TAKARA 1999 MICROMAN MAGNE POWER 031 STEALTHHELI AND 032 SONICBIKE CASSETTES

Bought these during sale many years ago when it was heavily discounted. These two are 1999 re-issues from the original 1983 Micro Change Series. The SonicBike is a reissue of Micro Change MC-08 Battle Bike and StealthHeli is a reissue of Micro Change MC-09 Heli-Jet. I like these two because of the transforming cassettes gimmick. Transforming cassettes are made popular by Soundwave of Transformers line. But Soundwave's cassettes are miniature version. These Microman's cassettes however, are in actual size!

One thing I like about the packaging is that it's collector's friendly. You can remove the toy and put them back in its clamshell packaging.

The set comprises of transforming cassette, missiles, missile launcher, weapon and figure.

What's cool is that it even comes with a full-color micro catalog book! See how tiny it is.

The cassettes comes with their casing.

Let's take a look at the figures. The joints are loose even though its new. I had the same problem with Microman Batman figure. Each figure comes with a chromed weapon. The StealhHeli pilot's weapon broke when I tried to get him to hold it. Plastic became brittle over the years. Luckily I can still glued it back.

Picture below is the pilot with the weapon right before it broke.

Figures Play Gimmick - Magnetic hands

Here's the main play gimmick - transforming action! The instruction are printed on the back of the card.

Let's start with StealthHeli transformation.

There's a peg in the StealthHeli that pegs to the figure's back, keeping it secure. The front is the missile launcher.

Now let's look at the SonicBike.

Unlike the Stealthheli, the missile launcher of SonicBike is a separate piece. When it's plug in, it locks the bike handle and front piece together.

There are no pegs to hold the figure secure for SonicBike.

Overall very cool collectibles to own. Getting harder to find these days Saw one selling for USD65 on eBay.