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Hashamoto was originally bright yellow, in both the original London and Broadway productions, similar in color to the JNR 0 series Shinkansen in Dr. Yellow, however he was changed to blue (presumably to avoid racist connotations) for the 1987 Japan/Australia Tour and subsequent German production to resemble the actual 0 series passenger Shinkansen. The yellow Broadway costume was used for the 1989 US Tour and Las Vegas, but a blue German costume was used first for filming the 3D races, then for the 2003 US tour and the UK Tours that used the same film footage.

In 2018, the Bochum production underwent significant revisions for the show's 30th anniversary. Hashamoto was re-branded "Manga", and given a predominantly silver colour scheme, with yellow highlights, possibly a hybrid of the JR East livery with Dr. Yellow elements.


London[]

Drue Williams, 1984 - 1985[]

Eamon Geoghegan, 1985 - 1987[]

Trevor Hodge, 1987[]

Gary Forbes, 1987 - 1988[]

George Canning, 1988 - 1991[]

Masayoshi Hamana, 1991 - 1992[]

Simon Harrison-Scott, 1992[]

Scott Pattison, 1992 - 1994[]

Grant Anthony, 1994 - 1995[]

Adam Floyd, 1995 - 1997[]

Andrew Spillett, 1997 - 1998[]

Richard Twyman, 1998 - 1999[]

Adam Floyd, 1999 - 2000[]

Leo Bidwell, 2000 - 2001[]

Paul Ramsay, 2001 - 2002[]

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Broadway 1987[]

D Michael Heath, 1987[]

Ken Rose 1987 - 1989[]


Japan/Australia Tours[]

1987 - 1988[]

Mayo Kawasaki as Hashimoto & Harold Yi as Nakamura

1990[]

Hiroshi Watari as Hashamoto & Kenichiro Maeno as Yamamoto

Bochum, Germany[]

Ric Mount, 1988 - 1989[]

John Little, 1989 - 1990[]

Gary Forbes, 1990[]

Ramon Visser, 1991[]

Chris Lamontagne, 1991 - 1992[]

Kirk Kuhn, 1992 - 1993[]

Robert Jakeman, 1993 - 1996[]

Kouta Otsuka, 1996 - 1998[]

Joop Leiwakabessy, 1998 - 1999[]

Tom Moneypenny, 1999 - 2007[]

Eddie Dredge, 2007 - 2008[]

Travis Hickey, 2008 - 2010[]

Vladimir Hub, 2010 - 2012[]

Nils Haberstroh, 2012 - 2014[]

Elliot Collins, 2014 - 2016[]

Dewayne Adams, 2016 - 2017[]

Paddy Joe Martin, 2017 - 2018[]

Gary Sheridan, 2018 - 2019[]

Jamie Sidhom, 2019 - 2020[]

Vladimir Hub, 2020 - 2025[]

Backstage[]


US Tour 1989 - 1991[]

Glenn Shiroma, 1989 - 1991[]


Las Vegas 1993-1997[]

Bob Lee Dysinger, 1993 - 1994[]

Robert Dean, 1994 - 1995[]

Richard D Barber, 1995 - 1996[]

Juan Cantu, 1996 - 1997[]

US Tour 2003[]

Robert Roby, 2003 - 2004[]

UK Tour 2004 - 2008[]

Philippe Reynolds, 2004 - 2005[]

Tim Driesen, 2006 - 2007[]

Matt Krzan, 2007 - 2008[]

New Zealand Tour 2009[]

Clayton Curnow, 2009[]

UK Tour 2012[]

Nick Bower, 2012 - 2013[]

Starlight Express On Ice 1997[]

Mexico 1997[]

Fernando Barrios, 1997 - 1998[]

South Africa 2013[]

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