Christ, I just noticed the 6600 yen price tag- not far off 70 dollars for a set that has one powered engine, a pullback, and virtually no accessories beyond a station! You can get the current dokidoki mountain set for about 55 dollars on sale from Amazon.
Regular price for a single release engine is what, like 2700 yen on Amazon? Throw a little on top of that to cover the Thomas, jet engine, and the Kenji with the pullback - lets call it 3500 yen. A two pack of stoppers is 550 yen - even though the set looks to use the new half straight stopper, I'll just say it covers the two half straights as well. There doesn't seem to be regular curve rails or the double track switches available from Tomy on Amazon Japan right now, but on hobbysearch they are 385 yen for four curves and a four pack of straights and 440 for the switches not on sale. Altogether to me that comes to 5645 for two packs of curves, four straights, the switches, two stoppers and buffers, and a three car train, which will build you a similar loop with two full size stoppers between the points and a three straight long side length instead of two and a half. I just don't see the value there, unless the promo for Thomas and Kenji is covering something up.
The Thomas and Hiro set with the complete station building, siding with shed, three trees, and two powered engines was 5200 yen on hobbysearch, for comparison
Regular price for a single release engine is what, like 2700 yen on Amazon? Throw a little on top of that to cover the Thomas, jet engine, and the Kenji with the pullback - lets call it 3500 yen. A two pack of stoppers is 550 yen - even though the set looks to use the new half straight stopper, I'll just say it covers the two half straights as well. There doesn't seem to be regular curve rails or the double track switches available from Tomy on Amazon Japan right now, but on hobbysearch they are 385 yen for four curves and a four pack of straights and 440 for the switches not on sale. Altogether to me that comes to 5645 for two packs of curves, four straights, the switches, two stoppers and buffers, and a three car train, which will build you a similar loop with two full size stoppers between the points and a three straight long side length instead of two and a half. I just don't see the value there, unless the promo for Thomas and Kenji is covering something up.
The Thomas and Hiro set with the complete station building, siding with shed, three trees, and two powered engines was 5200 yen on hobbysearch, for comparison
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