Namikaze Toy Store On Vacation

Hello PLARAIL Fans!

We thank you for your visits, questions, and comments to our blog, website, and even eBay. We will be taking some vacation time which will affect our ability to ship out PLARAIL this holiday season. If you can, place your orders before December 10th and we'll ship out everything that comes in before then. Otherwise all orders will be shipped upon our return January 4, 2009.

We hope to bring you more selection as we search for more PLARAIL on our trip.

Mahalo,
namikaze toys
http://namikazetoys.com

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Tomy PLARAIL - New Releases, November and December 2008

Tomica and Plarail Town Set

This set combines Tomica's Town scene with the familiar blue PLARAIL train tracks. The set includes a Hokkaido train car, Tomica Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, and a PLA-Kid racer figure. The train takes 1 - AA battery. Other PLARAIL pieces include: J-13 City Train Station (2nd level with light blue parts), J-14 bridge legs, J-15 mini bridge leg, J-06 double length slopes, R-03 inner curve rail, R-01 straight rails, R-18 A&B climbing curved rails, and R-20 quarter length rails.


West JR Shinkansen - Fresh Green 0 Farewell Set

JR Series 0 Sanyo Shinkansen Bullet Train "Fresh Green Color" set to commemorate its retirement. There are 6-car trains and includes 4 segments of an elevated rail group for display purposes. The train requires 1-AA battery, and more elevated rail to create a functional route.
Shinkansen Mega Trailer

A bullet train transport trailer! This set comes with one PLA-kid train engineer. This mega transporter uses 1-AAA battery to power the lights. It has a manual arm crane to lift and place any 3-car train into the bed of the trailer. However, the Shinkansen shown in the picture is not included.

8000 Keihan Train S-59 (express)

It's cool, it's red and cream colored, JAM ON! This train has 2-speeds and requires 1 AA battery. 京阪 (Keihan) comes from the characters 京都 (Kyoto) and 大阪 (Osaka). The Keihan Densha runs between Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga prefectures. The 8000 series was introduced to the Keihan line in 1989.

Hyper Guardian Series - HGS-03 Fire-Liner

A new addition to the Hyper Guardian Series - Disaster and rescue vehicles. This set comes with one PLA-kid fire fighter and requires 1-AA. The last car can be expanded up into a bucket ladder. Tomy has yet to announce another 2 more Hyper Guardian Series trains.

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New Designs: 'Transform Train Garage'

Okay, before you say, "Whaaa?" It's a direct translation for 車庫に変身(shako ni henshin). Our newest layout incorporates a 4-lane tunnel that moonlights as a train storage case when not in design use.

This unique layout contains four independent loops which fully utilize all four lanes of the train case.  Trains are able to travel freely from loop to loop using a number of manual switches and splitters.

As an added bonus, the track takes advantage of the R-12 Figure-8 splitter, allowing the train to enter and exit the inner loops on the same rail.  When all of the splitters are set in just the right position, a single train can traverse the entire course of the layout without any additional switching or interference.

6 x R-01 Straight Rails
2 x R-02 Half length Rails
16 x R-03 Inner Curve Rails
6 x R-04 Double Width Straight Rails
8 x R-05 Double Width Curved Rails
4 x R-11 Turn out Splitter Rails
2 x R-12 Figure 8 Splitter Rails
2 x R-13 Single to Double Point Splitter Rails
2 x R-24 N-shaped Splitter Rails
1 x Tunnel / Train Case "Shako ni Henshin"

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