The News: By Wyatt

Good day, everyone. Thank you for visiting. What a great Lightning Fest we had this year! There are so many people that made this event such a success that I'm afraid I'd leave someone out if I tried to list them all! The events seemed to all be flawlessly executed and we managed to raise lots of money for charity. The hotel accommodations were great and if everyone had half as much fun as I did, then we all had a great time!

The $1 sale at the Learning Curve store was awesome! They had a lot of new stock, multiple releases of Street Freaks, Chevy Thunder, Mustangs and Fords, Mopar or No Car, Muscle Cars USA, Firebirds, Gold Series, Coca Cola, and many other sets and cases. If you were not able to attend, some of the online dealers picked up cases and are selling at discounts as you read this!

The best news is Mark said he will be doing a Lightning Fest in 2007!!! That is the best news I think any of us heard there! Thanks, Mark!

The only bad news we received at the fest is the lack of production of Johnny Lightning cars for the remainder of 2006. Basically, the last sets of 2006 are available now with the exception of the Holiday Classics. Maybe that will give us a few months to fill in any holes in our collections. We will be ready for 2007, though!

Now, you ask what we got our greedy little hands on at the fest? Well, we'll start with the dinner castings. Each bag had a yellow '65 Chevy fleetside truck, a silver '58 Corvette, and a various painted sample from various series. Mine was a red '69 Dart. Other guests received some very unique looking white tire combinations in there bags. We saw clear plastic blue wheels, red wheels, white tires, and many other really odd combinations of cars.

The other cars available at the fest were the Pink Slip Racer (PSR), Rocket 500 Racer (R500), Thank You car (TYC), E.T. Racer car (ETRC), and the Custom Die cast car (CDC). The PSR and R500 cars were identical to the '58 Corvette Dinner Car, except the serial number. The TYC, ETRC, and CDC's were all blue Torino Talladega's originally commissioned by AD-Ventures for the Apple Blossom festival car. Each had a specific colored tampo on the roof, red TYC, yellow ETRC, and white CDC.

The last car available at the fest was the '55 Nomad RC2 had made for the event. The package was actually made so the Lightning girls had places to autograph the back of the packages. RC2 was also offering to sell the cars by inner cases of 12 and for each case purchased, a various red prototype was included.

That's all I have for now. We are still working to get all of the new cars pictured here and added to the registry. Check back from time to time to see our progress. In the meantime, please email your registration data to jlregistry@rwwcarguy.com or visit the automated registry page so we can get your information onto the site for the next update.