Promotional Material Discussion

I take it Jdogman has collected some over time.

Haha, nope! I just wanted to see what things others had and ask if they knew anything about them. I seem to recall Sunhuntin has a detailed book which goes up to the 90s which lists the exact release dates of hundred of products, Ucwepn has a Plarail promotional DVD, and the Facebook group generously uploads scans from many Plarail and Tomica catalogues.

Those catalogues are pretty good sources of the history, although I find there seems to be multiple versions of catalogues from the same time period. I've seen some which have smaller contents and omit things such as the Thomas and Chuggington ranges, and there are others released for other parts of Asia which are all roughly translated into English.

I was hoping someone would know anything about this Plarail Thomas magazine from 2014, as it looks so good and these sorts of things are filled with great imagery: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0X-d38CcAEUC6-.jpg

Does anyone also know much or even have one of the Plarail Collection books? They've been made since around 2001 and I believe they show images of the full range for that year with the emphasis on the new products as you can tell by the cover, but I'm really not sure about them. There's also a version for the Tomica range as well. Here's the cover for Plarail Collection 2014: http://www.toysrus.co.jp/i/4/6/0/460345102ALL.jpg

This was actually released last year, so late this year we should be seeing a 2015 edition.