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Plarail The Legendary Hiro Popular Set Hiro・Rocky・Spencer (2010)

First written October 26, 2024

In October 2010 the multi-train pack The Legendary Hiro Popular Set Hiro・Rocky・Spencer (伝説の英雄にんきものセット ヒロ・ロッキー・スペンサー) Thomas-series Plarail train packs was released featuring Spencer, Rocky, and Hiro, all featured in the recent Hiro of the Rails special.

The Hiro and Spencer in this pack are the same as regular Plarail releases. The trains in my example were produced in Summer 2011, so it seems this pack stayed in production for a year or so.

This was the second Plarail release of Rocky after the Percy and Pounding Wagons Set release, with a lifting boom arm but still without the motorized mechanism seen in the individual European release.

Rocky is nicely detailed with flip-out stabilizers, and a little clutch keeps the arm up. This version removes the magnet in the crane "hook" and replaces it with small pegs that can hold it in place on his carriage instead. Rocky has no rear coupling.