Man, the original Micronauts comics by Bill Mantlo and drawn by the amazing Mike Golden were some of my very favorite comics when I was a kid. And, of course, I loved the Micronauts toys. My best friend and I had a deal that we would give each other Micronauts toys as birthday presents every year and that way build up an amazing collection between us.

“If you love the toys...If you loved the comics...then you’re probably going to like the movie! This movie will be drastically different than anything you’re familiar with in the toy line and will be wildly different than the comic or the cartoon. We know you’re going to love it because you love the name and that’s what our movie will be called.” A successful Hollywood Producer

Can confirm the late nineties animated series. Was brought in to audition for voice work it, and it was the first time I met Marty Abrams.

When I get to the Pearly Gates ...there will be the entire Marvel run of Micronauts and every Mego action figure waiting for me . I spent all my paper route money on anything Micronauts or Shogun Warrior related. My brother & I would buy and paint and update Micronauts figures into Marvel and DC characters. Especially the Teen titans and the Xmen . Pharoids were the best to repurpose. Thank you for this You took me back to my preteen days .

Giant Micronauts? Micro Nots. Cross promotion with Pizza Hutt? Micro Garlic Knots. The marketing writes itself.

Micronauts was dope. The wasp ship was glorious! Look it up. Also, they really could have brought over the newer Microman toys from Japan. Look those up too.

The 'quantum realm' from the Marvel Ant-Man movies is the MCU translation of the Microverse from the comics, so we've got an in to bring Micronauts to the MCU! Star Wars, Battle Star Galactica, and Micronauts pretty much defined my early childhood, so thanks for the nostalgia trip!

We're making a new version of $THING! I mean, it's a complete departure from everything that $THING has always been, but we paid a lot of money for the license, so we're still calling it $THING.

You just helped me solve a lifelong mystery! I had some of these as a kid after inheriting them from my older brother. I never knew what they were called or where they came from. By the time I was older and able to try and research said mystery, I couldn't find any info off of a memory of what they looked like. So thank you! It was honestly bugging me for so many years!

I worked at SOTA at the time the Micronaut figures where being made and I had the privilege of sitting in our break room, which consisted of plastic lawn furniture and an old fridge, with Randy Queen as he sketched out concepts for the series. I helped pick out the designs with Jerry and another co-worker. I think there was also a few Acroyear sketches in there too.

I was a Star Wars kid first and foremost, but Micronauts were my second love. The cross over play options were endless. I would love to see a 6" line today.

Loved the Micronauts, Acroyer and Bug, were awesome. Would love to see them show up in the MCU in the Microverse.

Yes finally.been waiting for Micronauts. They came from inner space you know

Finally, some love for Micronauts!

Holy cow, someone that properly pronounces Acroyear!

This channel just made me laugh like a lunatic with the word ouch!! My roommate thinks im crazy

Lost it at that Happy Days photo. 😂😂😩😂 The in-jokes and sight gags are so good on these videos

I met Ken Kelly a couple of years ago at a Rock and Roll convention where I had a table selling what I call art. He was a featured artist there and was being treated like royalty for his work on the Kiss album covers. He came by my booth very early in the first day of the show and was completely enthralled by a plastic skull I had painted, pretty convincingly, to look like dirty, rusted steel. We struck up a conversation about the piece and he said he had 16 skulls in his studio and this would be the 17th. Then for the rest of the weekend he would just randomly show up at my booth and we would chat about lots of things, even to the point of giving me crap for not being set up to take credit cards. Anyway, it wasn't until we finalized the deal for the skull that I found out that he was the artist for the Micronauts, which was much more exciting than his album cover work to me. He is a kind, friendly, gracious gentleman who even re-tweeted my tweet about selling him the skull. A treasured memory for sure.

August 2020: Bug says some really problematic stuff on twitter... -MICRONAUTS IS CANCELED FOR THE 10TH TIME!

The Micronauts curse (and recurring involvement with guys named 'Abrams') thanks for covering this one Dan! Hard to beat the late 70's original run of comics and toys. Palisades attempt at the toys was a labor of love!

