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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 0:40:40 GMT -5
from Toy Galaxy...
interesting look at the origins and success of the Micronauts toy line and the many failed attempts to revive the brand since.
-M
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Post by rom on Oct 3, 2020 18:41:30 GMT -5
Even though I was a kid when Micronauts first came out, I was never into these that much - probably because I preferred Star Wars, and couldn't collect too many lines due to financial restrictions. However, IIRC I think I had the green lizard character with the glow in the dark brain (at least I think it glowed in the dark).
However, as an adult I really wanted to collect the planned new Micronauts line by Palisades back in the early 200X's. There were some pictures (from toy magazines of the era) showing a new Baron Karza & an alien, and they looked amazing. However, the line got cancelled before production.
I would definitely be all for a all-new line of Micronauts figures with more modern, sophisticated sculpts. Maybe this time around they could even make some figures specifically based on the original characters from the Marvel comic (Bug, etc.) & base Karza, etc. on the way they looked in the comic - that would be nice.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 22:27:40 GMT -5
Even though I was a kid when Micronauts first came out, I was never into these that much - probably because I preferred Star Wars, and couldn't collect too many lines due to financial restrictions. However, IIRC I think I had the green lizard character with the glow in the dark brain (at least I think it glowed in the dark). However, as an adult I really wanted to collect the planned new Micronauts line by Palisades back in the early 200X's. There were some pictures (from toy magazines of the era) showing a new Baron Karza & an alien, and they looked amazing. However, the line got cancelled before production. I would definitely be all for a all-new line of Micronauts figures with more modern, sophisticated sculpts. Maybe this time around they could even make some figures specifically based on the original characters from the Marvel comic (Bug, etc.) & base Karza, etc. on the way they looked in the comic - that would be nice. The Pallisades line was released...   they did not sell well and only one wave was released, but they were released. They are also terribly fragile and poor quality and fall apart easily if you take them out of the packaging. But they did make it to market. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 4, 2020 19:05:45 GMT -5
The toys came along just at the end of my "toy" playing period. I had a couple of vehicles, which came with Time Traveler figures. I asked for the Battlecruiser, for Christmas, but got a Battlestar Galactica Viper Launcher (rubber band launcher of small, polystyrene Viper craft, fired at cardboard Cylon Raider cutouts). The comics were "my" Micronauts; but, been the comics had one basic plot and the only storylines I enjoyed in the first 3 years were that same recycled plot (the first 12, the Broderick return of Baron Karza, and the Key Quest that saw Argon/Force Commander turn into Karza). The Golden artwork was still the best, though Broderick made the series his own.
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Post by rom on Nov 9, 2020 19:23:25 GMT -5
Even though I was a kid when Micronauts first came out, I was never into these that much - probably because I preferred Star Wars, and couldn't collect too many lines due to financial restrictions. However, IIRC I think I had the green lizard character with the glow in the dark brain (at least I think it glowed in the dark). However, as an adult I really wanted to collect the planned new Micronauts line by Palisades back in the early 200X's. There were some pictures (from toy magazines of the era) showing a new Baron Karza & an alien, and they looked amazing. However, the line got cancelled before production. I would definitely be all for a all-new line of Micronauts figures with more modern, sophisticated sculpts. Maybe this time around they could even make some figures specifically based on the original characters from the Marvel comic (Bug, etc.) & base Karza, etc. on the way they looked in the comic - that would be nice. The Pallisades line was released...they did not sell well and only one wave was released, but they were released. They are also terribly fragile and poor quality and fall apart easily if you take them out of the packaging. But they did make it to market. -M Yeah, I knew about these - these were the retro line that were re-releases of the original Micronauts toys. However, that's not what I was talking about/referring to. The Micronauts line that was planned but never released were all new figures, i.e. a "re-boot" (for lack of a better word) of the action figures. The figures were planned to have all-new sculpts, etc. I saw some prototypes; Baron Karza & the green alien (can't remember the name) were shown in a toy magazine circa 2002-2003; I think it was the now-defunct "Tomart's Action Figure Digest". Other characters were planned. But, the line got cancelled before production. IIRC, the new figures were loosely based on the then-new (early 200X's) Micronauts comic by Devil's Due - I had a couple of issues of this back in the day. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 19:33:06 GMT -5
Are you talking about the SOTA line-that was 2005ish. 2002-2003 was the Pallisades release window and they had the license at that point, so no other company would have been planning a line until after Pallisades let the license go.
The SOTA line was supposed to be n the 6 inch scale to more closely align with the scale popular for action figures at the time. Karza, Lobros and Space Glider were the only three mentioned to be planned and the line was called Micronauts: Evolution.
It was cancelled because most of the brick and mortar stores that might carry it were in bankruptcy vigils and the poor performance/reception of the Pallisades line killed any interest such retailers would have had in taking a risk on the property, so there was not enough initial preorder commitments from retailer sot make production a viable option without losing their shirt. They weighed options until 2007 when their license window expired, but never found a way to raise the needed capital to go into production with any potential of getting that money back.
The reality is a lot of toys make it to the prototype stage, get shown at Toy Fair, and don't garner enough orders to make production viable. Far more lines are stillborn like that than actually make it to market.
-M
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