Continuation of BigLobe Plarail Museum

Phantom Gem 65: ちょうとっきゅうひかりごうニューセット　Super Express Hikari New Set

I will introduce it in our team's perspective, and my personal opinions different from the rest of the gems above:

Our emergency response and research team has confirm it as a true phantom gem of Plarail today. Research has been conducted for 2 weeks but no traces of the set were found in the internet archives, social media, official catalogues (both local and foreign versions). The only source is Yahoo Auctions sold by the user "resuperg2", making him the only person in the world to ever obtain this set. Our team and a friendly warehouse owner has joined forces to bid on this item. Auction bid time auto extended for nearly 1 hour and finally ended at 44500 yen. I remember sitting down at the same spot with the warehouse owner beside me to compete for this item. We also declared a bid war on social media in an attempt to raise the overall bid price and market value of the set. But there were only 2 bidders who bid more than 13000 yen for this set, so I guess the set was not very known to general collectors. Nevertheless I give my highest salutations to this seller.

Now on to the research details:
- Set is categorised as a Basic Set, something similar as the D-51きゅうこうれっしゃこうかセット. Quite a bland set with no advertised layout plans. Pamphlet is either absent during manufacture period or lost.
- Set has Merry-Go-Round mark, with G-nn code of (G-19, Month 10, Year 1970), but the Merry-Go-Round mark was discontinued in (G-22, 1974), source according to team leader: http://nayuho.hatenablog.jp/entry/2020/04/11/072414 . You can say that the set was only manufactured for around 4 years or less on paper. However the 2nd generation red white Hikari-Go has ended production in early 1973 to prepare transition to blue white Hikari-Go, so it can be safely assumed that the true manufacture period was short lived for only 2 years.
- Set has 8 curves, 4 straight rails, 2 old slopes, 6 overhead bars, 3 trees, 2 signals and 1 whole formation of: Standard Product 2nd Generation Hikari-Go. (It does not have any piers or risers, good grief TOMY...)
- The original ribbon is made of soft paper cardboard, stating the set's name, TOMY logo, TOMY slogan and the Merry-Go-Round mark.
- Inner tray is plastic, just like the D-51きゅうこうれっしゃこうかセット. The base is cardboard, where the plastic tray is mounted on top. Quite flimsy so care is needed when placing it upright.

I'm happy to say that I am the final caretaker of this set, will receive it within a week from our laboratory. Very excited to make a YouTube video for this set. I wonder what will happen if the owner of the Plarail Museum sees this set for the first time, will he get a double trauma like last time where the ちかてつふくせんセット was finally found in 2009 after more than 30 years of research was spent?



A standard product 2nd generation Hikari-Go will look like this: