Happy Anniversary Corgi and Vanguards, shame we have nothing new to celebrate with.

2016 is the year of Corgi, well, for the rest of us it is, for Hornby Hobbies, that now owns Corgi Toys, they have not really bothered, for the first time since the Vanguards range has been launched, with is also celebrating an anniversary this year, 20 years for them and 60 for Corgi, there is NO NEW CASTING, which considering the fact it is a major milestone within the companies history, shows us, the buyer, collector and fan, that they really are in trouble.

There was a recent piece of news that stated they had "lost" a million pounds in stock, how in gods name do you lose that much, and then we had the releases for 2016, all recolours of old over used castings, yet another Oxford, Yet another Stag, yet another Morris Minor, Yet another Mini and so on.

The collectors were up in arms, comments came flooding in, berating Corgi for there lack of new castings, and the rehashing of over used existing ones, they dont listen, that is clear, as there has been so many castings asked for by the collector, yet they make models of cars that have already been done to death by so many other brands, the Mini 4 million, thats been done before, and better, the BMW 3-Series, yes, done before, by numerous brands, again, better.

And then we have the major issue, they have increased the cost of the models from around £17.99 to £24,99, more if it is police or sports branded, no other brand has increased there costs, if anything some have dropped, there is NO excuse for the increase, materials have dropped, transportation has dropped due to teh crash in fuel prices, so we can only think they are in so much of a pickle they want us, the apparent loyal collectors to bail them out.

Well i think you will find we are not going to do that this time, if you had decent new products, then maybe yes, but i have loads of Oxfords, Minors, Marina's, Allegro's etc in my collection, i really dont want anymore, so, whats to do, unless they can refinance teh debt, they will probably go into administration, and then sold on to another brand, which will hopefully give it the much needed relaunch with products that us, the collector/buyer wants to see.

Anyway, now we have that out of the way, you can see all the umm, new (ish) models for this first half of the year, lots of very garish colours and tampo's the Escort MK I i like, but another thing i cant fathom is why they releaseing TWO colours on the MK I Escort, but one at £14.99 and the other at £24.99, why is there a tenner difference? It would be nice to have Corgi answer this, but as they never answer any other questions, i doubt we will get an answer to this either. oh, and i wont go into why there are sooooooo many Ford products either.

I will let you look at the pictures, as, they say, a picture tells a thousand words.