So, anyone heard of this stuff?

Some of you may have heard of Tomica, which is one of the original Matchbox/Hot Wheel 3" metal car manufacturers. Great stuff. They just celebrated their 40th anniversary.

So, the Hyper stuff, which is Hyper Rescue and Hyper Blue Police are like larger vehicles that contain and integrate with the standard 3" vehicles. They also include little men (two big to fit into the 3"ers, but great to drive these larger vehicles). They're all basically transforming playsets. The level of functionality is amazing.

I stumbled upon them in Sogo, a Japanese department store I frequented in Hong Kong. I was blown away, and thought some of you might appreciate them too.

Here's the TT website for it:
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products...ttei/index.htm

I got these two sets for my son and they're great fun:


http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products...7_09/index.htm


http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products...8_02/index.htm (Helicopter only)

The level of integration between all the sets is amazing. They're all really modular. You might notice that each set has these convertible containers that all do something different. They're all completely interchangeable. Also, most can combine to form ridiculously large vehicles:



So anyone else heard of these? Got any? Want to know more?