Had these when they came out in the 70s. They were some of my favorite toys.

J.J Abrams attached is a kiss of death for a franchise.

Baron Kaza still lives in the same bag as my Star Wars figures. Impressively strong magnets as I recall...

the "Leave One For The Next Collector" shirt is the business.

I remember the two page spread of toys in the Sears Christmas Wish Book.

Long ago, I came to call Micronauts "the cursed property." Nicely done, Toy Galaxy. I totally approve. :-)

1977 I was ten years old, my First Micronaut figure was a Time Traveler in clear white, followed by a "Photon Sled" vehicle, later I had some more sets.

Never had any of the toys, but I collected both of the 80’s comics runs by digging through back issue bins in the early 90’s. I still have them in a long box in my closet with my Transformers run and a few scattered issues of GI Joe.

7:11 they get a horse they can "combine" with.... Vivid girl's voice: "ouch". Lol

Back in the golden age when toys could shoot projectiles and kids everywhere weren't being blinded by or choked to death by their toys.

Nice one, Mr. Larsen! Had Mego's Antron & Lobros figures, but I enjoyed Marvel's take on the Micronauts in the late 1970s- 80s even more. The comic was very well done. Acroyear, Microtron, Time Traveller, Cmdr. Arcturus Rann, Princess Marionette (one of the best looking heroines in comics IMHO) and Baron Karza were the best characters.

For me as a kid, Micronauts were right there with ROM, wasn't a fan of the toys but the Marvel comics were great. If I remember correctly, the comic had tie ins with other Marvel superheroes and I'm pretty sure the microverse in the current movies is based on the old Micronauts.

I used to own the original comic series. Michael Golden was the artist in the first 12 issues and was the cover artist for years afterwards. He has remained one of favorite comic book artists.

I've still got the Mobile Exploration Lab, Battle Cruiser and 6 Time Travelers (found in garage sales over the past few years) Wish I still had all the ones from when I was a kid.

Michael Golden used to draw Micronauts. I met him a few years ago. Really nice guy. Still have a couple of issues of the book.

Micronauts movie by Jar Jar Abrams......nah he can keep his mystery box. The Micronauts have been through enough,

Even when it’s a line I know little about or don’t really care about, you guys make the subject incredibly interesting! I love these “History Of” videos! PS. Please do Monster In My Pocket!

I had loads of micronauts toys...still got my childhood hornetroid toy.

Thank you for this. Loved Micronauts growing up, and have always wondered why they aren’t more popular today

Great Video. I had a knockoff of the Black Tiger Tank from the mid 80s. I said the pilot was Destro's son from GI Joe because of his chrome head and younger appearance 😆.

This guy is the king of passive aggressiveness and sarcasm... love it.

Re: the movie: If you're not going to follow through with a movie that is either based on the toys lore (though that seems to be very very thin) or on the comics (preferably in my opinion the original run of Marvel books), then don't bother. How many flops do they need to endure before they understand you need to be true to the story, lore and characters? Look at Jem and the Holograms? A huge flop, because they didn't even try to adapt the story. If JJ Abrams, or whoever ends up writing the movie, wants to do something "really really cool" but is not based on the comic...then call it something else and don't slap the brand name on it in a lazy attempt to get that nostalgia. Or...do right by the story, the characters, and give the fans of this property the movie they deserve.

Hahaha a horse they could combine with... “ouch”.

“Ouch,” lol. GOOD ONE. XD

One of my earliest toy memories was buying a pharoid back in 1980. I lost the figure pretty quick but that time chamber he came with stuck around forever, i think i might still have it somewhere

6:42 I had that one in the early 80's, not sure if it was a Canadian thing but none of the shooting mechanics worked as the springs were taken out and I seem to remember the pieces were glued in. Same thing for Transformers but I got wise in my teens and figured out you could put click pen springs inside and they worked... maybe a little too well.

Great video!! Now you've got to do a part 2 and talk more in depth about the history of Microman in Japan and it's semi-successful relaunch in the late 90's!

