Armored Suit Series

Takara released several armored suit type toys for the New Microman line - the three small suits call Mighty Suits, the medium size one call Armored Suit 1 & 2, the real type model kit Bio-Mechanic Suits and the large size Armored Suit DX which also come with a vehicle counterpart call Armored Machine. The reasons for all the armored suit is simply because this was a new popular trend at the time due to show like Henshin Cycle Mospeda (the third part of US Robotech series), and Dougram.

Takara released two design versions of the Armored Suit - the first one was call Galac Sniper which came with M004 Eiji (Command 1 type), and the second one was Double Gannon which come with M005 Oruga (Command 3 type). There were also two color variants for each Armored Suit - red version and blue version. Each version come with the opposite color Microman figures.

Both Armored Suit is pretty simple and have very limited articulation. The Armored Suit, like most of the New Microman toys, can transform into vehicle mode. (The Armored Suits have rolling wheels underneath the feet). Both suits come with spring load fists that can be swap with two types of chrome missiles.

While Takara did show Remodeling Project version of Galac Sniper and Double Gannon on the back of the package, they never actually released the Remodeling kit version of these two Armored Suits. (Remodeling Project was an attempt by Takara to turn New Microman into model type toys that can be paint for realistic look. The only Remodeling Project toys that actually released by Takara were the three Mighty Suit). It is unclear weather Takara intends kids to actually kit bash the toys (which would really involve a lot of cutting and modification since the legs portion of Armored Suits toys are not articulate and are molded in one piece) or they intended to released kit versions of the Armored Suits. Remodeling Project would later got terminated in favor of totally new line, albeit shot live, call Real Type Microman.

Regardless what was Takara intentions for Armored Suit, they did included several add-on pieces that must be glue on to the Armored Suit in model kit like fashion to give the toy more "realistic" look. The Armored Suit clearly demonstrated how unsure Takara were about which direction to take the New Microman line. Their first hybrid model-toy type, the MicroBorg, received just lukewarm interest and these Armored Suits probably did not fare much better under the onslaught of new type of "toys" mania call hobby kits.

Microman Armored Suit Story

Armored Suit 1 & 2 were build by M004 Eiji & M005 Oruga with an aid from the newly arrived MicroBorg using the "Borg" technology they discovered while they were trap in Cosmo Dimension.

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