I almost started crying when I seen that Hornetroid. I forgot I even had it until just now when I seen it. I miss my childhood and mom and dad so much!
I was lucky enough to be able to buy Repto, Membros, and Antron all at the same time in the late 70's at KB Toy & Hobby. I still remember admiring the card art, so much so that I held on to the cards themselves for years.
Repto was my favorite of the aliens as a kid. He was a member of my hero team instead of being a villain and even got a "coveted" spot in my 12 figure Space Case.
Same with me! Rep to took the Superman role as being the alien hero that inspired other heroes. His power level was comparable to that of Martian Manhunter. The only bad thing about the toy that I got for Christmas was Santa forgot to include the laser saw in mine 😢
I had a similar sentiment toward Repto, although I knew he wasn't supposed to be a good guy, so for me he was a merciless antihero who played by his own rules.
You & I were kindred spirits back in the late 70's - early 80's. Micronauts were pretty much my favorite toys, along with Lego's & later the G.I. Joes of the same size came along.
For some reason I was obsessed with lizard men as a child. So Repto was one of my favorite figures. The only Flash Gordon figure I owned was the weird reptile woman with a wacky pole arm. She had substantial mammary glands for some odd reason. Some designer was unclear on the difference between reptiles and mammals.
@@BrickMantooth Holy crap Gargoyles! One of my earliest memories was being at a drive in and being so terrified of these creepy lizard people I spent most of the movie hiding under the dashboard. It bugged me for decades that I couldn't figure out what the movie was... nothing seemed to fit. Eventually the internet rediscovered the movie. I am sure it's that TV movie, released to drive ins. Discovered the reason they were so creepy is that they had the actors move in slo-mo while the camera operator cranked the film by hand. So the movements are really jerky and unnatural. What a bizarrely obscure movie. (I don't think that explains the lizard man obsession though... I'll bet that was just a development of my earlier obsession with dinosaurs. I found a really good rubber lizard mask, built a costume around it and wore it to a Star Trek convention).
The mutants and the Hornetroid were my favorites as a kid. Even Boba Fett feared them. A Hornetroid with a brain though, what a concept. A mutant could enter the cockpit and then mindmeld with its horrifying bio-orgainc war ship.
My buddy had a star searcher and a terraphant. The only thing I had from this era of micronauts was the hornetroid. Most of my collection centered around the earlier time travelers and acroyear releases. Wish I had these still though. The interchangeable aspect is what made this line and how everything could be used with most everything else. I never knew that about the box art, thanks for sharing.
My Micronauts collection isn't very big- just Biotron, Microtron, Giant Acroyear, a couple of Time Travelers, a Cosmo-Man (by Hourtoy), three aliens, and Battle Cruiser and Rocket Tubes in their original boxes. A few years ago I bought Antron, Membros, and Repto incomplete, then slowly bought their missing accessories on Ebay and completed them. Like you, I caught a glimpse of some toys in my parents' bedroom closet a few days before Christmas. Then my sister and I pretended to be surprised on Christmas morning. Those were the days.
Yup Got Membros and Repto and the Mini Centaur. Got a bunch of them carefully packed in storage. They are in a custom large cardboard box with my drawings, Comic clippings, and catalog spreads of the toys. I colored the whole box with black magic markers to mimic the pitch black packaging they had back then. I was 10 years old. Got a ton of the comic books too. My friend and I were constantly drawing some of the characters and vehicles- then Star Wars and BattleStar Galactica hit the theaters- and we were trying to draw anything we could from those worlds! It was a glorious time.
I had several of the Micronauts. This included the humanoids that came in the sarcophagus. Or was there only one? I don't remember the packaging we had in Australia or why my brother and I started getting them, but even though I no longer have them I fondly remember I loved their gimmicks as a kid.
Amazing. I had (actually, still HAVE) most of the Micronaut's line-up, including the three that are shown in your vid. Little did I know that there were several more toys that came out! I guess at THAT point, I grew too old for them, but I secured them all in a safe place after I stopped playing with them! Now... I want to break them out and pick up where I left off. I mowed a LOT of lawns and shoveled a LOT of sidewalks/driveways in order to afford them. Heck, a simple, single TIME TRAVELLER... which was the CHEAPEST of the line, was $1.99... and any of the smaller, single-seat vehicles were $3.99. The most expensive pieces of my collection was the BATTLE-CRUISER and ROCKET TUBES, which went for $149.99 respectively! MAN... those were the good-ol' days!!
