Dunno where to put this - Plarail Video Game Train Idea

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I've searched all over for the proper thread for this, but to no avail, so I decided to just put it here. Sorry ;-;

Anyway, this'll probably NEVER happen, but I was thinking about what it would look like if Valve and Takara Tomy teamed up to make train sets based on Valve video games? I'm pretty sure Counter-Strike and Half-Life have some trains in them, but I don't know anything about them, and they aren't as big of a deal as they are in Team Fortress 2.

It would be AWESOME to get a Plarail train set based on the payload map, pl_frontier, with a motorized 'Lil Chew-Chew loco and a BLU team flatbed that could fit little figures of the 9 classes on them. I'd think the best for it would be BLU Demoman, BLU Scout, RED Engineer (with some kinda special sentry gun interactive track piece), and RED Heavy.
I would LOVE to own something like that. I choose Frontier over other maps, as the other bomb carts don't have the sort of character and size that 'Lil Chew-Chew does. The ones from Hoodoo and the original maps are just too small and oddly-shaped to be motorized.
[Image: 2092983-lil_chewchew_1_.png] Lil' Chew-Chew as he appears in-game
Another idea for a Team Fortress train is to make it based on the short film and major update, "End of the Line", with the BLU team's Northern Express loco pulling several boxcars, with the graffiti on it, as shown in the movie. Maybe even add in Pyro's boxcar, with all the rainbows and unicorns on it. >w<
In addition, there could be some road packaged in as well, and a motorized Sniper's Van, and maybe some rubber ducks here and there.
[Image: demo2_1080.jpeg]Promo image for "End of the Line"
An imaginative idea however it takes much money, a long time and many people to make games like that in hopes that they sell hundreds of thousand of copies to make money. Even though we have many that would love a game like that in our community there probably isn't enough for a game maker to make money. One can dream though.
Those games mentioned already exist Tongue I think he would like Plarail models of the trains featured in the game Smile
(02-10-2016, 05:00 AM)Ucwepn Wrote: Those games mentioned already exist Tongue I think he would like Plarail models of the trains featured in the game Smile

Exactly correct, Ucwepn. Team Fortress 2 has been around for more than 8 years now, or more than 17 years if you count the development period.
I believe TF2 needs more toy-like merchandise than just the mini-mercenaries and the action figures. I also think Plarail should try and branch out to a broader target demographic, by making more mature train sets like this.
The attention it would get from some YouTubers such as Demise would also help make Plarail more popular in the U.S.



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