For 3 to 4 years, Micro Machines was the largest selling toy car line in the US with total dollar sales exceeding the combined sales of the next top-selling lines: Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette.

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Micro Machines had a well-known advertising campaign in the 1980s involving fast-talker John Moschitta Jr. In 2006, the brand name was visible only in the detail panel of the Star Wars and Transformers Titanium series die-cast vehicles and figures. Micro Machines released a special Presidential Limousine series, which used President Harry Truman's 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Bubble top limousine.Incredibly popular in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the Insiders series featured a small vehicle inside the standard size Micro Machine. Not only is this the first sighting for the Transformers Micro Machine products, it is also the first time we learn of this particular product's existence.

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While the Micro Machines collection is known primarily for sizing down automobiles, it has also featured several playsets including 1991's fold-out Super Van City.

All 3 are based on their Revenge of the Fallen vehicle modes, but Optimus is made of translucent plastic, Megatron has a sand spray deco, and Starscream appears to be painted in a G1 paint style that pretty closely matches his Transformers Energon appearance. Jazwares has announced that the rumored Transformers Micro Machines line will officially arrive this Spring.

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Black Bumblebee wrote:I "think" I see connectors to connect up to the WFC playsets based on the pictures of the advertised products. I think there's a little confusion here or maybe the wording is just confusing since it seems to imply Hasbro doesn't own Micro Machines and Wikipedia definitely has their info wrong. The six Mystery Pack sets feature a mini playset that transforms from a container to a playset with a 3cm vehicle inside. I thought that too but the mold is far too round, has gold windows versus Barricades silver, and is a completely different vehicle to Barricades Mustang.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Many different styles of Micros have been made including all the popular cars and trucks of the times, trains, emergency vehicles, tanks, boats, airplanes, helicopters, and motorcycles, and people. If you are new to Micro Machines or a sweaty nerd like myself, I hope your visit to the site is a positive experience. These remind me of the MM Travel City pocket playsets, only larger and more complex, so color me intrigued. When sold to Hasbro, the basic line was largely discontinued, and new packaging of the toys did not catch on.