Future of Tomica World in USA

It was a shame the Tomica range seemed to silently discontinue last year as it was removed from the worldwide Tomy websites. I suppose there's just not much appeal for this system when there's licensed characters from other companies that are going to get selling. I guess it was good for us if all that blue track was being made. It was like how from 1998-2002, there were some great looking European trains in the Tomica World range, but Thomas was just unstoppable. I remember being so pleased when I was younger when the range had now turned into a Thomas range. I'm probably not going to be much help with my contribution here. Where I live, I've rarely seen any Tomica products and the only thing I have seen at the same toy stores a set and some add-ons all wrapped up as one unit. I do wonder what the sales are like with licensed trains compared to the regular Plarail trains in Japan considering its popularity.