Not only do I remember Micronauts, I owned the toys and still, somewhere, have a complete run of the original comic book series. I’m a Micronaut Micronut (yuk yuk)!

@Commieneko:

Thanks, that will come in handy. I contacted him and offered to dub a dialogue track for him because I do that for a living.

Tang.

You can interpret that however you like.

Does this cliffhanger compel the young viewer to rush out to the toy store so he can rescue the human?

Since someone mentioned Micronauts, I thought I’d share my FLICKR set devoted to Microman figures from Japan; they were the original Japanese Micronauts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackszwergold/sets/72157601541867323/

Also, be sure to check out Microman Forever, the web’s best source of information on Microman and related toys:
http://www.microforever.com/

And check out this awesome Japanese Microman commercial; the soundtrack is mindblowing for a kids toy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSTeB35UVfk

i had micronauts, too, and i adored them, but then star wars came along, and, well, the rest is sorta history.

They all are dolls. Our toys were dolls.
WE PLAYED WITH DOLLS, MAN!

(And sometimes Evel Knievel had tea with Stretch Armstrong, Strawberry Shortcake and green Army men on fire!)

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Terrific stuff.

I can’t even express how awesome this is. It’s like 7 or 8 commercials one after the other, each with different little action scenarios. Wow.

Still playin with my micronauts,
groucho

These commercials meant that all the kids immediately knew *how* they were supposed to play with the toys when they came over since we’d all seen the story on the TV.

http://www.andrewpmayer.com

Like those commercials or instructions or stories or the kind of doll meant anything anyway:

They all got strapped with a cellophane parachute and a lit firecracker eventually.

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It’s a distant future, the year 2000. The president will be a chimpanzee. I know you don’t believe it now, but in a few years you’re going to elect a guy who worked with monkeys and then the monkey son of his VP will become president. And then they will declare Ape Law.

Unfortunately, the soundtrack has been lost.

Unfortunately, the soundtrack has been lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ik_lX81Qt0

(sorry if this is a double-post)

What exactly does an astronaut smell like? Sounds like our he’s wearing some of those astronaut diapers we heard so much about earlier this year.

Unfortunately, the soundtrack has been lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ik_lX81Qt0”

Here is a synopsis of the dialog as nearly as I can reconstruct it:

Zira approaches Cornelius on campus and asks him where the restrooms are located.

Cornelius tells Zira that she shouldn’t worry about such things and the she should be concerned with Ape/Human relations.

Zira stresses that it is important that she find the restroom. Now.

They argue.

Cornelius takes Zira over to the fountain, to take her mind off of her trivial concerns, and proceeds to tell her about the upcoming Ape/Human summit. At length.

Zira is not convinced.

Cornelius perseveres.

Zira stands up and informs Cornelius that she has peed her Ape pants. She cries.

Cornelius gives her a hug. All is better now.

Goddamn right! I had the space base with the little cars. Although due to my aforementioned predilection for firecrackers, I only have a few frankensteined ones left.

Man, no Planet of the Apes dolls left though – they were the neighbor kids’ and they were big enough to shoot with the .22.

“i say FEH on “transformers” — those johnny-come-latelys!”

Yeah, they were lame. (Voltron rules the hizzo, boyee!). Besides, by the time they were around, I had discovered the wonderfulnessitude of boobs and butts. Game over.

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