Optical and near-infrared light curves of SN 2006V. Over-plotted as solid lines are light curves of SN 1987A (J and H from Bouchet et al. 1989; I from Hamuy et al. 1988; BgVr from spectrophotometry on the spectra sample published in Phillips et al. 1988) scaled to match the peak brightness of SN 2006V. We also show (stars) the unfiltered/r magnitudes from discovery and confirmation images (Chen et al. 2006). The similarity of the light curve shape of these two objects is striking.