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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

The Micronauts remain largely unchanged from when I collected them as a child...I think I like that.

Hmm. Galactic Warrior's missile looks utterly ridiculous, but I suppose it is less unsafe if someone gets a missile in the face by accident. (Those red ones from the original could still pack a bit of a wallop, IIRC.)

Galactic Defender has an upside-down jet pack and leg jets, as well as the wrong rifle.

Yes, I'm nitpicking. Yes, I'm still planning to try for these if the price isn't too steep. (Yes, I need to see if I can find my old Pharoid, Galactic Defender, Acroyear, etc. in my parents' basement one of these days.... )

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Originally Posted by Nightrain

I want the Micronauts but I'd be ok with them selling fast because it would show interest.

Either interest or scalpers. Speaking of...

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Hopefully scalpers will be going for the Marvel things when they go live on HTS and leave the TF/Micronauts stuff alone haha.

Fixed that for you. You're welcome.

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Originally Posted by juggernaut209

Excited for micronauts to return, but I don't need this set. Bring on Acroyear.

No, a multi-pack of Acroyears! An army of Acroyears!

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Originally Posted by BB Shockwave

I never understood Micronauts, or their appeal. They are just weird looking silvery humans with haphazard accessories. Was there ever a comic about them? I am certain I never seen a cartoon, for sure.

The fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count them) iteration started a couple months ago.

The first version from Marvel started in late 1978 (cover-dated January '79). Fifty-eight issues plus two annuals written by Bill Mantlo, as well as a four-issue X-Men/Micronauts crossover he co-wrote with Chris Claremont. Issue 59 was a transitional issue written by Peter B. Gillis as a lead in to his 20-issue Volume 2, subtitled "The New Voyages." It wasn't a reboot, but took the characters in a different direction and ended oddly (but at least both Volume 1 and Volume 2 had an ending, unlike the next two).

Image Comics' 2002 reboot lasted 11 issues (plus a four-issue miniseries on the origin of Baron Karza).

Devil's Due 2004 reboot lasted just three issues.

The third issue of IDW's reboot should be in comic stores today.

The annoying thing about the reboots is that the only concepts that could be carried over from one version to another are the toys, and the (minimal) characterization associated with the toys. So, a lot of the mythology that Mantlo developed, along with several characters that had extremely tenuous (or non-existent) connections with the toys, were of necessity left out of later versions. This especially hurt the Devil's Due series, as the world-building (or "Microverse-building") was just getting started when it was canceled.

You could even call the reboots new mythologies, with even less similarities between them than (say) Transformers Marvel and Transformers IDW. (Of course, since the vast majority of Transformers have a biography on the toy packaging, there is a lot more characterization that can move from one comic company to another without the lawyers getting upset.)