Micro Machines dealer catalogue by Ideal Toys

Posted on February 22, 2021 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

Cover. Micro Machines 1991/92 Ideal/Lewis Galoob Toys catalogue. France.

Produced by Galoob Toys in 1987 and currently owned by Hasbro, Micro Machines is a line of miniature scale vehicles and play sets. As well as producing their own vehicles Galoob held licenses for well-known TV and film franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, James Bond, Power Rangers and MIB, as well as producing a series of Rockin’ Wheels sets that featured the touring vehicles of famous bands such as AC/DC, Deep Purple and others.

TVTA is pleased to present selected new scans from an interesting Micro Machines catalogue I recently acquired: a 1990/91 unstamped dealer catalogue. It’s licensed to Ideal Toys from Lewis Galoob Toys, and was aimed at the French-speaking market. (This is my earliest so far catalogue for Micro Machines; the others can be seen in my post here)

Enjoy the images 😎

Micro Machines Motors. Ideal Toys. France. 1990/91.

Micro Machines X Rays. Ideal Toys. France. 1990/91.

Micro Machines Micro Vision. Ideal Toys. France. 1990.

Micro Machines Mega Monsters. Ideal Toys. France. 1990/91.

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Micro Machines

Posted on March 22, 2018 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

Produced by Galoob in 1987 and currently owned by Hasbro, Micro Machines are a line of miniature scale vehicles and play sets. As well as producing their own vehicles the line held licenses for well-known TV and film franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, James Bond, Power Rangers and MIB, as well as producing a series of Rockin’ Wheels sets that featured the touring vehicles of famous bands such as AC/DC, Deep Purple and others. The images below are taken from the 1992 Galoob trade catalogue. Click pics to go bigger.

Micro Machines. Galoob trade catalogue. 1992. US.

64000 Collections. Micro Machines Vehicles; Adventures; X-Rays; Neon Beach; Superbikes; Drivers; Reflectors; Super Sparklers; Classy Chromers

Super Monsters

Stock Car Superstars

4×4 Crushers

Shake & Sniff

Roll Down Showdown; Tuff Trax; Motor Muncher; Super van City; Race-In-A-Case; Cyclone City

Military sets

Super Carriers

Hiways and Byways

City Scenes and Rollin’ Raceways

Images from other sources:

Micro Machines Power Rangers Mega Battle Collector’s Set

Ets de Neuter. 1995. France.

Micro-Machines Star Wars

Star Wars Trilogy Special Offers Catalogue. UK. 1997.

Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition Offers Catalogue. UK. 1997.

Micro-Machines 1988, Dutch catalogue ad

Speelboom N°5. 1988. Netherlands.

Thanks for getting all miniature with us. Look out for TVTA’s next post in which we celebrate with our two-thousandth published paperwork advert! 🙂

Post updated September 2018 with new images.

Rockin’ Wheels by Micro Machines

Posted on January 17, 2018 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

How cool are these Micro Machines official band tour vehicles! AC/DC, Deep Purple, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella … all logo’d up and ready to rock ‘n roll!

There was also a Whitesnake set released, but this is not shown on the 1992 Galoob catalogue pages I scanned. As for the other bands in the line… never heard of them.