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* SomethingNauts: The name "Micronauts" literally means "small sailors" (which was really not descriptive of the toys). Clearly, the "-naut" in Micronauts was just taken from the words "astronaut" and "cosmonaut". (They were pretty small, though.)
* SpiritualSuccessor: In the form of Revell's Robolinks, which was an export of Japan's Blockman toyline. Like the Microman toyline that Micronauts is based off of, Blockman was also produced by Takara.
** Parts of the toyline were revived both by Mego and other companies for years. There were the Interchangeables, just a PaletteSwap of the original toys. There were the Lords of Light, which included reissues of several of the Micronauts' "Aliens" subline of figures, with the gimmick that you could put a glowing lightstick in their chests. And several of the Micronauts' vehicles wound up recolored for Mego's Pocket Super Heroes line. And, as mentioned above, Palisades briefly brought the original line back in the mid 2000's. It should be noted that the original Japanese Microman toyline on which all of this (and many of the original Franchise/{{Transformers}} as well) is based is [[LongRunner still going strong in Japan.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: In the form of Revell's Robolinks, which was an export of Japan's Blockman toyline. Like the Microman toyline that Micronauts is based off of, Blockman was also produced by Takara.
** Parts of the toyline were revived both by Mego and other companies for years. There were the Interchangeables, just a PaletteSwap of the original toys. There were the Lords of Light, which included reissues of several of the Micronauts' "Aliens" subline of figures, with the gimmick that you could put a glowing lightstick in their chests. And several of the Micronauts' vehicles wound up recolored for Mego's Pocket Super Heroes line. And, as mentioned above, Palisades briefly brought the original line back in the mid 2000's. It should be noted that the original Japanese Microman toyline on which all of this (and many of the original Franchise/{{Transformers}} as well) is based is [[LongRunner still going strong in Japan.]]
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* SomethingNauts: The name "Micronauts" literally means "small sailors" (which was really not descriptive of the toys). Clearly, the "-naut" in Micronauts was just taken from the words "astronaut" and "cosmonaut". (They were pretty small, though.)
* SpiritualSuccessor: In the form of Revell's Robolinks, which was an export of Japan's Blockman toyline. Like the Microman toyline that Micronauts is based off of, Blockman was also produced by Takara.
** Parts of the toyline were revived both by Mego and other companies for years. There were the Interchangeables, just a PaletteSwap of the original toys. There were the Lords of Light, which included reissues of several of the Micronauts' "Aliens" subline of figures, with the gimmick that you could put a glowing lightstick in their chests. And several of the Micronauts' vehicles wound up recolored for Mego's Pocket Super Heroes line. And, as mentioned above, Palisades briefly brought the original line back in the mid 2000's. It should be noted that the original Japanese Microman toyline on which all of this (and many of the original Franchise/{{Transformers}} as well) is based is [[LongRunner still going strong in Japan.]])
* SpiritualSuccessor: In the form of Revell's Robolinks, which was an export of Japan's Blockman toyline. Like the Microman toyline that Micronauts is based off of, Blockman was also produced by Takara.
** Parts of the toyline were revived both by Mego and other companies for years. There were the Interchangeables, just a PaletteSwap of the original toys. There were the Lords of Light, which included reissues of several of the Micronauts' "Aliens" subline of figures, with the gimmick that you could put a glowing lightstick in their chests. And several of the Micronauts' vehicles wound up recolored for Mego's Pocket Super Heroes line. And, as mentioned above, Palisades briefly brought the original line back in the mid 2000's. It should be noted that the original Japanese Microman toyline on which all of this (and many of the original Franchise/{{Transformers}} as well) is based is [[LongRunner still going strong in Japan.]]
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''Micronauts'' are a line of action figures from Mego, actually a rebranding of Japan's ''Microman'' series of toys, which lasted from 1976 to 1980. After that, Microman spawned ''New Microman'' and then ''Microchange''; many of the Microchange toys became part of the initial ''[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Transformers]]'' range (specifically the ones that turned into objects, like Megatron (a gun) and Soundwave (a cassette player); many of the Minibots were also from this line). ''Microman'' was revived in Japan in 1999, then again in 2003 (the 2003 series has been aimed towards collectors rather than kids).
!!The toy line provides examples of:
* ChromeChampion: All of the "human" figures still had shiny metal faces.
** When the toyline was briefly revived by Palisades in the mid-2000's, a special edition of the original Space Glider figure was produced, colored to match his comic book counterpart -- with a blue jumpsuit and yellow stripes, and a flesh-colored head with brown hair.
* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: The toys' main selling point was their modular parts. It was "The interchangeable world of the Micronauts!"
* MechanicalMonster: Ampzilla, the Hornetroid, the Terraphant, and others.
* PaletteSwap: Baron Karza is pretty blatantly Anime/KotetsuJeeg, except black and red and with a slightly different head. The comic design is somewhat different, but the toy is for all intents and purposes a repainted Jeeg, down to the magnetic joint-based DetachmentCombat and a centaur mode.
* SpiritualSuccessor: In the form of Revell's Robolinks, which was an export of Japan's Blockman toyline. Like the Microman toyline that Micronauts is based off of, Blockman was also produced by Takara.
** Parts of the toyline were revived both by Mego and other companies for years. There were the Interchangeables, just a PaletteSwap of the original toys. There were the Lords of Light, which included reissues of several of the Micronauts' "Aliens" subline of figures, with the gimmick that you could put a glowing lightstick in their chests. And several of the Micronauts' vehicles wound up recolored for Mego's Pocket Super Heroes line. And, as mentioned above, Palisades briefly brought the original line back in the mid 2000's. It should be noted that the original Japanese Microman toyline on which all of this (and many of the original Franchise/{{Transformers}} as well) is based is [[LongRunner still going strong in Japan.]]
