Well, some of the TomyTrain stuff made it to the US before that, but it doesn't seem like much of the range was released here.
There's usually a few sets in the earlier box style available on eBay, but there was only two or three sets released at the time - I wanted that one in it's original release because by the time of the Tomica World release they had changed the suggested layout plans slightly by moving the half straights to be perpendicular to the long side of the layout instead of having them at a diagonal on the curved sections.
There's usually a few sets in the earlier box style available on eBay, but there was only two or three sets released at the time - I wanted that one in it's original release because by the time of the Tomica World release they had changed the suggested layout plans slightly by moving the half straights to be perpendicular to the long side of the layout instead of having them at a diagonal on the curved sections.
I have a website where I have been writing about and photographing many of the sets and pieces that I find interesting.