Blimey! This brings back memories! I adored Corgi Rockets: the shapes, the wheels, the detachable axles and that wonderful key.
The tracks and accessories were simply terrific too. God, how I loved the tall toy Sky Park. I can almost feel that small orange button under my finger again!
Did you get Corgi Rockets at Christmas in the early Seventies? What did you have?
I got the Grand Canyon set and the Wall of Death. Recently picked up a massive Skypark too! amazing! Bill
ReplyDeleteI want your Skypark!
DeleteThere was something extra special about that golden key! I had the dune buggy. I stared long and hard at the fluorescent red model, but by the time i'd scraped together enough pocket money it was gone and I had to settle for fluoro green!
ReplyDeleteAnother toy horror story! There ought to be a book of them!
DeleteI do not remember ever seeing the Corgi Rockets in New Zealand, and only learned about them years later in books and magazines. I did have a few of the early Husky and later Corgi Juniors models.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Rockets ad - the Grand Canyon set looks like a lot of fun, but I am sure it would have been far to expensive for me to have any hope of owning one.
They weren't that expensive to be honest, at least not in comparison to Hot Wheels, which were the top of the range. I only ever had matchbox Superfast sets and then Corgi Rockets. They even made an adaptor to join the two types of track together. Corg rockets track drove me nuts as it always came in long sections, which had to be rolled up, rather than nice discrete 2' lengths of yellow in Superfast. Ive still got all my track and should really dust it off and run it down the garden!
DeleteCorgi Juniors were just great too. Husky had the plastic silver baseplate didn't they Paul?
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