A Plakids Picture Guide

chrisjo · 2026-03-15T13:17:08+00:00

This thread aims to provide, eventually, a comprehensive pictorial guide to all the various Plakids; something that as far as I know has never been attempted...

chrisjo

Fig.16

Amusement Plakids 4th Edition - Shop Staff
アミューズメントプラキッズ第4弾お店の人編 ©TOMY 2004
1: Cook, red
2: Chef
3: Sushi Chef
4: Chinese Cook, blue
5: Cafe Waiter, pink
6: Fast-food Worker, female
7: Fast-food Worker, male
8: Coffee Shop Waiter, green
9: Restaurant Waiter, male
10: Restaurant Waiter, female

This edition is particularly interesting in that at least five of the Plakids came equipped with appropriate accessories. Examples that are still in possession of these are of course extremely rare.

cooks with tools

chrisjo

Fig.17

Amusement Plakids 5th Edition - Sports
アミューズメントプラキッズ第5弾スポーツ編 ©TOMY 2005
1: Cheerleader, pink
2: Baseball Player, white jersey no.10
3: Baseball Player, white jersey no.11, eye-black
4: Baseball Player, black jersey no.12
5: Baseball Player, black jersey no.13, eye-black
6: Cheerleader, orange
7: Soccer Player, blue shirt, blonde hair
8: Soccer Player, blue shirt, brown hair - but see note at the end of this post…
9: Soccer Player, blue shirt, black hair
10: Soccer Player, white shirt, long brown hair
11: Soccer Player, white shirt, short brown hair

The baseball player wearing number 10 has a bat, both the cheerleaders have yellow pompoms, and the two soccer players with crewcuts have soccer balls.

NOTE: @collectors_22 (on X) tells me that there really are just ten of these, and that no.8, which is an image from his collection, is an ‘error’. Not sure exactly what that means, but that’s the information received.

Super

I love the tall hat Chef in Fig16-2. I have some of the accessories like the ones in Fig 16 too. Those become quite hard to get a hold of as they are really tiny and easily lost even more-so than the PlaKids themselves.

I am loving this Post as I am learning so much that I had no idea of. I have hundreds of PlaKids and looking at Dr Chris’s fabulous research he is so graciously sharing with us and the world, I realize I how much I don’t know about these. He has researched so many here and I know there are many more to come. Thank you Dr Chris

chrisjo

Fig.18

Amusement Plakids 6th Edition - Starting School
アミューズメントプラキッズ第6弾にゅうがく編 ©TOMY 2005
1: Kindergarten Boy, pale blue
2: Kindergarten Girl, pale blue
3: Kindergarten Boy, dark blue
4: Kindergarten Girl, dark blue
5: Schoolgirl, pink
6: Elementary School Boy, dark blue
7: Elementary School Boy, red
8: Elementary School Boy, gym kit (1st Year, Class A)
9: Elementary School Girl, gym kit (1st Year, Class B)
10: Schoolboy, grey? no image found

chrisjo

Fig.19

Amusement Plakids 7th Edition - Racing
アミューズメントプラキッズ第7弾レーシング編 ©TOMY 2005
1: Pit Crew, red
2: Pit Crew, green
3: Race Steward, red
4: Pit Crew, yellow
5: Pit Crew, blue
6: Driver, red
7: Driver, green
8: Race Steward, blue
9: Driver, yellow
10: Driver, blue

chrisjo

Fig.20

1: Boy. Plarail Announcement Station (West Japan / Kyushu Edition) - アナウンスステーション西日本・九州編, Jul ’05
2: Driver. Plarail Toys’R’Us exclusive Connect a Lot of Sleeping Cars Set - いっぱいつなごう寝台車セット, Aug ’05
3: Me. a/a
4: ‘Maetel’. Plarail Galaxy Express 999, 銀河鉄道999, Sep ’05
5: ‘Tetsuro’. a/a
6: Hyper Rescue Team Member. Tomica Hyper Rescue Sound Headquarters - ハイパーレスキューサウンド本部, Sep ’05
This one is very strange. The printing is crude, the shape is subtly different from regular Plakids, and he has no ‘©TOMY’ or ‘MADE IN CHINA’ on his back. He’s the first in the Tomica Hyper Rescue line, but as we will see, the rest of them are ‘normal’.
7: un-named man. Plarail Keihin Tohoku Line Special Set - 京浜東北線スペシャルセット, Mar ’06
8: un-named woman. a/a
9: un-named boy. Tsubame Successive Generations Special Set - 歴代つばめスペシャルセット, Mar ’06
10: un-named ‘salaryman’. a/a.

