I'm not really sure, the more I dig around the more I come to the conclusion that the Tomy Plarail and Takara Plarail systems ran side by side for some period, exactly how long is anyone's guess until I find out more lol!
But one thing for sure is that the more I look the wider the range of the Takara product becomes, it seems many of the bullet trains, suburban and even the EF series were available in the Takara range at some point.
Similarly a lot of what we consider to be standard track accessories such as stations, tunnels, bridges, etc... were also available. I can say this with some certainty after spending more time looking around on Jauce - oh what a pandora's box has been opened there
I won my first auction on there this morning, a complete, boxed, unused set with quite a bit of track and other bits but of main interest for me an E4 type bullet train consisting of 5 cars rather than the more normal 3 - well chuffed with that as it was a reasonable price too!!!
But one thing for sure is that the more I look the wider the range of the Takara product becomes, it seems many of the bullet trains, suburban and even the EF series were available in the Takara range at some point.
Similarly a lot of what we consider to be standard track accessories such as stations, tunnels, bridges, etc... were also available. I can say this with some certainty after spending more time looking around on Jauce - oh what a pandora's box has been opened there
I won my first auction on there this morning, a complete, boxed, unused set with quite a bit of track and other bits but of main interest for me an E4 type bullet train consisting of 5 cars rather than the more normal 3 - well chuffed with that as it was a reasonable price too!!!
Happily collecting things all my life...