Toy links tagged "Microman/Micronauts"
1983 Tokyo Toy Fair.
Where Takara’s Microman Microchange and Diaclone Car Robot came to Hasbro’s attention. (YouTube, 24:39.)
Microman Zone catalogue.
“With the crisis of the great ‘oil shock’ in 1973, the large clear cyborg toys were getting too high-cost for manufacture, so some new scale formats were tried out …” (Parts 2, 3, 4, 5.)
Microforever.
“Microman Zone proved to be popular and by its second year Microman line began to take on its own identity and separated itself from the influence of the Henshin Cyborg line.”
Ogawa Iwakichi interviewed.
“… when we manufactured Jaguar, we used 3mm joints of ABS plastic for attachments. … Since the 3mm pegs seemed to break easily, I figured, okay, let’s go with 5mm. From that point onward, Takara has used the 5mm gauge for all their product’s molds ever since.”
Marty Abrams interviewed.
“We were making action figures, we were making playsets, and making toys of multiple figures within brands. Micronauts had all of the above, plus one additional piece of the pie, which was construction and building. … You could take characters apart and put them back together again.”
AcroKerberos.
A Microman custom by misodrill.
MicroWalker.
Another neat Microman-Assemble Borg crossover by N@K. (See also.)
Gunsmith Smokesugar.
A Microman custom by misodrill.
Gimca 2011.
Cool Microman/Assemble Borg crossovers by N@K.
Die Multimobile Welt Der Micronauts.
Apparently German toy safety laws were particularly stringent in the Seventies. (More.)