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Pre Production Corgi Rockets set
Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 7:56 am
by tjlglass
Recently found this Pre Pro Hovercraft set.
Re: Pre Production Corgi Rockets set
Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 8:18 pm
by matchboxkiwi
Nice find. What year was it produced? 6.95 seems quite expensive for the time.
Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi
Re: Pre Production Corgi Rockets set
Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 9:06 pm
by GHOSTHUNTER
'Rockets' were introduced in October 1969. 'ElectroRockets are from 1970-71 only. The 'Rockets' range being deleted at the end of 1971 proving too costly to manufacture compaired with competition from the Lone-Star and Matchbox low friction model ranges.
Virtually anything from the 'ElectroRockets' range is hard to find (only Two cars made available!), so to find something like that shown by Tim is exceptionally rare, well done Tim.
Ghosthunter.
Re: Pre Production Corgi Rockets set
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 6:05 am
by tjlglass
It's in the 1971 catalog but was never released, there are apparently a few of the Hovercrafts about but the full set is very very rare.