This may be old news, but I was speaking to the owner of a long running local Train and Toy shop (where I often find 2nd hand Tomy and trackmaster products) recently and he told me that in the current list of available Tomica World products that are available in the USA, there is only one Train Product available to retailers.
Apparently the Tomica Offices are in a nearby town and he has been pleading with them for years to offer more Tomy Train Products in the USA, but to no avail. He claims that if they made more regular train products available he could sell tons and really thinks that making the Amtrack a one-off product only available in an expensive set was a terrible idea.
I'm sure this isn't new news. With Tomica disappearing from stores, we've kind of seen it coming but I thought it would be good to share some confirmation from someone "in the biz"
It does make me exceedingly glad that I purchased the Freightliner recently as it looks like when they're gone they're gone. In the USA anyway...
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2014, 04:29 PM by eilif.)
Apparently the Tomica Offices are in a nearby town and he has been pleading with them for years to offer more Tomy Train Products in the USA, but to no avail. He claims that if they made more regular train products available he could sell tons and really thinks that making the Amtrack a one-off product only available in an expensive set was a terrible idea.
I'm sure this isn't new news. With Tomica disappearing from stores, we've kind of seen it coming but I thought it would be good to share some confirmation from someone "in the biz"
It does make me exceedingly glad that I purchased the Freightliner recently as it looks like when they're gone they're gone. In the USA anyway...