Everyday objects were now used as the inspiration of the robot's 'alternate mode', and we see some familiar faces including Perceptor, Soundwave, Megatron, and Reflector.īelow are some 1983 Takara Micro Change catalog scans. In 1983, taking the transformation aspect one step further, Takara introduced Micro Change into the Microman lineup. Interchangeability was sidelined in favor of figures with the ability to transform or merge to form one large robot. In 1981, 'New Microman' was launched as an attempt to revive the toy line. The line ran from 1974-1980, at which point a slide in the popularity of Microman became apparent to Takara. Eventually, in 1976, a comic (magna) written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Moritou ran in 'TV Magazine'. There was no animated TV show or cartoon from which a story was based, rather the story was briefly described in the toy catalogs that came with each of the figures. These characters were cyborgs beings which inhabited the planet Micro Earth. The premise of the Microman story is that the figures themselves were 'actual size', that is, a 1:1 scale model of the characters they represented. Scale-matching allowed the figures and sets to be interchangable. The marketing strategy behind this was to produce a range of playsets and/or vehicles for the figures at a more reasonable price than it would be for the larger (8' and 12') figures. In 1974, toy company, Takara begins the 'Microman' toy line, which is composed of smaller (4') versions of Henshin (Transforming) Cyborg (which debuted in 1972). Home > Archive > Toys - Microchnage Takara Microchange Movie - Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) (116).

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