The in-jokes and sight gags are getting better and better

We had a store in Knoxville when I was a kid in the 70’s and they did these huge aisle end displays of toys, and to this day I still remember the gigantic (for a 5 year old) micronaut display. I loved these toys

"It was Schrödinger's toy line..." Made me laugh out loud for quite a bit.

The comic was very well done. I loved that series.

Takaratomy still makes new Microman toys every few years. There was even a Microman anime when I lived in Japan. I have no idea why these geniuses don't just bring that stuff over.

Technically “Bug” corresponds to the Micronauts’s toy “Galactic Warrior”. The one most often found in green that came with the spring missile shooter. The confusion that Bug was a wholly Marvel character and not tied to the toys caused some problems in recent years when James Gunn wanted to use him for Guardian’s of the Galaxy and found the licensing and rights surrounding him too complicated. (Marvel can still use Arcturus Aran, Marionette and Bug, rebranded as the “Microns” but only in comics. Not movies.)

I always *tik* pronounced Acroyear as *tik* “Acro-year”.

I was too young for the toys, but I was given the whole run of comics by an older friend in the late 80s. They are unexpectedly great, and New Voyages ends in an epic fashion.

I absolutely loved the Micronaut toys a child and I have to say that the Micronauts Marvel Comic was extremely well crafted and written. When I heard that the new film by J.J. Abrams Badrobot Productions has nothing to do with the original Marvel Comic series, not only did that make me pretty sad but very skeptical as well ! Like everyone else, I haven’t been too impressed with Abrams’ recent work and output so I don’t know how I feel about his Micronauts treatment. If the film gets made It will be a miracle. I just hope that the Micronaut toys will one day live again! Great video as usual and I look forward to seeing the next one! Cheers!

The original Micronauts comic 1-12 were amazing for their time. Really good stories and art.

I had a bunch of these and LOVED them. The pneumatic capsule track was a big favorite of mine.

Micronauts are the childs of Micronus Prime

God I love the Micronauts. ALways have. I've been collecting them since their initial release. I've had so many over the years. Currently I have none, but I'm going to restart my collection sometime soon. I just finished a re-read of the original Marvel series.

Every year or so, when news about the Micronauts movie comes out, i get as excited as i did in the 70s, when i opened an xmas present that turned out to be a Micronaut!

You're not a comic book enthusiasts if you didn't collect The Micronauts😜

Thank you Dan, this was so fun to see. I had completely forgotten that I had some of those original Micronauts figures! I mean, Star Wars was cool, but they didn't have a figure that came in a sarcophagus.

Dont forget the domed city seen in the background of Antman and Wasp when they were leaving the quantum realm "miroverse"

Great vid! Didn't know there was some much backstory to the Micronauts brand, lol. I remember my brother had a few along with the tube things. I got the bigger Karza & Force Commander figures but that was about it. I do recall the original Marvel comic being really good though and always wanted more of those representations of Bug & Acroyear. The new IDW comics were pretty good. Would really love for Hasbro to find the secret to having all those properties exist together. Great pieces, just got to find the right glue.

Bruv! I loved these back in the mid-late- 70's-early-80's. 😎👍🏽 I used to have the entire comics series too. These were Great toys back then. Very innovative for their time. Great Nostalgia! Thanks for posting/sharing this!

I love those Bill Mantlo Micronauts comics. And that early Michael Golden artwork? Amazing.

I loved my Micronaut toys when I was a kid. The fact that they had greater articulation made them more fun than my Star Wars action figures.

That Unit-E idea was wild. I remember in the Ant Man movie, I kept hoping that Paul Rudd would shrink down, way way way down, and we'd see some Micronaut Easter Eggs but I guess Micronauts aren't a Marvel property anymore.

I had the original Micronauts way back in the 70's Biotron And the other vehicles And most of the pharoids And have the SHOGUN Worriors 👍 Best days of your life

Too bad Disney do not own the micronauts they could have plunked them into the quantum realm.....

I LOOOOVED these guys, I had many of the toy sets as a kid. That vaccum tube toy was my favorite, turned off the lights and ran the glow in the dark vehicles through it. Good times.

