While the three components of Hasbro's Rail Racer were sold separately, Takara's version - JRX - was available as a single boxed set containing all three toys, each one featuring a lavish paint job to conceal the extensive use of translucent plastic in their construction. Given that none of the individual members of Team Bullet Train are exceptionally good, and that they're an unusual size (they'd probably be considered Voyager class these days), Hasbro's decision to break the set up into three supposedly Mega class boxes (probably only to accommodate their length) seems like nothing more than a means of maximising profits. By my estimate, the set of three would probably have amounted to the equivalent of single Super class figure like Optimus Prime or Ultra Magnus.
In retrospect, I'm more than a little weirded out by Hasbro's choice of size class descriptors: Spychangers (the Matchbox-sized vehicles), Basic (mostly G1 gestalt limb repaints), Deluxe (covering everything from the Autobot Car Brothers to the components of Landfill/Build King and G1 gestalt torso repaints), Mega (Team Bullet Train, Sky-Byte and two 3-packs of larger Basics that were effectively Beast Machines overspill), Ultra (Megatron and Galvatron) and Super (Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus), with roughly Super-equivalent toys like the Dreadwind/Smokejumper set and Scourge being outside the official size classes, apparently because they were US store exclusives. These designations are almost painfully 90s and, personally, I feel that they set Mega, Ultra and Super in the wrong order.
But I digress... Let's finally take a look at the members of Team Bullet Train in their combined form, as Rail Racer!
