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Hasbro's Micronauts Animated Series to Debut in 2019
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Comics industry news source ICv2 reported on Wednesday that Hasbro Studios has begun rights sales for a new Micronauts animated series. The series is slated to begin production in 2018 and debut in 2019.
The series will target 6- to 11-year-olds and have 26 episodes of 22 minutes each. In the story, the Micronauts team up with a teenager named Cameron Ruck and fight against Baron Karza.
The Hollywood Reporter posted last month that film studio Paramount Pictures' planned G.I. Joe film will open on March 27, 2020, followed by Micronauts on October 16, 2020. Both films will adapt Hasbro's toy brands.
The Hollywood Reporter posted in December 2015 that Paramount and Hasbro were collaborating for a potential film series with a shared universe combining five Hasbro brands: G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionairies, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) and ROM. Allspark Pictures, Hasbro's film label, was set to produce the films. Hasbro and Paramount planned to assemble a team of writers to create the shared universe. Paramount has already produced film franchises based on Hasbro's Transformers and G.I. Joe toy lines.
The 1976-1980 Micronauts toys from the defunct Mego Corporation were actually rebranded Microman action figures from the Japanese toy company Takara (now a part of Takara Tomy). Hasbro now has the rights to the Micronauts toy brand, and Hasbro and IDW began publishing a new set of comics for the franchise in April 2016.
In Japan, Takara's 1998-2000 Microman Magne Powers brand relaunch inspired the Chiisana Kyojin Microman anime series and Chiisana Kyōjin Microman: Daigekisen! Microman VS Saikyō Senshi Gorgon film in 1999. Several Microman manga have also debuted in the last three decades. Two other Microman spinoffs from Takara — the transforming handheld objects from the Micro Change line and the transforming vehicles from the Diaclone line — were rebranded and exported as the first year's lineup of Hasbro's Transformers toys in 1984.
Source: ICv2 (Betsy Gomez)
