I loved the Micro Collection when I was a kid. I never had a problem pretending that the awkwardly sculpted characters were still able to blast away at each other. That was the power of imagination.
I sometimes like to think the West End Games Star Wars RPG came about purely because a bunch of guys at WEG had the Kenner miniatures and were looking for a way to use them in something that was fun as opposed to them being limited as far as toys went.
That nod to “The Princess Bride” had me rolling! Thank you. When I was a kid desperately trying to earn allowance money and get good grades to obtain more figures and vehicles, I was enamored thumbing through the little included product preview catalogues with the micro play sets. However, I wouldn’t bite because all resources were needed to get the main line figures and vehicles and, while the micro play sets were awesome, the die cast figures were questionable concerning playability. You know, I had gotten as a kid the Return of the Jedi Battle at Sarlacc Pit board game and love playing with the plastic figures of our heroes vs Boba Fett and Jabba’s guards for hours. So I think these micro toys had a lot of potential, it’s just that the main line toys were so damn awesome, you’d only love the micro toys if someone accidentally bought them for you as a present.
When i sent away for my free Emperor, they took so long to send it that when i received it, they sent 5 Micro Snowtroopers as a way to "apologize" for the delay. This happen to anyone else?
Yep! Same here. My mother had sent away for the Emperor intending to surprise me with him for my 10th birthday. When the Micro troopers arrived, she explained the situation to me. (Kenner was even nice enough to send a "Dear Star Wars fan" letter apologizing for the delay and promised I would get the Emperor soon.) I did eventually get the Emperor some time later :), though he was on the pegs in stores not long after.
This is what got me into buying the Micro Collection! When I received those die cast figures, I didn't know what to do with them. My mother took me to Toys R Us one day and they had most of the big sets on clearance. I picked up sets from there, KMart, and Service Merchandise. I have the complete collection. I took pretty good care of it too, only missing one of the windows from the Bespin set.
I still have my Emperor in the little box they mailed it in!!! I've never opened it, but I know it's in there because when I shake the box I can hear it.
Finally a comprehensive review of the Micro Collection! Keep up the great work on this channel Mike and Melinda. I so wish that Bacta Tank playset would have seen the light of day. :)
I am only a kid but still are inspired by your videos. At the start of the year we had all modern Star Wars toys and now at the end we have Kenner figures from Star Wars,empire,and Jedi, thanks
An outstanding video about a terrific line! I was always more into vehicles as a child than action figures, and I LOVED the Micro Collection with all of its mechanical gimmicks. (An X-Wing and TIE fighter that you could blow up and repair and fight again in a flash?!? SOLD!!! :D ) For me, this more than made up for the characters frozen in their poses. I had the Micro X-wing and TIE as well as the Freeze Chamber, Wampa cave, Snowspeeder and Millennium Falcon! By brother also had the Death Star set with the exploding turret (which perfectly complimented the X-wing and TIE) and the Bespin gantry. These were my all time favorite Star Wars toys! Hell, they were my FAVORITE TOYS I EVER HAD, period!!!! Thanks for taking me back. :)
Wow, this definitely showed everything I need to know about the micro line thanks for an awesome video! That Han Solo Carbonite feature is my favorite!
Wow. This was such a great episode. I was always intrigued by the Micro Collection, but I never got any since I was committed to the 3 3/4 inch figures. Now that I'm older, I appreciate these more than I did as a kid.
RetroBlasting I didn't realise this, but know you have a pointed it out I can't Unsee it now 😂, may ask though if you will ever review the Star Wars micro machines made by Galoob in the late 90s??
I haven't watched the video yet, but just wanted to let you know that I just got home from a friends house and it is nearly 2am here in Grantham UK and this is the best thing ever to come home to. I already know I'm in a safe place with great content and people that seem like friends. Thank's for this year's video's and I hope you both have a great Christmas and a fantastic New year. Right now time to watch. Love to you from across the pond.
I thought BV was going to "put you back on schedule" with retro blasting HQ. "I see you have constructed a new archive, your skills are complete. Indeed you are powerful."
I used to have the Micro X-wing, Tie fighter and Snow speeder that you showed as a kid. I never knew what this line up is called until today! Thanks, Retroblasting for making me remember some fun time as a kid! Cheers!