Edit: Fig.20 no.1 updated 4th May 2026

Super

Is number 3 really you Dr Chris???

chrisjo

Super No, that’s not me 🙂. Some boy plakids are labelled as ぼく (‘Boku’) on the product that they come in. The word means ‘Me’, or ‘I’, or indeed ‘You’ (colloquially, when addressing a young boy).

chrisjo

Fig.21

Amusement Plakids 8th Edition - Town People 2
アミューズメントプラキッズ第8弾まちの人編2 ©TOMY 2005
1: Man, denim shirt & grey hat
2: Woman, denim shirt
3: Boy, crewcut & white star
4: Woman, white hoodie
5: Woman, red shirt with blue flash
6: Man, brown suit
7: Mail box
8: Park bench

This is the first edition of the Amusement Plakids in which inanimate objects have been substituted for actual people. I don’t know of any other Plakids or other items that were in this edition, but it seems a bit sparse at the moment.

chrisjo

Fig.22

Amusement Plakids 9th Edition - T-shirts
アミューズメントプラキッズ　第9弾Tシャツ編 ©TOMY 2005
1: Woman, red プラレール
2: Woman, green プラレール
3: Man, yellow PLARAIL
4: Man, green TOMICA TOURIST
5: Man, red PLARAIL
6: Man, yellow TOMICA truck
7: Man, blue TOMICA sports car
8: Man, black TOMICA wheel
9: Man, blue TOMICA EXPRESS plane
10: Woman, pink TOMICA van

chrisjo

Fig.23

Amusement Plakids 10th Edition - Space Invaders
アミューズメントプラキッズ　第10弾インベーダー編 ©TOMY 2005

I can only find six of these, so there’s space for a few back views.
1: Girl, red Space Invaders T-shirt
2: Girl, blue Space Invaders T-shirt
3: Girl, green Space Invaders T-shirt
4: reverse of no.3
6: Boy, pale blue Space Invaders hoodie
7: Boy, red-purple Space Invaders hoodie
8: Boy, yellow Space Invaders hoodie
9: reverse of no.8
10: reverse of no.6

Super

Dr Chris
Have you come up with a count yet of all the PlaKids or at least the number you know about and researched?

chrisjo

Super at the moment I’ve identified somewhere in the region 620 to 650, so at 210 here so far we’re about a third of the way through them.

Super

I had no idea, sure I thought there were maybe 200 - 300 but in the middle of the 600’s I am flabbergasted.

chrisjo

Fig.24

Amusement Plakids 11th Edition - Densha de GO!
アミューズメントプラキッズ　第11弾電車でGO!編 ©TOMY 2005

Densha de GO! (literally Let’s Go by Train!) is an iconic Taito amusement arcade train simulator, introduced in 1997 and subsequently ported to various other game formats. Along with Space Invaders, it is one of Taito’s most popular and successful games.

1: Station Staff, male, blue
2: Station Staff, male, golden yellow
3: Station Staff, male, grey
4: Railway Worker, blue & white with yellow helmet
5: station bench and Densha de GO! flag
6: Station staff, female, grey
7: back of no.5
8: Railway Worker, green overalls
9: back of no.8
10: station sign (Tokyo Maranouchi on the Yamanote line, Yurakucho one way, Kanda the other)

chrisjo

Fig.25

Tomica Hyper Rescue are the emergency rescue unit in Tomica Town. They use various vehicles for firefighting and ambulance work, and wear numbers on their backs. (Fig.20, no.6 was a kind of un-formed prototype)

1: ‘Shou’ (01 on back), Tomica Hyper Rescue HR01 Mobile Patrol Car - 機動巡回車 , May ’06
2: Shou’s back
3: ‘Ren’ (02), Tomica Hyper Rescue HR02 Mobile Ambulance - 機動救急車 , May ’06
4: ‘Takumi’ (03), Tomica Hyper Rescue HR02 Mobile Support Vehicle - 機動支援車 , May ’06
5: ‘Yasshi’ (04), Tomica Hyper Rescue HR04 Mobile Ladder Truck - 機動はしご車 , Jul ’06.
Note Yasshi’s non-standard shape and emphasised cheeks - it seems he likes his food.
6: Trooper (05), Tomica Hyper Rescue HR05 Mobile Rescue Helicopter - 機動救助ヘリ , Jul ’06
7: Trooper (05)'s back
8: Trooper (06), with goggles, Tomica Hyper Rescue HR06 Mobile Unmanned Water Cannon - 機動無人放水車 , Jul ’06

These first Tomica Hyper Rescue models came in tall blister packs with the blue TOMY logo. The team members have plain white hard-hats.

9: Station Staff, Plarail Big Dome Station - おおきなドームステーション , Jul ’06
10: Older Brother, a/a