I remember seeing the commercials and upon receiving some money for my 10th birthday, I had bugged my parents to bring me to our local "Globe" department store where I snagged up Repto. I later got the Hornetroid. Such an amazing line. I am adding these to my adult toy collection. Great video Brian thank you.
Thanks for the video. And yes! I had Repto when I was a kid, I would say that I bought it in 1978 aprox. I dreamt of Biotron and HidroCopter. I remember commercial advices on TV and I saw them on display in toy stores. Great memories. Regards from Chile (SouthAmerica).
There were great I had the dragster and acroyear and the basic micronaut that I remember seeing these everywhere including those lion cards at toys R us. Total throwback and memory jogger!
I was fascinated by these line of toys when I was a kid. Still have them all in cardboard boxes and plastic bags. I got them out with my kids when they were younger and they liked them too,
i was lucky, the stores around me stocked stuff pretty well. of those six aliens, the only one i didn't have was the centaur one. i think it depends where you are as to what you got/get.
Trivia of trivia, but Membros didn't appear in the Marvel Comics story with Psycho Man, although several later Marvel Comics reference books and letters pages claimed they appeared in that story. Marvel and Mego referred to the first three aliens as "androids" in the text of the comic and toy ads. They seemed to use the word incorrectly and actually meant "cyborgs".
Yeah I was surprised to not be able to find Membros in those stories when I was doing the research, I swore he was in there as a kid but the memory cheats sometimes.
Awesome art. Fantastic technique the artist did painting on a black background, very 70s sci fi art, but its coming back. Wish I can afford these toys, just too much on ebay most times.
Antron and Membros were favorites in my Star Wars battles. They had very distinct personalities and when I got the other aliens my Imperial forces were very powerful. There was that ad on TV with the Terraphant shooting water onto a sandcastle and the narrator saying it was spraying acid. This inspired many sandbox battles where the Micronauts were defending against the Terraphant and Membros. Sadly the water feature on the Terraphant was poorly designed and only dribbled ; giving the Terraphant the apparance of a runny nose. Still, they were favorites then and are favorites to this day.
The fact that the artwork was done by Kiss's in-house artist doesn't surprise me at all because those are some truly epic pieces of card front artwork I'm probably represent some of the best artwork on a retail toy ever.
I donated the tooling original for the Palisades re-release of Centaurus. It was a pretty serious time for the Fandom then. We really wanted the line to succeed. Unfortunately, Palisades got pretty screwed by the factory in China.
Great video. I was given the three of them: Membros, Antron an Repto, for 1980 Xmas. I still have them in zip locks in a large box, along with my Star wars and Empire strikes back vintage action figures. Now that, more than 40 years later I´ve seen again the amazing art in the carboards on the video, I´m thinking of giving them to a skilled friend of mine to make them detailed, accurate painting.
I loved the Micronauts toys! I had the first wave of villains as well as Baron Karza the lab playset as well as numerous time Travelers. Loved the comic book as well! I have an issue one to issue 50.
I was an older-than-a-child collector when these came out. I was not too well monied in those days, so I only acquired Repto and Antron; and Repto is the winner between those two, in my opinion.
I had the green guy with wings. He had a exposed brain on this head that glowed in the dark. Thank u so much. I remember this from my childhood but never knew who made them. Now I know his name. Repto. I believe I had the cart and the tower that went around in the circle. I wasn’t interested in the toy line at the time, but I used it to fight my other Star Wars toys.
I loved my Repto figure! Unfortunately, I lost him in my best friend’s back yard (but not his accessories, somehow.) I’d replace him, thanks to eBay, years later only to have the box he was in disappear from my (now ex) in-laws attic. I did manage to get the green Palisades version and (so far) hold onto it. lol
I always assumed that toy companies at that time made figure so you'd just fold them into using them with whatever figures you already had. Not seeing the forest for all the trees, if you will.
I had Membros and Antron, along with Hornetroid and Terraphant, but I never had a Repto. I didn't even know about the second wave guys until they appeared in the comics (which were quite good).