Don't underestimate the popularity of the diecast 😂 As a kid, whenever, I took my diecast Millennium Falcon into infants school on a toy day. It was the most popular toy.
What a trip down memory lane! Thank you for your efforts. Love the new intro. I didnt own these but a friend did. They were hard to tear myself away from.
I was going to say amazing house but read the other comments. Very, very sneaky. Awesome video. I got all excited when I saw that it was a Star Wars follies video!
As much as these criticisms are cracking me up, these paved the way for the AWESOME 90's sets of Micro Machines from Galoob. I never really even knew these old ones existed till I found out about them many years later. These are seriously cool how they are modular too. I'd still give them an easy 9/10
They're cool collectibles but they weren't that much fun as toys for little kids. It used to bug me that they were in such ridiculous poses. I had the Tie Fighter and X WIng and a few of the figures but I didn't actually own any of the playsets until much later when I started recollecting SW toys.
DV!!! I've missed that guy. I ate, slept and breathed Star Wars as a kid, but I never knew about the Micro Line; guess I never saw any of those sets in the toy stores. Did they ever re-release them later on like the Power of the Force line? Those playsets look like they would be fantastic on display, but finding one in pristine condition might be a nightmare. More gold from Retroblasting, and the house looks great! Thanks for all your hard work, you guys.
Great point about the Lando hatch in the micro Falcon. When I got the Big Millenium Falcon a few years back I expected -- with all the bells and whistles that came with that great vehicle -- that they would have included the Lando hatch too. Alas.
Another amazing review RetroBlasting... There was another part of the Micro Collection according to Steve Sansweet's "Guide to Star Wars Collectibles" was the "Bespin Torture Chamber" which Kenner was advised by several parents groups not to produce because of that one scene in ESB where Han was being electrocuted to draw Luke to Bespin to save his friends was even longer but was shortened by about 30 seconds to get the "PG" rating. Looking forward to seeing what happens with "Broken Vader" next. Keep up the excellent work and MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!
That would have been awesome to see, If I remember correctly the Millennium Falcon & Snowspeeder were Sears Catalog exclusives and the Tie-Fighter and the "World" collections were either a JC Penney or Montgomery Ward's catalogue exclusive as well. The "Torture Chamber" was supposed to connect near the to left near the gantry portion just to the right of the "Freezing Chamber".
Thank you for featuring the Micro Collection! This is probably the only series of toys where I managed to acquire all of them. And that includes the Falcon, snow speeder, and extra rebel and imperial snow troopers. I didn't mind that figures weren't posable. I liked that the scale was smaller because they didn't take up so much space. They were probably less expensive too. As a kid I was only vaguely aware of prices. If only I had kept it.
I brought home a helium balloon from church one Sunday in 1983. I tied my Wampa cave hanging Luke to it, OUTDOORS, and let it go. And away he went. I don’t know what I was expecting to happen. I hope some kid found him and had a good story to tell.
This brings back so many Great memories I believe my dad bought me all the micro series toys. My cousins and my friends played with these toys all the time.
I've been saying this for years and it's been agreed by many a fan and collector that the reason why Kenner didn't manufacture many playset after the Death Star of 1978 was because it was expensive to produce and other countries outside the US refused to import it. that's why the Palit oy Death Star was cardboard. While it's maddening that Kenner didn't produce an interactive Be spin playset. Can you imagine the size and therefore retail prices of a proper scale model? No way was Kenner going to do that. The European market wouldn't buy into it. The Micro Collection was I believe an attempt at trying to give proper representations of these environments and at reasonable costs that other markets would also buy into.
Went out to my storage building to pull out both of my Greyskulls, Captain Power base...and then I ran across these Star Wars micro bases. Thought I had all of them minus the snow sets, my parents could only find the snow cave. Looking through the figures, I sent off for the mail away figures because I've got them here. Didn't know about the S.Speeder or M.Falcon. Got some stuff to hunt down now.