chrisjo

Fig.26

1: Papa. Plarail Let’s Connect a Lot 700 Series Hikari Rail Star Set -
いっぱいつなごう700系ひかりレールスターセット , Aug ’06
2: Mama. a/a
3: Me. a/a
4: Older Sister. a/a
5: Station Staff. Plarail Auto Transfer Station & Doctor Yellow Set -
自動のりかえ駅とドクターイエローセット , Mar ’07
6: ‘Kakeru’. Tomica Hyper Blue Police Sonic Runner - ハイパーブルーポリスソニックランナー , Apr ’07
also Hyper Blue Police Super Sonic Runner - スーパーソニックランナー , Apr ’10
also HBP Members & HBP Weapon Set A - HBP隊員＆HBP武器セットA, Oct ’14
7: ‘Mamoru’. Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP01 Blue Phoenix - ブルーフェニックス , Apr ’07
also Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP01 Blue Phoenix II - ブルーフェニックスⅡ, Mar ’13
also HBP Members & HBP Weapon Set B - HBP隊員＆HBP武器セットB, Oct ’14
8: ‘Misa’. Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP02 Blue Husky - ブルーハスキー , Apr ’07
also Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP02 Blue Husky II - HBP02ブルーハスキーⅡ, Jul ’11
also HBP Members & HBP Weapon Set A - HBP隊員＆HBP武器セットA, Oct ’14
9: ‘Captain Adachi’ (CP on back). Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP03 Blue Rat - ブルーラット , Apr ’07
also HBP03 Blue Rat II (different vehicle, same Plakid), Jun ’09
10: un-named boy. Plarail N700 Series Shinkansen Basic Set - N700系新幹線ベーシックセット , Jun ’07

The Tomica Hyper Blue Police are the police force in Tomica Town, They use various crime-fighting vehicles, typically with ‘Sonic’ in their names. The Sonic Runner is a big item in a box, but the HBP0x items came in blister packs like their Hyper Rescue colleagues. These are among the very last items with the blue TOMY logo, they were re-released later (in 2007?) in new square-format blister packs with the white-on-blue TAKARA TOMY logo.

chrisjo

C Mini Tomica Plakids - Cミニトミカプラキッズ

In 2007 and 2008 Takara Tomy collaborated with the candy manufacturer Subarudo to produce thirty different Plakids, each in a little box along with a street sign, attached to a larger box that contained six? pieces of candy and also showed other Plakids in the range. These were sold in the candy section of a number of different supermarket and grocery chains. The thirty Plakids were released in three separate waves, or ‘Volumes’. The same format was used to sell a range of smaller-than-usual Tomica cars, hence the ‘Mini Tomica’ ミニトミカ in the name. The ‘C’ stands for candy, and the word for candy キャンデー is written in tiny characters inside the bottom of the ‘C’.

Fig.27

C Mini Tomica Plakids Vol. 1 appeared in September 2007.
1: 01 Policeman A - ポリスマンA
2: 02 Policeman B - ポリスマンB
3: 03 Rescue Man A - レスキューマンA
4: 04 Rescue Man B - レスキューマンB
5: 05 Rescue Man C - レスキューマンC
6: 06 Worker A - ワーカーA
7: 07 Worker B - ワーカーB
8: 08 Driver A - ドライバーA
9: 09 Driver B - ドライバーB
10: 10 Driver C - ドライバーC

chrisjo

Fig.28

1: ‘Tsubasa’. Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP04 Blue Falcon - ブルーファルコン , Sep ’07
2: Trooper, Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP05 Blue Gazelle - ブルーガゼル , Sep ’07
3: ‘John’. Tomica Hyper Blue Police HBP06 Blue Buffalo - ブルーバッファロー , Sep ’07
also HBP Members & HBP Weapon Set B - HBP隊員＆HBP武器セットB, Oct ’14
4: ‘Mamoru’. Tomica Hyper Blue Police Guard Runner - ガードランナー , Oct ’07
5: ‘Tatton’. Tomica Exciting DVD, Hyper Vol. 2, Ltd Edition -トミカわくわくDVD ハイパーへん②限定版, Nov ’07
6: un-named student, Plarail J-19 Plakids Sound Crossing Set - プラキッズサウンドふみきりセット , Oct ’07
7: Older Sister, Plarail Twin Towers Station - ツインタワーステーション , Nov ’07
8: Older Brother, a/a
9: Driver, Plarail Big Plarail Town N700 Series Station -
デカプラレールタウン N700系新幹線ステーション , Apr ’08
10: Maintenance Technician, Plarail Toys’R’Us Big Plarail Town N700 Series Station and Doctor Yellow Set -
デカプラレールタウン N700系ステーションとドクターイエローセット , Apr ’08

Hatton DVD Composite

chrisjo

Fig.29

C Mini Tomica Plakids Vol. 2 appeared in January 2008.
1: 11 Policeman C - ポリスマンC
2: 12 Rescue Man D - レスキューマンD
3: 13 Rescue Man E - レスキューマンE
4: 14 Worker C - ワーカーC
5: 15 Truck Driver A - トラックドライバーA
6: 16 Truck Driver B - トラックドライバーB
7: 17 Gas Station Man A - ガソリンスタンドマンA
8: 18 Town Boy A - タウンボーイA
9: 19 Driver D - ドライバーD
10: 20 Driver E - ドライバーE

The ten members of C Mini Tomica Plakids Vol.1 have ©TOMY MADE IN CHINA on their backs, the same as all the regular Plakids before them, but Vol.2 and Vol.3 have ©TOMY SUBARUDO MADE IN CHINA. On the left is Vol 1 no. 07, on the right is Vol 2 no.12.

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