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Tomica & Plarail 2004-2005 Catalogue

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In 2004 and 2005 Tomy continued to expand out their new highly-detailed and feature-packed range.

Tomica has had a wide variety of different car playsets over the years. New for 2004 is an unfolding parking garage, with the opposite series showing two multi-layer sets that can be combined together.

The ever-varied and expansive diecast Tomica range.

There are a good deal of cool looking Tomicas, but I do not know enough about cars to have any particular knowledge about them.

The very nice Tomica Town series was still on sale including the cardboard road system as well as a nice intersection with a pedestrian crossing. The opposite page shows "map" style Tomica playsets that can be lined up together.

Some of these Tomica garages as well as one of the construction sets had already been in production for several decades at this point. There is a neat set of stacking marble run-style blocks for cars on the opposite page, as well as noisemaking and Disney licensed cars.

Tomica gift sets and multi-packs, as well as some other styles of diecast that Tomy sold.

Tomy introduced several cool new sets this year including the Sound Open & Close Door Yamanote Line Set as well as the container loading and unloading set and several cool smaller sets with interesting Plakids, vehicles, and buildings.

More cool sets like the Double C62 set, E1 Max set with cool Double Track Tunnel, DD14 snowplow set, and the refreshed Motor Tomica range, now called Plaroad, a name previously used by Tomy in the 1980s. The road was changed to a lighter grey with matching switches (previously, these had been blue).

The refreshed Plarail range includes a wide range of Shinkansens as well as modern and still-running older commuter and passenger trains as well as a nice selection of individual and three-pack freight trains and cars.

The rail selection is pretty nice and has everything you could want to build a nice Plarail setup with a mix of more modern accessories alongside the refreshed and updated older toolings.

This page explains some of the basics of the rail standard, how some accessories and rails relate to each other, and the idea of the "A" and "B" switch system. The opposite page shows Plarail and Tomica themed plug-and-play TV games.

Capsule Plarail and Tomica as well as the Amusement series and soft and home goods..

Magazines and books as well as the second Plarail talking Thomas character series.

The Thomas range was also partially revamped around 2003 with a handful of new releases since then Sets are a mix of rereleases and a handful of smaller new sets, as well as Plaroad rereleases of some Thomas-series Motor Tomica.

Other Tomy Thomas toys including the Thomas Big Loader and Thomas Big Big Loader as well as the pullbacks and other toys. Tomy would begin to further expand the Thomas range in the coming years. Also relatively recent was the original "Alpha" series Tomica Thomas diecasts, which used Tomy's Alpha near-field communications system.

The back of the catalogue shows the Talking Thomas set and Tomica Thomas diecasts again.