I wish there were more ‘thumbs up’ buttons for this video! This is the greatest Star Wars toy video! So entertaining and hilarious !! Thank you so much for this content ! My whole family loves this video. -SithLotus
Great. I am now permanently cursed with not being able to watch Empire anymore without Vader’s theme being replaced with “I’m gonna get you sucka” whenever his happy ass is strutting the hallowed halls of Echo Base. XD
I LOVED the Micro Collection when I was a kid. Even now, I have the entire collection except for the Snowspeeder. I wish it would have continued...Especially the Death Star Throne Room.
I never knew about that exclusive Falcon. Awesome! As always you're on point with childhood frustrations. Boba Fet, Lando, and upward shooting Luke frustrated me to no end. I loved the idea of the die casts more than I loved playing with them.
Awesome take on these. I never was able to get these, but I collected the Galoob Star Wars (probably the plastic version of these) They also had "folding" players with similar figures which bent at the hip. They also came out with "static" figures sets
Ironic you used a sound bite from The Princess Bride. Bob Anderson who was Vaders fighting double in Empire, also arranged the swird fights in P.B. Great video, as always.
I look at the micro collection, and I'm reminded of another series similar to it in the 90s, where the focus was the vehicles with in scale figurines that only bent at the hips to fit in the seats. I had the Snowspeeder and the Death Star playset with Darth Vader's Tie Fighter from the series. ...Now if only I can remember who made them.
This reminds me a lot of the stuff Galoob did in the 1990's with Micro Machines, but those playsets typically don't hold a candle to the battle damage action features on these old Kenner playsets. What was good about some of the Micro Machines Action Fleet toys was that some figures were semi-poseable, so they could bend to sit down in chairs and vehicles, but that had its limitations too. Hasbro recently brought Micro Machines back exclusively for Star Wars, but there haven't been many playsets, and those few that exist are underwhelming to say the least. They just don't make them like they use to.
I had all of the Bespin sets as a kid, and I remember learning what the word 'beckoning' was thanks to asking my Dad after reading the figure descriptions on the box.
My favorite Star Wars collectible is an ion cannon I picked up in 1990 or so. For a while, I was confused about what it was and why it wasn't scaled to fit the regular figures. I did use them with the cannon. The slots at the bottom were about the right size to be firing ports for full size rifles, but I had a terrible time getting figures thru the door!
Man, seeing this gives me ideas for cool playsets. A lot of these videos make me feel like Star Wars is nothing but a giant toy commercial.... eh, it probably always was.... but with toys like these and the possibilities of toys like these but with the larger scale figures in mind, well, that sounds pretty boss to me.
I remwmber the Micro Collection came back in the late 90s, I had the Millenium Falcon which was awesome because it folded open to give you access to the living area, the pannels the hero hid under in New Hope served as a place to store your figures and the upper half was a ship repair area where you could place smaller ships to be worked on, I also had the Boonta Eve set which I liked but didn't play with as much as the Falcon. My brother had the Death Star which looked cool from the exterior and had a landing bay for Vader's Tie Advanced as well as what I think was the control deck. I don't think the Micro Collection was necessarily good for figures but it was great for ships.
Great vid. I never had any of the micro collection, but they're really, really neat. It is indeed such a shame they weren't 3 1/4" scale playsets. BTW, that jacket you're wearing in the opening is amazing.
I loved the Micro Collection when I was a kid.
I never had a problem pretending that the awkwardly sculpted characters were still able to blast away at each other. That was the power of imagination.
Han Solo Dance is worth the like and thumbs up from me!
Thanks Paradox!
I had a ton of these as a kid. As a teenager I used em as pieces for the West End Games Star Wars RPG.
nice! im about to run a first edition West End games star wars rpg
Best RPG I ever played!
@@cerethpainting6606 I still have my books. I got the Imperial Sourcebook but never not the Rebellion one.
Ha me too
I sometimes like to think the West End Games Star Wars RPG came about purely because a bunch of guys at WEG had the Kenner miniatures and were looking for a way to use them in something that was fun as opposed to them being limited as far as toys went.
That nod to “The Princess Bride” had me rolling! Thank you. When I was a kid desperately trying to earn allowance money and get good grades to obtain more figures and vehicles, I was enamored thumbing through the little included product preview catalogues with the micro play sets. However, I wouldn’t bite because all resources were needed to get the main line figures and vehicles and, while the micro play sets were awesome, the die cast figures were questionable concerning playability.
