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Post by coldiron on Aug 8, 2007 18:51:57 GMT -5
I found these. I was in a KB toys outlet shop today and I got all 4 that combine to make this for $13. I still really do not get the Micomen figures themselves but if they keep making stuff like this mecha, I might have to start collecting. Teh yseem to be fragile toys though. Two micromen had broken feet out of the package and I was afraid if I pulled too hard on the mecha bits, that I might brake it. I guess since I only display toys, it will be fine. Anyone know of micromen products with mecha like these?  |
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Post by xiombarg on Aug 8, 2007 20:38:34 GMT -5
Check out Robotman Dean. He's fairly sturdy and often cheap. He's made up of small vehicles that combine into the big dude. I really like him.
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Post by Kidchuckle on Aug 8, 2007 22:32:15 GMT -5
unfortunetly that series had flaws that year... it was very common to have toys with bad ankles.
It's rather unforunate because of that I steered cleared of them.
I wish they did more "gattai" robots in the new lines.
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Post by cyborgbushcricket on Aug 9, 2007 7:19:50 GMT -5
another combiner from the recent microman line is the acroyear exos. The figures armour becomes little sea creatures and then can combine into a million other things plus the officail combined mode 'acrowyvern' which is cool but maybe to organic for your tastes, kind of like a transformers piranacon of microman world, its very fiddly and not too many QC issue aside from the emperors hips which are usually cracked. www.microforever.com/2005Acrowyvern.htm |
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Post by rodrevil on Aug 9, 2007 8:44:21 GMT -5
I love the ancient Microman line, but for the actual one I like only the mechas.
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Post by coldiron on Sept 15, 2008 23:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by Kidchuckle on Sept 16, 2008 21:11:32 GMT -5
YES! www.microforever.com/wave2.htmthey were awesome! sadly I never got around to getting them I got microman hurricane bird, cougar and robotman ace and cross (man those are great figures!) magnets were pretty strong too. I believe those ones you have links to have windup motors. |
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Post by coldiron on Sept 17, 2008 12:14:32 GMT -5
I just got gun-body on ebay. There was another for the same price. I paid 15+ shipping. I am sure its a heavy mark up over retail, but the only other price I saw it for was $20 + shipping.
I really like the design. The others are ok, but I will only look into them if I can find them cheap.
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Post by mechamasterj on Sept 19, 2008 10:15:15 GMT -5
my local comic shop sells some (they only have 4 lol) for 15 each not bad considering.
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Post by coldiron on Sept 19, 2008 16:13:19 GMT -5
I got mine today. It was $20 after shipping. I wish it was a little bigger, but its still a cool figure. It reminds me of my favorite Real Tech. I wonder if Transformers used this microman as inspiration.  |
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Post by Kidchuckle on Sept 28, 2008 0:57:09 GMT -5
nice score.. now you're making me want to pick that up. I love magnetic toys.
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Post by microbry on Oct 20, 2008 0:45:29 GMT -5
I got mine today. It was $20 after shipping. I wish it was a little bigger, but its still a cool figure. It reminds me of my favorite Real Tech. I wonder if Transformers used this microman as inspiration. It's the other way around. Both the MagneTitan Gunbody and the Transformers Real Tech are directly inspired by the 1983 Microman Microchange series (which half of Transformers G1 came from). The Real Gear stuff is all a direct homage to MicroChange (and some believe it was originally meant for sale in Japan as part of Microman, not Transformers). Many of Transformers' staff at Takara have also worked on Microman, for that matter, and there are lots of homages and references to Microman and Diaclone in the series well after both lines were shelved in 1985 (and later with the more recent 1999-2000 and 2003-2007 series there has been much cross-referencing). The US release of the Machine Force/Biomachines was notorious for bad quality control on the figures resulting in a lot of figures with broken or weak ankles in-package. The Japanese release didn't have this issue as bad, but as mentioned there were some other occassion figures that suffered from similar problems (Ancient Acroyear Exo's Emperor, MasterForce Automaster Ryan, and a couple of others). |
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Post by cyborgbushcricket on Oct 20, 2008 9:41:23 GMT -5
seems reasonable that the TF movie real gear toys were originally designed for microman as they are so unconnected to the movie and make little sense as part of the movie toys, their no doubt that they are more microman than movie toys in terms of their actual look, in fact the design is as far as you can get from the movie look (thankfully, im not a movie bot fan although i do like teh delux jazz toy).
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Oct 25, 2008 22:26:15 GMT -5
That makes a ton of sense. I've always wondered about the real gear line. It was just so polished and didn't strike me as too movie-like.
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