Plarail Taiwan Illustrated List

This is an update of the lead post in this thread, and covers the years 2022-2023.

LET'S CONNECT AND PLAY! STARTER SETS
Release date: late December 2022.

A set of four different starter sets released by Tomy Asia. The two featuring Taiwanese trains were exclusive to Taiwan, while the other two were released in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc, as well as in Taiwan. Three of them include a Pla-kid, which seems a strange decision for sets clearly aimed at the very young.

There are differences in the designs of the two sets of boxes. The text on the two Taiwan exclusive boxes is a mixture of Japanese and Chinese, while the text on the other two is a mixture of Japanese and English. The backs of the Taiwan boxes show all four sets, but the other two just show rail extension suggestions.

台鐵太魯閣號
Taiwan Railway Taroko Line

Taroko lead car, 6 curve rails, two R-11 turnouts, and the station attendant Pla-kid that we've seen many times before, such as in the J-28 Plakids Station.

台鐵普悠瑪號
Taiwan Railway Puyuma Line

Puyuma lead car, 6 curve rails, two R-12 turnouts, and a new female Pla-kid unique to this set. She resembles the figure that appeared on the boxes of the previous Puyuma sets, in the traditional dress of the Puyuma people after whom the Puyuma Express is named.

BLUE FLYNER and Animal Carrier Train
Not Taiwan exclusives, but included here for completeness. The 'Blue Flyner' is a repaint of the lead car from the 'P001 Red Flyner' that appeared in the 2019 60th Anniversary Best Selection Set. It doesn't have the integral driver figure, but you get a Pla-kid instead - the senior station attendant from the J-28 Plakids Station. The Animal Carrier Train is EF200-18 from the S-38 Long Container Train plus the KF-03 Animal Transport Wagon, running empty.

PLARAIL BASIC SET SERIES
台北捷運文湖線 BT370型
Taipei MRT Wenhu Line BT370 Type
Release date: January 2023

As you can see, the only English identifier on the box is the generic 'Plarail Basic Set Series'.  This is the first Plarail model of a Metro Taipei train, as distinct from the earlier Taoyuan MRT trains which go to Taiwan airport and are run by a separate company.

BT270 is Metro Taipei's name for the Bombardier Innovia APM256. It is a driverless 2-car EMU running on rubber tyres within a guideway. The same stock is used at Chicago's O'Hare airport.

The set is a simple oval with a 2-car train, a stop rail, and a small station platform. The supplied stickers are for Taipei Zoo station, which is at one end of the Wenhu line.

(no English title on this box)
台北捷運動物園站遊戲組 レールセット
Taipei MRT Zoo Station Playset Rail Set in a combination of Chinese and Japanese
Release date: March 2023

A tie-in between Plarail and the Tomy Ania animals and zoo sets. As well as the partially elevated loop, it includes the Metro Taipei BT370 lead car, an animal carrier wagon in yellow and green, a pond, a panda, and a playmat.

台北捷文湖線 BR 文湖線 BT370
Taipei Express BR Wenhu Line BT370
Release date: September 2023

The Wenhu line is also known as the Brown Line, abbreviated to BR, and coloured brown on maps and signage.

So seventeen years after the first Taiwan exclusive 3-car box, we now have the second, and this one is weird. As noted above, the BT370 is a 2-car unit; though sometimes it operates in pairs, giving 4-cars. In order to make a 3-car, Tomy have paired a 2-car unit with an additional trailing car, a combination that cannot exist in the real world, and just looks plain wrong.