I had the Hornetroid and the Terraphant, as a kid. I did not, however, have (and wasn't even aware of) any of the alien Micronauts figures. Weird how that works sometimes. I just purchased another Hornetroid on Ebay and await it anxiously. I may try to pick these figures up too,if I can find some that aren't TOO outrageously priced. Thanks, man.
I had Membros, and I still may have him down in my basement in a box. I don't remember the second wave of these figures, and they were more amazingly bizarre than the first assortment! Don't recall seeing them in the toy store when I went there with my parents either . . .
"You lose Space Glider.." "Micronauts, never lose"! I loved those TV spots as a kid and was that crazy guy who had the 1982 GI Joes face off against the Micronauts. So now here we are. ( as in Hasbro's own "Cinematic Universe") Membros was my favorite but he was nowhere to be found in the original comics run.
Micronauts is one of the best toylines ever.They had cool designs,switchable parts and all kinds of cool vehicles and accessories.its too bad they don't make stuff this cool anymore,or at least that is affordable.
I loved Acroyer, though I never had him. I had the basic transparent ones in various colors, the time traveler with his sarcophagus and kendo shenai, and two flying Micronauts with the switchblade racket-wings, and removable helmets, o me blue, one green. I used to put them against my mostly metal, British Metal Men, and C.B. McCall figures. Star Wars came later, and dominated the figure landscape. Did Mego do Planet Of The Apes as well? They looked cool, especially Dr. Zaius.
The Mego Aliens were incredible. I kept wanting more designs. Centaurus was my favorite by a long shot, but Antron and Reptos were very cool as well. It's a shame Mego fell apart by this wave. The company was one of my last toy company loves as a kid. It's crazy how those figures really brought more articulation to the game, yet failed next to Star Wars or other licenses. Great video.
I had Membros it was a well constructed figure with really neat accessories, I played with him as the Marvel Micronauts character Devil (the furry red one), or a bounty hunter alien so I never used it as a villain in my play.
Still have my Repto....missing his weapon arms and wings, but he still has his brain. Used to have the Hornetroid and Tyrophant vehicles. Those were good times in the late 70's early 80's.
Nice video, explained a lot. I always assumed those guys were from the Japanese line too but never saw them in my browsing of Japanese vintage stuff. And that card art!, so that's why they were so awesome. They were up there for my favorite action figures before G.I. Joe came along.
Very little Takara molding exists in the Micronauts Aliens. All I can think of is the tail fins and 2 guns from Hornetroid are adapted from the Transfer Fortress, Beam Tripler and Conning Tower.
AAARRGGHH.....I had the terraphant and the hornetroid but could never find the figures anywere back in the day in the uk. They looked so cool too! Oh well....still have my hornetroid!
I remember wanting the original three as soon as I saw them and *really* wanting Centaurus the next year but Toys R Us was still a few years away from having stores in the area and none of the local retailers ever had them. No idea why I never just ordered them from the Xmas catalogs... I did end up finding Membros and Repto on the Lion Rock cards several years later. Never saw the Palisades re-issues of the figures in the stores, either, just the magnetic figures, Acroyear and the humanoid characters.
I had them and the Terraphant. I broke the Terraphant when I was putting it together, so my mom came up with the idea of buying another and returning the broken one in the nice box. I liked Membros. I had the one orange one in the next series too.
I believe that I owned all six of the the Mego Micronaut Aliens, and Repto was probably my favourite out them all. Got a really big kick out of the glow in the dark brains, as well.
I had Repto and the Hornettroid-since I didn’t l know much of the Micronaut back story and owned them just because they looked so damn badass I had them going to war with Crystal and Moltar as well as some of the smaller die cast Shogun Warriors!
Sadly I was not around for the original line, unfortunately I was around for the 2000 line, and I can vouch those figures had extremely fragile plastice, a part of me wondered if they just repackaged left over figures they found in a warehouse somewhere.
i loved these, got them in 4th grade at Christmas. Hornetroid is the coolest spaceship EVER. Made me wonder if the dragonflies at my pond were spaceships
I was young but i distinctly remember getting repto as a kid along with a pharoid and instantly losing his weapons right out of the package. I didnt do well with holding on to toys with lots of accessories as a child
We got both waves of aliens and at least the Terraphant and Hornetroid here in Australia (IIRC first wave in 1980 and second wave in 1981). I had all 6 figures and the Terraphant - sadly all gone now... I remember the elbow joints being fragile - Membros and Lobros both lost one of their lower arms at different times.