Yet another huge piece of my childhood influenced by the great Bill Mantlo. One wonders what he could have done if he he could have done if he hadn't been struck down so young.

Dan, are you coming to San Diego Comic-Con next week?? OH WAIT.. EVERYTHING WE LOVE IS ON PAUSE!

Just a little clarification on the Image Comic series. That series was also by Devil's Due. It was just while the studio was under the Image umbrella. They left Image about a year or so later and went into full publishing mode. So at this point only three publishers have existed - Marvel, Devil's Due - under Image and then solo,, and IDW. Great video btw. Love this franchise. Just wish we could see the property back at Marve for comicsl where it was handled the best.

At last THE MICRONAUTS enter the TOY GALAXY. New MICRONAUTS cartoon and live action feature film are coming.

A beautifully done episode!

How am I not subbed to your channel?? I had many of the first gen Micronaut figures and vehicles, and a number of the comics, too. Pharoid, Time Traveler, Space Glider, Acroyear, Baron Karza and his horse Andromeda, what great toys.

I used to love Micronauts, had all the original Marvel comics (both series) and a bunch of the toys, but couldn't get into the reboots/continuations.

The image I remember most from Micronauts is from the comics and it's where the commander has to sever his own hand using his wrist bracelet. I never forgot that image.

Just wondering, who else groaned and/or screamed at mention of JJ Abrams only to have said bile feeling doubled upon by mention of "wildly different"?

I had some of the original Micronaut toys when I was a kid. I though they were the best.

Acroyer in the Marvel run had such an awesome design, would love a Marvel Legends type of figure from those days.

Just want to say almost everyone I talked with from high-school to first job, if the subject of childhood toys came up (which oddly happens a lot with me), they had no idea what on earth a Micronaut was and I was always a bit disheartened. (Same with Brixo Blocks that I thought were Brix o Blocks) I only had the toys as the cartoon never aired in our region. I was so excited, joyful, dumbfounded and grateful when my parents got me those guys. A prayer of thanksgiving went up to God I recall. I loved the idea of the modularity as I explained it in seven year old speak and that they moved as vehicles when combined. It was such a great time filled with possibility and fun. I never knew why no one else ever heard of them. Same with Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors or Ziv Zulander and the Bots Master. Toons & toys lost to time. Thanks for bringing the knowledge on the backstory - and a smile to my heart. Thank you, Thank you - I love this series. Subscribe Accomplished. DJ xSUBn ({^_^ })

"Hasbro: Til All Are One."

Once again your humor is wildly entertaining and the way you did this video is just amazing! This channel continues to be a wonderful source of content for me! The background information on the Star Wars and Mirconauts rivalry was so hilarious, I nearly choked on my water bottle when watching this video! Great job Dan!

Now this was a banger..! Full of quality info on this long running yet obscure toy line.

The Schrodinger's toy line analogy was simply brilliant! Great writing and very funny. Keep up the great work!

I had all of those in the 70s. They were awesome. I still have 80% of them.

Too bad Marvel lost the rights to Micronauts: I'd love to see reprint collections of those comics.

I read the first two series of comics. The end of the first run, starting when Karza rips himself free of Force Commander and leaves Force Commander a lifeless husk laying on the ground, got a tad.... Dark.

Whoof. That was a journey. I'm exhausted. Good job, folks!

Absolutely love Micronauts!👍 My favorites were the Aliens series! Love the colors and original designs! They are beautiful 😁

It’s about time you did a video on Micronauts! Thank you.

I'm in my 40's and have zero memory of Micronauts toys, not even vicariously through my older brothers

I’d love to see a Bruce Timm cartoon based on Micronauts. Great video!

Good thing we could watch this video before it gets cancelled.

I couldn't get enough of star blazers as a kid.

"We are here to announce that the new Micronauts toyline is canceled." "But you never said you were working on it." "Yes, we just wanted to be ahead of the curve."

I remember tons of Micronauts in Sears. Had a lot back in the day. I do have a few graded pieces.