Question About This Product...?

Hey Everyone! I Have A Question About This Plarail Item I Recently Found And Have Been Considering Purchasing But I Don't Know Alot About The Item. It's The Plarail Lighted Signal Which I Found For $10. Is It Worth It? Does It Work Well?

That is the older model which is discontinued I think as it has been replaced with a better LED light one. Same Tomy number, J-10 http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10232023
I have had several of the one you pictured and they don't really light up that well. The LED is much better in my opinion.

(01-17-2016, 03:38 AM)Super Wrote: That is the older model which is discontinued I think as it has been replaced with a better LED light one. Same Tomy number, J-10 http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10232023
I have had several of the one you pictured and they don't really light up that well. The LED is much better in my opinion.

Thank ya thank ya Super! I'll have a look at the LED version

i have several from assorted lots over the years, but have never actually used one yet. lol. i think ive got one with a green base too.

What do you mean "it isn't LED"? How would it light up otherwise?

(01-17-2016, 02:22 PM)DalaGStanator Wrote: What do you mean "it isn't LED"? How would it light up otherwise?

There are normal bulbs and other ways of lighting things besides LEDs, they probably just used normal bulbs as a way of saving money or (because LEDs are very bright) used them to not run through battery power as fast as a super bright LED would

The older version used a single clear incandescent bulb. A plastic sleeve around the bulb moved up and down to block out either the red or green colored lens. This is kind of a flimsy way to do it and I have had a couple fail because of it (had one apart). The newer version uses two clear LED bulbs one behind each colored lens and the switch turns off one bulb or the other. The newer version is much smaller than the old and brighter too which is great but I prefer the details of the older one with its offset head and ladder. Too bad they couldn't have just added the LED bulbs to the original and make it a tad smaller.

I have seen the green based ones as Sunhuntin mentions and took me a long time to find out what set that belonged to. When I did I found it to have many of the common accessory buildings we see and have but all with green bases, very different. Unfortunately I can not remember the set. Geesh

(01-17-2016, 07:07 PM)Super Wrote: The older version used a single clear incandescent bulb. A plastic sleeve around the bulb moved up and down to block out either the red or green colored lens. This is kind of a flimsy way to do it and I have had a couple fail because of it (had one apart). The newer version uses two clear LED bulbs one behind each colored lens and the switch turns off one bulb or the other. The newer version is much smaller than the old and brighter too which is great but I prefer the details of the older one with its offset head and ladder. Too bad they couldn't have just added the LED bulbs to the original and make it a tad smaller.

I have seen the green based ones as Sunhuntin mentions and took me a long time to find out what set that belonged to. When I did I found it to have many of the common accessory buildings we see and have but all with green bases, very different. Unfortunately I can not remember the set. Geesh

No big deal Super! Thanks for the info you provided, I'll definitely keep my eye out when I pick these guys up