The Amazing Micronauts Exhibit

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Today's update is a fun look at the amazing displays my pal Ray "Acroray" Miller put up at the Kruger Street Toy Museum a few years back.


I was lucky enough to see it first hand (luckily we also held Mego Meet there at the time) but for those of you who didn't this is an incredible experience to see Ray's amazing collection.


Ray's display comprises of vintage toys, concept art, catalogs, Japanese Microman items, prototypes, related merchandise and the many post Mego iterations of the toys and characters. Check it out after the jump.

Ampzilla was a late addition to the line and quite rare.

Foreign Made Micronaut Magnetic characters like Green Baron and the Emperor.

Halloween costumes and the amazing Marvel Comic book.

These are Takara Microman toys from Japan, which is from whom Mego licensed the concept.

This is a pretty sweet set up.






Original concept art for Hornetroid and Terraphant.




Original Harold Shull Concept art.




Prints of the Amazing Ken Kelly artwork.




Yup, that happened.




After Mego folded, Hourtoys was formed and began cranking out The Interchangables, they looked oddly familiar.




Original mego catalogs and promotional materials.




Original Commercial Reel

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[Werewolf]

Super cool!

[pmwasson]

I was really lucky to see the display in person at Mego Meet. I kept sneaking away from the rest of Mego Meet to check out that room. It was way too much to take in all at once.

[Klosterheim]

Wonderful!

[Hedji]

Those pics just make me want to dig in and start playing with them! Great collection!

[acrovader]

Micronauts and Microman are my favorite line of toys.

Notice: there is a photo of a prototype of a proposed alien playset/base buried in there...

[Wee67]

It was way too much to take in all at once.

So true. I've already gone over the pics several times to find things i missed thee first time around. I missed the Meet this year, but I do remember Ray's awesome set up from New York back in '04.

[Confessional]

Wow! Great room to be lost in for hours and hours! Must have been overwhelming in person.

[LonnieFisher]

Awesome set of magnetic figures! I don't know how I missed this thread...

[MRP]

I'm glad Lonnie missed this thread and resurrected it, or I would have missed it

Awesome stuff. I am just starting n my Micronauts journey after many years without one of my childhood favorites, and I can only hope to someday have a fraction of that awesome cool collection.

-M

[cjefferys]

Fantastic stuff, this really makes me want to start collecting Micronauts, but I'm kinda scared to fall down that rabbit hole!

[LonnieFisher]

Kinda rare and expensive figures.



A sample of my collection...

[samurainoir]

this was one of the highlights of my first Mego Meet. Was fortunately enough to get a personal tour from Acroray at the very end of the day as everyone was packing up. Mind blowing collection.

[acrovader]

Kinda rare and expensive figures.



A sample of my collection...

I didn't know M&D Interchangeables Captain Cosmo came with blue and black highlights. Nor Count Magno with black. Are these customs or are they legit?