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Playing Mantis Johnny Lightning Supercar
Diecast (2001)
Johnny Lightning 1:64 Supercar
Diecast by Playing Mantis.
1:64 Diecast Supercar by
Johnny Lightning - in the
Hollywood on Wheels 3
Set.
Hollywood on Wheels 3 - released 18-May-2001 - with
the following cars: Mod Squad Woody, Black Beauty, Felicity
Shagwell's '65 Corvette, Mystery Machine, Supercar, and Partridge
Family Bus. See Playing
Mantis Press Release (Microsoft Word DOC format).
The modelling of the Johnny Lightning Supercar was carried out by Alan
Pletcher at Playing Mantis, who kindly supplied these images of a
pre-production model. Images used with permission of
Suzi Klimek at Playing
Mantis. Business contact at Playing Mantis is Tom Lowe, 3618 Grape Road,
Mishawaka, IN 46545
Variants
- White Lightnings... these have a white interior (versus the
standard dark gray) and white wheels (versus the standard black).
Playing Mantis make a limited number of these variants (1% of the
total production run according to Alan Pletcher of Playing Mantis on
1-Jun-2001) that show up randomly in cases of the normal shipping
product.
- 50 raw metal unpainted cars of the original version were released
to Johnny Lightning Club members who placed orders through the
club. This was described in Johnny Lightning NewsFlash No. 28 Spring
2001, page 6.
- A limited edition of 1000
pieces was produced for K.B.Toys.com. This had the original
extended wings in yellow and a closed canopy. But the red body and
rear fin colouring was in a metallic finish paint. The packaging was
a white box with black and white printing with the text "K.B toys.com
Internet Exclusive 1 of 1000" printed on 2 sides, and the Supercar
title logo printed on the other two slides. One end of the box
carried the Johnny Lightning logo, the other end carried a bar code.
This limited edition became available in November 2001 at a cost of
$12.99 exclusive of postage and packaging.
Other Information
On 14 Jan 2001 MEC <MEC50@Mediaone.net> wrote to the
Supercar Club 2000 Black_Rock_1 Newsgroup:
Subject: Backstory on Supercar diecast
You might be interested in the 'backstory' of how
Playing Mantis/Johnny Lightning just happened to be coming out with a
Supercar diecast toy. About 3 years ago, a Gerry Anderson fan (and good
friend of mine) named Bill Winckler was creating licensing deals for
Playing Mantis. One of his efforts resulted in the release of a Mach 5
die cast vehicle from the cartoon series Speed Racer. Bill was very
interested in pursuing a license agreement with ITC (owners of the
Anderson library and licensing at the time) to make die cast vehicles of
Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, and Supercar. He met with the
representatives of ITC, but was only able to come away with a Supercar
license. Then, Bill had to do some convincing at the upper levels of
Playing Mantis that a Supercar die cast would sell. After all, the show was
over 35 years old at the time and had not played on American television
for quite a while. Bill prevailed, and at one point, he actually saw
the Supercar prototype. However, Playing Mantis had many other lines in
production (along with plastic kit re-issues) and the project seemed to
'wither' on the vine. Now, years later, Johnny Lightning is finally
getting around to marketing Supercar as part of the Hollywood on Wheels
series.
Playing Mantis Johnny Lightning Supercar
Diecast (2001B)
Version B Playing Mantis released a variation on the original
model in September 2001. This has retracted wings with white surfaces
and Supercar decals on the sides of the nose.
Variants
- A White Ligntning variant with a white interior was also included in
the B release.
Konami Model
Konami SF Model Set - Japan -
February 2003. Modelled by Toshinari Ichihara.
[General information]
[Supercar Details]
[Local Copy]
Supercar and Fireball XL5 CD
Supercar and Fireball XL5 Original Television Soundtrack. A CD
available only to
Fanderson
members. Composed and Conducted by Barry Gray. A compact
disc album featuring the original recordings of the themes and
incidental music composed for Supercar and Fireball XL5, digitally
remastered from Barry Gray's master tapes. 52 tracks including both
first and second season versions of the Supercar theme song, Fireball
XL5 opening and closing titles, "Formula 5", "This Is The Twist",
"Batonga Theme", "Zizi's Song", numerous character themes and
individual episode scores. (Note: many of these tracks formed part of
the scores for the later Gerry Anderson series, including Stingray,
Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Space:1999.) CD comes
complete with 16 page colour booklet detailing the origin of each
track.
For more details see the
Fanderson
Sales site.
Peter Pan 45rpm Record
Image from Ebay auction.
Fanderbooks
Fanderbooks - Gerry Anderson Book List
(including Supercar). Little Golden Book cover
scan by Marc Frattasio.
Budgie Diecast Model
Supercar: Budgie Models #272, UK 1962. Red and silver painted metal
body with transparent plastic cockpit canopy. Small plastic seated
Mike Mercury pilot figure, movable wings, rolling wheels. About 122mm
long.
