Plarail TOMY Thomas NEW RELEASES

I am curious though, that there aren't many people in the video. Could this be from a pre-show Media only event? I hope its not because of lack of interest.

She says (in the YouTube video description):

"The Plarail Expo, which could not be held for a long time, is back. Admission tickets were already sold out for all dates. I applied for coverage this time and was allowed to shoot after closing on the first day."

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Hmmm...something new I missed because I didn't study the images properly. Thank you Dr Chris. I guess I only can assume that the vehicles are not included but....at 5500 yen could the be?

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All to be released on June 29th

Osaka Metro Release Date: June 22, 2023

I can't remember... is this the first commuter train or subway with four doors on each side of the car? If there were any earlier, there weren't many of them...

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I didn't even know the number of doors wash something, never dawned on me. So I assume that the common number is three on a side?

Yep, commonly (and mostly) there are only three doors per side in Plarail version, even in Plarail Advance, regardless of how many doors there were per side on the actual train.

The only Plarail standard train I remembered to have 4 doors per side is the older E321 Yamanote line, which the intermediate car features 4 openable doors per side.



However, I believe that is to simulate the actual 6-door-per-side intermediate cars instead, as shown below, unlike simulating all the doors 1-to-1 like Osaka Metro.

Well, Plarail usually makes three doors on trains that have four, but not on this one - both the original and the model have four doors... Btw. this one is really cool, spacey, looks like Darth Vader would drive it! 😁

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Thank you Mr No & Hanoi

Holy Smokes....this coach with the six doors is massively long...50' 60'? And look hoe close together those coaches are. Surely they could not navigate any sharp curves. It even looks like they have bumpers so they don't bang against each other.

Interestingly that coach is still the same length as all other coaches of that train, which is about 65ft according to Wikipedia. The coach number is SaHa E230.

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