Yes I had them but I only had reptiles friend of mine was selling his toys and that was included with the toys that he wanted to sell so I bought it I don't remember what I paid for it. But he was really cool so I made him one of the main bad guys liked his wings and the glow-in-the-dark feature sometimes I use him as a bounty hunter that work for Jabba the Hutt.
Other Alien parts reuse include using Repto wings in the Pocket Heroes line. There were also proposed reuses of Ampzilla and Lobstros as Pocket Heroes vehicles.
I had Lotsa micronaughts, loved em , Baron Karza, and Andromeda, I had a three wheel motorbike vehicle,any more that my memories don't recall, I had the dude with the sarcofagus and other dudes, loved em , I had all the alien monsters, my fave was repro, and mostly the preying mantis character....🤘✌️🇨🇦🍻
I hope you can benefit from knowing that this channel and your website are calming fun things to look at when bad stuff goes on in my house you are the comfort food of content sir (:
Repto was always my favorite of these. While these were the first full non Takara figures released by Mego in the line, they had modified others. Where did they get the Baron Karza and Force Commander head sculpts? I always suspected that Karza was a Mazinger Z head that someone cut the crown off and reversed it so it formed a helmet. But no idea on Force Commander? Also didn't the Micronauts line and in particular these alien guys live on for awhile in South America and Italy, getting some wild color variants?
Yeah they look stunning. Way better than gijoes alien figures in star brigade. Would love to track some down at a toy show. Those vehicles are also so eleborate. Its amazing they saw production. What a great era for toy design.
Fun fact: the Hornetroid is modeled after a dragonfly by the designer. The box text calls it a "Myriapod", which is actually the scientific classification of Centipedes, not Hornets or Dragonflies.
Thankyou for helping me extract my long lost memory of Repto from my 52 year old brain.
I almost started crying when I seen that Hornetroid. I forgot I even had it until just now when I seen it. I miss my childhood and mom and dad so much!
I was lucky enough to be able to buy Repto, Membros, and Antron all at the same time in the late 70's at KB Toy & Hobby. I still remember admiring the card art, so much so that I held on to the cards themselves for years.
Repto was my favorite of the aliens as a kid. He was a member of my hero team instead of being a villain and even got a "coveted" spot in my 12 figure Space Case.
Same with me! Rep to took the Superman role as being the alien hero that inspired other heroes. His power level was comparable to that of Martian Manhunter. The only bad thing about the toy that I got for Christmas was Santa forgot to include the laser saw in mine 😢
I had a similar sentiment toward Repto, although I knew he wasn't supposed to be a good guy, so for me he was a merciless antihero who played by his own rules.
I remember getting Repto at a birthday party in 1980(!). He often handed Galactic Defender his ass... magical toys.
You & I were kindred spirits back in the late 70's - early 80's. Micronauts were pretty much my favorite toys, along with Lego's & later the G.I. Joes of the same size came along.
For some reason I was obsessed with lizard men as a child. So Repto was one of my favorite figures. The only Flash Gordon figure I owned was the weird reptile woman with a wacky pole arm. She had substantial mammary glands for some odd reason. Some designer was unclear on the difference between reptiles and mammals.
I had the same "Lizard Man" thing, I blame Sleestaks and the TV movie "Gargoyles" as major influences.
@@BrickMantooth Holy crap Gargoyles! One of my earliest memories was being at a drive in and being so terrified of these creepy lizard people I spent most of the movie hiding under the dashboard. It bugged me for decades that I couldn't figure out what the movie was... nothing seemed to fit. Eventually the internet rediscovered the movie. I am sure it's that TV movie, released to drive ins. Discovered the reason they were so creepy is that they had the actors move in slo-mo while the camera operator cranked the film by hand. So the movements are really jerky and unnatural. What a bizarrely obscure movie. (I don't think that explains the lizard man obsession though... I'll bet that was just a development of my earlier obsession with dinosaurs. I found a really good rubber lizard mask, built a costume around it and wore it to a Star Trek convention).
funny, it never occured to me that she's a lizard, yet still has boobs. nice catch.
Great figures. Being a KISS fan, I was not aware of Ken Kelly's involvement with the Micronauts package. Thank you for sharing.
