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Takara began producing characters in the Microman line with increasingly robotic features, including Robotman, a 12 " robot with room for a Microman pilot, and Mini-Robotman, a 3-3 / 4 " version of Robotman.
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Takara and began
In 2000 the photo book This is Blythe was published and in 2001 the Japanese toy company Takara began producing new editions of Blythe dolls.
Beginning in 2001, Takara first released new Blythe dolls sporadically, but then began releasing new versions of Blythe each month.
Takara and producing
Since both the cost of producing and the large size of the vehicles and playsets for the 12 " dolls were prohibitive, in 1974 Takara decided to produce a miniature version of the Henshin Cyborg line which was called Microman.
Takara and characters
He also appears in DreamMix TV World Fighters — a Hudson fighting game with characters from Hudson Soft, Konami, and Takara.
In October 2000, Tatsunoko and Japanese toy company Takara Co., Ltd. produced and released a Japan-only PlayStation exclusive fighting game Tatsunoko Fight, featuring characters from four established Tatsunoko franchises, as well an original series created exclusively for the game,.
Blaster is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara Tomy and Hasbro.
Takara Toys ' 1982 Micro Change series of toys were part of the 1980 New Microman toy line and were small household objects that could transform into vehicles or artificially intelligent robot characters that fought alongside their 10-centimeter tall alien cyborg Microman creators against the evil Acroyears.
: When Takara and Tomy merged to form Takara Tomy in 2006, it was revealed that Tomy held the licenses to the toys used to make characters such as Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx, which were not part of the original Japanese G1 toy line.
However, plastic model kit manufacturer Revell released many of Takara's Dougram kits as characters in their Robotech Defender series, and Takara sold much of their diecast toy line through American toy stores in the mid-Eighties.
Takara and Microman
During the oil supply crisis of the 1970s, like many other manufacturers of action figures, Takara was struggling with the costs associated with making the large 11 ½ inch figures, So, a smaller version of the cyborg toy was developed, standing at 3-3 / 4 inches high, and was first sold in 1974 as Microman.
Early in the decade, the burgeoning popularity of Japanese robot anime such as Gundam also encouraged Takara to reinvent the Microman line as the Micro Robots, moving from the cyborg action figure concept to the concept of the living robot.
The Transformers toyline was created from toy molds mostly produced by Japanese company Takara ( now known as Takara Tomy ) in the toylines Diaclone and Microman.
The first Transformers toys were created from the different transforming robot toylines from Takara, notably the Diaclone and Micro Change ( Microman ) series.
The Micronauts line was licensed from Japanese toy maker Takara, and based on that company's Microman line of toys.
Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, which used the Microman technology to great success, bought the Diaclone toys, and partnered with Takara.
In 1984, Hasbro licensed the Car-Robots toyline along with the Microman " Micro Change " toyline from Takara and merged the two series of toys to create the Transformers.
Takara eventually discontinued the Diaclone and Microman toylines in 1985 in favor of the more successful Transformers rebranding.
In 1999, Takara, for the first time since 1984, produced new Microman toys.
However, the Microman market became very saturated with many variants and by 2001 Takara had severely scale back the release of the Replica Series.
By 2000, Takara, also in financial dire, reduced the new series to just a few dozen of toys and canceled the very expensive Microman anime and also eventually the manga in Bom Bom.
In 2001 Takara put the new Microman series for the second time on a hiatus.
In 2003 Takara decided to test Microman market with brand new but small series called Microman 2003.
In the late 2000s, Takara expanded the Microman brand to include various licensed brands, including Batman ( both comic-based and from Batman Begins ), Superman ( both comic-based and from Superman Returns ), Evangelion, Street Fighter, Godzilla, Alien vs Predator and Kinnikuman.
In the early 1980s Takara produced a second Microman line called New Microman.
In 2004, Takara started exporting Microman toys to the US again under the original name.
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Takara and line
In 1984, Hasbro licensed Micro Change and another Takara line, the Diaclone transforming cars, and combined them in the US as the Transformers, spawning a still-continuing family of animated cartoons.
Hasbro would go on to buy the entire toy line from Takara, shortly after giving them sole ownership of the Transformers toy-line, branding rights, and copyrights, while in exchange, Takara was given the rights to produce the toys and the rights to distribute them in the Japanese market.
The line was released as " The Transformers " in the USA, Canada and the UK in 1984 but Takara was still marketing Diaclone at least during 1984.
Hence in Japan " The Transformers " did not debut under that brand till 1985, when the line was also rolled out to the majority of the rest of the world between Takara and Hasbro.
In late 1993, Hasbro relaunched the Transformers franchise with the Generation 2 line, with production again largely being done by Takara.
After several lines of toys produced by one company or the other, Hasbro and Takara united to produce what was purported to be a single, identical line of Transformers for release worldwide.
After the successful Armada toy line, Hasbro / Takara introduced Transformers: Energon.
In 1984, Takara ( Later merged with Tomy to form Takara Tomy ) released a line of My Little Pony toys, which were released in two types: and.
The incredible popularity of the Transformers forced Hasbro and Takara to look beyond old Takara, Takatoku Toys and Bandai figures to fill out the line.
Takara Tomy also developed the Beyblade toy line.
Takara Tomy also announced a line either called Beast Saga or Beast Fight, depending on the translation, which is similar in proportions to the original figures.
Notably, unlike other early Transformers figures not made by Takara such as Jetfire or Omega Supreme, Shockwave was the only non-Takara toy that was actually marketed and sold as part of the Transformers line in Japan.
Since they were running out of old Takara molds to use, they obtained licences to use the molds of other companies ' robot toys in the Transformers line.
However, hope of a reissue by Takara of Shockwave increased when Omega Supreme was announced as part of the Takara Encore line for release in May 2008 in Japan.
The toys released in the Beast Wars Returns ( a release of Beast Machines in Japan ) toy line by Takara were recolored to more closely resemble the show colors.
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