Which Corgi product was the world’s biggest-selling toy car?

Today’s teaser comes from the Toys & Games mini edition of the LOGO Board Game, and requires you to cast your mind back a few years…

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That biggest-selling toy car? It would have been James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5.

Machine guns! An ejector seat! What kid wouldn’t have yearned after one of these instant classics?

The toy was a hit the moment that it arrived in the stores, and went on to sell around four million units over the years following its mid-sixties introduction.

Sorry – did we say a ‘hit’…? It was more than that… it was an utter sensation. Shops couldn’t get enough; excitable newspaper articles were pumped out… it was the sort of product launch that toy and game companies dream of (and we should know).

Movie tie-in products were in their infancy at the time, which gave the model a head start in the interest stakes, Goldfinger having recently been a smash on the silver screen.

And the massive continuing popularity of the Bond franchise across the seventies and beyond kept sales high, even as our hero traded in for that dubiously amphibious Lotus.

But it was those gadgets that really sold it. Nobody had really done anything like this with a toy car before.

The engineering involved was incredible – this was in an era when everything had to be planned out by hand… no computer modelling, no 3D-printed proofs-of-concept, just a bunch of genius toy designers sketching ideas on pencil and paper before heading down to the Corgi factory to realise those intricate mechanisms from scratch.

And what incredible joy they brought to young toy car enthusiasts across the decades. Let’s raise our Oddjob-style hats to them.

“Do you expect me to talk?”

“No, Mr. Bond – I expect you to die-cast!”

A bonus question (possibly too easy?)… our DB5 debuted in the film Goldfinger – what number in the (official Eon) franchise was this particular film?

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It was the third. Sandwiched in the sequence between From Russia With Love and Thunderball – this was the era when we got a new Bond film every year. Hard-working chap, that Sean!

Loads more such trivia questions in the LOGO Board Game family of games,