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Johnny Lightning was formed in 1994 as a subsidiary of Playing Mantis and is a company primarily known for their die-cast collectible cars. Johnny Lightning produced a line of small painted Star Trek starships entitled Legends of Star Trek from 2004 until 2008, after the parent company was bought by RC2 Corporation. Ships measured from ten to twelve centimeters long and were made of plastic. Each ship was packaged with a metal display base in one of two different styles.

1 Legends of Star Trek Releases
2 Legends of Star Trek "White Lightning" Variant Releases
3 See also
4 External link

Legends of Star Trek ReleasesEdit

Series One Edit

Released in 2004; packed on blue-backed cards with removable stickers; includes individually labeled silver display stands

USS Enterprise (TOS) - with TOS Command Division insignia sticker
Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser - with Klingon trefoil insignia sticker
Romulan Bird-of-Prey (TOS) - with Romulan insignia sticker
Shuttlecraft Galileo (TOS) - with TOS Sciences Division insignia sticker
USS Reliant - with movie-era Starfleet insignia sticker
Enterprise NX-01 - with Enterprise mission patch sticker

Series Two: Red Alert Edit

Released in 2005; packed on red-backed cards; includes combadge embroidered fabric patches and individually labeled silver stands

USS Enterprise (refit)
USS Enterprise (refit) - with battle damage from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
USS Enterprise (TOS) - with battle damage
Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser (cloaked) - clear plastic
USS Reliant - with battle damage from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Enterprise NX-01 - with battle damage from "Azati Prime"

Series Three: Uncharted Territories Edit

Released in 2006; packed on purple-backed cards; includes new-style black, triangular, individually labeled display stands for these and all subsequent releases

USS Enterprise-D
Future USS Enterprise-D - from "All Good Things..."
USS Voyager
Borg cube - includes pegs to allow more cubes to dock and form larger cube
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) - mirror universe repaint of Enterprise NX-01
Romulan Bird-of-Prey (cloaked) - clear plastic

Series Four: Battlestations! Edit

Released in 2007; packed on red and black-backed cards; includes black display stands

USS Enterprise-D - with re-entry and battle damage from Star Trek Generations
USS Voyager - with lowered landing gear
USS Majestic - repaint of USS Reliant with "saucer on fire" battle damage
USS Defiant - repaint of USS Enterprise (TOS) with phaser blasts
USS Enterprise-A - with attached "phaser blasts" and pearlescent white ("White Lightning") base color
Borg Cube with attached Borg sphere - from Star Trek: First Contact

Series Five: Sacrifice Edit

Released in 2008; packed on red-backed cards with purple stripe on right; includes black display stands

Enterprise NX-01 - with additional silver "aztecing" paint detailing on hull
Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser - with explosions and "torpedoes"
Shuttlecraft Galileo II - repaint of Shuttlecraft Galileo
USS Enterprise (refit) following self destruct sequence - extreme "damage" to saucer section in particular

Series Six: Ships Of The Line Edit

Released in November 2008; packed on red-backed cards with green stripe on right; includes black display stands

Borg Cube - with explosions on hull
USS Yamato - repaint of USS Enterprise-D
USS Excalibur - repaint of USS Enterprise (TOS)
Romulan D7 Battle Cruiser (TAS) - repaint of Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser with Romulan markings substituted

A repaint of the USS Voyager with Borg detailing was scheduled for Wave Six but was instead replaced by the Romulan D7 Battle Cruiser

Legends of Star Trek "White Lightning" Variant Releases Edit

Most Johnny Lightning Legends of Star Trek ships have been released in both standard versions (as listed above) and in rare "White Lightning" variants with alternate paint schemes. They were randomly packed into cases shipped to retailers and they made up less than two percent of the production run. Confirmed variants include:

Series OneEdit

All Ships - painted pearlescent white instead of standard base color

Series TwoEdit

All Ships - standard base color but a tiny painted Starfleet "Delta Shield" is painted on the ship's lower hull

Series ThreeEdit

Future USS Enterprise-D - cloaked, clear plastic
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) - cloaked, clear plastic
USS Voyager - painted pearlescent white
Borg Cube - green plastic
Romulan Bird-of-Prey - Romulan bird logo is painted on the otherwise cloaked clear plastic body

Series FourEdit

USS Enterprise (TOS) - painted silver instead of standard base colors
USS Enterprise-D - painted silver instead of standard base colors
USS Defiant - painted silver instead of standard base colors
USS Majestic - painted silver instead of standard base colors
USS Voyager - painted silver instead of standard base colors
Borg Cube with Borg Sphere - painted silver with no black detailing

Series FiveEdit

Columbia NX-02 - repaint of Series Five Enterprise NX-01
Shuttlecraft Columbus - repaint of Shuttlecraft Galileo II with pearlescent white base color
Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser - painted purple detailing, no firing weapons or explosions
USS Enterprise (TOS) auto-destruct - with orange, yellow, and red painted detail in the "damaged" primary hull

Series SixEdit

Borg Cube - painted silver with green highlights
USS Excalibur - painted pearlescent white instead of standard base color
USS Yamato - painted pearlescent white instead of standard base color

Series Five "White Lightning" packaging has a white stripe covering part of the purple stripe on the right side of the package.

External link Edit

Current Official Johnny Lightning Website

Retrieved from "http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Johnny_Lightning"

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