@William HELLHASEYIS
Super nice person. I met Mr. Kelly at a KISS Convention.
I still have my six alien playmates. Lobros is the bomb. Thanks for teleporting me back to my childhood again, Brian.
glad you dug it!
Lobros is the only character my parents didn't get me. Had all the others. Never got an Ampzilla either.
The mutants and the Hornetroid were my favorites as a kid. Even Boba Fett feared them.
A Hornetroid with a brain though, what a concept. A mutant could enter the cockpit and then mindmeld with its horrifying bio-orgainc war ship.
I had Repto & Membros. The were usually denizens in my Star Wars creature cantina.
They would totally be regulars at that den of scum and villainy. They walk in and everyone goes "NORM!!!"
My buddy had a star searcher and a terraphant. The only thing I had from this era of micronauts was the hornetroid. Most of my collection centered around the earlier time travelers and acroyear releases. Wish I had these still though. The interchangeable aspect is what made this line and how everything could be used with most everything else. I never knew that about the box art, thanks for sharing.
Terraphant was one of the best. Months and months spent with this guy.
My Micronauts collection isn't very big- just Biotron, Microtron, Giant Acroyear, a couple of Time Travelers, a Cosmo-Man (by Hourtoy), three aliens, and Battle Cruiser and Rocket Tubes in their original boxes. A few years ago I bought Antron, Membros, and Repto incomplete, then slowly bought their missing accessories on Ebay and completed them.
Like you, I caught a glimpse of some toys in my parents' bedroom closet a few days before Christmas. Then my sister and I pretended to be surprised on Christmas morning. Those were the days.
Loved my Antron! And Hornetroid was my second favorite spaceship losing many dogfights to my Starbird.
Yup Got Membros and Repto and the Mini Centaur. Got a bunch of them carefully packed in storage. They are in a custom large cardboard box with my drawings, Comic clippings, and catalog spreads of the toys. I colored the whole box with black magic markers to mimic the pitch black packaging they had back then. I was 10 years old. Got a ton of the comic books too. My friend and I were constantly drawing some of the characters and vehicles- then Star Wars and BattleStar Galactica hit the theaters- and we were trying to draw anything we could from those worlds! It was a glorious time.
I have nothing but fond memories of the late 1970s as well. So much Sci-Fi!
I had several of the Micronauts. This included the humanoids that came in the sarcophagus. Or was there only one? I don't remember the packaging we had in Australia or why my brother and I started getting them, but even though I no longer have them I fondly remember I loved their gimmicks as a kid.
Bug. Omg. I miss him.
Awesomeness...i had the little robot ones with a folding playset
I had membros. Micronauts were my favorite toys along with my Star Wars figures.
Amazing. I had (actually, still HAVE) most of the Micronaut's line-up, including the three that are shown in your vid. Little did I know that there were several more toys that came out! I guess at THAT point, I grew too old for them, but I secured them all in a safe place after I stopped playing with them! Now... I want to break them out and pick up where I left off. I mowed a LOT of lawns and shoveled a LOT of sidewalks/driveways in order to afford them. Heck, a simple, single TIME TRAVELLER... which was the CHEAPEST of the line, was $1.99... and any of the smaller, single-seat vehicles were $3.99. The most expensive pieces of my collection was the BATTLE-CRUISER and ROCKET TUBES, which went for $149.99 respectively! MAN... those were the good-ol' days!!
I remember seeing the commercials and upon receiving some money for my 10th birthday, I had bugged my parents to bring me to our local "Globe" department store where I snagged up Repto. I later got the Hornetroid. Such an amazing line. I am adding these to my adult toy collection. Great video Brian thank you.
Thanks for the video. And yes! I had Repto when I was a kid, I would say that I bought it in 1978 aprox. I dreamt of Biotron and HidroCopter. I remember commercial advices on TV and I saw them on display in toy stores. Great memories. Regards from Chile (SouthAmerica).
There were great I had the dragster and acroyear and the basic micronaut that I remember seeing these everywhere including those lion cards at toys R us. Total throwback and memory jogger!
I was fascinated by these line of toys when I was a kid. Still have them all in cardboard boxes and plastic bags. I got them out with my kids when they were younger and they liked them too,
I've still got my original hornetroid toy. I never saw the alien figures in the shops though. Always wanted one.
i was lucky, the stores around me stocked stuff pretty well. of those six aliens, the only one i didn't have was the centaur one. i think it depends where you are as to what you got/get.
