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@rockettubes
"Lost Palisades #Micronauts Series 3"
What if Palisades had continued with a Kronos reissue? I came up with my own idea for a potential Hornetroid Kronos colorway. The glitter is inspired by my favorite #Microman reissues, particularly Romando's Salam and Takara's Golden Eiji Exclusive. Commissioned from the amazing Shawn Markel, who was willing to try my crazy specifications!
https://www.instagram.com/mad_man.markel?igsh=MTltNnBsNDlieDkzcw==
The original RocketTubes.Net front page (archived screenshot)
Most of the links here are long gone. Here's a sample of one of the "tube" entrances (sub-pages):
The "Transformer Micro Cover-Up" has since been covered in far more detail at Microman Club in Secret File #1.
The Rescue Base Annex pages I hope to revisit some for fun later but are mostly just random photo proto-blog updates from my old collecting days and such. Some fun "builds", customs, and other treats for micro-fans.
Generation M was once meant to be a page for sharing fan-made Micronaut kits and such, an extension of my fandom spent with the Sashida's garage kit circle MicroGeneration. The spirit continued in many forms in other hands over the years since.
Later on I may append a sample list of sites that were shared; particularly surviving ones at their current locations. Also I believe the patents have been covered elsewhere, but will try to get back on that.
Wayback Machine link to Rescue Base Seattle, as left circa 2000
Some broken links and fairly dated material now, but here's a look at the old site as I more or less left it when I stopped updating it.
My other old pages and links are a lot more broken or lost there, so I may see what I can do to resurrect them in some form or another when possible.
Palisades Series Three Concepts Part 6: Bryan Wilkinson
(archived from Rockettubes.Net LiveJournal)
Most of my contributions during the time of the think tank were more in the form of giving input, criticism, and direction, and posting concepts in written form (Dave had a lot of good quotes from this on his old gallery page for the project). This was because I had my hands full at the time getting a huge number of CG models built and rendered for Palisades on top of my day job. I had previously shown Ken some sketches before, though, and I did sketch a number of my ideas in really rough form, but never got these later drawings posted during the period the Series 3 think tank was running, unfortunately. I have shared many of them online since then, but I don't have much in the way of finished concepts so much as some very loose ideas. For completeness' sake though, I will include them here too.
As with all these posts for the Series 3 gallery, please note that all images are copyright their original creators and are hosted with their prior consent obtained at the end of the project. I do not own any of the other images, just the ones I have indicated were created by myself that are in this particular sub-gallery post below. They may not be reproduced without my permission. I will be doing a separate blog post for each creator.
Bryan Wilkinson's ideas for Series 3
Note: this post is missing a few images and may be updated later.
Palisades Series Three Concepts Part 5: Robert Martin
(archived from Rockettubes.Net LiveJournal)
I hadn't known Robert personally as well as the other contributors, but he's a former Micropolis Embassy member who had some last-minute contributions near the end of the Series 3 think tank's run before the plug was pulled on the Micronauts at Palisades. He submitted some cool ideas that take a lot of influence from the New Microman Acroyear designs and other Takara SF Land-inspired ideas with some new twists.
As with all these posts for the Series 3 gallery, please note that all images are copyright their original creators and are hosted with their prior consent obtained at the end of the project. I do not own these images (except any I have indicated were created by myself), and they may not be reproduced without their creator's permission. I will be doing a separate blog post for each creator.
Robert's concepts for Series 3
Palisades Series Three Concepts Part 4: Gordon Smuder
(archived from Rockettubes.Net LiveJournal)
Gordon Smuder is another longtime member of the online Micronauts community and has worked in making props and puppets for television and all sorts of cool things I probably barely know about. I also did one of my very first Micronaut-based CG works long ago based on a concept of his for a miniature Microtron figure. He came in a bit late to the think tank but still contributed both a number of new ideas as well as shared a couple of his older concepts and demonstrated a combination of strong Takara and Mego influences in his work. Not to mention a bit of whimsical fun along the way, too! (Don't take the last image too seriously...)
As with all these posts for the Series 3 gallery, please note that all images are copyright their original creators and are hosted with their prior consent obtained at the end of the project. I do not own these images (except any I have indicated were created by myself), and they may not be reproduced without their creator's permission. I will be doing a seperate blog post for each creator.
Gordons micro-concepts and imagery for Series 3
Palisades Series Three Concepts Part 3: Mike Bazzell
(archived from Rockettubes LiveJournal)
Mike Bazzell is a talented computer game artist whose work you may have seen in the likes of Alpha Centauri and later Civilization games. He also used to maintain the former website "Mikerotron's Peculiar Drill Attachment", an old favorite of mine. Mike was one of the first to contribute to the Series 3 think tank and had some of the most "toyetic" designs of all!
As with all these posts for the Series 3 gallery, please note that all images are copyright their original creators and are hosted with their prior consent obtained at the end of the project. I do not own these images (except any I have indicated were created by myself), and they may not be reproduced without their creator's permission. I will be doing a seperate blog post for each creator.
Mike Bazzell's visions for Series 3
Note: this posting is missing some images and will be updated later to correct this.
