Given that the toys were meant to be full scale androids, cyborgs, and mecha, it's easy to imagine how one could act out full-scale battles and adventures in any home environment as if they were actually happening in that very setting. The back cover appropriately shows an impressive shot of the entire MicroChange line (except the mini-cars) with each toy displayed in both modes. We hope to cover other Microchange and New Microman catalogs later on as we continue to go through different parts of Microman's 40 year history and some of its related series. The Meteor Robo were re-purposed later in Transformers as "Egg Beasts" during the Japanese release of Beast Wars in clear plastic variations, though reusing re-tooling from an earlier re-release of the toys tied in with the Wataru anime series.Īs Microman Secret File was focused on promoting the final set of Full Use MicroChange toys, these earlier releases had their own catalogs promoting them and telling more of their backstory, tied in with the Adventure King/TV Anime Magazine manga serials mentioned in Part 3, and thus were only summarized in this final catalog. These cars included the infamous "Bumblejumper" and color variations that still give hardcore Transformer and pre-Transformer collectors headaches today. The MC-04 Mini-Cars didn't each get their own separate MicroChange numbering, but were originally meant as small androids that changed into life-size toy cars in the style of Takara's successful Choro Q line. The Cassette Machines MC-08 Battle Bike and MC-09 Stealth Heli were understandably left out of the Transformer line-up, being vehicles for the Microman action figures they came with (though one could almost imagine them repurposed later in Action Masters with Blaster and Soundwave riders!), but they did resurface 15 years later as toys in the 1999 Microman line (even if by then, most children would be less likely to know what an audio cassette was or why it was part of the toyline). type gift set as the basis for Transformers' Megatron, but with the plastic bullet firing function and pointy sword removed (though the parts used to convert the attachments into a gun turret platform that seats a Microman figure were retained). The original MC-12 Wather P-38 in black and brown was skipped in favor of the more impressive U.N.C.L.E. Of the remaining MicroChange toys, most will be instantly recognizable to Transformers fans, though of the Gun Robo, MC-7 Browning M1910 and MC-11 S&W 44 Magnum Robo never made it to the western line. ![]() It's also worth mentioning here that the original Watch Robo was actually 3 different robots-each color had a different, unique head sculpt. This is probably because by this point Watch Robo was spun off into another Takara series separate from Microman, Watch-Q (released in the west briefly as the Kronoform watches). ![]() ![]() The rest of the catalog briefly sums up the prior regular MicroChange releases, with the omission of MC-06 Watch Robo: As mentioned in part 2, while Micro-Scope would later get re-used in Transformers as Perceptor (and later the Microman color-accurate Magnificus), Scopeman was another Microman-only robot, for reasons that remain unclear today, given that its design seems to fit in well with the ones that were rebranded. MC-19 Scopeman and MC-20 Micro-Scope are the last new samples shown from the "Full Use" (or "Practical Use") MIcroChange Series, both with working optics. At last we come to the final portion of MicroChange Microman Secret File.
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