Lots of Micronaut photos and commentary by AcroRay

[AcroRay]

Heya, Gang! I'm plugging a Flickr photo gallery I've started, featuring images of my rare Micronaut and Micronaut-related items, with extensive commentary. Prototypes, original art, lots of stuff. Please have a look, and leave comments if you like!

AcroRay's Micronauts - a photoset on Flickr

[palitoy]

Really nice Ray!

[toys2cool]

That looks cool dude

[Bo8a_Fett]

WoW nice collection ...good stuff.

[kinostadt]

Awesome Ray.
I love the obscure Micronauts information and offshoots, especially the Lords of Light.

[PCofmisfittoys]

looks great. you ned to do a micronauts book of some sort. Lord knows there's 50 star wars books, 40 star trek books and endless MEGO/superhero related books out there. we need a good, single topic book for micronauts. Just use a main stream publishers where it gets to the large book chains

[geotroid]

I didn't realize that the Topen prototype head was so raw. Wow, thanks for posting those, Ray!!!

[geotroid]

Ray, I just noticed that your blue Cires Armroid (second photo, lower right) has a cannon in lieu of a right arm. Is he incomplete?

If so, I'll have to check my parts stash. I seriously have a series of Series 1 Cires parts

;-)

Although my silver Series 2 Cires is incomplete. Anybody have extras???

[Grendel]

Wow, those are terrific!

Love the Crystal Robotman.

And the prototypes.

And, well, all of it!

[AcroRay]

Ray, I just noticed that your blue Cires Armroid (second photo, lower right) has a cannon in lieu of a right arm. Is he incomplete?

Nah, its complete. The Armroid is standing next to the AcroPlane at his feet. I just decided to give the Giant Acro a big cannon for one arm! Thanks for the kind offer of help, though!

[johnmiic]

Great stuff Ray!

[The Sentry]

Wow! What a great display! Great photos too! I'm really impressed. I loved Micronauts as a kid.

[Leeman13]

Very, VERY nice collection. I have been selling off my Star Wars & Mego superheroes stuff on Ebay to try to make ends meet. I had plans to eventually sell all my Micronauts, but that will be a last resort. I just loved these as a kid, and still think they are some of the coolest toys that I have ever seen. What is your opinion of the quality of all the newer "reproduction" figures?

[geotroid]

Yeah, he does look kinda cool that way. If anybody else needs Inter-changeables parts, please feel free to drop me a line as I do have a large cache of spares.

[geotroid]

Sorry - the above was in response to Acroray's photos. As for Leeman13's question, I think Ray is more qualified to provide an in-depth answer that than myself in regards to the "newer 'reproduction' figures".

But generally speaking, the Series 1 figures were unfortunate victims of a common, shady manufacturing deal in mainland China. Series 1.5 was a good-hearted effort to rectify that QC problem, and Series 2 truly contained some fantastic figures despite a few glitches and some garish transparent color combinations (IMHO).

I for one was thrilled to see new Palisades Micro figures on retail shelves again 20 years after Mego's demise.