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[Ucwepn]

Hi Super yes if you and others don't mind I will use a different picture from here in each video stamped with the site address, The flat drive unit has been used by both companies in the past, it was very bad early on (noisy). Early uses of that drive unit include TOMY Donald and Douglas, Tomy Bill and Ben. I don't think they are in direct competition as Plarail is not sold outside of Asia in stores, but Trackmaster is almost worldwide but scarce in Asia. You have to remember early on it was only TOMY/Plarail that had the licence for Thomas and friends motorized trains, then some time after 2004 HiT toys acquired the licence and the toys had a transitional type of packaging for around a year they were marketed as TOMY Trackmaster so literally both brands in one, but under the rolling stock was still marked TOMY, they came with trackmaster track and adapter track pieces. Then the TOMY part was dropped from the name and HiT toys went about making the trains in what some fans describe as "The golden age of Trackmaster" or "Things were better when HiT had the license". Neither is necessarily true or false HiT did have some quality issues but seemed to include more detail and value in their trains. Then in around 2009-2011 Mattel/Fisher Price acquired the rights to the motorized Trackmaster line, the diecast take along/take n play line and the wooden line making a total knockout by owning of 80% of Thomas merchandise sold in stores.

The wheels and rivet detail on Stephen were done some time after the custom video. I did black the whole wheel and paint the spokes yellow again with uni paint marker, it looks weird when moving but good when sitting in the yard