Trivia of trivia, but Membros didn't appear in the Marvel Comics story with Psycho Man, although several later Marvel Comics reference books and letters pages claimed they appeared in that story.
Marvel and Mego referred to the first three aliens as "androids" in the text of the comic and toy ads. They seemed to use the word incorrectly and actually meant "cyborgs".
Yeah I was surprised to not be able to find Membros in those stories when I was doing the research, I swore he was in there as a kid but the memory cheats sometimes.
@@BrickMantooth in a letter page a few issues later they even mentioned that Membros was in that comic!
Awesome art. Fantastic technique the artist did painting on a black background, very 70s sci fi art, but its coming back. Wish I can afford these toys, just too much on ebay most times.
Antron and Membros were favorites in my Star Wars battles. They had very distinct personalities and when I got the other aliens my Imperial forces were very powerful. There was that ad on TV with the Terraphant shooting water onto a sandcastle and the narrator saying it was spraying acid. This inspired many sandbox battles where the Micronauts were defending against the Terraphant and Membros. Sadly the water feature on the Terraphant was poorly designed and only dribbled ; giving the Terraphant the apparance of a runny nose. Still, they were favorites then and are favorites to this day.
I always wondered if Terraphant delivered on that promise.
THAT was so awesome! I had those (aliens) I forgot though. Thanks for the cool memory man.
The fact that the artwork was done by Kiss's in-house artist doesn't surprise me at all because those are some truly epic pieces of card front artwork I'm probably represent some of the best artwork on a retail toy ever.
totally agree.
I donated the tooling original for the Palisades re-release of Centaurus. It was a pretty serious time for the Fandom then. We really wanted the line to succeed. Unfortunately, Palisades got pretty screwed by the factory in China.
Yeah, they totally did, that was heartbreaking. i remember really liking that fella, Ken Lily from Palisades, good guy.
Great video. I was given the three of them: Membros, Antron an Repto, for 1980 Xmas. I still have them in zip locks in a large box, along with my Star wars and Empire strikes back vintage action figures. Now that, more than 40 years later I´ve seen again the amazing art in the carboards on the video, I´m thinking of giving them to a skilled friend of mine to make them detailed, accurate painting.
Yes I I dug all of them!
I did have these growing up and they were put together with Star Wars and Buck Rodgers and Black Hole and anything else space related. Loved them.
I loved the Micronauts toys! I had the first wave of villains as well as Baron Karza the lab playset as well as numerous time Travelers. Loved the comic book as well! I have an issue one to issue 50.
I was an older-than-a-child collector when these came out. I was not too well monied in those days, so I only acquired Repto and Antron; and Repto is the winner between those two, in my opinion.
I loved them! They were some of my favorite toys and they were built tough.
*these* were built fairly well, lol. it was a strange line, i'd have die-cast ones, and others of the cheapest plastic known to man.
I loved these! Micronauts were so cool in general.
got all 3 for Christmas and Hornetroid....loved that ship so much.
Membros! I've had this figure for decades now and I could never figure out his name. Not only was his brain glow in the dark, but it was removable. =)
Interesting to know about all the other toy lines ..besides SW,BSG,buck rogers ect...tnks
They are awesome 👍
I had the green guy with wings. He had a exposed brain on this head that glowed in the dark. Thank u so much. I remember this from my childhood but never knew who made them. Now I know his name. Repto. I believe I had the cart and the tower that went around in the circle. I wasn’t interested in the toy line at the time, but I used it to fight my other Star Wars toys.
Thats a blast from the past.
I loved my Repto figure! Unfortunately, I lost him in my best friend’s back yard (but not his accessories, somehow.) I’d replace him, thanks to eBay, years later only to have the box he was in disappear from my (now ex) in-laws attic. I did manage to get the green Palisades version and (so far) hold onto it. lol
With you 100%. These Micronaut aliens were new charicters in my Star Wars toy universe, just as a few Adventure People filled in !
Nicely done, Brian!
thanks for the help!
I added these figures to SERPENTOR'S GUARD when I was a kid. Seemed to fit.
I always assumed that toy companies at that time made figure so you'd just fold them into using them with whatever figures you already had. Not seeing the forest for all the trees, if you will.
