Plarail TOMY Thomas NEW RELEASES

Anyone have pics or names for that just-announced set with a CGI-faced Thomas? Supposedly it comes with Owen and Cranky, too, but all I have is a tweet with a cropped screenshot with only Thomas. There's also supposed to be a silver metallic limited edition Thomas with Annie and Clarabel according to the same tweet.

A limited edition Silver Thomas!?!? Oh my...2018 is gonna be a great year!! I cannot wait!!!

Well Muddy, I don't know about this one with Annie and Clarabel version, but I saw a silver Thomas with slag cars in a video at the Expo. Apparently it will be limited to 100 pieces...

Ooooooh AA-aaaaak!!!...my heart just got ripped out!! :O Only 100? I literally went from giddy uncontrolled joy from that first post to a nauseous pit deep in my stomach after reading this.

if you can find, and own, a one in a million gold thomas, this one should be no trouble at all! just might take a while is all.

It was Tharazero who found the Gold Thomas, so it will take all the help that my friends here can give me to find one!!

true, forgot about that important fact! LOL.

Hey, so if Hurricane and Frankie are TS-22, and there's already a TS-20, what loco occupies the 21 spot

Hey, so if Hurricane and Frankie are TS-22, and there's already a TS-20, what loco occupies the 21 spot

Shooting Star Gordon is TS-21. Speaking of these series numbers, TS-20, Luke, seems to be discontinued completely by now and replaced by Streamlined Thomas, but I can't find the Streamlined Thomas, nor Gordon, on Amazon, nor Luke anywhere! Usually the discontinued engines would still be sold until the stock runs out, and then immediately replaced by the new one carrying the number.

Also still would love to know some more about the set that supposedly includes Owen and Cranky!

I figured out what some of the text says on the set with Merlin.
ぐるぐるまわてう! = Make round and round!
トーマスとマーリン石の炭ホッパーセット = Thomas and Merlin stone charcoal hopper set
すすだらけ トーマス = Totally sooty Thomas
プラレール マーリン = Plarail Merlin
動力? = power
動力なし = No power

The characters in grey were extremely difficult to see clearly in the image, and I don't know Japanese. Fortunately, it turned out that translating "motorized" alone from English to Japanese turned up with a similar word to the ones underneath the red text, and adding it on to the beginning of what I already wrote for Thomas and Merlin translated to "power" and "no power", respectively. I'd say this confirms that Merlin is unmotorized. Perhaps the black slit on top of his cab means that he really will get a motorized release at one point, or is that just wishful thinking?

After spending an hour and a half (and therefore my free period and lunch) translating that advertisement and then looking for pictures of the set with Owen, Cranky, and Thomas, I've discovered that every already knew that Merlin is unmotorized. Take a look at some of these tweets, which show pictures of TV advertisements and up-close photos of the new engines on display.
https://twitter.com/thomas20148/status/9...0274634752
https://twitter.com/thomas20148/status/9...1119144960
https://twitter.com/thomasandhumi/status...3793398784
https://twitter.com/thomasandhumi/status...8916892672