Johnny Lightning MONOPOLY Park Place Pontiac Tempest Review

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(More customer reviews)This car doesn't look bad, it's a nice looking car and it's good to see they didn't make it the same greeny white colour that they made half of the vehicles in the first release. However you wonder why they didn't go with an expensive sports car like a Ferrari, Lamborghini or a luxurious car instead of working class vehicle like a Pontiac Tempest. Nothing wrong with Tempests but the most expensive set of properties to buy and build on should have the most expensive cars representing them. Just incase you're wondering, Boardwalk's car is represented by a same blue coloured BMW convertible.
Also like all other vehicles in series one it comes with a bonus game token which is also very well detailed even with the little top of the engine coming out of the bonnet.
On the boot of this vehicle (trunk) is an image of the Park Place card you get when you purchase the property in the game. It is very well detailed with everything that is on the actual game card. On the roof is the moustache top hat guy holding his cane (like on the packaging as seen inside the Monopoly word). That very word symbol in the red rectangle is also on the doors and bonnet.
I have all of the 12 first release Monopoly Johnny Lightning cars and can testify that this is one of the best vehicles of that release. It is also one of only two cars that represented a property on the board and not a utility or something else.
These vehicles were also rereleased with an additional six new vehicles as series two, but with different packaging. So depending on if you're into keeping your vehicles in their packaging you may want to consider which series to buy from. Here is the link to Park Place Pontiac Tempest Car on the release 2 blister card.
Series one's packaging is purple on the left, and green on the right. Has the Monopoly Man in a car on the purple side and getting given some cash on the right. The five properties behind the car are Boardwalk, Luxury Tax (obscured by dice), Park Place, Chance and Short Line. There was a competition mentioned in the top left corner and on the back of the card.
Series two replaced the dice with a big "bonus game token" red and yellow arrow, just in case you hadn't noticed the token before. The properties were replaced by the orange ones as well as Community Chess, and the top half of the packaging has a blue background. The initial twelve cars and their bonus token including this one are exactly the same. If you're going to take them out and throw away the packaging then it matters not which series you buy, get whichever is cheaper.
Johnny Lightning cars are always well done and much better detailed than anything Matchbox, Hot Wheels or anyone else puts out.


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