Who is This guy?

[HankAmericanEngine]

The TOMY one might begin becoming rare with it being discontinued; Plarail Connor has been assigned TS-16, which was formerly Dash.

So Dash pictured in the first post with the large funnel is Tomy and the pair pictured are Fisher Price? Is the Tomy one rare?

[Super]

Thanks HankAmericanEngine, You are a wealth of knowledge. I really don't understand why Tomy has to reuse numbers for trains, tracks and accessories. Aren't their enough numbers to go around?

[HankAmericanEngine]

The company has updated the box artwork and numbering system, as a lot of the golden characters like Donald, Oliver, Stepney, and BoCo are being discontinued for production of newer characters.

Thanks HankAmericanEngine, You are a wealth of knowledge. I really don't understand why Tomy has to reuse numbers for trains, tracks and accessories. Aren't their enough numbers to go around?

Super I just found these posts...
Bash & Dash are modeled after The Bear Harbor #1... and it, and the "The Falk"#1 are the last two of their kind in existence left in the world (Gypsy), AND BOTH are housed basically in our backyard where we live!!
We visited them just today at the Fort Humboldt & Logging museum.
Here is a link to see them in action:
https://youtu.be/Npk6RFkM7fU

[Super]

Cute little engines. Thanks for the video Muddy

Bash and Dash were originally going to look far more accurate to their appearances in the TV show, at least in their Trackmaster releases. Prototype pictures of the Trackmaster Greatest Moments Bash and Dash featured a drastically different design from the final, although it looked like that original design was going to come with a price: painted on weathering of sort, looks to me like green specks, maybe moss??? Why would engines have moss grow on them?

These little engines were used under some of the harshest and miserable conditions any train could endure...Clearing the ancient redwood rainforests of the Pacific Northwest..Wet, dank, mossy, fern covered terrain covered by a 300 ft canopy that creates natural fog banks, in a humid climate that saw heavy rainfall year round!! Perfect conditions for moss to grow on anything not in motion!!

I really don't understand why Tomy has to reuse numbers for trains, tracks and accessories. Aren't their enough numbers to go around?

This is one of the things that has me puzzled as well, if you want to collect a set of something it drives you crazy as you never know how many TS-16's or whatever there have been, let alone what order they were released in, or which ones are the rarer ones.

They have just started their 3rd re-iteration of the PlaRail Advance system if anyone is interested, so far AS-17 and AS-09 are being replaced, the former with a Yamote Line suburban, the latter with a suburban of some type but which I'm not familiar with, although it has a similar colour scheme to the 8000/9000 series. If you're into Advance this latter one is quite important as it's replacing the Cassiopia so if you don't have the Cassy now is the time to pick one up before they start rocketing in price!!