|
Tuesday October 21, 2008
|
As a toy lover, I'm thrilled that Takara Tomy has announced a minute and cute train set called the Q-Train. It belongs to the series of Q toys by Tomy that includes those similarly diminutive QFO flying UFO. The Q-Train comes in a set with three cars measuring three centimeters per complete with traffic lights, sign posts, a bridge, a station, and a crossing among others. The trains were even made to look like real Japanese trains. A remote control is used to maneuver the toy and can be used to control two cars at once.
According to CrunchGear, it's not impossible for the Q-Train to arrive in the US through Tomy USA just like the Choro-Q racing cars sold as Penny Racers. In Japan though, the Q-Train will be released on November 15 and is priced at $38 per set. As for me, I have a decade-old toy locomotive I'm setting up to run under the Christmas tree for the holidays that might just be replaced.
|
|
|
Stumble
Digg
del.icio.us
Slashdot
October 22, 2008 12:37 PM
Q train has been presented in may during the Shizuoka Hobby Show and again last week during the All Japan Radicon Plamodel Hobby Show (read Tokyo Hobby Show).
For an overseas release everything depends on the success of the Japanese release. But I'm pretty confident it will be successful since during the Hobby Show I spotted two other companies showing prototypes of Q train like products that will be released next year.
(note on QFO: the original toy has been developed by a chinese company and showed at the beginning of the year in Hong Kong where Takara bought the license to mass produce it).