Tomy PLARAIL - New Releases, March 2008

Nagoya City Subway, Higashi-Yama Line Model N1000
- ライト付名古屋市営地下鉄東山線N1000形

The Higashi-Yama Line of the Nagoya City Subway will be putting a new train into service starting March of 2008. This new train will receive a simultaneous plarail debut, complete with real headlamps that light up when the train is turned on. The rear car will have a set of holes on the roof which allow light to pass through and shine through another set of holes on the back of the car, giving off the appearance of rear tail lamps.


Tokyo Subway Marunouchi Line Double Set
- 地下鉄丸ノ内線ダブルセット

This double set features the the model 500 which entered service in 1957 as well as the currently used 02 series. Like the Nagoya Higashi Yama train featured above, both trains come with real illuminating headlamps as well as the same set of holes in the rear car that will give the appearance of rear tail lamps.

Fastech 360S Rail Set
- ファステック360S立体レールセット

The Cat Ears have finally made their Plarail debut! The Fastech 360S is East Japan Railway's Next Generation High-Speed testbed. It has been popularly referred to as the Nekomimi or Cat Ears due to the unique forward profile when deploying its special air brakes. The Fastech set also comes with its signature Arrow-Line and Stream-Line cars at each end. Both include levers which deploy the air brakes. Also, with a unique design of having the engine housed in the central car rather than the end car, you can have the train utilize either the Arrow or Stream-Line car as the front car.

Fastech 360S Cat Ear Air Brakes