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*The Multiforce are the anomalous members of the ''Micromaster'' toyline, as the characters were ''not previously Micromasters'', and are therefore redefined as "DX Micromasters," whatever that means, on-package. Their variant edition casts them in solid black plastic, in the " | *The Multiforce are the anomalous members of the ''Micromaster'' toyline, as the characters were ''not previously Micromasters'', and are therefore redefined as "DX Micromasters," whatever that means, on-package. Their variant edition casts them in solid black plastic, in the "Stealth Mode" featured in the final chapter of the prose storyline. Together, they form "Landcross Stealth Mode". | ||
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[[File:Landcross Micromaster Reissue.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Not [[Autobot Super Scramble|Super Scramble]].]] | [[File:Landcross Micromaster Reissue.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Not [[Autobot Super Scramble|Super Scramble]].]] | ||
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| The name or term "Micromaster" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Micromaster (disambiguation). |
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The Transformers: Micromaster (トランスフォーマーマイクロマスター Toransufōmā Maikuromasutā) was a small line of Transformers released by Takara which ran from 2002 to 2003. It consisted entirely of reissues and redecos of (mostly) Micromaster molds originally created for Victory, Return of Convoy, and Operation Combination.
Fiction
The Micromaster story was told through six short prose excerpts with illustrations by G-2 author Hidetsugu Yoshioka, included in the pack-in fliers. It occurs in the early 1980s of the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity, prior to the awakening of the Autobots and Decepticons aboard the Ark, and stars the Autobot and Decepticon Micromasters who would go on to feature in the Operation Combination storyline (set some fifty-odd years later).
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Toys
Released in six separate waves, each wave comprising an entire team, the Micromaster toys came in small, "blindpacked" boxes sold in cases of 12 (each case included two copies of each figure). Unlike normal blindpacked toys, buyers were actually able to identify which figures they were purchasing through a small cutaway circle in the box-front, which revealed a small portion of the instruction sheet within, marked with a number between 1-6 (the boxes themselves noted which number corresponded to which figure). The first five waves were reissues of the combining Micromaster teams from the Return of Convoy and Operation Combination toylines, while the sixth was a reissue of Victory's Multiforce. Each team was redeco'd from the original figures to different extents (some received entirely new color schemes, while others remained the same), but all of them featured new tampographs and paint applications instead of stickers.
From the second wave onward, in every case of 12 figures, two figures were available in a rare "chase" coloration, usually representing the team's transformed or powered-up state, as featured in the storyline.
Liner Team (May 2002)
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Turbo Team (September 2002)
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Wing Team (February 2003)
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Build Team (March 2003)
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Train Team (July 24, 2003)
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Multiforce (December 25, 2003)
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External links
- Archive of Micromaster translations by Doug Dlin:
| Wave 1 - Liner Team | Wave 2 - Turbo Team | Wave 3 - Wing Team | ||
| Wave 4 - Build Team | Wave 5 - Train Team | Wave 6 - Multiforce |
- Complete "omnibus" of Dlin's Micromaster translations at Cosmic Rust
