My Tomica World - Introductions

OK, guess I'd better add a 2020 James to the fleet list 

As I kind of mentioned in the 'fleet list' post; my mum's plan for Christmas 2020 was to get me a Plarail James; In the event, a Plarail Thomas was sent, and that's what I ended up getting. Well, about 2 weeks after Christmas, and a package, suspiciously Plarail sized, and postmarked Aichi Prefecture shows up, and lo & behold, it's the Plarail James    Neither of us are sure how, as on discussion, it seems that the James was [according to Amazon] never even sent out; so it's a nice surprise for both of us lol

Fine by me anyway, as like with Thomas, if I can get the original Tomica World James running, I'll have a pair; One of the 'model era' design, and one of the 'CG era' type.

Speaking of eras, my Thomas era was the model era in the early 2000's, but mostly I remember the original 1980's and 90's episodes since I was mostly watching the show on VHS anyway [Indeed, much of the TV I watched was on VHS as opposed to broadcast; one of the earliest things I distinctly remember learning to do was operating the VCR by copying mum and dad, so I could put videos on for myself  ]

Interestingly, I never remember who my favourite engine was, although I'm fairly sure it was Thomas [basic choice I know ], which goes a way to explain how he's one of the engines I held onto all these years, but I also liked Diesel 10 [still got him as Plarail as well], again, not totally sure why, but nowadays I'd say it's because the idea of a B.R Warship with an inexplicable claw appendage just seems too curious to ignore [maybe that was going to be B.R standard issue kit for Warships, but never made it to production  ]

Ah well, time to hit that edit command