I had Membros and Antron, along with Hornetroid and Terraphant, but I never had a Repto. I didn't even know about the second wave guys until they appeared in the comics (which were quite good).
OMG, I totally forgot about these! I had these when I was a kid. I thought the packaging was awesome, too.
Hey Brian I got all of the aliens back then for Christmas. Both wave 1 and 2. STILL have them too. Love your vids.
Thank you so much, i'm glad to hear it.
I had the Hornetroid vehicle. it was the only vehicle of theirs that I owned but never had any of the pilots for it.
I had the Hornetroid and the Terraphant, as a kid. I did not, however, have (and wasn't even aware of) any of the alien Micronauts figures. Weird how that works sometimes. I just purchased another Hornetroid on Ebay and await it anxiously. I may try to pick these figures up too,if I can find some that aren't TOO outrageously priced. Thanks, man.
It is funny how you completely miss things as kids isn't it?
I had Repto, but I had no idea he what he was from or even what his name was. He was a favorite for a long time.
I had Membros, and I still may have him down in my basement in a box. I don't remember the second wave of these figures, and they were more amazingly bizarre than the first assortment! Don't recall seeing them in the toy store when I went there with my parents either . . .
Holy smokes, Ken Kelly? I have a few crappy boxes and stuff of these figs. I kept them and looked after them cos I grew up poor
I had a few Micronauts, but I never had any of the aliens. I do remember the ads in Marvel Comics!
"You lose Space Glider.." "Micronauts, never lose"! I loved those TV spots as a kid and was that crazy guy who had the 1982 GI Joes face off against the Micronauts. So now here we are. ( as in Hasbro's own "Cinematic Universe") Membros was my favorite but he was nowhere to be found in the original comics run.
Micronauts is one of the best toylines ever.They had cool designs,switchable parts and all kinds of cool vehicles and accessories.its too bad they don't make stuff this cool anymore,or at least that is affordable.
I loved Acroyer, though I never had him. I had the basic transparent ones in various colors, the time traveler with his sarcophagus and kendo shenai, and two flying Micronauts with the switchblade racket-wings, and removable helmets, o me blue, one green.
I used to put them against my mostly metal, British Metal Men, and C.B. McCall figures. Star Wars came later, and dominated the figure landscape.
Did Mego do Planet Of The Apes as well? They looked cool, especially Dr. Zaius.
The Mego Aliens were incredible. I kept wanting more designs. Centaurus was my favorite by a long shot, but Antron and Reptos were very cool as well. It's a shame Mego fell apart by this wave. The company was one of my last toy company loves as a kid. It's crazy how those figures really brought more articulation to the game, yet failed next to Star Wars or other licenses. Great video.
I had Membros it was a well constructed figure with really neat accessories, I played with him as the Marvel Micronauts character Devil (the furry red one), or a bounty hunter alien so I never used it as a villain in my play.
Still have my Repto....missing his weapon arms and wings, but he still has his brain. Used to have the Hornetroid and Tyrophant vehicles. Those were good times in the late 70's early 80's.
Nice video, explained a lot. I always assumed those guys were from the Japanese line too but never saw them in my browsing of Japanese vintage stuff. And that card art!, so that's why they were so awesome. They were up there for my favorite action figures before G.I. Joe came along.
I have all 3 to today. Very much enjoyed!
Yes!!! HUGE Micronauts fan!!!
Very little Takara molding exists in the Micronauts Aliens. All I can think of is the tail fins and 2 guns from Hornetroid are adapted from the Transfer Fortress, Beam Tripler and Conning Tower.
Membros backpack/hose was a direct lift from the Microman Police Keeper/Rescue figures.
@@geotroid I didn't know that. Have to check that out. Did it use the same molding or just a similar idea?
AAARRGGHH.....I had the terraphant and the hornetroid but could never find the figures anywere back in the day in the uk. They looked so cool too! Oh well....still have my hornetroid!
Repto all the way!! He was my all time favorite figure.
I had all of the first three. Antron was my favorite!
I remember wanting the original three as soon as I saw them and *really* wanting Centaurus the next year but Toys R Us was still a few years away from having stores in the area and none of the local retailers ever had them. No idea why I never just ordered them from the Xmas catalogs... I did end up finding Membros and Repto on the Lion Rock cards several years later. Never saw the Palisades re-issues of the figures in the stores, either, just the magnetic figures, Acroyear and the humanoid characters.
