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Plarail

Plarail (プラレール, Purarēru) is a toy train and plastic track system made by Tomy and introduced in Japan in 1959. It was expanded into a battery-operated electric toy train system in October 1961. Plarail is not compatible with most other brands of model railway, although as it has a similar rail gauge to the wooden toy train systems, rolling stock may run…

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Owner
Takara Tomy
Introduced
1959
Product type
Toy train

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Plarail

Nodes26
Edges25
Triples69
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
Components1

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Plarail

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related to history · 16
Plarail → D51 Kisha, Electric Pla-Train Set, Fisher-Price, Friends, HiT Toys, In, In October, Japan, Japanese, March, Plastic Railroad Set, Since, The, This, Thomas, TrackMaster
related to Video games · 13
Plarail → Atlus Co, Densha Daisuki, Digital Plarail, Expansion, Games, In, Ippai, Kids Station, Plarail Tetsudō Monoshiri Hyakka, PlayStation, Tomy, Windows, Yume
related to International · 11
Plarail → Asia, European, Friends, In, Rail, The, Thomas, Thomas Motor Road, Tomica World, Tomy Trains, UK
related to Official stores · 7
Plarail → Apart, In, Like, Plarail Lifestyle, Plarail Shop, Tokyo Station, Tomica Shop
related to External links · 6
Plarail → English, Japanese, Official Plarail, Official Tomica UK, Takara Tomy, TomyMuseum
related to Promotional DVDs · 6
Plarail → DVD, DVDs, Plarail Expos, These, Tomica, Various
related to In popular culture · 3
Plarail → Paramodel, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Yusuke Nakano
related to Expos · 2
Plarail → Japan, Plarail Expos
Introduced · 1
Plarail → 1959
Owner · 1
Plarail → Takara Tomy

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range system train trains released series tomy products toy track tomica first based japan featured new rail since thomas uk

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PlarailIntroduced19591.00infobox
PlarailOwnerTakara Tomy1.00infobox
PlarailProduct typeToy train1.00infobox
Plarailis arange of push along trains that light up without batteries required0.90text
Plarailrelated to ExposPlarail Expos0.60section
Plarailrelated to ExposJapan0.60section
Plarailrelated to External linksOfficial Plarail0.60section
Plarailrelated to External linksTakara Tomy0.60section
Plarailrelated to External linksJapanese0.60section
Plarailrelated to External linksEnglish0.60section
Plarailrelated to External linksOfficial Tomica UK0.60section
Plarailrelated to External linksTomyMuseum0.60section

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