Hi Guys and Gals, Here we have the all new new Plarail Gordon that has a brand new design! But is it any good? Lets start the review!\r
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TOMY has a long standing history with Plarail Trains and they have been making them for over 50 years! TOMY have been making Thomas and friends trains to suit the plarail motorized systerm since 1992 and the range has had many names since then, Tomica, Tomica world, TOMY Road & Rail and they eventually went on to be Trackmaster which is of course now owned by Mattel, So thankfully for now at least TOMY still has the license to make Thomas and friends and bring us high quality trains such as this. But will Mattel (who now owns the whole Thomas brand) renew TOMYs license to make Thomas trains after this year? I wouldnt bet on it :(\r
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Anyway enough of that rant and Im sure you all know the situation by now so lets have a good look at the redesigned Gordon!\r
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This new Gordon is the first version of Gordon to run on a single AA battery contained in the boiler of the locomotive itself, the tender is there for looks only now and no longer holds the battery, This is a good thing because Gordon remained mechanically unchanged since around 1994 and was surely tired of hauling a C sized battery around haha. New Gordon features redesigned siderods and they are good looking although remain as a solid piece when he is moving, they are more pleasing to the eye than the older version. The switch side of the boiler is flat and square near the cab and this led many to comment that he looks Like Henry, happily the other side of the boiler is normal. Gordon has fake front wheels which while better than nothing they look very out of place to my eyes at least. The cab windows are now solid blue and I would have liked to have seen them at least painted black. Other than all those things he has the new animated happy face and he looks great!\r
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His drive unit is the new type with a complicated gearset and a sliding switch, I have come to kind of like the simplicity of the Trackmaster revolution drive units so having an engine that free rolls is surely not the reason for such a complex gear set in the drive unit? I have also noticed that with so many moving parts the batteries just dont last as long as they did in the older type of drive units. But despite the complex drive unit he runs butter smooth and never really had any problems hauling 7 express coaches around the whole track. A very useful engine then? Yes!\r
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I give this Plarail Gordon a 9/10, I would have like the cab windows to be painted but that is a minor complaint. They certainly put allot of work into this design and other recent designs which is weird for a company that will shortly lose the rights to make motorized Thomas toys.\r
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TOMY has a long standing history with Plarail Trains and they have been making them for over 50 years! TOMY have been making Thomas and friends trains to suit the plarail motorized systerm since 1992 and the range has had many names since then, Tomica, Tomica world, TOMY Road & Rail and they eventually went on to be Trackmaster which is of course now owned by Mattel, So thankfully for now at least TOMY still has the license to make Thomas and friends and bring us high quality trains such as this. But will Mattel (who now owns the whole Thomas brand) renew TOMYs license to make Thomas trains after this year? I wouldnt bet on it :(\r
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Anyway enough of that rant and Im sure you all know the situation by now so lets have a good look at the redesigned Gordon!\r
\r
This new Gordon is the first version of Gordon to run on a single AA battery contained in the boiler of the locomotive itself, the tender is there for looks only now and no longer holds the battery, This is a good thing because Gordon remained mechanically unchanged since around 1994 and was surely tired of hauling a C sized battery around haha. New Gordon features redesigned siderods and they are good looking although remain as a solid piece when he is moving, they are more pleasing to the eye than the older version. The switch side of the boiler is flat and square near the cab and this led many to comment that he looks Like Henry, happily the other side of the boiler is normal. Gordon has fake front wheels which while better than nothing they look very out of place to my eyes at least. The cab windows are now solid blue and I would have liked to have seen them at least painted black. Other than all those things he has the new animated happy face and he looks great!\r
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His drive unit is the new type with a complicated gearset and a sliding switch, I have come to kind of like the simplicity of the Trackmaster revolution drive units so having an engine that free rolls is surely not the reason for such a complex gear set in the drive unit? I have also noticed that with so many moving parts the batteries just dont last as long as they did in the older type of drive units. But despite the complex drive unit he runs butter smooth and never really had any problems hauling 7 express coaches around the whole track. A very useful engine then? Yes!\r
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I give this Plarail Gordon a 9/10, I would have like the cab windows to be painted but that is a minor complaint. They certainly put allot of work into this design and other recent designs which is weird for a company that will shortly lose the rights to make motorized Thomas toys.\r
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Thanks for watching and please check out my new youtube channel ucwepn toy reviews, it is also family friendly and has some transformers toy reviews up at the moment with lots more different toy reviews coming so please subscribe :)
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