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Corgi was a legend in the diecast car industry, certainly because of the quality and it's licensed goods. Corgi was best known to children of the Seventies as the maker of "that batmobile" we all owned. By 1978, Corgi was grabbing every TV movie license it could and producing some of the finest diescast toy cars in the meantime. Here is a sampling of that goodness in 1978. .

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[Earth 2 Chris]

Whoa, that is cool stuff. Now these are the bigger toys throughout, right? I never had any of the larger Corgi stuff, just the Juniors.

I think the Supermobile may have been designed for Corgi by DC. In an interview in Michael Eury's "Krypton Companion" book, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez was rather frank about having to use the Supermobile because of "a toy company". Interesting!!!

Chris

[ScottA]

I don't think I've seen half of those before. A SpiderBuggy?

[toys2cool]

wow those are awesome!

[megoscott]

Great pics. Other than Batman, Bond and Starsky&Hutch not one of them makes any sense. I love the Hulk truck with Hulk in the back bed. "Hulk! Sit down until we get to the Drive-In!"

[twilitezoner]

Great pics. Other than Batman, Bond and Starsky&Hutch not one of them makes any sense. I love the Hulk truck with Hulk in the back bed. "Hulk! Sit down until we get to the Drive-In!"

I love the pics. Do you think Spidey's van had shag carpet?

[Bo8a_Fett]

remember having the Superman "punching action" ship, the Cap America rocket car and most of the Batman ones...never did get the batman on bike one though

[starsky]

i love those corgis!!

[twilitezoner]

I also have the larger Gran Torino.

[EmergencyIan]

The Batbike is really cool!


- Ian

[cjefferys]

I had that Batcopter and Batcycle as a kid. I had a different Spidercopter too, maybe mine was Matchbox or something? And I had no idea that there was a car for Marvel's Captain Marvel.

I don't collect diecast cars, but those catalogue pics are soooo wanting to make me change my mind! Anyone know if these are expensive to collect?

[jwyblejr]

Love that Captain America Jetmobile. Why does Marvel's Captain Marvel get a car but not DC's?

[Evel KMego]

The Bond Lotus was always my fav Corgi. I need to pick another one of those up sometime.

[samurainoir]

Love that Captain America Jetmobile. Why does Marvel's Captain Marvel get a car but not DC's?

I seem to recall "Shazam" did get a car...




I stumbled across Marvel's Captain Mar-Vell car a few years ago at a toy show and was amazed that he had received a fairly high profile toy like this. Although I guess at this point the Marvel U was only a decade and change in age at that point and they were trying to lock up the "Marvel" brand.

Captain Marvel was probably about as popular as Iron Man or Doctor Strange I'd imagine.

[twilitezoner]

I think Shazam should have had a Winnebago.