Palisades Series Three Concepts Part 2: Will Jones
(archived from the Rockettubes.Net Livejournal)
Continuing the series of concept art from the think tank for Palisades Toys' cancelled Series 3 of original Micronauts toys are contributions by Will Jones, once owner of one of the earliest former Micronauts sites on the web, Micronet, and creator of many Micronaut-inspired resin kits and other works. Will experimented with CG modeling and explored new clever and innovative directions in his line art as well.
Again, please note that all images are copyright their original creators and are hosted with their prior consent obtained at the end of the project. I do not own these images (except any I have indicated were created by myself), and they may not be reproduced without their creator's permission. I will be doing a seperate blog post for each creator.
The Series 3 concept work of Will Jones
Palisades Series Three Concepts Part 1: Dave Waugh
(archived from the Rockettubes.Net Livejournal)
In 2002, we once had assembled a consultant group for Palisades as a "think tank" to come up with new ideas and concepts to give a multifaceted source of inspiration and sense of direction for where to take a new original line of Micronauts toys. After it was over and the plug had been pulled on the Micronauts, Dave Waugh of Innerspace Online and myself both got permission from Palisades and all the participants to host their images in a gallery. Dave had put his version together first, and it was so well done, I had put mine on hold. Dave later took down this valuable part of his site a few years back due to server changes and hasn't since had a chance to restore it. With more and more curious inquiries about the designs coming both on the Micropolis Embassy Yahoo Group (later to migrate to Facebook MicroFans Group) and directly to myself and others on the project, I had decided it was time then to share these images again in individual gallery pages for each contributor.
Please note that all images are copyright their original creators and are hosted with their prior consent obtained at the end of the project. I do not own these images (except any I have indicated were created by myself), and they may not be reproduced without their creator's permission.
First up is the work of Dave Waugh himself!
#anycubicphotons #3dprint test with Megahouse #desktoparmy parts (using clear blue #elegoo resin) printed from the official site (be sure to read their license and guidelines for use if you want to try it) https://dt-a.jp/dl/
#デスクトップアーミー
The resin is a tad bit too brittle for using the printed ball joints, but works fine with the original pvc parts. This may have been due to my curing though. Still figuring out optimal workflow but not shabby for my first trial.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CaOx6uOg68O/?utm_medium=share_sheet
First #3dprint test of one of my own models, Mem'loss from "Clone o'Forms" minifigs I did with @bigmantoys.
I accidentally messed up the foot I'm holding, but otherwise he came out flawless. More tests in progress tonight and two more to share momentarily...
#Micronauts #microman #keshi #indietoys #ミクロマン
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CaOvVSqgOG_/?utm_medium=share_sheet
What, man? I'm just doing my tasks!
Dead Body Reported.
Crewmates and Imposter Glyos figures by Cappy Space! Kinda fun, kinda...SUS.
Got to meet up with @thegodbeast and @cappy_1717 at @bobakhan toys today! Had a great time and will share some builds from what I got as soon as I get a chance. :D Fun sharing stories and talking about the old #Glyos days from back when Matt first started. :D
NiStuff custom Yough Outlander & Glyos Glyarmor Cytechion DX
Another two of my top favorites from #Glyos, a custom by @nistuff of a Yough Outlander in translucent orange, metalic blue details and eyes, a suspended glitter resin head, and gray-green gunmetal boots. Overall the coloration feels very #Microman M103 John mixed with a bit of #Micronaut proto alien-like features (thinking in particular of Steve Hodge's unused alien designs).
The figure in the background is the marvelous Glyarmor Cytechion DX production figure from Glyos. The clear green under gold and gray paint ops really catches the light in fantastic ways. I need to make him a pocket buddy later and take more shots of him. I think the sword comes from a McFarlane Toys Phantom of the Opera set. This might be my only photo of one or both, which feels strange given how much I love this pair of figures. I may have shot the Yough with some of my other ones though... definitely need to locate these from storage and put them back into "active duty".
Glyos builds in gold and bronze...
#Glyos builds in gold and bronze! #KabutoMushi #BioMaster mash-up with Mini-Mushi pilot has joined the Waruder forces against the Diaclone Corps...or something like that, IDK.
I'm particularly fond of @nistuff 's Yough heads and Outlander bodies. This fellow is part of a larger set of 481 Universe Glyos builds I did as a sort of unnamed team with matching Mordles companions. I'll probably have more on the bunch much later.
Angry Birbs!
Angry Birbs! Just a trio of #Glyos System mash-ups I put together. I don't really have any lore to go with them but feel free to make your own!
Redborg Astro-Nautilus (Glyos System Outer-Space Men)
Redborg Astro-Nautilus is one of my favorites of the #Glyos #OuterSpaceMen figures. I already was a big fan of the clear first editions from the get-go (I really feel like they were made "just for me" in some ways, as I always wanted to see them released in this scale and with clear versions due to my #Micronauts / #Microman fandom, plus in Glyos System interchangeable parts, no less, being a supporter of Glyos from the start as well...) and bought every one of them in clear up to the alien ladies (and all the painted carded ones in the original colors up to the end of the original designs). I would have probably kept actively collecting this line had my financial situation not taken a turn for the worse around then.
I really like the clear parts in contrast to the opaque suit. Some of my favorite figures are in this kind of combination.