Hyper Guardian Series!

Tomy has dropped another bomb on us this month with the teaser page for a new series of Plarail trains called the Hyper Guardian Series. The teaser page can be found here. Judging by the text and the images, it's a series of fictional search, salvage and rescue type trains based on the Tomica Hyper Series. The interesting part is that one of the trains looks to be far larger than most Plarail trains and spans across an entire R-04 double-width rail.

Naturally, utilizing Tomy's existing rail lineup, a train that wide would be limited to going in circles. With the news of the R-28 Double-width Turn-out Rail release for August, it looks like they're going to change that. Hopefully this will be the start of more creative trains and a more varied lineup for the double-width rails. We'll be posting updates as they are released!

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Tomy PLARAIL - New Releases, August 2008

R-28 Double-Width Turn-out Rail

Tomy decides to up the fancy this month by releasing a double-width version of the standard turn-out rail. This new piece is similar to the standard R-11 turn-out rail with the exception being that it serves as dual switch for two trains to divert simultaneously, continue forward or even cut across each others paths. Like the R-11 they can be flipped and used on both sides to divert traffic in either direction.

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