I Googled it directly to the image of the 1998 Plarail Oliver box for you. Hadn't looked for it on the wikia yet.
http://auctions.c.yimg.jp/img117.auction...cf0128.jpg
There are no differences between any of the Olivers. They are all pretty much the same thing, just different packaging to show what range they came from. The only minor difference I can think of is that, like every other item, versions before 2000 will have the older rounded Tomy logo underneath the engine which you often see coloured red on boxes, and after 2000 versions have the updated logo underneath that's still used today. When you were listing the ranges out, I take it when you said Tomy, you weren't refering to Tomy Trains, the dark blue track system, considering Oliver wasn't made in it? Cause Tomy's just the name of the company, not a range.
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2015, 12:57 PM by jdogman.)
http://auctions.c.yimg.jp/img117.auction...cf0128.jpg
There are no differences between any of the Olivers. They are all pretty much the same thing, just different packaging to show what range they came from. The only minor difference I can think of is that, like every other item, versions before 2000 will have the older rounded Tomy logo underneath the engine which you often see coloured red on boxes, and after 2000 versions have the updated logo underneath that's still used today. When you were listing the ranges out, I take it when you said Tomy, you weren't refering to Tomy Trains, the dark blue track system, considering Oliver wasn't made in it? Cause Tomy's just the name of the company, not a range.