Quote Originally Posted by High_Q View Post
I realised that i phrased my original question poorly. I asked about wheels but really was curious whether the bogies on Shouki are able to rotate on their axes in altmode.
It's a fair question and one I hadn't thought of before. I actually went to a model railway store yesterday with my G1 and MP Shouki toys to see how they would fit on N and HO gauge tracks (perfectly!). I was going to get tracks to build a loop, but the employee pointed out that G1 and MP Shouki have no articulated trucks, meaning that they can't go around curved tracks, only straight ones. I did roll MP Shouki on a slightly curved track and it was fine, but yeah, I don't think either the G1 or MP Trainbots can go around significant bends in tracks. Not unless you have one really long slightly curved piece of track (which would occupy a lot more space).

I bought some straight N gauge track pieces yesterday and my G1 Trainbots roll fine on those. A few days ago I did order a cheap set of plastic HO gauge track pieces off Amazon; after my visit to the store yesterday I went to cancel the order but it's already shipped. So I might as well test out MP Shouki to see how well he goes around curves, but I'm expecting him to derail. I'll be posting photos of my G1 Trainbots on N gauge tracks soon (probably stick them on the Retro Review thread).