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    11/09/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    I would think JJ would back away from another robot movie. I don't ever remember watching the Micronauts cartoon but I do remember that it only lasted a season or two. Did it ever get a cult following? #micronauts
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    11/09/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    If they use the comics as a launching point, there was some great potential. Talk of "body banks" and the different worlds with different alien races. Good reading. #micronauts
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    11/07/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    So, how long before we get a live action Power Puff Girls film, because I would be all over that. #micronauts
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    Image of cadrina cadrina
    11/07/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    I never heard of micronauts but wikipedia say that it was discontinued in 1980, therefore before I was born.
    It was only a toy line? did actually had a mythology included? #micronauts
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    11/07/09

    @cadrina: There were great toys and there was a great comic book series. Although as a kid I found the link between the two to be pretty tenuous, they were both still awesome. #micronauts
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    11/07/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    Micronauts were pretty cool - and the mythology wasn't so obtrusive that it kept you from making up your own storylines. The interchangeable nature was the key: like Legos, you could always build something awesome that had nothing to do with the original toys' parts from which it was constructed. Everything had some kind of missile-launcher, too!

    In addition, the design was ahead of its' time for both characters and toys. When I recall these and the Corgi, Matchbox, and GI Joe stuff of the same era, it's easy to see why Kenner went to draw inspiration the Micronauts for its' Star Wars line. #micronauts
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    Image of Atomictao Atomictao
    11/07/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    I still have a magnetic Baron Karza, with his evil black magnet horse, whom he can merge with and become an evil black magnet centaur.

    That's the problem with kids today. Not enough magnet centaurs. #micronauts
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    11/07/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Pope Paul Paul! That would be kinda awesome.

    ...and if you say Paul Pope really quickly... it will sound like a bird. #micronauts
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    11/07/09

    In reply to JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie?
    Is it going to be the Micronauts climbing up Pam Anderson's boobs again?

    Look out Robot Chicken, you have competition! #micronauts
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    10/06/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    Crystar was a Cartoon - i'm pretty sure as i didn't have decent access to comics in my youth. i remember the theme song too!

    oh, Captain Planet looks like Crystar the Chrystonian BTW

    I also like how Robot Chicken has done a little skit on pretty much all teh above noted cartoons/comics (except zoids)
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    10/05/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    Zoids.
    definitely Zoids.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    I LOVED the Micronauts comics, especially how Marvel managed to get them tied in with the rest of the MU. As well, as with the other franchise properties like Star Wars and the original BSG, they had some great talent working on it - Mike Golden initially, and Jackson (Butch) Guice in the later issues.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    Thundarr the Barbarian! The broken moon hanging in the sky would ONLY work out with a retarded large CGI budget.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    You guys forgot Jem and the Holograms.
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    10/05/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    M.A.S.K. was definitively the greatest show ever when I was a kid.

    It's also pretty funny that today we actually have the technology to build one wheeled bikes like they use in Spiral-Zone:



    Okay, maybe not exactly like those. XD
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    10/05/09


    @TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.:
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    10/04/09

    In reply to 10 More Toys For Hollywood To Co-Opt
    Man, I didn't even know there were Galaxy Rangers toys! I loved the hell out of that show. They just released the whole thing on DVD this year, and I was pretty happy to learn that unlike many things I loved in my childhood, it actually was pretty damn good, and often outright excellent.
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