Strange, I always preferred Hot Wheels. So, I would have thought that Matchbox was the alternative to Hot Wheels, not the other way around! Which one was actually more popular?
Oi mate 'ave a butcher's a' this, in East Westinghamfordshire Downings-upon-Kingstleburyham (pronounced Wennim), all 150 of us 'oo live there call it a " 'ot cho'late " when a bird goes to the loo and wraps it in newspapers like a' the chippy, so that should be the clue instead of this Yank-centric tosh