Acroyear Series AcroSatan

Takara released AcroSatan figures in May of 1982. The figures were retail for 750 Yen each. AcroSatans were the 2nd Acroyears series to be released for New Microman and sadly they were also the last of the Acroyears to come out for the original line. There were three variants of AcroSatans - Satan Red, Satan Black and Satan Blue each got their names from the color of their armors.

AcroSatan is one of the more unique Acroyears to be released. The figure body is not make from plastic but rather they are rubber bendy type figures that were quite popular back in the early 80's. The bendable body is done in fluorescent glow-in-the-dark green and meant to represent the soft inner body of the crustacean-like design of AcroSatan. The removable body armor then snap on via the 5mm port (yes, these guys have 5mm port just like other Microman figures). The head and claw hands are chromed plastic that insert into the body via a small peg. Each figure also come with set of three chrome missiles that can be launch via spring-loaded mechanism in the chest armor. A long (and somewhat fragile looking) lance weapon is also included with each figure and can be hold in the claw hand or more commonly attach to the back of the armor via 2.5mm peg.

AcroSatan crab-like armor is one of the more interesting parts of the series.  The armor set comes in four pieces, the two front and back body armors and two snap on leg armors.  The design is clearly from the 1980's era which at the time was heavily into body suit and the power armor look.  The dome part split into two pieces and flip up to reveal the red cyclops-eye head.  In the manga and some early sketch, AcroSatan can be mount into mechanized walker and the dome head would act as the walker eye section.

AcroSatan does not have 5mm port on the armor instead it has 2.5mm port for the lance.