This is an email I sent to someone after seeing Rahsan Ekedal's very awesome drawing of Baron Karza from the Micronauts comic/toyline (Below) I just love the relationship between Japanese and American toys, especially during the 70's and 80's: "Ready for a toy history lesson? Okay, GI Joe started off in the 60's with the 12 inch tall, and later 8 inch tall, figures. In the 70's a Japanese company licensed the molds for the Joe figures, and created their own toyline called Henshin Cyborg, it was moderately successful, but a big stumbling block was that making vehicles and playsets for those size figures wasn't feasible at a decent pricepoint. At this point, they decided to try and make a smaller figure, and created the Microman line, these figures were 3.75 inches tall. The story behind these toys, was that the Microman were tiny aliens, and they landed on Earth and hid amongst us, also in the toyline were robots that turned into Microrecorders, tapes, micro...
*contains no actual guidance for surviving a pipebomb explosion.