Airfix Micronauts;
And
my view hasn't changed one iota since! You see them in rummage bins at
toy shows, or looking forlorn and one-armless in charity shops, and I
just walk on by! Sometimes one - presumably 'rare' - is sitting on a
silly-money BIN-price on evilBay and I just walk on by! But, if they are
your thing, I get it, youngster! I'm a man fathered by a child of the
pre-Palitoy/General Mills iteration of Airfix, me!
The full - well, a potted - history's here (Airfix/Palitoy don't get a mention - bought-in end of line?!);
The funny thing is you can see the Takara heritage in the robots and smaller vehicles, some of which design-lines would reappear in the Bluebird-Kenner-Tomy stuff a few years later, the tracked robot looking very similar to the grey Tomy version of the Blue Sharks one-man submersible from Manta Force, or the little robots from the same line.
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