A303 Blue Star

Original Acroyear, accept no substitutes. Note the die cast chest which gives him a nice heft when you hold him.

He also has a very strange vehicle mode where you take off his lover legs, stick a wheel between his knees and attach alternate arms that end in wheels.

One of these days I'm going to hunt down some of the other color variants of him. I'd love to get the convention exclusive "Birth of Acroyear" set which features a green translucent Microman and Acroyear.

M144 Howard

Microman Spy Magician, not pictured magic wand and cuffs (serious, not a joke). They are still on a sprue and I am feeling guilty about removing them. At the time I was aquiring these guys getting a Spy Magician figure on ebay was very frustrating. I got outbid so many times. When I look at him I'm not entirely sure why I bothered. Sure he is an OK figure but he doesn't speak to me like some of the others.

Microman Family Tree

M171 Takuya

More Microman command. This is a really nice figure combining a really nice sculpt and color scheme. I also like the fact that he has the wings on his wrists as well as his legs.

M182 Alice

Microman Lady Command. The quality control on this one is a bit poor. Her feet are too loose on a stand and the wings don't fit well on her legs with the skirt. I'm displaying her with the wings attached to her back for this reason.

M152sp Eric

Only available as a pack in with the Microman Command Jigsaw Puzzle. Notice how the parts that are normally chromed are flat plastic and the other parts are now chromed. A cool and unusual figure.

Crystal M122 Michael

This guy was a Toys R Us Japan exclusive in 2000. Cool hey.



Included is an L connector and stickers to decorate him.

M112 Barnes

Hello,
Just a quick post today because I am meant to be heading out.

This is Barnes. He is the second body style used for Microman. He is a reissue of a 1975 Project Victory toy. He features the typical classic Microman construction with the 5mm peg holes in his feet and back. He comes with a capsule, L peg and stickers. The reissue adds a stand and a jetpack keyring which was a mail away offer back in the day. Barnes is the medic of the Microman group.

Takara was really on top of their quality control for this toy and he is really nice. I got mine from Animezone.

M102 Jack

Hello again,
one of the favourite Microman toys is my reissue of M102 Jack. He is a reissue of one of the original Microman toys from 1974. He is an interesting item because he predates to idea of using a standard peg and sockets system introduced in 1975 and used in virtually every figure and vehicle afterwards.

My reissue Jack is from the second release of the reissue under the "Victory Edition" label from 2001. He comes packaged with a gold chest piece and a capsule. The Victory Edition also comes packaged with two guns which are replicas of those found in the Rescue Power-up set.

For a 1974 toy he has an incredible level of articulation. He has all of the joints found on the first series of 3.75" GI Joes (which obviously use same type of construction) plus ball jointed wrists and ankles. The clear body combined with the chrome head and chest plate look really slick.

I did have small issues when I got him out of the packaging. He needed a bit of a trim to remove molding artifacts. This was particularly evident on the ankle ball. I also found that his chest plate fell of really easily. I now use the chest plate from the Palisades black Time Traveler with him which seems to work better.

Another item to note is that because he predates the 5mm peg system his feet have no peg holes which means you can't use a stand with him. This makes him a bit more difficult to display since he falls over fairly easily.

After saying all of that I have to say that he is a very nice looking figure and fun to play around with. Having at least one of the M10X barefoot figures is a good move for anyone who wants to experience the appeal of Microman toys.

Robotman

Hello again,
just a quick post to upload a picture of my Robotman reissue which I took a while ago so that I could upload it to the TF Wiki Microman article.

Robotman was (rather strangely) the first Microman toy to come into my hands. I had already ordered a few figures from Hobby Link Japan but they had not yet arrived. I was in Box Hill for another reason and I decided to look in Animezone. I talked to the guy there, Robotman was a good price and I was sold!

I ended up visiting Animezone the following week to get a pilot for him. The figure I am using for anyone curious is M257 Charles who was a re-colour of the Rescue Team body only available in a 1999 reissue series gift set.

M251 Robin pic

Hi again,

I'm going to try and post a picture to use for my profile.

Introduction

Hi everyone, I am Azereal your host.

I have been thinking about starting a blog for a few weeks now.
My primary motivation for doing this is that I have recently become a Microman collector.

If you haven't heard of Microman it is a long running toyline from Japan, produced by Takara (now Tomy-Takara). It started in 1974 and ran to 1984, was followed by a reissue series in 1996-97, a relaunch in 1999-2000 and was relaunched again in 2003 and is still going.

Microman would also be brought to the west as Micronauts by another company called Mego. The Micronauts line would later be resurrected by several companies. Most recently by Palisades in 2002-2003.

One of the reasons for wanting to blog about this subject is that thanks to Hobby Link Japan (www.hlj.com), Animezone (my local source of toy goodness) and eBay my collection has grown from nothing to fairly large in around a month and I haven't had a chance to give each item due consideration. I am hoping to devote at least one post per item over the coming weeks.

Another important reason for starting this blog is that I don't really know anyone else who is particularly interested in this subject. Even if nobody reads this blog I plan to enjoy writing it and expressing some of thoughts on the subject.

I will now leave you with a pic of M251 Robin.