Oh nice 
If I recall, wasn't that recolour [and 2-car variant no less] an exclusive in a set that came with the deluxe 'New Town Station'?
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It was basically the Japanese equivalent to the 'Tomy Express' recolour although this one was a unique livery [I think?] that wasn't already carried by anything in the JNR/JR fleet, whereas the 'Tomy Express' recolour was literally just different stickers on the existing red/black JR Kyushu Kamome Express model.
What always puzzled me about this model though was why it was 2-car only - It seems very odd to not include the middle trailer of the 485 not least because that coach is the one with the pantographs, meaning if we're strictly talking realism, this train's going nowhere very fast without any means to collect electric current Even putting that aside, to me it just looks oddly short without it's middle trailer, but that's perhaps because I'm more used to the 3-car configuration
If I recall, wasn't that recolour [and 2-car variant no less] an exclusive in a set that came with the deluxe 'New Town Station'?
It was basically the Japanese equivalent to the 'Tomy Express' recolour although this one was a unique livery [I think?] that wasn't already carried by anything in the JNR/JR fleet, whereas the 'Tomy Express' recolour was literally just different stickers on the existing red/black JR Kyushu Kamome Express model.
What always puzzled me about this model though was why it was 2-car only - It seems very odd to not include the middle trailer of the 485 not least because that coach is the one with the pantographs, meaning if we're strictly talking realism, this train's going nowhere very fast without any means to collect electric current
Even putting that aside, to me it just looks oddly short without it's middle trailer, but that's perhaps because I'm more used to the 3-car configuration
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