None could compare to the might of Star Wars, which never met a licensing or merchandising opportunity it couldn’t make its own and absolutely dominate. Some weird, slightly more obscure choices made the jump to Micro Machines too, such as Babylon 5, Jonny Quest and Biker Mice from Mars. There were some incredibly surprising licensed Micro Machines sets released over the years – with sets based on (sometimes very adult) franchises such as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator and Terminator 2. Maybe, but with Star Wars Micro Machines in general, we undoubtedly have one of the very best uses of the tiny vehicle and playset concept. Is it a cop out to feature an entire spin-off toy line of Micro Machines in first place on the best Micro Machines toys list? It was an absolute joy to play with and meant you could engage in all manner of creative play if you had a selection of vehicles on hand.ĭespite first arriving in 1991, newer, upgraded versions of Super Van City even exist today – the one we have pictured is from 2020! 3. It genuinely did feel like a micro sized city, which somehow found space for kids to use all of their Micro Machines vehicles.Ĭars, planes, boats, helicopters – you name it, Super Van City has an appropriate piece of scenery for pretty much anything in your collection. And that’s where Super Van City came in.įolding up neatly as a very 80s camper van, Super Van City was an absolutely magical toy. There were loads of individual city sets hat could be combined to make bigger and more varied environments, but having a single set that tried to do it all was amazing.
The Amazon 8-vehicle packs are repeated vehicles found in the 4-vehicle Target exclusive packs.Part of the appeal of Micro Machines was being able to stuff loads of them in your pocket, take them anywhere you want and amuse yourself on boring trips to see relatives – but there’s no doubt that the bigger playsets that could accommodate your tiny vehicle collection were brilliant too
Each box contains 8 different vehicles and a decoder as well as backgrounds typically found sealed in the world packs. These shown are the only sets known with this variation as production was presumably scrapped by Jazwares.Īmazon Exclusive: Two different Amazon exclusives are available for the transformers line. These foreign language dual text sets have never been found in retail shops. Pre-productions sets of all 4 and the chase set surfaced on eBay from China and are shown below. Interestingly, a foreign release was planned with the play background dropped from the sets. The "white blob" Sideswipe is highly desireable to collectors since far lower production. No chase sets are known with the incorrect play background for collection #2 on the cardback. Additionally, the Sideswipe vehicle from Collection #3 has an error (white blob) on the hood for the early release errors with incorrect play background that was fixed for the later shipments.
This was remedied quickly though with the correct image depicted for the subsequent shipments.
All 4 non-chase sets are known to have the error. The early release included an error on the card-back depicting the unique play background actually found in the chase collection for set #2. (Two chase X-Ray light color variations have surfaced and are shown below along with the related test shots.) Note : There are 2 different card-backs to collect for the 4-vehicle pack series.
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2022 Transformers: Series 1 - Target Exclusive 4-Vehicle Packs (USA Only) Amazon Exclusive 8-vehicle packsįour collections were released for this exciting series as well as a separate chase set with X-Ray Bumblebee.
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