Help With The Kids

Can anyone tell me where any of these four Pla-kids came from?

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I have these in the few hundred PlaKids I have but sadly don't know exactly where they came from. They look like ones that may have come in a set rather than a train like a station or something but thats only a guess. They could also be individually released or part of giveaways at the Expo Shows which some PlaKids are. I don't know if you have checked this site that Geris Posted quite a while ago or if it would even help https://sea.ap.teacup.com/shao/204.html

Checked through every post on that blog, but I'm none the wiser. Interesting though!

Meanwhile, have you ever seen anything like this before?

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You mean like these?




I have often wondered why a few PlaKids have these screws because I didn't like the way they looked when staging them in a Building or scene for the layout. Now that you have brought this up Dr Chris....I took a closer look and everyone of the Kids with screws were Made in Thailand whereas most of the other plethora of Kids have Made in China or Vietnam. I don't see any other Made in Thailand PlaKids until...............more recent releases like these without a screw.




I am curious as to why the screws only in Thailand and what must be glue in all the others. It would also be interesting to know the years they were released.

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My curiosity got the better of me as to why there are screws on some PlaKids so I removed the screws on several of them. I assumed that they would just come apart in 5 pieces (Head, arms, legs, front & back torso) but nothing happened. Either they also used a spot of glue when assembling these or they snap together somehow very tightly but...if they did...why would they need a screw. I might sacrifice one of the most common ones to see what makes it tick. I do have hundreds of them

Can anyone tell me where any of these four Pla-kids came from?

Yay! Found them! At last!
The Let's Play with the Super Auto Tomica Building! Drive Car Set 2 was released May, 2011. It was a product meant to tie in with the Super Auto Tomica Building playset.

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Oh, wow, I never thought they would have all been available in one set. I admire your persistence in your continued search for answers Dr Chris 👍

Oh, wow, I never thought they would have all been available in one set.

That was definitely a bonus. This site プラキッズアーカイブ is worth bookmarking.

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I'll say that site is 'Worth Book Marking', wow, the best site I have seen for PlaKids. They even show them in chronicle order through the years, something I have always wondered about. I see they start (unless I missed more pages) from 2001. I thought I had seen just about all Kids but I see many on that site that I haven't heard of before. I do like the one of a kinds and the ones that aren't just the same mold but in different colors. A couple that really popped out at me is this Pokemon one and the Kid that has the 'Takara/Tomy Staff' written on its back. Thank you so much Dr Chris, you are the best 👍