I cannot explain at all why Oliver, Splatter, Dodge, Donald, Boco, and Douglas did not get US releases in Tomica World/Motor Road and Rail.
The TrackMaster range by HiT Toy Company did eventually release all of these engines except Oliver into their Big Friends, Little Friends, and exclusive 3-pack forms. Perhaps if HiT Toy Company had agreed to give the license to Mattel the following year, Oliver might have been released too.
For the Plarail range, it was a simple case of too many engines so there was a cutdown from 40 to 20 engines, and these engines had been seen in the CGI TV series as of 2012. I don't imagine Tomy will expand over 20 engines again and will keep on discontinuing engines and putting new ones in their places. And I think there is more priority for making new engines instead of old.
I don't know if Fisher-Price would do a TrackMaster Revolution version. Besides new engines, the only new releases this year were Toby and Fearless Freddie, so we really can't expect where Fisher-Price will go or bother with next since Freddie seems like a random choice. If an Oliver did get made though, whilst he'd have all the conventions of a TrackMaster Revolution engine, perhaps with the age gap between the last Oliver release in the UK, we could see a massive improvement design wise.
The TrackMaster range by HiT Toy Company did eventually release all of these engines except Oliver into their Big Friends, Little Friends, and exclusive 3-pack forms. Perhaps if HiT Toy Company had agreed to give the license to Mattel the following year, Oliver might have been released too.
For the Plarail range, it was a simple case of too many engines so there was a cutdown from 40 to 20 engines, and these engines had been seen in the CGI TV series as of 2012. I don't imagine Tomy will expand over 20 engines again and will keep on discontinuing engines and putting new ones in their places. And I think there is more priority for making new engines instead of old.
I don't know if Fisher-Price would do a TrackMaster Revolution version. Besides new engines, the only new releases this year were Toby and Fearless Freddie, so we really can't expect where Fisher-Price will go or bother with next since Freddie seems like a random choice. If an Oliver did get made though, whilst he'd have all the conventions of a TrackMaster Revolution engine, perhaps with the age gap between the last Oliver release in the UK, we could see a massive improvement design wise.