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Tomica are a series of small 1/64 scale die-cast cars from Tomy first produced in 1970. By 1976 over 100 million total Tomica cars had been produced, with 200 million produced by 1979. The range expanded to include plastic buildings and playsets and several different styles of road. This page (will eventually) cover my small collection of "regular" Tomica vehicles as well as Tomy's Motor Tomica (also called B/O Tomica and Plaroad) range that was similar to and integrated into Plarail. Also covered are other Plarail-adjacent road systems like Plahighway and the original 1980s Plaroad.

Tomica Town

Tomica Town is a series of plastic stores and other buildings made to fit the Tomica diecast cars and a series of cardboard road pieces to create cities with curbs, parking spaces, garages, shops, and other amenities

B/O Tomica/Motor Tomica/Plaroad

Motor Tomica, called B/O for Battery Operated Tomica from 1993 to 1996, was one of Tomy's most well-developed road systems with a wide range of cars, road, and accessories. Like previous car systems Plaroad and Plahighway it featured its own sets, accessories, and cars as well as crossover sets with Plarail. In the 2000s Motor Tomica changed to using the Plaroad name and had a more cut-back lineup

Sets

Cars

This is by absolutely no stretch a complete listing - just the handful of cars that I own

Road & Accessories

Like Plarail and the other previous road systems, Tomy sold individual packs of different styles of road pieces

The original Plaroad (プラロード) series was developed in the mid 1980s and like Plahighway before it and Motor Tomica after it both individual Plaroad sets and crossover Plarail ones were released. Plaroad reused some Plarail components like girders and could be stacked into multi-level layouts. Alongside Plarail's brand refresh and transition to new power in 1987 most Plaroad items were repackaged in Plarail packaging and sold as Plarail accessories rather than a companion range and they disappeared from production around 1990. In the 2000s Motor Tomica was also sold under the Plaroad name

Plahighway was Tomy's first companion road system for Plarail developed in the late 1960s that lasted until around 1974. Road was originally tan but changed to a light blue in the 1970s. Standalone sets as well as Plarail crossover sets with operating crossings were released. A "police chase" style set with two cars and a highway interchange was exported to some countries as late as 1979. More information about the domestic Japanese range can be found in the Plarail Museum's Plahighway Annex