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MuddyPoppins

These are the 2 Japanese speaking releases of James and the third is the British accented Talk 'N action version...I've been unable to locate any literature or confirming box art that a Japanese speaking original T'nA James was produced along w/ the Thomas,Percy, Henry,Gordon,Toby,& D-10..<img src="/assets/files/placeholder.png" alt="(missing)"><img src="/assets/files/placeholder.png" alt="(missing)"><img src="/assets/files/placeholder.png" alt="(missing)">

MuddyPoppins

This is one of our rarest pieces...
It's a 1st series Japanese speaking Talk 'n Action Percy🙂

Muddy Poppins wrote
This is one of our rarest pieces...
It's a 1st series Japanese speaking Talk 'n Action Percy🙂

Super

Is the "action" they speak of just that he is motorized or does he do something else besides talking? I like the more compact box (makes it easier to fins a shipping box) but as with the long ones you can't see the third unit through the window. In this case I am guessing the red coach. Thanks for posting.

MuddyPoppins

The action part are the little green activation track pieces that are placed throughout the layout...when the train passes over them it does various things...speeds up, stops then go's , or changes phrases, chuffing sounds, or music...

Super

Oh...these taking vintage trains work with those tracks. Aren't those tracks also used with some more easily attainable engines that talk and have action?

MuddyPoppins

Super wrote
Oh...these taking vintage trains work with those tracks. Aren't those tracks also used with some more easily attainable engines that talk and have action?

Yes their English speaking counterparts are often available...They come in American accent/phrases, and British accent/phrase versions..

Super

Thanks Muddy

Ucwepn

I have the British versions of Thomas, Percy and James. Thomas is by far the easiest to acquire.

MuddyPoppins

This non-motorized Rocky must have really been a nightmare...lol

Muddy Poppins wrote
This non-motorized Rocky must have really been a nightmare...lol

Gerisplarail1

I don't get it about Rocky please explain? I just ordered the Rocky and Percy set is that one also non motorized?

MuddyPoppins

Yes in the Percy/Rocky set, Rocky is non-motorized...
This is the second time that this engineering nightmare has been packaged along with other trains to sell it...
It was designed to be motorized, but some sort of design flaw either in conception or production that produced a product that had no place to deliver power from a battery( it's even fitted w/ the large coupler...
I have taken one apart and it seems that it was just a giant blunder that was salvaged instead of scrapped and repackaged to not take a loss...
It's cool and so is the motorized version, but it still was a mistake.

Ucwepn

Gerisplarail1 wrote
I don't get it about Rocky please explain? I just ordered the Rocky and Percy set is that one also non motorized?

Hi Geris you need the Trackmaster version if you want the motorized crane movement, the hook line extends and retracts.

Gerisplarail1

Ucwepn wrote
Gerisplarail1 wrote
I don't get it about Rocky please explain? I just ordered the Rocky and Percy set is that one also non motorized?

Hi Geris you need the Trackmaster version if you want the motorized crane movement, the hook line extends and retracts.

I am not concerned about it being motorized, Just want it to be Tomy. That is very interesting about the design blunder sounds like Tomy got in a little bit over their heads haha

MuddyPoppins

Sorry I was away a couple days..
Here's a Personal favorite🙂
No Plarail Thomas collection can be complete without Bash!!..whom Plarail shrewdly released and packaged ONLY in this box set...<img src="/assets/files/placeholder.png" alt="(missing)"><img src="/assets/files/placeholder.png" alt="(missing)"><img src="/assets/files/placeholder.png" alt="(missing)">

Super

Thanks Muddy, nice looking set except for the elevated circle. Is that all it is or does it connect to the lower circuit with sloped rails? I didn't know that Bash or Dash came in a set. Thought they were individual purchases or am I confusing them with Trackmaster.

MuddyPoppins

Trackmaster B&D are both easily accessible and sold separately or together in the logging loco set, but Plarail makes only Dash available as a single train to buy, and packages Bash ONLY in this set.

trevor379

very nice set. I did not know you could only get dash this way. so dash is not sold independently?

I recently came across a train I had never seen before? a green Duncan. it is motorized but not sure of the maker? any info on this?

MuddyPoppins

I finally got a chance to take this train out of the box and really check it out!!
I can't believe it's condition for a 16 year old toy!! 😃
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Super

Very nice Muddy

What is the white Tomy rectangle box under the coach?

Gerisplarail1

Just the safety warnings Super.

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