Image from
TV21 - Gerry
Anderson Collectables Pages
by Simon Wickes
Shipton Plastics Model
Extra image here
from Ebay auction.
Note that the nose cone and the rear aerial are reversed in these images.
Supercar Models
Supercar Model Kits Available from Comet Miniatures
Remco Toy
Supercar: Remco, USA
Image from
TV21 - Gerry
Anderson Collectables Pages
by Simon Wickes
Supercar: Remco, USA, sold by Internet Auction
http://komodo.ebay2.com/)
in October 1997 for $455.
Image from Dan and Pam Weldon
(orion@gloryroad.net)
Other images from Ebay sales:
Image 3,
Image 4
Supercar: Remco, USA
Image from
Mark DeSantis
Remco Toys 1963 - Catalog - Approx. 11" x 8 1/2" 14 pages 1963
Other images from Ebay sales:
Cover
TV Comic
Supercar ran in TV Comic from Issue No:483 to No:667. (March 1961 to
Sept. 1964). Sample cover shown is from issue 522.
Sample pages show are from issue 662 (in August 1964).
Neville Main was a regular on the title, contributing Four Feather
Falls and Fireball XL5. Supercar was started by H. Watts followed by
Bill Mevin.
Gold Key Comics
Supercar: Gold Key Comics, USA
Misc!Mayhem Comics
Supercar: Misc!Mayhem Comics, USA
Lunch Box and Thermos
Supercar: Lunchbox and Thermos
Images from
Mark DeSantis
Other images from Ebay sales:
Multiple angles image
Clock and Money Box
Supercar: Clock and Money Box
Image from
Mark DeSantis
Sweet Cigarette Cards
Supercar: Sweet Cigarette Cards
Image from Ebay.com Auction
Paint Book
Supercar: Paint Book
Image from
Mark DeSantis
Pelham Puppets
Pelham Puppets - in this case Steve Zodiac of Fireball XL5 and
Dr. Beaker of Supercar.
Play Figures
Play Figures.
Intercom
Intercom.
Phonecard
Supercar British Telecom Phone Card
Supercar To The Rescue Game
Supercar To The Rescue Game. Milton Bradley Company (MB Games 1962).
This is a game for 2-4 players. Players move
from one randomly determined rescue scene to another, with the first player
on the scene receiving a Supercar token. The player with the most Supercar
tokens when all ten rescues have been performed is the winner.
Image and game description from
Tony Nardo
Supercar Road Race Game
Supercar Road Race Game.
8mm Film - Pirate Plunder
Supercar 8mm Film - Pirate Plunder
Pye Golden Guinea LP
[Image Only (4096x3173)]
Supercar Sculpturecraft
Supercar Sculpturecraft.
Supercar Jigsaw
Supercar Jigsaw.
Supercar Jigsaw
Supercar Enamel Badge - part of a charity item, 1994.
Puppet Heads
109K JPEG large version
Phillips Auctioneers
(Toys and Dolls), 10 Salem Road Bayswater, London W2 4DL, UK.
1995/09/19 10:00 This sale of toys and dolls included the Sylvia
Anderson, Mary Turner and John Read Collections of Thunderbirds and
other Gerry Anderson Series' Puppets. Supercar lots included in the
sale were:
Lot 69: JIMMY GIBSON from 'Supercar' with orange hair and working lip,
this head is painted white (G-F, lacks eyes and mechanism) Estimate
£250-350
Lot 70: MIKE MERCURY from 'Supercar' with brown hair and working mouth
(G, lacks eyes) Estimate £ 300-400 Sold to
David Thornhill (who no longer wons it)
for £1,250+VAT+Phillips Commission (approx.
£1,500 in total
Lot 71: ZARIN from 'Supercar' head painted white, with moving lip (G-F,
lacks eyes, wig, mechanism and back of head) Estimate £150-250
Lot 72: MASTERSPY from 'Supercar' with moving mouth and brown hair (G,
lacks eyes, back of head and mechanism) £300-500
[Christine Glanville is reputed to have said
that it actually was an original Masterspy head
that had been modified to produce the character El Hudat who
appears in two Episodes of Stingray - "Star in the East" and
"Eastern Eclipse"]
Other Auction Lots
Lot 107: TV21 Themes on 7 inch record (G) two Supercar 7 inch records
(lacking sleaves) Kine Production Review 'SUPERMARIONATION' booklet
and Thunderbirds Supplement (5) £50-70
Lot 111: ZARIN from Supercar unclothed puppet with unpainted head
(lacks eyes) and wooden body marked 'ZARIN' £ 300-500
Lot 381:Budgie 272 Supercar in red/silver (G, minimal fatigue, box
G-F) £170-200
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