Monday, March 14, 2011

Lazy Blog Post - Micronauts
































Always a favorite here at BtBG!
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17 comments:

  1. Erin SmaleMarch 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM

    I am all for robot centaurs. Man, I miss those toys.

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  2. littlemuteMarch 14, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    http://www.microforever.com/main.htm

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  3. AnonymousMarch 14, 2011 at 8:40 AM

    Hm... Micronauts seem to be "in the air".

    http://oneconsumersopinion.blogspot.com/2011/03/fun-with-microsoft-paint.html

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  4. scottszMarch 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM

    Al,

    You have saved Monday!

    I miss these...

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  5. GeorgeMarch 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM

    Great posting! Other than D&D and miniatures, Micronauts have been my other collectible in the "rotation." I loved these guys from the time I was a kid. My brother always used the good guys (Force Commander, etc) and I always used the bad guys (Baron Karza, et al). Boy, those things were FUN - and truly ahead of their time. I mean, they blew my mind as a kid.

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  6. The Iron GoatMarch 14, 2011 at 9:04 AM

    My friends and I were crazy for those damn things. We used to play elaborate games pretending to be the characters from the comics. Practice for a future of role-playing, I guess.

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  7. ze buletteMarch 14, 2011 at 9:23 AM

    I miss my micronauts! :_(

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  8. Christopher BMarch 14, 2011 at 9:35 AM

    Ditto what ze bulette said.

    Micronauts were great toys - just not built for the long haul. IIRC, I had to scavenge parts from several damaged time travelers to cobble together one or two whole figures. And my poor space glider - he just fell right to bits. (Unfortunately, he was held together by rivets, not screws like the plastic figures were. There was no resurrecting him...)

    Thanks for the nostalgia! :D

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  9. Chris CreelMarch 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    Yeah, I loved the comics and have the complete run of vol. 1 (Marvel) and many issue of vol. 2 and the more recent indy comics. I purchased some old, beat up toys from e-bay along with the newer versions that where released a few years back. I'll be putting the Insectoids into my E.C. game too.

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  10. LoneIslanderMarch 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM

    I now feel like playing with Legos yet I don't know why.

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  11. Martin R. ThomasMarch 14, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    You beat me to it! I totally had these on my list to blog about after they came up at one of our RPG sessions a few weeks ago.

    We had a big Micronauts vs. Star Wars figures vs. Lego argument. I was the voice of reason - "Can't we all just get along?"

    But I had totally forgotten about them until they came up during that game. Never read the comics but I played with the toys all the time.

    Thanks!

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  12. jasonsMarch 14, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    One of the many, many regrets of my life was when, at age 12, I annihilated all of my toys (Star Wars figures, Micronauts a-go-go including the awesome Hornetroid) in a ritualistic "Final War", during which a friend and myself smashed, burned, and dismembered all traces of what I considered then to be vestiges of by-gone immaturity. What an ass! Even as a jaded grown up I still strongly recommend the first 12 issues of the Marvel comic, beautifully illustrated by Michael Golden. Even with the intrusion of Marvel universe characters into the mix, this stuff still shines as cosmically charged (micro-)space opera.

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  13. Greg GorgonmilkMarch 14, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    That. Kicked. Ass.

    Esp the final vid. Thanks.

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  14. JamesMarch 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM

    My dad got me what must have been the whole line available at the time, one Christmas. That's all I got that year. A whole, whole bunch of Micronauts. They quickly became my favorite toys and now I'm wondering "what the hell happened to my Micronauts?"

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  15. Alex OsiasMarch 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Dallan & Sepsis!

    On a side note, Baron Karza was apparently taken from a different Japanese series (from the neck down, anyway) called Jeeg.

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  16. CygnusMarch 14, 2011 at 7:17 PM

    Is it weird that as a kid I was more freaked out by Baron Karza than by Darth Vader?

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  17. JBMarch 14, 2011 at 9:51 PM

    Lazy? You're crazy! I LOVE the micronauts...still have a gazillion of 'em stashed under my mom's house somewhere.

    I never knew they made toys of the comic book characters (Mari and Bug, for instance). One of my favorite Marvel comics of all time...
    : )

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