It costs around £60,000 to convince Hasbro to use the Subbuteo license for a branded box set or item of clothing. That is probably beyond the means of many in the Subbuteo community who are actually producing Subbuteo-quality items. The high cost of entry – which is unsurprising given how…
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La Leggenda Subbuteo teams for £5 back at We Are Games
Spanish seller We Are Games has restocked its La Leggenda teams for the first time in months and prices for an individual team are less than £5. The La Leggenda Fabbri Editori range was released in the 2010s as a part work in Italy. The teams were sold weekly with…
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A new Subbuteo Astropitch is on sale 25 years after the original
Subbuteo has quietly launched a new version of one of the best and most beloved pitches ever produced by the table top game. License holder Longshore has launched a new official Subbuteo Astropitch but it is not available in the UK. Eagle-eyed Subbuteo expert Stewart Grant, aka Subbuteo Collector, spotted…
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Fascinating ‘old Subbuteo’ job lot set for auction
Here at Subbuteo.Online I love a good Subbuteo job lot. They regularly appear on eBay and Facebook market place and it’s always a thrill to zoom in and investigate the details of a big pile of green boxes. A fascinating job lot of old Subbuteo has now appeared on an…
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New 2024 England Subbuteo World Cup Pitch set to go on sale but in very limited numbers
The new England FISTF Subbuteo World Cup pitch for 2024 will go on sale after it was revealed at SubbuteoFest23. The Subbuteo festival, which featured a number of tournaments and a collector’s fair last weekend, saw the reveal of the pitch that will be used when England hosts the table…
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Subbuteo fan is selling astonishing childhood collection that includes Targetman and Snooker
An astonishing Subbuteo collection featuring some of the rarest and most beloved box sets ever produced by the brand is up for sale. Dave, a collector who amassed a staggering selection of Subbuteo in his childhood, has contacted us because he is looking to sell the collection and it includes…
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Subbuteo. It’s not working, is it?
At around 3pm on Christmas Day 2022 I received an email to the Subbuteo.Online address. It read: I thought I’d buy my son a subbuteo for Xmas However, have you tried to construct the goals!!!!! WHAT A PAIN!! The slots are too small for the frame to be placed into….
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Antonio Conte reveals tactical secrets using Subbuteo
Spurs manager Antonio Conte has had a promising start to the Premier League season after a busy summer of transfers. The Italian has led Spurs to seven points from his first three games of the season including a bad-tempered draw against London rivals Chelsea that led to a red card…
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Move over Panini, Subbuteo is getting a sticker album
Football stickers are up there with Subbuteo in the hall of football nerding fame. A staple of World Cup tournaments since the 1970s, through to Merlin’s mid-1990s dominance of the Premier League scene, football stickers are some of the most collectable football memorabilia of all time. But Subbuteo has never…
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Clever Subbuteo fan uses Hornby pylons to create 1960s floodlights
Probably the best thing about Subbuteo stadiums are the innovative ways people create a certain feel and atmosphere around the stadium and one fan has come up with a clever way to recreate an iconic stadium from over 60 years ago. Derek Astbury has revealed a clever use of some…