New Year's Gift - Printable Version

New Year's Gift - Printable Version

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New Year's Gift - stelnatz - 12-29-2022

My grandson and I make Hape lines. We recently discovered the ''train slippers'' as we jokingly called them takara tomy plarail E5 Series Hayabusa. I want to get him an E5 Series Hayabusa for a New Year's gift but I don't know if it will match the Hape lines (width 4cm height 1cm). Could someone write me the proportional dimensions of the plarail. Thank you.

RE: New Year's Gift - Super - 12-30-2022

I am not familiar with the Hape Line track...are they the wooden ones or plastic but the same size as the wooden rails?

RE: New Year's Gift - Splodge - 12-30-2022

After a little research, Hape is indeed like Wooden Railway.

RE: New Year's Gift - Mister No - 12-30-2022

Why would you run a Plarail train on some other brand tracks? There are nice Plarail track sets, and there are also some track sets with Hayabusa train too, like this one (with train speed changing tracks), for example. Wouldn't that be better?

[Image: Hayabusa.jpg]

RE: New Year's Gift - Super - 12-30-2022

As far as I recall, I thought all Plarail motorized trains can run on the wooden rails but I could be wrong. Hopefully one of our members who are familiar with the tracks can chime in. If they do run on the wooden sized rails I would assume that they would have trouble with some specialized wooden size rails especially the steep, short slopes.

LOL...does your Grandson call the E5 "train slippers" because thats what he thinks of when he see the engines shape?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-YxMEMzKjRE

RE: New Year's Gift - chrisjo - 12-30-2022

Καλημέρα Stelnatz,

It appears that Hape (pronounced "hah-peh") started in Germany; the brand now has stores and offices in many countries in Europe, Asia & N.America:

https://toys.hape.com/pages/about-us

Their train sets combine wooden and plastic rails:

They are compatible with the many other brands of wooden railway. There are various published guides to wooden railway system compatibility and inter-operability, for example:

https://kidscareideas.com/toy-train-track-compatibility/
and
https://play-trains.com/wooden-train-tracks-guide/

The second of these includes this:

Are Trackmaster trains compatible with wooden train tracks? Yes…to some extent. Trackmaster wheels are the same gauge (width) as wooden trains, so the trains will run on wooden tracks. However, they can’t take the tighter curves under their own power without derailing, and they won’t go up the bridges.

Since Trackmaster is the same as Plarail in this context, I think this statement answers your question. The dimensions are:

In the second diagram W1=38, W2=8, W3=15, P=26, H1=8mm+, H2=3mm

RE: New Year's Gift - Super - 12-30-2022

Thanks Dr Chris for the very detailed answer 😃

RE: New Year's Gift - stelnatz - 12-30-2022

LOL...does your Grandson call the E5 "train slippers" because thats what he thinks of when he see the engines shape?

Exacly https://youtu.be/cfpD3UM_80k

RE: New Year's Gift - HanoibusGamer - 12-30-2022

(12-30-2022, 04:10 PM)stelnatz Wrote: LOL...does your Grandson call the E5 "train slippers" because thats what he thinks of when he see the engines shape?

Exacly https://youtu.be/cfpD3UM_80k

The link is about the ALFA-X though, not E5, but both share some similarities anyway.
(Edit) Oh wait there are more than ALFA-X, I just saw the beginning and the end of the video.

RE: New Year's Gift - stelnatz - 12-30-2022

Thank you all for your targeted answers-information and especially chrisjo for his unbelievable detailed outline.

(12-30-2022, 10:47 AM)chrisjo Wrote: Καλημέρα Stelnatz,

Where does the Greek come from? And with the right tone? Maybe from automatic translation (that's what I use) or . . . .