JJ Abrams to save... The Micronauts?

[John Many Jars]

Originally Posted by madkevin

GODDAMN I WANTED THAT TOY SO BAD. Almost as bad as I wanted a Shogun Warrior, which for some reason my asshole parents would never buy for me even though I was a good boy for, like, dozens of minutes at a time.

I only had a couple of the figures and that lunar rover thing with the winch on the back, but they were my favourite toys. If they were smart, for the movie they should just reproduce 3D pictures of the toy pages from the Sears Wish Book circa 1979 while all of us middle-age geeks go "OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" in the audience.

Now I'm smelling the Wish Book. Seriously, I can smell it as I type this.

I did get a Battle Cruiser, to my utter astonishment, but I never got a Shogun Warrior. And I didn't forget that a few years later when my little bro got multiple Voltrons.

We had kickass duels with Microtron and Nemesis, though --- like sumo matches, arranging the swappable parts to try to push the other one over.

[checker]

Were Micronauts the ones with those little fucking white feet that would come off and your little sister would chew on them and then all your micronauts would be footless?

Also, the big bad Darth Vader clone guy with the magnetic ball socket joints was pretty cool. Although I think I lost his shootable fists and that orange drill part pretty quick, but the core part of the toy lasted for a while.

Chris

[John Many Jars]

Originally Posted by checker

Were Micronauts the ones with those little fucking white feet that would come off and your little sister would chew on them and then all your micronauts would be footless?

Also, the big bad Darth Vader clone guy with the magnetic ball socket joints was pretty cool. Although I think I lost his shootable fists and that orange drill part pretty quick, but the core part of the toy lasted for a while.

Chris

That's them! Some fragile detachable hands and feet, for sure.

[Hugin]

Originally Posted by balut

I'd much rather see something based on Starriors.


I actually had every single one of those toys except for the battle station. They probably got thrown out by my folks 20 years or so ago, which makes me sad.

IIRC, my favorites were Deadeye, who was an awesome plastic-disc launching robot t-rex and, oddly, Thinktank, who I think I just thought was neat.

I'lll see your Starriors and raise you Zoids and Robotix.

[rhinohelix]

Originally Posted by Jag

Holy crap. I had ROM too. I haven't thought about that in over 20 years! Yeah ROM was pretty cool. I had the toy too. Next you are going to mention Moon Knight.

F***ing ROM would kill. That was a fantastic story designed for CG 25 years before its time. Prince gives up his humanity to fight shapeshifting alien menace, wins on his homeworld, which keeps him in service, apart from his true love, and forcing him to spend 200 years coming to Earth to fight the same battle here? THAT is how you develop a story and a comic only put together to sell a toy robot.

You could ride the Transformers bandwagon and pay for it with Michael Bay-bucks. Just get a good director.

[balut]

Originally Posted by Hugin

I'lll see your Starriors and raise you Zoids and Robotix.

Fuck yes. I made my "Bront" Robotix brontosaurus fight my Zoids brontosaurus, and the anemic little Zoids motor and smaller plastic parts stood no chance against the powerful leg motors and motorized jaw of its Robotix counterpart. Took forever to clean up the Zoids wreckage, afterward. Stupid rubber joint bolts tended to scatter everywhere.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Originally Posted by Kael

You guys have all lost it. Those are crappy toys. You'd be better off making a movie based on Asteroids.

Go hump a wudewasa, Kael. Micronauts owned AND YOU KNOW IT.

[Dave Long]

Originally Posted by balut

I'd much rather see something based on Starriors.


I actually had every single one of those toys except for the battle station. They probably got thrown out by my folks 20 years or so ago, which makes me sad.

IIRC, my favorites were Deadeye, who was an awesome plastic-disc launching robot t-rex and, oddly, Thinktank, who I think I just thought was neat.

The funny thing about Starriors is there was a great four-issue mini-series for this toy line too! It would actually make a pretty good film as well.

[Andrew Mayer]

Originally Posted by mono

Micronauts were awesome. I had the Battle Cruiser.



That was back when toy missiles were actually firing projectiles that could hurt people.

Good times.

The guns on that thing were ridiculous. I could threaten my friends with those huge rubber bullets.

I loved the comic. Still one of my favorites, although someone pointed out that Golden has absolutely no sense of anatomy. He just makes up muscles as he goes along.

Baron Karza was also awesome. As I understand it he came from an entirely different line of Japanese toys based on Go Nagai designs.

Originally Posted by Rob_Merritt

Considering transformers were a spin off from the Micronauts, this shouldn't be surprising.

And Micronauts were a spin-off from the Japanese GI Joe line.
The circle is complete.

[Aszurom]

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[John Many Jars]

[John Merva]

Originally Posted by alexlitel

So, I can make Michael Bay do anything I want him to do if I beg him?

And pay him millions of dollars.

[Moore]

Originally Posted by John Many Jars

ROM!!!

[Houngan]

GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD!!!!!!


H.

p.s. Had ROM, micronauts, one sad Gobot, and the BSG Scarab. Choking hazard!!

[John Many Jars]

I didn't have ROM, but I found the commercial strange and almost sad, like the frigid reaches of space.

[Hugin]

Originally Posted by John Many Jars

I didn't have ROM, but I found the commercial strange and almost sad, like the frigid reaches of space.

The Rom comics were full of tragedy. I remember Rom had a buddy Spaceknight, Terminator, who had some kind of disease or had been hit with some kind of biowarfare agent, such that he knew that even when the war was over he was never going to be human again. This plot played out when he destroyed a ship full of people infected with the same stuff that Rom was trying to rescue. When you're 8 or 9 years old this is pretty heavy stuff.

[noun]

Holy shit, speaking of tragedy, I knew Bill Mantlo wrote both Micronauts and ROM so I went to his Wiki page to see what other cool stuff he might have written. I found this:

Bill Mantlo (born November 9, 1951)[3] is an American comic-book writer, primarily at Marvel Comics, and an attorney, best-known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: the Eagle Award-winning Micronauts and the long-running Rom. A victim of a hit-and-run accident in 1992, Mantlo has been in institutional care ever since.

[John Many Jars]

Oh, man. That's awful.

[Jag]

So sad :(