Takara Tomy introduced their new bullet train toy - Linear Liner.

At 300.00 I might just order some for sale.

Hmmmmmm.....reminds me of my 1960's era Hot Wheels Supercharger system!!!

I'll bet the train is super lightweight material with a couple of super magnets inside. 

Track looks like it has magnets too.....and the 'station' propels the train around the oval. 

It'd be cool to see it run on something other than a small oval....but I bet it'd require a 'station' pretty often. 

And knowing Tomy most items are close to HO scale. 

Cool to watch!

I wonder if it's O gague size or more toward s scale?

And knowing Tomy most items are close to HO scale. 

THe math on the scale speed works out to about HO.

Here's another link and and a much better video. I will order one if Charlie Nassau carries them. The coolness factor is a 10/10.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanreal...ature-maglev-trains/

Its cool, but it looks even smaller than HO possibly?  If you could fit it into the background from a distance it would be an awesome forced perspective item, but then it might be too far back to really see the "wow" factor.   

Put me on the list for it. I find a place!!!

I will stick to rails, 35 mph heavy freight and 70 mph passenger trains, thank you very much.  

What is the world coming to?  Next, people will be carrying small portable phones around in their shirt pockets!

I can just about see the attraction but at that speed I think you'd need some very long straights otherwise it's a little, uh, boring? Think I might opt for a Disney monorail instead.

Really nice Japanese video/commercial though!

It would look good in my amusement park area. I was hoping for the monorail to come, but the date keeps getting push back.  This probably will be available sooner...... 

Looks really neat. That is Darn Fast! However, it's pretty clearly scaled (Even looks to share some tressel connections with) to their classic "Plarail" (blue tracked) battery powered toy trains.  Plarail  is also known as "Tomy Trains" or "Tomica" and is a shortened version of HO scale, though they are box scale, so all trains are about the same size.  Kind of the same way 0-27 cars are shortened.

As an aside, Plarail is a brilliant system of toy trains. It's been around for 50 years in Japan and has a dizzying array of accessories track types and trains.  They're battery powered, but will free-wheel in the "off" setting so little kids can push them around until they're ready for power.

Until recently you could find the stuff in the USA under the "Tomica World" label. Also The Thomas and friends "Trackmaster" trains used to run on this system until Tomy lost the contract to Fisher Price who switched to a more "realistic" and much more toy-like railway system with far more emphasis on "playsets" than the more railway-like Tomy accessories. The trains are still compatible, but unfortunately they no longer free-wheel in the off position. 

For my son, I've acquired a ton of this blue-track stuff from Thomas, Tomica and a few things ordered from Japan.  He loves it.

Fascinating; however I'm with you on this one.  If it's too small to hit with a hammer, then I consider it un-repairable

Next thing you know folks will be merging typewriters with their watches. 

I'm old school, and with these old eyes, I'm holding out for a wrist strap for my IPad. 

I prefer to savor the image of a train going by, not a blur.

Rusty

Yeah, and next thing you know your car will be able to talk to you and give you directions.

Jerry