It seems they were pretty fastidious regarding accuracy to the trains in question:Are the actual trains really that off-white color or did Takara color sample some vintage toys that had been in the sun for a while? I'd have figured the whites would have been brighter on both him and Shoki.
Translated Interview: Kojin Ono Figure King 285, October 2021
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