You know, I had gotten as a kid the Return of the Jedi Battle at Sarlacc Pit board game and love playing with the plastic figures of our heroes vs Boba Fett and Jabba’s guards for hours. So I think these micro toys had a lot of potential, it’s just that the main line toys were so damn awesome, you’d only love the micro toys if someone accidentally bought them for you as a present.
When i sent away for my free Emperor, they took so long to send it that when i received it, they sent 5 Micro Snowtroopers as a way to "apologize" for the delay.
This happen to anyone else?
AlwaysaMystery Yes The same happened to me too
Yep! Same here. My mother had sent away for the Emperor intending to surprise me with him for my 10th birthday. When the Micro troopers arrived, she explained the situation to me. (Kenner was even nice enough to send a "Dear Star Wars fan" letter apologizing for the delay and promised I would get the Emperor soon.)
I did eventually get the Emperor some time later :), though he was on the pegs in stores not long after.
This is what got me into buying the Micro Collection! When I received those die cast figures, I didn't know what to do with them. My mother took me to Toys R Us one day and they had most of the big sets on clearance. I picked up sets from there, KMart, and Service Merchandise. I have the complete collection. I took pretty good care of it too, only missing one of the windows from the Bespin set.
I still have my Emperor in the little box they mailed it in!!! I've never opened it, but I know it's in there because when I shake the box I can hear it.
You didn't mention the fact that this was the only time Kenner gave Luke a BLUE lightsaber when it was the correct color for the figure.
+David Land decisions made in real time are never perfect.
Three years later and I still hear that song every time during that scene where Vader is “strutting” down the corridor.
Yo I dig the Kylie Minogue album on da shelf and references hahaha. Mad respect.
Haha, the Kylie Minogue references.
;)
Mike and Melinda, this is actually one of my top five favorite videos you’ve ever produced. Thank you!
I am dying with all of the Kylie references!!!
That was a fantastic intro.
Congratulations Retroblasting. These is probably your best video of 2016 and we are less than few days away from "Rogue One".
It was always in the plan. ;)
Finally a comprehensive review of the Micro Collection! Keep up the great work on this channel Mike and Melinda.
I so wish that Bacta Tank playset would have seen the light of day. :)
Those Micro figures make great miniatures for gaming.
This is definitely my favourite 'Follies' video. Michael swing dancing was a particular highlight 😀
This is basically the only video I watch on your channel because the squatting swing dancing & music Solo pose cracks me up every time.
I am only a kid but still are inspired by your videos. At the start of the year we had all modern Star Wars toys and now at the end we have Kenner figures from Star Wars,empire,and Jedi, thanks
Awesome!
Thanks again!
Absolutely cherished these as a kid!!
"You are using Benito's defense on me EH!" Best Retro Blasting skit/joke evah!
An outstanding video about a terrific line!
I was always more into vehicles as a child than action figures, and I LOVED the Micro Collection with all of its mechanical gimmicks. (An X-Wing and TIE fighter that you could blow up and repair and fight again in a flash?!? SOLD!!! :D ) For me, this more than made up for the characters frozen in their poses.
I had the Micro X-wing and TIE as well as the Freeze Chamber, Wampa cave, Snowspeeder and Millennium Falcon! By brother also had the Death Star set with the exploding turret (which perfectly complimented the X-wing and TIE) and the Bespin gantry.
These were my all time favorite Star Wars toys! Hell, they were my FAVORITE TOYS I EVER HAD, period!!!!
Thanks for taking me back. :)
Another excellent episode. Thank you guys for all the hard work and effort you put into your videos!
Tenth time watching, but still as good as the first time Retroblasting will be vintage one day I know it
4:36 made my day
The Kylie Minogue songs references are too funny!
Wow, this definitely showed everything I need to know about the micro line thanks for an awesome video!
That Han Solo Carbonite feature is my favorite!
Wow. This was such a great episode. I was always intrigued by the Micro Collection, but I never got any since I was committed to the 3 3/4 inch figures. Now that I'm older, I appreciate these more than I did as a kid.
