The end of Thomas and friends from Plarail?

I'm not so sure this is true, what Tomy seem to be doing lately is re-engineering and re-releasing new versions of the existing engines, for example recently James was re-released I believe. It could be they are upgrading the tooling for the current range before launching new models

I feel as though they're sort of trying to copy Mattel by making all of the engines similarly made, but they aren't going all too far with it. They just made all of the drive units the same it seems, and are cutting back a bit on detailing *cough*Ryan*cough*, but not so much that it ruins it like Mattel did with Trackmaster. Just enough to make a good in between cheap production quality models.