Popular Subbuteo-themed Youtube series Table Football Monthly has called time on the show after 19 months. Keith Littler, the brains behind the monthly series, has announced problems with Youtube’s new monetisation plans means the show has quit the platform and could be at an end. Video giant Youtube has changed…
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The stunning Subbuteo Stadium that Cheltenham Town fans will love
Jason Christopher did not intend for this to happen. A lapsed Subbuteo player who used to play in tournaments, he wanted a desk ornament in homage to the game he used to play. “I used to play Subbuteo on the circuit when I was younger. Subbuteo paid for me to…
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The iconic Subbuteo Mundial goals now come in metal versions
The Mundials are Subbuteo’s most-loved goals thanks to their continental style and relative rarity. The goals were launched in the 1980s as updated versions of the equally popular Championship goals (C181) and secured legendary status among collectors and players because of their easy-on-the-eye style and boxy net to keep shots…
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Did we kill Subbuteo? And should we care?
A few months ago the makers of Subbuteo announced a new Deluxe pitch. It caused a bit of excitement because for the first time since Hong Kong-based Longshore had taken over the license in 2020 it actually looked quite good. The comments on the post were positive. ‘Game changer’ was…
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Subbuteo launches new France box set featuring Mbappe
A new Subbuteo box set featuring French football stars on the cover is now on sale. Subbuteo has launched the set via French toy company Megableu and is selling the fully licensed product on the French Amazon website for around 35 Euros before postage. The new set is a coup…
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Review: Subbuteo England Women’s Lionesses set
Are the makers of Subbuteo actually listening to feedback? It would definitely be a new development in the sorry saga of a once great toy brand but since Hong Kong-based Longshore took the reigns from a disinterested Hasbro we have been subject to shoddy communication, shambolic product launches and cheap-as-chips…
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The bombshell news report that forced Subbuteo to create a monster
This week a very interesting document landed in my inbox courtesy of Glen, or CanadianHammer on Twitter. He had found a copy of Flick me sideways!, a collector magazine from the late 1990s and early 2000s. It’s very much the forerunner to The Hobby magazine but has a much more forensic…
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The rare German Subbuteo box set with some unusual teams
Subbuteo is very much the global game and a large part of that was due to expansion by founder Peter Adolph and later Waddingtons. The company launched German teams in the early 1970s and then a Munich box set in 1973 but it also produced versions of some of the…
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The inside story of the Subbuteo team that played a single game
The last international break saw North Macedonia stun Germany with a 2-1 victory in World Cup qualifying. The North Macedonia kit, with its sunbeam pattern, was never created in Subbuteo since it’s such a new country but it did get me thinking about those Subbuteo teams that are a little…
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The UK office transformed into a Subbuteo wonderland
Offices do not need to be boring. As many people are planning a return to work after the Covid-19 pandemic there will be more than a few of us who are not keen to return to the dull, drab office environment. That is why one Subbuteo fan is about to…