Rarest Plarail/Tomy Trains

For some Japanese products, many collectors opening their products are viewed as helpful as they are able to take screenshots of mold differences. I know Vio opens his products just to collaborate with other teams and individual collectors. There are plenty of other people who open their packaging, not just Plarail, on YouTube too.

There is also a Japanese discussion in the past that if you don't open the toys, it insults the toy manufacturers.

Yes, I agree.

At least we have the box after all!

Update: Owen has received the James and confirmed that it is still mint in box, he will happily post pictures of it if you want, he's already done so on discord

How exactly does a toy manufacturer express being offended?

By releasing regional exclusive items which makes it incredibly difficult for collectors to get them? Just a hunch

Here are the images of the James. It’s gonna remain  mint in box for sure.






 

Owen, don't let all this negative talk get to you...its yours and you can do with it whatever you like. Lets drop the bashing and get back to positive topics please.

I mean, you can see it is still mib. I am on vacation right now so I really didn’t check here much. I get a lot of negative talk, so it’s fine!

How exactly does a toy manufacturer express being offended?

You can check this link. Translate Shirubu's comment and it says: "I feel guilty towards the designer and the sculptor if I leave the package unopened."
I'm not entirely sure if he means offending in this manner, but I think toy manufacturers would expect or want their toys to be played with instead of leaving it unopened.

https://muuseo.com/723/diaries/1

I don't think toy companies care whether their toys are opened or not. As long as they're making money they'll be happy. In a collectors eyes then it may seem offensive or a waste if someone doesn't open their toys. In my eyes I don't really care, its the owners choice what they want to do with their new product since they've paid for it

from my perspective, what Zwilling is saying is you have to look at it from as if you are the creator.
Image you created this toy for kids the age of 3 through 10, wouldn't you hope that the toy is played with? 
Although we all collect Plarail trains and Thomas trains.  At the end of the day the man or woman who designed them wasn't thinking of 18 years olds or 30 year olds or 60 year olds, he was designing it for someone (aged 3+) who will play with it and love it.
I hope that makes sense to people.  It is just the way I take it.

A universal opinion from most members on here say it's these three Plarail engines: Talk 'n' Action Diesel 10, Powerful Gordon, and Gold Thomas. The latter that several people have struggled to find online at all.

Honourable mentions to the Talk 'n' Action versions of Gordon, Henry, and Toby.

I've found quite a few powerful gordans for sale, but none with box