Having just received my latest bundle of goodies from Japan which happened to include some Capsule PlaRail as well as some made by a non-Tomy maker (Epoch Gachapon?) I thought I'd resurrect this thread.
I picked up a set of Thomas models, another set of Tomy non-Thomas and a set of the other maker (I'll look it up later) so thought I'd see what people have said in the past and compare it with my findings.
The good news is I really like the models, Thomas and co are lovely and quite detailed for their size, although I was a bit suprised to find you're expected to decorate them with the decals yourself as its a bit fiddly! But a small price to pay. Similarly the other Tomy set is interesting containing a Spacia express and the east-i express (or whatever its called) along with a 202 type commuter train. There was also some buildings and a bit of track. I may actually have considered a video just to keep AC happy, but unfortunately I don't have enough track yet to form even a circle let alone a rectangle
The other set has a 6 car E5 Hayabusa (Falcon) Shinkansen and a 6 car E7 (Shine) Shinkansen. These are not quite as detailed as the Tomy relying on printing/painting to represent the windows rather than having actual moulded windows. But nontheless they look pretty good having quite close coupling and a low profile like the real thing. But and here is the really nice thing is whereas the Tomy models are clockwork (for want of a better description) these do have a motor car (one of the intermediate cars) and a leading car with an LED light. The former is powered by a single AAA and the LED car by a pair of LR44 button cells. Again this set came with some track which is more realistic than the Tomy and clips together differently, but again I'm short of a circle or rectangle so its not really possible to show a set running, it also came with two tunnels, one for a straight track one for a curve.
The nice thing though is that both types of capsule PlaRail are compatible with the others track (shame the tracks don't join lol) but more interesting is I have found that they also are the same gauge as the Konami Digi-Q train track I have so I can potentially setup some of that and run them on that for now - the only main difference is that both the Tomy/Gasopan have the grip type treads moulded on the track whereas the Konami doesn't so they may struggle a bit. If they work maybe AC will get his wish lol!
So what have you guys got in terms of Capsule? Sun? JDogMan?
I picked up a set of Thomas models, another set of Tomy non-Thomas and a set of the other maker (I'll look it up later) so thought I'd see what people have said in the past and compare it with my findings.
The good news is I really like the models, Thomas and co are lovely and quite detailed for their size, although I was a bit suprised to find you're expected to decorate them with the decals yourself as its a bit fiddly! But a small price to pay. Similarly the other Tomy set is interesting containing a Spacia express and the east-i express (or whatever its called) along with a 202 type commuter train. There was also some buildings and a bit of track. I may actually have considered a video just to keep AC happy, but unfortunately I don't have enough track yet to form even a circle let alone a rectangle
The other set has a 6 car E5 Hayabusa (Falcon) Shinkansen and a 6 car E7 (Shine) Shinkansen. These are not quite as detailed as the Tomy relying on printing/painting to represent the windows rather than having actual moulded windows. But nontheless they look pretty good having quite close coupling and a low profile like the real thing. But and here is the really nice thing is whereas the Tomy models are clockwork (for want of a better description) these do have a motor car (one of the intermediate cars) and a leading car with an LED light. The former is powered by a single AAA and the LED car by a pair of LR44 button cells. Again this set came with some track which is more realistic than the Tomy and clips together differently, but again I'm short of a circle or rectangle so its not really possible to show a set running, it also came with two tunnels, one for a straight track one for a curve.
The nice thing though is that both types of capsule PlaRail are compatible with the others track (shame the tracks don't join lol) but more interesting is I have found that they also are the same gauge as the Konami Digi-Q train track I have so I can potentially setup some of that and run them on that for now - the only main difference is that both the Tomy/Gasopan have the grip type treads moulded on the track whereas the Konami doesn't so they may struggle a bit. If they work maybe AC will get his wish lol!
So what have you guys got in terms of Capsule? Sun? JDogMan?
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