Film history is full of missed opportunities, each one more painful than the last. As showrunner Eric Rogers recently revealed, one of these is a sci-fi project about the Micronauts action figure series. According to him, the company Hasbro 52 finished episodes of an animation series under lock.
Sci-fi action series about the Micronauts has apparently fallen victim to an extremely controversial strategy
When asked which canceled project should be released, Rogers recently responded angrily:
Micronauts. 52 half-hour episodes completely produced. Ask Hasbro what happened to it, because they don’t want to tell me. We finished working on the last episode in January 2020.
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The Micronauts toy line includes a large number of vehicles, robots and accessories that were produced by various companies from the 1970s onwards. The Japanese company Takara originally released them under the name Microman. The figures were characterized by a large number of joints and interchangeable parts.
Since the late 1970s, Marvel has published various comics based on the toy. The Microverse, the home of the Micronauts, appears in Ant-Man, among other things. The toy figures themselves have not yet made it to the big screen, probably due to the difficult licensing situation.
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Micronauts in the Marvel Comics
According to Anime News Network, an animated series based on the Micronauts franchise was already planned in 2018. Five years later, during the Hollywood strike of 2023, Rogers expressed his anger at the debacle on X. And There was only one way to explain it.
According to Rogers, Hasbro has cancelled the series and thereby saving taxes. Such an incident already sparked widespread outrage in 2022 in the case of the superhero film Batgirl.
It is expected that Micronauts will never be published. Eric Rogers nevertheless feels encouraged: “The attention to my tweet should show Hasbro how much appetite it has for the [Micronauts-]Franchise exists. Know your audience and make it better.”
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