.
        Doug

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        • #5
          Some of those play sets were really fun to play with...
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          • #6
            Okay I am going to go really nerdy here with the information.

            These were called Pop-Up Playsets, and were around during the mid-late 2000s. The 2 you have pictures are the Highway Rescue Fire Truck from the 2006 Fire Station Pop-Up set, and the Emergency Rescue 4x4 from the 2006 Snake Jungle Pop-Up set. That one came with either brown sawblade wheels (like you have and also the one I have), or there is also a chrome lace wheel version which I am still trying to hunt down. Being as these were sold in USA and not in the UK at the time I was not able to find the variant on my random trips to USA.
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            • #7
              MB sure has a way of making very cool play sets.
              Scotty "Mustang (+Matchbox) Mad Man!"

              RIP.....Pop.....David Blase Garascia 9-17-35 12-3-20.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by David Tilley View Post
                Okay I am going to go really nerdy here with the information.

                These were called Pop-Up Playsets, and were around during the mid-late 2000s. The 2 you have pictures are the Highway Rescue Fire Truck from the 2006 Fire Station Pop-Up set, and the Emergency Rescue 4x4 from the 2006 Snake Jungle Pop-Up set. That one came with either brown sawblade wheels (like you have and also the one I have), or there is also a chrome lace wheel version which I am still trying to hunt down. Being as these were sold in USA and not in the UK at the time I was not able to find the variant on my random trips to USA.
                Not nerdy David, just knowledgeable about our favorite toy. Thanks for the details about these sets, of course with me I forget all this good info by the time the thread moves a few pages down, but as long as I can remember they are not Fold n go, but rather Pop-up Playsets, I saw Fold n Go was a name they once used for one or more other sets, so I got confused about it. Good luck finding the wheel vary.
                Doug

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                • #9
                  Those are looking all very cool!
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