Holy crap you live in what is practically a mansion!! Also, great video as per usual, keep up the work!
sigh (for the 100th time) That's not my house. It's just a picture of a house. It was a joke to establish an 80s sitcom feel.
RetroBlasting I didn't realise this, but know you have a pointed it out I can't Unsee it now 😂, may ask though if you will ever review the Star Wars micro machines made by Galoob in the late 90s??
The Bespin sets were, are and probably will always be my favorite toys of all time.
7:30
Vader strutting cracked me up XD
I haven't watched the video yet, but just wanted to let you know that I just got home from a friends house and it is nearly 2am here in Grantham UK and this is the best thing ever to come home to. I already know I'm in a safe place with great content and people that seem like friends. Thank's for this year's video's and I hope you both have a great Christmas and a fantastic New year. Right now time to watch. Love to you from across the pond.
+Matt Leuty thanks Matt! To you as well!
I thought BV was going to "put you back on schedule" with retro blasting HQ.
"I see you have constructed a new archive, your skills are complete. Indeed you are powerful."
HAHAHA!
I used to have the Micro X-wing, Tie fighter and Snow speeder that you showed as a kid. I never knew what this line up is called until today! Thanks, Retroblasting for making me remember some fun time as a kid! Cheers!
I'm here to watch again.
I love this video
I love Star Wars Follies! Keep up the wonderful videos Michael and Melinda!
Thanks Griffin!
Don't underestimate the popularity of the diecast 😂 As a kid, whenever, I took my diecast Millennium Falcon into infants school on a toy day. It was the most popular toy.
haha the laughing snowy had me and your dancing han...brilliant
Thanks 007
What a trip down memory lane! Thank you for your efforts. Love the new intro. I didnt own these but a friend did. They were hard to tear myself away from.
I was going to say amazing house but read the other comments. Very, very sneaky. Awesome video. I got all excited when I saw that it was a Star Wars follies video!
Thanks Darth! We were excited when it was finally completed!
I still remember getting that Falcon, I was 7, and it was marked down something crazy..best toy 🤘
Another masterpiece! Thanks for continuing to produce such high level content!!
As much as these criticisms are cracking me up, these paved the way for the AWESOME 90's sets of Micro Machines from Galoob. I never really even knew these old ones existed till I found out about them many years later. These are seriously cool how they are modular too. I'd still give them an easy 9/10
They're cool collectibles but they weren't that much fun as toys for little kids. It used to bug me that they were in such ridiculous poses. I had the Tie Fighter and X WIng and a few of the figures but I didn't actually own any of the playsets until much later when I started recollecting SW toys.
DV!!! I've missed that guy.
I ate, slept and breathed Star Wars as a kid, but I never knew about the Micro Line; guess I never saw any of those sets in the toy stores. Did they ever re-release them later on like the Power of the Force line? Those playsets look like they would be fantastic on display, but finding one in pristine condition might be a nightmare.
More gold from Retroblasting, and the house looks great! Thanks for all your hard work, you guys.
Thanks Roger. They never rereleased these. Oh, and that's just a random photo of house for that sitcom feel. It isn't ours. :)
I had these as a kid. I loved them
Loved these as a kid!!
lol Am I the only one more excited for your new videos than seeing Rogue One?
+Dark Helmet haha! Thanks man!
Heh, though I have nothing against Rogue One, your post is what reminded me it is coming out...
Not Worth Your Time Haha, pretty accurate.
Antarctic Vortex ikr lol
I enjoy your clever writing. Thumbs up!
Great point about the Lando hatch in the micro Falcon. When I got the Big Millenium Falcon a few years back I expected -- with all the bells and whistles that came with that great vehicle -- that they would have included the Lando hatch too. Alas.
Okay, that does it! When I get home, I'm gonna break these classic sets outta storage & set 'em up, reliving some awesome childhood memories!
Another amazing review RetroBlasting... There was another part of the Micro Collection according to Steve Sansweet's "Guide to Star Wars Collectibles" was the "Bespin Torture Chamber" which Kenner was advised by several parents groups not to produce because of that one scene in ESB where Han was being electrocuted to draw Luke to Bespin to save his friends was even longer but was shortened by about 30 seconds to get the "PG" rating. Looking forward to seeing what happens with "Broken Vader" next.
