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Corgi Release Updates

05/09/2025
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New to pre-order Corgi Vanguard VC01402 Ford GT Collection Model Car

New to pre-order Corgi Vanguard VC01402 Ford GT Collection Model 1:43 car set priced at £144.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. The CORGI Vanguards Ford GT Collection is a 1:43 scale, die-cast, four-car set celebrating the golden age of Ford’s GT-badged classics. Almost every car manufacturer has applied the immortal GT label, for Grand Touring, to one of their products at some point. The letters indicate that it’s more stylish, more powerful, or in some cases, built to be homologated for motor racing. Ford used the GT badge... Read More

26/08/2025
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New images added Corgi AA28009 Messerschmitt Me109E-4/B Wk-Nr 1106 ‘Yellow 1’, Oberleutnant Walter Rupp, Manston, 17 October 1940 Model Plane

New images added Corgi AA28009 Messerschmitt Me109E-4/B Wk-Nr 1106 ‘Yellow 1’, Oberleutnant Walter Rupp, Manston, 17 October 1940 Model Plane. This 1:72 scale model is due in stock soon priced at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. As one of the finest fighting aeroplanes ever, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 became the backbone of Germany’s Air Force throughout the Second World War, and despite its diminutive stature, was also arguably the world’s first operational fighter-bomber, or Jabo. Carrying a single under-fuselage-mounted 250kg bomb, they delivered their weapon using the... Read More

26/08/2025
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Thunderbird 5 new release from Corgi, details due 5th September

Thunderbird 5, new Corgi announcement available to pre-order soon (5th September @10am). As far as television series opening credits go, there were surely none that came within a country mile of instilling the same levels of excitement in millions of youngsters than the first few seconds of each episode of Thunderbirds did, and unquestionably, once under its spell, it still manages to do so to this day, no matter how old we are now. If only we could rely on the protection of International Rescue in the real world, perhaps we... Read More

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Thunderbird 4 new release from Corgi, details due 5th September

Thunderbird 4, new Corgi announcement available to pre-order soon (5th September @10am) A model which is also intended to be one of the highlights of this year’s 60th Anniversary of first UK Thunderbird programme transmission celebrations, but one which is slightly further ahead in development terms than Thunderbird 5, the visually appealing Thunderbird 4 is also muscling its way into this latest project update exclusive, and doing so in fine style. This model is also at the pre-production sample stage, but is an updated sample from the first one received by our... Read More

11/08/2025
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New images added Corgi AA37210 Handley Page Halifax MkV, DK186 ZL-L, ‘London’s Revenge / L for Lana’, RCAF No. 427 Sqn, RAF Leeming, 1943 Model Plane

New advanced production sample images added Corgi AA37210 Handley Page Halifax MkV, DK186 ZL-L, ‘London’s Revenge / L for Lana’, RCAF No. 427 Sqn, RAF Leeming, 1943 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £159.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. With Bomber Command operations intensifying considerably towards the latter end of the Second World War, attempts were made to both boost the morale of aircrews engaged in this dangerous work and raise the profile of the herculean effort they were contributing towards eventual... Read More

11/08/2025
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New images added Corgi AA33322 B-17F Flying Fortress, ‘Royal Flush’ 42-6087, LD-Z, 100th BG, Lt Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, 8th Air Force, October 10 1943 Model Plane

New advanced production sample images added AA33322 B-17F Flying Fortress, ‘Royal Flush’ 42-6087, LD-Z, 100th BG, Lt Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, 8th Air Force, October 10 1943 Model Plane. This 1:72 scale model is due in stock soon priced at £174.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. Although the men of the 100th Bomb Group had already suffered losses since arriving in England at the end of May 1943, the mission which defined this unit and created the legend of the ‘Bloody Hundredth’ took place on 10th October that same... Read More

28/07/2025
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New images added Corgi Vanguard VA14402 Ford Fiesta Mk2 1.1 Popular Plus, Maritime Blue Model Car

New images added Corgi Vanguard VA14402 Ford Fiesta Mk2 1.1 Popular Plus, Maritime Blue Model 1:43 scale car priced at £37.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. Proposed for release early September. The Ford Fiesta Mk2 was the second generation of the Ford Fiesta supermini built by Ford Europe. Originally introduced in 1983, it offered a mild facelift of the original car, with some re-engineering to accept an expanded range of engines. The 1.1 Poplar Plus was one of the base-spec versions of the car available, with this particular... Read More

18/07/2025
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New to pre-order Corgi AA29502 B-26C-45-MO Marauder, 42-107752 B/N 88 ‘Miss Arkansas , 444th BS / 320th BG USAAF, Sardinia, August 1944 Model Plane

New to pre-order Corgi AA29502 B-26C-45-MO Marauder, 42-107752 B/N 88 ‘Miss Arkansas , 444th BS / 320th BG USAAF, Sardinia, August 1944 Model Plane. Pre-orders for this 1:72 scale model are being taken at £119.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. For an aircraft which initially attracted such unwanted nicknames as ‘Widow Maker’ and the ‘Flying Coffin’, and had training crews referring to it as, ‘One a day in Tampa Bay’ because of the high number of aircraft lost to crashes, the Martin B-26 Marauder actually posted the lowest... Read More

18/07/2025
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New to pre-order Corgi AA29104 Spitfire Mk.IXc, MH656 WZ-RR ‘Porky II’, Lt. Robert Connor, 309th FS, 31st FG USAAF, Mediterranean Theatre, 1943 Model Plane

New to pre-order Corgi AA29104 Spitfire Mk.IXc, MH656 WZ-RR ‘Porky II’, Lt. Robert Connor, 309th FS, 31st FG USAAF, Mediterranean Theatre, 1943 Model Plane. This 1:72 scale model is priced at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. When the 309th Fighter Squadron of the USAAF 12th Air Force moved to support Allied operations in North Africa, and subsequently on to Sicily and Italy, they took their Spitfire Mk.V fighters with them. However, they received upgraded Mk.IX variants of the Spitfire from April 1943 onwards. These more powerful aircraft... Read More

16/07/2025
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Proposed for release in August Corgi AA28009 Messerschmitt Me109E-4/B Wk-Nr 1106 ‘Yellow 1’, Oberleutnant Walter Rupp, Manston, 17 October 1940 Model Plane

Proposed for release in August Corgi AA28009 Messerschmitt Me109E-4/B Wk-Nr 1106 ‘Yellow 1’, Oberleutnant Walter Rupp, Manston, 17 October 1940 Model Plane. This 1:72 scale model is priced at £59.95 including Postage & Packing in the UK. As one of the finest fighting aeroplanes ever, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 became the backbone of Germany’s Air Force throughout the Second World War, and despite its diminutive stature, was also arguably the world’s first operational fighter-bomber, or Jabo. Carrying a single under-fuselage-mounted 250kg bomb, they delivered their weapon using the fighter’s Revi... Read More