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I always figured they changed the connectors because there would be no way (or at least no way in a reasonable number of track sections) to arrive back at those specific off angles of the turntable. The basic design is a holdover from much earlier in Plarail, before more of the dimensions were standardised, probably the same era as the very thin parallel switches and 1/6 a normal straight gender changers. I just saw one in red like the smaller half straight turntables with all normal connectors on jauce yesterday, I'll try to find a picture. It had even more connectors, three normal in the space of the two diamond between the 90 degree offset ones on the Thomas turntable.

I haven't ever tried it, but basically it would be hard to build something that actually met up with the diamond connector spaces due to available track pieces. The normal ones are the ones 90 degrees off from one another, and fit into normal plarail dimensions. My guess is someone pulled out the old turntable design, realised most of the track connectors couldn't even be built to, and decided to follow the modern track standards and make it impossible to try.