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SMS88 wrote:Metallic yellow Citroen Safari is mega rare with Juniors sticker baseplate and Ironside blister pack isnt common either,nice to see such rare gems!

Unfortunatly this citroen has a husky baseplate.....

familybucket43 wrote:

SMS88 wrote:Metallic yellow Citroen Safari is mega rare with Juniors sticker baseplate and Ironside blister pack isnt common either,nice to see such rare gems!

Unfortunatly this citroen has a husky baseplate.....

Husky baseplate in a Juniors blister - I have never seen this before on any model -perhaps blister has been resealed carefully? I have a sticker baseplate Citroen in this colour but only come across one other online collector who also has one

SMS88 wrote:

familybucket43 wrote:

SMS88 wrote:Metallic yellow Citroen Safari is mega rare with Juniors sticker baseplate and Ironside blister pack isnt common either,nice to see such rare gems!

Unfortunatly this citroen has a husky baseplate.....

Husky baseplate in a Juniors blister - I have never seen this before on any model -perhaps blister has been resealed carefully? I have a sticker baseplate Citroen in this colour but only come across one other online collector who also has one

I`m sure if i went through my juniors(as i have about 100 blistered) i have an odd few with husky baseplates.plus i have a yellow jag blistered,i think in a husky blister and the baseplate is blank!!!

familybucket43 wrote:plus i have a yellow jag blistered,i think in a husky blister and the baseplate is blank!!!

I have one of those too.

Blank baseplate Huskys in Husky yellow blisters are well known and have been for decades but this is the first I have heard of the other way around although the extreme rarity of sticker baseplate yellow gold Citroen ID would seem to point to this perhaps being common with this specific model only.

Heres a pic of the base of the citroen,the blisters lifted on one corner,probably the reason the base has oxidised.And ive checked my yellow blistered husky jag and its blank as you said. 2 pics of my juniors jag with a husky base....

It's easy to forget the significance of the 'HUSKY' range. They were designed for the specific purpose of retail sales within the large Woolworth's stores from the mid 60's and were exclusive to those stores, it's only when the contract finished that 'Mettoy Playcraft' could re-brand the range (calling them 'Corgi Juniors'), and add them to their product line and offer them to other retail outlets. The first versions show the tight budget restraints during their development, by having plastic baseplates and all plastic rim and tyre design. Once they had proved popular with high sales, the design was up-graded during 1969, with metal baseplates and more a accurate metal rim and seperate tyre design.

The 'Juniors' range was fairly short-lived because of the on-coming 'HOT WHEELS' onslaught from America

By October 1969, a couple of the old 'HUSKY' models and some new castings had become the first batch of models to create the new 'Corgi Rockets' range.

It's very likely those examples shown above are left-over stock intended for Woolworth's but used by Corgi and just blister packed and sent out without any regards to customers picking up on the idea that the models are now branded as 'Juniors' on the packaging, but still showing 'Husky' on the baseplate.

GHOSTHUNTER.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:It's easy to forget the significance of the 'HUSKY' range. They were designed for the specific purpose of retail sales within the large Woolworth's stores from the mid 60's and were exclusive to those stores, it's only when the contract finished that 'Mettoy Playcraft' could re-brand the range (calling them 'Corgi Juniors'), and add them to their product line and offer them to other retail outlets. The first versions show the tight budget restraints during their development, by having plastic baseplates and all plastic rim and tyre design. Once they had proved popular with high sales, the design was up-graded during 1969, with metal baseplates and more a accurate metal rim and seperate tyre design.

The 'Juniors' range was fairly short-lived because of the on-coming 'HOT WHEELS' onslaught from America

By October 1969, a couple of the old 'HUSKY' models and some new castings had become the first batch of models to create the new 'Corgi Rockets' range.

It's very likely those examples shown above are left-over stock intended for Woolworth's but used by Corgi and just blister packed and sent out without any regards to customers picking up on the idea that the models are now branded as 'Juniors' on the packaging, but still showing 'Husky' on the baseplate.

GHOSTHUNTER.

Ghosty has forgetten that Husky models were sold all over Europe in all sorts of stores that stocked c1/43 scale Corgis from 1965 - the Woolworths exclusive ONLY applied to the UK + USA (perhaps Canada too if they had Woolworths). Corgi Juniors castings were stocked in UK branches of Woolworths until the end of UK production at least so its not accurate for Ghosty to describe the Juniors range as ´´fairly shortlived´´
And the Corgi Juniors name lasted until 1978 when the range was rebranded simply ´´Corgi´´ - HOTWHEELS didnt finally beat the Juniors range into the ground until Mattel actually bought Corgi in 1989 and incorporated the surviving serviceable Juniors castings into the Hotwheels range for upto 10 years further production!

The yellow Jag XJ6 is uncommon with a sticker blanked baseplate so it is the 2nd Juniors model now confirmed with Husky baseplate - can familybucket share any more photos of Huskys in Junior blisters???

Yes the name 'Juniors' lasted a very long time, but it was the first models, the proper 1960's 'Juniors' range that were short-lived, morphing into the 'Rockets' range
in 1969 and we here on this forum, must be aware of the effect the original 'HOT WHEELS' had on not just Matchbox, but Corgi, Dinky and Lone Star as well, all of them adopting a low friction fast running wheel design.

I was not aware of the wider sales of the models outside of Woolworth's in the UK so thank's for that one SMS88.

Ghosty.

SMS88 wrote:

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:It's easy to forget the significance of the 'HUSKY' range. They were designed for the specific purpose of retail sales within the large Woolworth's stores from the mid 60's and were exclusive to those stores, it's only when the contract finished that 'Mettoy Playcraft' could re-brand the range (calling them 'Corgi Juniors'), and add them to their product line and offer them to other retail outlets. The first versions show the tight budget restraints during their development, by having plastic baseplates and all plastic rim and tyre design. Once they had proved popular with high sales, the design was up-graded during 1969, with metal baseplates and more a accurate metal rim and seperate tyre design.

The 'Juniors' range was fairly short-lived because of the on-coming 'HOT WHEELS' onslaught from America

By October 1969, a couple of the old 'HUSKY' models and some new castings had become the first batch of models to create the new 'Corgi Rockets' range.

It's very likely those examples shown above are left-over stock intended for Woolworth's but used by Corgi and just blister packed and sent out without any regards to customers picking up on the idea that the models are now branded as 'Juniors' on the packaging, but still showing 'Husky' on the baseplate.

GHOSTHUNTER.

Ghosty has forgetten that Husky models were sold all over Europe in all sorts of stores that stocked c1/43 scale Corgis from 1965 - the Woolworths exclusive ONLY applied to the UK + USA (perhaps Canada too if they had Woolworths). Corgi Juniors castings were stocked in UK branches of Woolworths until the end of UK production at least so its not accurate for Ghosty to describe the Juniors range as ´´fairly shortlived´´
And the Corgi Juniors name lasted until 1978 when the range was rebranded simply ´´Corgi´´ - HOTWHEELS didnt finally beat the Juniors range into the ground until Mattel actually bought Corgi in 1989 and incorporated the surviving serviceable Juniors castings into the Hotwheels range for upto 10 years further production!

The yellow Jag XJ6 is uncommon with a sticker blanked baseplate so it is the 2nd Juniors model now confirmed with Husky baseplate - can familybucket share any more photos of Huskys in Junior blisters???

I`ll have a look in the next few days..