Keep up the excellent work and MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!
+HOUSEOFKARLOFF1985 thanks. I've heard rumors of a Slave I that was planned as well
That would have been awesome to see, If I remember correctly the Millennium Falcon & Snowspeeder were Sears Catalog exclusives and the Tie-Fighter and the "World" collections were either a JC Penney or Montgomery Ward's catalogue exclusive as well. The "Torture Chamber" was supposed to connect near the to left near the gantry portion just to the right of the "Freezing Chamber".
Micro Snow Speeder?!?!? MIND=BLOWN
Thank you for featuring the Micro Collection! This is probably the only series of toys where I managed to acquire all of them. And that includes the Falcon, snow speeder, and extra rebel and imperial snow troopers. I didn't mind that figures weren't posable. I liked that the scale was smaller because they didn't take up so much space. They were probably less expensive too. As a kid I was only vaguely aware of prices. If only I had kept it.
Nice dance moves Michael! Funniest video yet.
Great video once again, Michael!
I brought home a helium balloon from church one Sunday in 1983. I tied my Wampa cave hanging Luke to it, OUTDOORS, and let it go. And away he went. I don’t know what I was expecting to happen. I hope some kid found him and had a good story to tell.
The Han Solo Crapping and Swing The Blaster Dance! lol Loved it! Very amusing young man! ;)
Damn. That's a swank crib you restin' yo' head in, at the top, Dawg. Baller.
Man, Han Solo taking a crap while swing dancing gave me a snort, lol. Brilliant, informative and hilarious video, as always!
+JOHNNYsXeBLUES thanks!
Great episode, I'm spinning around and can't get you out of head!
;)
This brings back so many
Great memories I believe my dad bought me all the micro series toys. My cousins and my friends played with these toys all the time.
Lobot is doing a 70s dance in his figure, nice video.
Congrats on 20,000 subs!
I've been saying this for years and it's been agreed by many a fan and collector that the reason why Kenner didn't manufacture many playset after the Death Star of 1978 was because it was expensive to produce and other countries outside the US refused to import it. that's why the Palit oy Death Star was cardboard. While it's maddening that Kenner didn't produce an interactive Be spin playset. Can you imagine the size and therefore retail prices of a proper scale model? No way was Kenner going to do that. The European market wouldn't buy into it. The Micro Collection was I believe an attempt at trying to give proper representations of these environments and at reasonable costs that other markets would also buy into.
I absolutely adore diecast miniatures, I also am a raving starwars fan. This is literally a match made in heaven.
Went out to my storage building to pull out both of my Greyskulls, Captain Power base...and then I ran across these Star Wars micro bases. Thought I had all of them minus the snow sets, my parents could only find the snow cave. Looking through the figures, I sent off for the mail away figures because I've got them here. Didn't know about the S.Speeder or M.Falcon. Got some stuff to hunt down now.
I had the carbon freezing chamber . It would drop Han into it , and come out frozen in carbonite . I loved it!
Nice Princess Bride dialogue inclusion!
I wish there were more ‘thumbs up’ buttons for this video! This is the greatest Star Wars toy video! So entertaining and hilarious !! Thank you so much for this content ! My whole family loves this video. -SithLotus
Great.
I am now permanently cursed with not being able to watch Empire anymore without Vader’s theme being replaced with “I’m gonna get you sucka” whenever his happy ass is strutting the hallowed halls of Echo Base.
XD
You can see where Galoob got their inspiration for the Star Wars micro machines range in the mid 90s. Those play sets all look very familiar.
I LOVED the Micro Collection when I was a kid. Even now, I have the entire collection except for the Snowspeeder. I wish it would have continued...Especially the Death Star Throne Room.
Awesome video as always Mike,
These were arguably even better than the og figures etc...,
The Vader using the force figure looks like hes trying to do the saturday night fever pose but his arm is getting too tired.
When theres a Vader skit it’s like you get two episodes of Retro Blasting xD he’s a great character !
I never knew about that exclusive Falcon. Awesome! As always you're on point with childhood frustrations. Boba Fet, Lando, and upward shooting Luke frustrated me to no end. I loved the idea of the die casts more than I loved playing with them.
