This will please a lot of collectors and no doubt there will be double sales too as the Corgi Model Club have announced that they will be issuing a replica of the first 1966 edition of the Batmobile in matt black finish for members only in or around November 2024.
There will also be a gloss black version which can be purchased by anyone from the online store later this year.
This approach is similar to that for the next James Bond Aston Martin, due a few months later where the members will receive the 270 model with silver grille and bumpers, with the more common gold grille and bumpers variant being available from the store. No doubt the vast majority of us will be buying both each time!
I am also expecting there to be more issues promoted by Corgi directly, rather than the Club, of new variations of existing Club issues. It must surely be considerably cheaper to produce a few models in different finishes and maybe slight adaptation using existing castings than to design from the start. We have seen and will see several along these lines from the Club itself in respect of new issues: Land Rover Breakdown Truck / Land Rover, Corgi's Land Rover Breakdown Truck and the Club's Public address Vehicle, VW 1200 East Africa Safari / European Police Car, Oldsmobile Sherriff's Car / HQ Staff Car, Chevrolet Impala Taxi / Fire Chief / Patrol Car, Walls Ice Cream Van (Musical) / Non-Musical, Mini Cooper Monte Carlo / Sun Rally and James Bond (gold) / (silver) have already appeared or are in the programme. Colour changes and some simple adaptations of some others are surely going to come too as we have seen with the four other models already issued separately by Corgi.
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