 In 2011, the Japanese toy company TOMY bought RC2 Corp., acquired the Johnny Lightning line, and for a while sold Johnny Lightning cars in the U.S. with the TOMY logo on the packages.However, in 2013 Tomy Toys announced it would no longer produce the Johnny Lightning brand and it was discontinued.In January 2016, three years after its second disappearance from the market, the Johnny Lightning die-cast brand was relaunched once again by Thomas Lowe and his Round 2 toy company which also produces the Auto World and Racing Champions brands of die-cast cars.