2015 Fisher Price Trackmaster

I love it Hank!!
Where else I'm the world could one have a personal deeply satisfying intricate discussion about such obscure topics but BPT!?!?
I will post some examples...

I really liked where you ranked HiT Hank and was wanting to agree, but after this handling and shoot I can only re-rank and place Hit at #2...
These Plarail versions are just gorgeous, and in holding one the measure of quality is undeniable..

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[Super]

I didn't know there were different versions of Stanley. I really like the pure white one with the black boiler deck and smaller cab. What release is that one?


I am curious as to how you are posting your pictures as we keep having to remove tons of redundant quotes. Are you quoting your own post every time you add an attachment or creating a new post for each picture?

@"super" that Stanley is the plarail variant. Looks astonishing, but for some reason, I prefer the HIT toys/FP variant.

Yes that's a Plarail Stanley.. Very petite dimensions and a charcoal grey deck
One of my favorite Plarails because he's so different from the other versions..
Yes..again my apologies for these messes!! Idk what I'm doing wrong??
I am clicking "reply" to my post, and then "choosing a file", and then "posting reply".....

[HankAmericanEngine]

It's quite interesting to see side-by-side comparisons of the engines from all three ranges, Muddy. Quite the beautiful sight with Plarail, as to be expected.

I think I'll do one of these with all the Victor engines produced; I just picked up a TM Revolution one for customizing and modding, so it's going to be very interesting to see how each compares against the other.

Today I visited ASDA (UK name for Walmart), where I found seven boxes of The Original (LBSC) Thomas. I could see from the outside that there were problems with some of them:

* Damaged faces - one scratched, the other chipped
* Gaps and thin bits in the white lining
* Round window/whistle stickers askew, in some cases flapping loose where they overlapped the side edges of the cab

In the end I used my thumbnail to cut through the seal on each box so I could look at them properly, and I was able to find just one that deserved to have passed quality inspection. Not very impressive so far, but yes of course I had to have it.

Now that I've got him home I'm looking forward to an in-depth examination so that I can see for myself the various 'features' that others have commented on here already.

[HankAmericanEngine]

Thanks to our great friend @"Muddy Poppins" for his Victor comparisons by all the manufacturers, I decided to do the same with my small Victor collection and found a number of big differences, so I'm going to list them here:

1.) HiT Toys/Fisher-Price TrackMaster(1.0) Victor has the shortened height to make him seem smaller compared side-by-side to any other engine, which I feel made him very accurate, but he did lack a lot of detail, and I wasn't very fond of so many stickers being used to give such detail as he was in the program.

2.) TAKARA TOMY Plarail Victor (both Pre-Sodor and Sodor) has a vast amount of detail, making him quite the jewel to admire, and his speeds are a touch different; my Pre-Sodor Victor seems to run just a touch faster than his Sodor Livery counterpart, but I am beyond words with how thrilled that the Pre-Sodor Victor is just like how he was in Cuba before he took a dip in Brendam Docks.

3.) TrackMaster 2.0 Victor is somewhat elongated, which makes it quite good and easily modded to create another engine more realistically; sadly, his face looks like an ape's, which I'm not too fond of. His detail is painted on, but I have already seen signs of it being worn away just from sitting in its box on the store shelves and pegs.

4.) Each one has a varied running speed compared to its other counterpart; obviously, the fastest would be thought to be the Fisher-Price TrackMaster 2.0, but my Pre-Sodor Victor easily overtook him and made a sizable gap between the two. Slowest was HiT Toys, but I attribute that to years of love from me, as I enjoyed watching him run alongside some of my other engines.

5.) As for aesthetics (photography, filming), the line-up from me is as follows: 1.) Pre-Sodor Victor 2.) Plarail Victor 3.) HiT Toys TM Victor 4.) F.P. TM 2.0 Victor. I might be a touch prejudice towards Pre-Sodor Victor, as I love the colour green (Have to represent my university somehow), but I feel it has much more character and life to it compared to its Sodor counterpart from Plarail. HiT Toys certainly has the short and stumpy height down, but I feel there is a large lack of detail within the engine itself, and I don't think I must divulge into the 2.0 version at all.

Great post Hank!! Would you post a side by side of the FP & Hit for me please?? I don't have a hit, is it that different?

[HankAmericanEngine]

Great post Hank!! Would you post a side by side of the FP & Hit for me please?? I don't have a hit, is it that different?

Howdy Muddy!

To be honest, there is no difference between the HiT Toys' Victor and Fisher-Price TrackMaster 1.0 Victor; the only "major" difference is the sticker for the front coupling.