so what happened to Palisades??

[Boris71]

There were rumors of hasbro releasing figures from micronauts for a while as wellas some of takaras new microman stuff, not sure if it was true, or the fact that takara don't seem to make them anymore killed it I seem to remember along with rumors of a microman movie

[spamn]

I had always thought that what killed the Palisades Micronauts were the quality issues with the first line; the factory for the first set of toys really screwed the pooch. A lot of broken figures or accessories, and the line never recovered. At least that was my impression.

It was heartbreaking because they did that line so right; new colors, brand new extra accessories for each figure in addition to the classic ones, and the original product artist producing package art.

I wish we'd gotten to the point where they were designing new characters or reissuing classic microman that never saw the light of day here.

[johnmiic]

Palisades was a victim of ambition and the hobby's economic downturn, I think... Eventually, like the comic publishers before them, many collapsed. Palisades was like that. They made great stuff, but it was expensive to produce and could only be priced so high - limiting their profit margin...Many outlets they sold through - like Tower Records, Suncoast Video and others - went out of business as well, increasing Palisades' troubles...We never did find out what happened to the Micronauts tooling after they closed shop.

Good points all-but didn't the problems they had in the Micronauts re-release really kill them? The entire first wave suffered because the factory omiited parts producing sub-standard product. they went forward with the additional waves but it really hurt their reputation.

[spamn]

Good points all-but didn't the problems they had in the Micronauts re-release really kill them? The entire first wave suffered because the factory omiited parts producing sub-standard product. they went forward with the additional waves but it really hurt their reputation.

I think it hurt the line, but I heard nothing but praise for the quality of the Muppets line.