Promotional Model

This 1940 Ford Pickup has been used in many different Johnny Lightning Releases. With the original holiday automents release in 2004, the 1940 Ford Ute came with a great image on the doors of a large polar bear with its cubs hanging a star on their snow covered Christmas tree (well actually it looks like its just a tree growing in the wild). You can see it in my customer image. This must have been a popular image as it would be used later that year as the image on all the cardboard backing part of the 2004 Polar Bear series. The colours of the vehicle are white on the wheel and headlight guards and a light purple (which is pretty much the same shade as Milka Chocolate packaging) used on the rest of the car. Like all vehicles in this series these come with great wheels which include rubber tyres. The bonnet (hood) opens up to a purple engine, it's pretty fragile and doesn't really sit snugly when down. You've got to reposition it after closing. If a child was going to play with this it could easily break off in the hand or mouth. Likewise if you do use this as a Christmas tree automent (ornament) and it falls, the bonnet could easily break off. However the clip that comes with this can attach to any other Johnny Lightning vehicle with open side windows to use as a Christmas automent instead. That clip is a brilliant idea, I would love to see more vehicles released with it.

There's no images on either the roof or in the cargo tray. A missed opportunity in my opinion.

You can also get the exact same car with the exception of the purple being a slightly darker shade, in a later collection called Polar Bears Series in the second release. Obviously it has a different blister card image to this one and doesn't come with the clip to turn it into a Christmas tree automent. (Reviewed by James N Simpson)  Shop here