My experience with "Hobby Search"

Hi great question and unfortunately I do not have a perfect answer, but here is what I can say HobbySearch does not get pictures to post until Tomy has given them the pictures and posted the pictures of up coming models on their own site. They are posted earlier on this Tomy page which I keep bookmarked. Do not click on the top corner button that says English it will take you away from the page you want to be on! instead let Google translate do the work, if you are browsing using Google chrome it will pop up automatically, I have Google translate set up to always translate any Japanese text it can translate.

And I have learned to trust Tomy and I can usually tell if it is something special that will be sold out before photos are available.

The new Shinkansen line up for June has already been posted so in June expect to see photos of July releases.


here is the exact website page link, I recommend you keep it bookmarked as I do I use it quite often!

http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/pla...w/1404.htm



and to members who have joined after I posted this preorder here it is again I know their isn't a photo yet but if you love Thomas and the real life trains Tomy makes you will not be disappointed in this preorder and it will be limited:

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10271494

you can see a link to a picture of the real life train this Plarail toy will be based off in my thread titled "You Heard it Here First"

Glad you folks found it useful. One question for folks that use other sites, is there a site that has pictures for it's pre-orders? I noticed that nearly all the pre-order items have no pictures, and I don't know enough about how TOMY works to know if it's because the pictures haven't been released yet or because Hobby search doesn't put pictures on pre-orders.