micronauts 1: circa '77

the joy of interchangeable plastic and die-cast metal

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Entertainment

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• space
• glider
• galactic
• warrior
• time
• traveller
• micronauts
• action
• figures
• interchangeable
• toys
• 1970's
• commercial
• acroyear
• mego

[bobbinsmahoney]

Cool , I had a robot knight and horse that had interchangeable magnetic joints top stuff

[staticfluxforever]

@bobbinsmahoney: Were they white (Force Commander and Oberon) or black (Baron Karza and Andromeda)?

[taffy8davenport]

These were my favorite toys in the later 70s. I got Biotron for my birthday and the Battle Cruiser for a later Christmas. I had some kind of vehicle too, kind of a mid-sized thing and I think it ran on tank-like wheels and had a red round revolving wheel? I remember buying a small wind-up vehicle at TG&Y but I broke it from trying to wind it too tightly. Only had a couple of the figures. I remember a yellow clear plastic guy and a shiny blue metal one. Still have them boxed in the basement

[staticfluxforever]

The "vehicle" sounds like Microtron, which did indeed run on tank treads and have two large red wheels at the sides that turned when it moved (and a cone shaped drill at the "waist" that did the same). Clear plastic yellow guy was probably the ubiquitous Time Traveller; many of them came packaged as extras with other toys, like the vehicles. I'll guess the shiny blue metal was an Acroyear.

Long live TG &Y!

[boats752]

i threw a whole box of these out 3 years ago when we moved damn i wasnt thinking at the time

[staticfluxforever]

What a shame.

[spadehatesscrewtube]

you know, all these years, i never realised All Sold Seperately was an acronym for ASS.

[spadehatesscrewtube]

tell that to the shogun warriors toy line, they had completely firing FISTS, AND missiles, i know because i had combatra, and a buddy had godzilla.

always wanted mazinger and raydeen though. awesome huge toys for their time.

[zimdeluxe]

wow, I had such a collection of those! glad my mom just pitched them out, NOT. I remember having all those things, even the rubber tipped missile!

[wild300zx]

@taffy8davenport

TG&Y Yep those were the days! Hadmost of the Micronauts collection too. Recently just started finding them again on Ebay.

[stevemichiganman]

@TheZBChannel...I had most of the Micronauts, but not all of them. I had a few Metal man action figures, too. I didn't have any Shogun Warriors. I wanted Pulsar Ultimate Man of Adventure and Rom Spacenight, but I never got them. Long live the Micronauts !!!

[tedcantu1]

Before Star Wars came out this was all I played with. I had a big collection of all of this stuff - Acroyer came in two colors, electric blue and electric pink... I never saw the grey one. There was a bubble thing you can play with in water - and I had a battle station thing and some vehicles. Star Wars came out in 1977 and I lost interest in these guys pretty quick. They were good toys though

[dannydontgoin237]

Is it just me or does it sound like the announcer during the countdown says "Micronauts revise any beaver?"

[TheZBChannel]

I had one of each and a few vehicles but I never got the big playset or the Battle Cruiser.I also had Mego Planet of the Apes figures,Mego Star Trek,Shogun Warriors(Godzilla,1st Mazinga and Raydeen) Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica toys,Matchbox,Hot Wheels,Corgi diecast,ect,but the Micronauts were always my favorite and its the only thing I collect now in my old age heehee;)......damn Ebay and Amazon!....thats why Im always broke:p

[stevemichiganman]

@mastershinto69...I posted a question about the mysterious woman on this very same board two years ago! Scroll down, look for my question, and the response I got from "staticfluxforever". Cheers!

[Bloodsport1]

@todtubetod I had some of too. This is bringing back so many memories. I guess this is one of the reason why Im so creative.