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).
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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.
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Konami SF Model Set - Japan -
February 2003. Modelled by Toshinari Ichihara.
Image from Ebay auction.
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.
Extra image here
from Ebay auction.
Supercar: Remco, USA
Supercar: Remco, USA, sold by Internet Auction
http://komodo.ebay2.com/)
in October 1997 for $455.
Supercar: Remco, USA
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.
Supercar: Sweet Cigarette Cards
Pelham Puppets - in this case Steve Zodiac of Fireball XL5 and
Dr. Beaker of Supercar.
Play Figures.
Intercom.
Supercar British Telecom Phone Card
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.
Supercar Road Race Game.
Supercar 8mm Film - Pirate Plunder
[Image Only (4096x3173)]
Supercar Sculpturecraft.
Supercar Jigsaw.
Supercar Enamel Badge - part of a charity item, 1994.
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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