I had a ridiculous amount of these when i was a kid. I kept all my personal favourites but a lot of them got lost to time. Maybe a dozen or so were kept on
Me and the boy have rekindled the love and I’ve spent a pretty penny on ebay buying some nostalgia.
Regardless, i bought him some actual playsets last year that he wasn’t really bothered with. However now we have some serious military hardware, we played this evening and took over his “micro machine van city” and then fought of a counter attack.
I could (and probably will) go on about the corelation between the micro machine army and command and conquer 1 and my youth. But lets focus for now on the beauty of playing with my son, with toys i played with 30 years ago.
Yes me too! Mine all got passed down to my nephew, but (topically right now thanks to DCS) I remember I had a beautiful deep blue Corsair along with a Mustang and an F-15 for the aeroplanes, and of course a bunch of cars.
These days they all seem to come with pull-back mechanisms so they can be unpackaged and immediately lost under the couch!
Used every bit of pocket money i had when i was a kid on these.
When command and conquer came out, there was a very definite crossover of the vehicles available in both that and MM.
I always wanted to get the full unit set in miniature and I’m pretty close now, need a few more infantry, a hovercraft, gun boat etc
For kids within the States, at least, the military micro machines were the absolute best. You had everything from tanks, helos, fighter jets, to submarines and battleships. From real world machines to crazy fictional stuff, it was so much fun.
And, for plastic molds so tiny, their detail was something else. I unironically blame MM for my love of the Hind. It spanned multiple eras, too.
Shout out to the local Hopi tribesman (I lived in El Paso at the time) that who bravely stood toe-to-toe with Terror Force Abrams’ with a Renault FT and a P-80 Shooting Star they took out of museums at the Battle of Barracuda Bay. Which some how existed in the middle of the Southwestern high desert.
We were totally invested in 1/72 - 1/76 miniature plastic soldiers and model kits. I also had a range of HO scale 1/87 vehicles, which we used nevertheless. Highlight for us was when we plastered the HO railway diorama of a friend’s dad with our troops and assets. Until the father came in and saw what we did to his precious peaceful railroad system…
