New Corgi Planes Have Landed

New Corgi planes have arrived in the 3000toys.com hanger. The Aviation Archive series from Corgi brings together an amazing assemblage of American Allied military aircraft. Whether you want WWI bi-planes or futuristic fighter planes, Corgi is well worth consideration. Here are a couple of the new arrivals.

#AA33616 - 1/72 Scale
Panavia Tornado GR4, 'Operation Ellamy', Libya, 2011

#AA37807 - 1/48 Scale
Albatros D.III, 2049/16 Ltn Hermann Göring JAFU, Jasta 27 Iseghem Aerodrome 1917

If one of these models strikes you fancy, head over to 3000toys.com and pick one up. Be sure to check out the rest of our Corgi collection and happy flying!

New Corgi Planes Have Landed!!!

When Corgi Toys got their start almost 60 years ago, they could not have guessed that they would become such a well-known name in diecast. From their large catalog of military aircraft, to James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, Corgi has managed to impress generation after generation of collectors and kids alike. We have just received three NEW military aircraft from the Aviation Archive Collection. Take a look!

#AA27602 - 1/72 Scale
Hawker Hurricane MkI, P3120, 303 Polish Squadron

#AA33714 - 1/72
Heinkel, He111P Oslo

#AA39210 - 1/72 Scale
Spitfire MkI, LO-Q, L1004

Head over to 3000toys.com today, and grab one of these stellar military models from the legendary Corgi Toys!

Optimism regarding the Hornby Corgi Buyout

Corgi's Sales Manager just called; everything sounds GOOD!

For starters, a month-by-month production schedule is to be created next week. For those of you who have been waiting on new Corgi items, this is incredible news! It's been quite some time since Corgi has released any new products - everything had simply been designated as "delayed". To actually have production moving forward and an actual release schedule again will be worth celebrating!

From everyone I've talked to and everything I've read, Hornby is very good at turning companies around. In addition, Hornby plans to invest quite a bit of money in marketing the Corgi brand. While we will have to see what actually happens, at this point, we are cautiously optimistic about Hornby's involvement with the Corgi Classics line.

CORGI purchased by Hornby

We were called by our X-Corgi sales rep last week letting us know that papers were signed on Thursday making the deal final for Corgi's purchase by Hornby. At this time it is unknown what exact changes this will bring except that production is expected to resume and "everything" that is in the 2008 catalog is supposed to be produced under the new ownership (most of you probably noticed that new releases were put on hold for the past few months). We will be updating our blog with more information as it becomes available. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this article from today's edition of London's newspaper The Sun:

The Sun, London, UK - Monday, May 5, 2008

Corgi's Hornby new play thing
MODEL train maker HORNBY has bought toy car company CORGI for £7.5million.













Spy-cast models ... 2006 Corgi toys of James Bond Aston Martins

Hornby — which also owns Scalextric — will plough £750,000 a year into broadening the appeal of Corgi to youngsters. It has long been a favourite among older male collectors.
Chief executive Frank Martin said: “It fits perfectly into our portfolio of famous hobby brands.” He expects to increase Corgi’s sales from £6.5million to at least £10million by 2011.