Didn't know you guys moved into a mansion lol. Great vid its nice seeing a Star Wars Follies on Micro Collection
+Zeerak Imran that's not our house. ;)
So was this filmed at your residence or Wayne Manor. Holy Crap! That house is huge! Looks like the Retroblasting business has been goood. Very good.
+in2thezm that's not our house. That's just s photo I grabbed from the internet for a sitcom feel.
Awesome take on these. I never was able to get these, but I collected the Galoob Star Wars (probably the plastic version of these) They also had "folding" players with similar figures which bent at the hip. They also came out with "static" figures sets
Han Solo dance is fantastic!!!!! Thanks!
Ironic you used a sound bite from The Princess Bride. Bob Anderson who was Vaders fighting double in Empire, also arranged the swird fights in P.B. Great video, as always.
Great video as usual and love the Lets Get To It album on display
+Byron Law did you like the dialogue as well? ;)
Excellent video! You'd show a feature and I'd remember the commercial for it that I forgot I saw :]
I had the Falcon it was awsome hard to find now-a-days, I remember around 89 they were not around anymore.
I look at the micro collection, and I'm reminded of another series similar to it in the 90s, where the focus was the vehicles with in scale figurines that only bent at the hips to fit in the seats. I had the Snowspeeder and the Death Star playset with Darth Vader's Tie Fighter from the series. ...Now if only I can remember who made them.
Excellent video as always! Lot's of fun knowing about theses SW lines as alot didn't really reach us in Sweden back in the 80's.
I learned a lot in this one. Great work guys!
thanks for the awesome video. that bit about crouching han had me in tears 😂
This reminds me a lot of the stuff Galoob did in the 1990's with Micro Machines, but those playsets typically don't hold a candle to the battle damage action features on these old Kenner playsets. What was good about some of the Micro Machines Action Fleet toys was that some figures were semi-poseable, so they could bend to sit down in chairs and vehicles, but that had its limitations too. Hasbro recently brought Micro Machines back exclusively for Star Wars, but there haven't been many playsets, and those few that exist are underwhelming to say the least. They just don't make them like they use to.
Loved these ones.
I had all of the Bespin sets as a kid, and I remember learning what the word 'beckoning' was thanks to asking my Dad after reading the figure descriptions on the box.
Always worth the wait!
My favorite Star Wars collectible is an ion cannon I picked up in 1990 or so. For a while, I was confused about what it was and why it wasn't scaled to fit the regular figures. I did use them with the cannon. The slots at the bottom were about the right size to be firing ports for full size rifles, but I had a terrible time getting figures thru the door!
Man, seeing this gives me ideas for cool playsets.
A lot of these videos make me feel like Star Wars is nothing but a giant toy commercial.... eh, it probably always was.... but with toys like these and the possibilities of toys like these but with the larger scale figures in mind, well, that sounds pretty boss to me.
Man, I loved these so much when I was a kid! I managed to get everything except the Death Star world and the snow speeder and Millennium Falcon.
Great video as always. You guys always remind me of the awesome toys I had and forgot about. Lots of great memories with these. :)
well, I know what I'll be collecting next. awesome video!
I remwmber the Micro Collection came back in the late 90s, I had the Millenium Falcon which was awesome because it folded open to give you access to the living area, the pannels the hero hid under in New Hope served as a place to store your figures and the upper half was a ship repair area where you could place smaller ships to be worked on, I also had the Boonta Eve set which I liked but didn't play with as much as the Falcon. My brother had the Death Star which looked cool from the exterior and had a landing bay for Vader's Tie Advanced as well as what I think was the control deck.
I don't think the Micro Collection was necessarily good for figures but it was great for ships.
I can't believe that I neglected to Like this video until now. I've probably watched this ten or more times!
I bet that lead paint is pretty tasty though. Plus I did not expect that dance I nearly fell off my chair.
Great vid. I never had any of the micro collection, but they're really, really neat. It is indeed such a shame they weren't 3 1/4" scale playsets.
BTW, that jacket you're wearing in the opening is amazing.
Thanks man. WWII RAF pilot "battledress" jacket. You can get them at whatpriceglory