I had them and the Terraphant. I broke the Terraphant when I was putting it together, so my mom came up with the idea of buying another and returning the broken one in the nice box. I liked Membros. I had the one orange one in the next series too.
I believe that I owned all six of the the Mego Micronaut Aliens, and Repto was probably my favourite out them all. Got a really big kick out of the glow in the dark brains, as well.
Bro I had membros & kronos when I was a kid. Hours of fun, those were the days.
loved them.
Only had the green guy. I loved anything that glowed in the dark at that time.
I had Repto and the Hornettroid-since I didn’t l know much of the Micronaut back story and owned them just because they looked so damn badass I had them going to war with Crystal and Moltar as well as some of the smaller die cast Shogun Warriors!
Sadly I was not around for the original line, unfortunately I was around for the 2000 line, and I can vouch those figures had extremely fragile plastice, a part of me wondered if they just repackaged left over figures they found in a warehouse somewhere.
i loved these, got them in 4th grade at Christmas. Hornetroid is the coolest spaceship EVER. Made me wonder if the dragonflies at my pond were spaceships
I was young but i distinctly remember getting repto as a kid along with a pharoid and instantly losing his weapons right out of the package. I didnt do well with holding on to toys with lots of accessories as a child
We all kind of were.
We got both waves of aliens and at least the Terraphant and Hornetroid here in Australia (IIRC first wave in 1980 and second wave in 1981). I had all 6 figures and the Terraphant - sadly all gone now... I remember the elbow joints being fragile - Membros and Lobros both lost one of their lower arms at different times.
I had Repto. Blue micro naut. Spaceship from their series.
Yes I had them but I only had reptiles friend of mine was selling his toys and that was included with the toys that he wanted to sell so I bought it I don't remember what I paid for it. But he was really cool so I made him one of the main bad guys liked his wings and the glow-in-the-dark feature sometimes I use him as a bounty hunter that work for Jabba the Hutt.
Other Alien parts reuse include using Repto wings in the Pocket Heroes line. There were also proposed reuses of Ampzilla and Lobstros as Pocket Heroes vehicles.
Yes, I hope to get to that one soon and tackle the Buck Rogers Star Searcher.
@@Make_Ukraine_Russia_Again got a picture of them?
I had all 3. I wanted the wasp alien the most, but I never saw it for sale.
I had Lotsa micronaughts, loved em , Baron Karza, and Andromeda, I had a three wheel motorbike vehicle,any more that my memories don't recall, I had the dude with the sarcofagus and other dudes, loved em , I had all the alien monsters, my fave was repro, and mostly the preying mantis character....🤘✌️🇨🇦🍻
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I did have a Micronaut figure but forgot which one it was.
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Great video man and it brought back some great memories.
Action figures from the 60s and 70s were the coolest ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Looking for Xmas presents used to do that myself bit of mouching
I had all 3 of those. I wish I still had them =(
I had Antron, loved the four arms and weapons instead of hands, and yes I used him as a bad guy with my Star Wars figures.
of course.
I still have 4 of the 6 Alien figures mint on unpunched card. I'm only missing Centaurus and Kronos.
Repto was always my favorite of these. While these were the first full non Takara figures released by Mego in the line, they had modified others. Where did they get the Baron Karza and Force Commander head sculpts? I always suspected that Karza was a Mazinger Z head that someone cut the crown off and reversed it so it formed a helmet. But no idea on Force Commander?
Also didn't the Micronauts line and in particular these alien guys live on for awhile in South America and Italy, getting some wild color variants?
I understand what you mean but they were modded from a takara toy and these guys were designed top to bottom in the west, so I felt they were unique.
Yeah they look stunning. Way better than gijoes alien figures in star brigade.
Would love to track some down at a toy show. Those vehicles are also so eleborate. Its amazing they saw production.
What a great era for toy design.
I had all three of these when I was a kid. No idea what happened to them... or many other of my childhood toys. MOM!
Outstanding video
Thank you so much 😀
Fun fact: the Hornetroid is modeled after a dragonfly by the designer. The box text calls it a "Myriapod", which is actually the scientific classification of Centipedes, not Hornets or Dragonflies.