The 2019 Micronauts animated series was completed but not released.

[Werewolf]

Wow, 52 episodes for two seasons was completed and shelved for a tax write off.

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[Earth 2 Chris]

Wow, this was early for the "Tax write-off" debacle. Was David Zaslav involved?

[LonnieFisher]

I'd love to find a bootleg copy!

[Spiral]

The first 26 episodes went up on YouTube a couple of days ago.
I haven't watched it properly yet, it looks different with a some recognisable element from the old toys.
But it has Clancy Brown doing the voice of Baron Karza, so it at least has that going for it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76FONZLeL9uIfDa32gJmKkcQ2CDqmwoQ

[LonnieFisher]

Wow, it's utter trash!

[Frenchy99]

Sitting next to the BatGirl movie.

[Nostalgiabuff]

clearly aimed at very young kids. painful to watch for us

[Dan2Dan]

Thank you very much for posting this link to the episodes on You Tube!

I loved Micronauts as a kid in the late 1970s. The toys and the Marvel comic book. I've carried that affection with me for another (nearly) 40 years, if not always actively. Every time I've seen something new that's Micronauts-related as an adult, I've bought it, even if Micronauts are not on my mind every day or every week. Over the years, I've bought every issue of every modern comic book adaptation. I bought as many of the Palisades re-do figures from 20-plus years ago as I could find, when I first heard about them years afterward. I bought the SDCC exclusive Micronauts boxed set by Hasbro a few years ago (with a modern Galactic Defender). So I'm loyal and enduring (and a buyer).

I remember reading about this new cartoon adaptation,and seeing some pre-production drawings, online before COVID. I never heard or saw anything else since. So I assumed that it, too, like a lot of other 'upcoming' Micronauts projects over the years, just never happened.

With that context in mind, having now watched all of episode one, I personally really liked it.

It was obviously not made for me, a man in his mid-50s who loved the original toys as a child. As others have already commented above, it was clearly made for kids, skewing on the younger side. I'm cool with that. To me, this cartoon is to the original Micronauts toys and Marvel comic book as 'Teen Titans Go' is to the original, early 1980s DC New Teen Titans comic book by Wolfman/Perez/Tanghal (another property I loved as a teenager in the early/mid- 1980s).

Personally, I almost always root for the things I loved as a kid to find renewed interest many decades later among a younger generation. I'm at peace with 'the price of that' almost always being dramatic changes to the original that I wouldn't personally prefer.

The plot of the first episode was clearly inspired by one of the early (single-digit) issues of the Marvel comic book. And I thought I saw a couple of Star Wars influences as well in this cartoon (on which the original Marvel comic book was a heavy influence).

That said, my personal 'pedantic nerd critiques' would be: (1) I didn't love Time Traveller being a physical being, and incarcerated, (2) I had to suppress 'nerd outrage' when the lead hero was called an Acroyear, while he was clearly wearing Space Glider gear, and distinctly not dressed like an Acroyear, (3) I wondered why they ditched the term 'Microverse' infavor of 'Micronia" (or something similar) - I assume this change was driven by an IP rights issue, and (4) there was a new alien character in place of Bug (again, I assume that was driven by an IP rights issue) and at first I enjoyed that his design seemed to be a mash-up of the vintage Micronauts Aliens figures, but then I lost some enthusiasm as it dawned on me that, as a result, we likely won't see those vintage Aliens adapted themselves in this cartoon.

[Dan2Dan]

I watched episode 2. I enjoyed it, but a little less than I did episode 1, as this episode seemed to drift further from the source material.

So far, the only aspect that I have a hard time with is that Time Traveller is now a 'regular' Micronaut character, and in episode 2 was being played for comedic effect.

[Dan2Dan]

I watched episode 3. This episode really focused on the Micronauts' new teenage boy companion on Earth (maybe 8th -10th grade). A lot of cliché 'life lessons' about a nerdy boy having just moved to a new town, who's having a hard time making friends.

I watched episode 4, as well. The female lead (who, like Time Traveller, was imprisoned at the start of the show and was referred to as 'convict') is now revealed to have washed out of the Space Glider program. With that revelation in mind, I can now see elements of Space Glider in her character design. But you have to kind of squint to see them, which is disappointing.

Of the Micronauts, Biotron's character design may be the closest to the original, and it's not that close, and his characterization in the show is very different from that in the vintage Marvel comic book, at least so far. Though Baron Karza is, by far, the most recognizable - both character design and concept.

All that being said, there are other vintage Micronauts elements being incorporated as the show continues. I am not enumerating them here to avoid spoilers.

Overall, after four episodes(of 52), I actually think the show is very watch-able, but: (1) a lot of the vintage concept has been changed or discarded, so much so that it makes me wonder why it was branded "Micronauts," as that's a name with zero recognition among the target audeince for this modern cartoon, and (2) I don't see the new character designs as that toyetic - and therefore have a hard time seeing how this cartoon would successfully sell toys; which maybe is the core reason it was 'mothballed' for a tax credit instead?