micronauts 4: Battle Cruiser and Time Traveller

If anyone knows the name of the font used for the Micronauts brand name as seen at the end, please let me know and you will get a gold star.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• micronauts
• mego
• interchangeable
• 1970's
• toys
• commercial

[danlektro]

Dunno if you ever found a working copy of the Micronauts font. The micronet site seems to have died with Geocities - but is the Sega font close enough for you? It's much rounder than the Battlestar font.

[staticfluxforever]

@danlektro : it is the same, isn't it? I haven't laid eyes on the Sega logo since my days at the Sega Center arcade in the early eighties, and so had forgotten. I've just found it under "Sega font". Thanks!

[danlektro]

@staticfluxforever I think the "m" is slightly off but the font is otherwise spot-on. I've seen that style of writing used elsewhere before both Sega and the Micronauts, so the typeface both those fonts probably has an actual name I am unaware of. Maybe someone at the Mego Museum would know?

[staticfluxforever]

@danlektro That's a good suggestion about the Mego Museum, I'll try that. Yeah, the font was not uncommon throughout the 70's, often but not always in the context of futuristic themes. Right, the M and other letters in the Micronauts logo have a little "extra" at their ends, I assume a marketing strategy suggestive of the Star Wars brand logo which had stamped itself so firmly in the collective consciousness of the time.

[joconnor6]

it looks like the wings were also guns. i like toys that are toys in different scales!

[staticfluxforever]

they were!

[BarbieBoy1997]

owned! loved!

[THELARANANG123]

@staticfluxforever its mego

[videojomo]

I had one of these! Played with it til it fell apart. I never knew the wings converted into motorcycles until now.

[spadehatesscrewtube]

ok, cool. i'm tired. just let me go to sleep in my pharoid chamber.

(1,000 years later) oh hey, whats up?

[dewfall56]

Ahhh, childhood play before video games.

[LostandFoundTravel]

Nice!

[braincrisp1]

Damn I loved my micronauts. Could pull and twist em every which way.

[qm2smith]

Micronauts were AWESOME! =)

[moparmonster1965]

@danlektro The original micronauts predated Star Wars by three years, first released in 1976 (1974 in Japan), but yeah, I think you're right about the Baron Karza being their own version of Darth Vader.

[redbyrd64]

I had one of these. Wish I still had it