Whatever happened to the SOTA Micronauts?

[samurainoir]

This was announced a couple of years ago, but I don't think they ever came out.

[spamn]

Nice. Never saw the pix.

[Lonestarhobbies]

Woah, those are sweet.... especially that Lobstros

[Cmonster]

I designed those. My friend Jerry Macaluso owned SOTA toys. Super fun project. Shame they never saw the light of day...

SC

[spamn]

I designed those. My friend Jerry Macaluso owned SOTA toys. Super fun project. Shame they never saw the light of day...

SC

Great stuff Sandy. I assume they were meant to be Marvel Legends scale?

[Lonestarhobbies]

I designed those. My friend Jerry Macaluso owned SOTA toys. Super fun project. Shame they never saw the light of day...

SC

Damn, that's cool.....sucks that the world so far hasn't been able to enjoy them yet :(

[SexySkottie]

I was never a micronaughts fan, but damn, they are killer figures.

[Mok]

I designed those. My friend Jerry Macaluso owned SOTA toys. Super fun project. Shame they never saw the light of day...

SC

YAY Jerry !

I know Jerry , I hung out with him and Roy back when they where doing FX work a few times , i`m just an acquaintance though .

I bumped into him again at the SDCC when they where doing the Riddick figures .

[geotroid]

When Jerry sold SOTA toys in 2006, the new owners put all licensed toy lines under review. Since Micronauts Evolution was Jerry's pet project and not one based on mass or even niche market appeal, the new owners at SOTA wanted nothing to do with it.

As a media tie-in, Dave Waugh scripted a comic with pencils by Transformers artist Guido Guidi and variant covers by Randy Queen and Ken Kelly. Michael Golden even expressed interest in the project (a promo comic was released at the 2006 SDCC).

But with the toy line cancelled, so too was Dave's comic treatment. It's a shame, really.

Here's a link to Dave's interviews with Jerry *BEFORE* the line was cancelled:

2005
Evolution with Jerry Macaluso pt.1

2006
Jerry Mac interview '06 (pt.1)

In that interview, Jerry announced that he decided to scale the SOTA Micros down from 6 1/2 - 7 " to the original 3 3/4" for sale as a web-order only (Which never happened).

Ken Kelly also did a painting for the new Lobros figure. Major bummer we never got a new Lobros figure with new Ken Kelly artwork!!!

-geotroid

[palitoy]

I had heard behind the scenes that Dave had really put a big effort into those, it depressed me that they didn't see release.

They looked smashing at SDCC that year.

[samurainoir]

I designed those. My friend Jerry Macaluso owned SOTA toys. Super fun project. Shame they never saw the light of day...

SC

Wowee! Dude, those are totally bomber redesigns.

Awesome job. Bravo.

[johnmiic]

I designed those. My friend Jerry Macaluso owned SOTA toys. Super fun project. Shame they never saw the light of day...

SC

Y'know Sandy, when I first saw these I thought they were a little too far out there. They don't look bad just that they looked a little too Heavy Metal. That was just my first impressions of them.

[AcroRay]

I keep in touch with Jerry. When he sold SOTA he was supposed to get hardcopies, but in the end he didn't even get those. Everything is in the hands of SOTA's new owners, and he didn't get a thing.

I've got a couple of Randy Queen's concept sketches for the line. Even most of those have wound-up in the hands of Randy Queen collectors, rather than Micronaut collectors per se. ("Diesect" was one of my favorites, now in a European collector's hands.)

Sandy, I had no idea those were your work. Amazing stuff! I'm assuming copies never made it into your hands, either?