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OPEN AND PLAY! The Super Van opens to reveal a huge play area (roughly 21” x 25”) with over 20 action zones and areas of play! The Super Van even has key zones for an interactive play experience! There were some incredibly surprising licensed Micro Machines sets released over the years – with sets based on (sometimes very adult) franchises such as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator and Terminator 2. Some weird, slightly more obscure choices made the jump to Micro Machines too, such as Babylon 5, Jonny Quest and Biker Mice from Mars. Folding up neatly as a very 80s camper van, Super Van City was an absolutely magical toy. It genuinely did feel like a micro sized city, which somehow found space for kids to use all of their Micro Machines vehicles. Miranda Siwak is an assistant editor at Adventure Media & Events, where she writes for the Pop Insider and the Toy Insider, and also contributes to The Toy Book. When she’s not covering the latest news and trends, she can usually be found reading a good book, searching for her next DIY project, or keeping up with all of her favorite must-watch TV.

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Each of these vehicles had a magnifying window on the roof, which kids could look through and see the ‘secret scene’ inside. While the Micro Machines collection is known primarily for sizing down automobiles, it has also featured several playsets including 1991's fold-out Super Van City. Licensed character products would often be fold-open heads including miniature characters and vehicles interactive with their playset environment. Micro Machines also utilized several diverse features such as color-changing cars and "Private Eyes" vehicles that even allowed one to peek inside and view an illustration of the contents. We all know that Christmas shopping can be a stressful and expensive time for parents with young children. Thankfully Morrisons is here to help as they’ve just launched a mega sale on toys in store, to help customers prepare for Christmas.Saw a lot of people complaining about assembly but it wasn't that bad. The instructions could be better, but it wasn't hard to figure it out. Once you are familiar with where everything goes, you can build it in 2 minutes. That’s what Insiders were: normal looking Micro Machines with a secret, even tinier vehicle hidden inside them. The Micro Machines brand was revived for a few years in response to the popularity of the similar Speedeez brand. Hasbro also opted to use many fantasy castings in the revival. The revival only lasted a couple of years.

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Maybe, but with Star Wars Micro Machines in general, we undoubtedly have one of the very best uses of the tiny vehicle and playset concept. For 3 to 4 years, Micro Machines was the largest selling toy car line in the US with total dollar sales exceeding the combined sales of the next top-selling lines: Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette. Micro Machines were featured in the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin. In the movie, Culkin's character sets dozens of Micro Machines at the bottom of a flight of stairs as a hazard for a pair of bungling burglars. This trap was also featured in the Sega Genesis game, though it's referred to generically as "Toys". Cars, planes, boats, helicopters – you name it, Super Van City has an appropriate piece of scenery for pretty much anything in your collection. The supermarket has cut up to 50% off products from popular household brands including Disney Princess, Lego, Peppa Pig and Mario Kart - how good is that?

Yep, you too can give your kid a head start on a lifelong obsession with voyeurism – thanks to Micro Machines Private Eyes! Is it a cop out to feature an entire spin-off toy line of Micro Machines in first place on the best Micro Machines toys list? Find sources: "Micro Machines"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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Of course, as cool as they were, the tiny Insider cars – a little over half an inch in size – were so small that they were prone to being lost or vacuumed up by an oblivious parent.When you think of awesome 80s toys, Micro Machines are right up there – which explains their appearance on our best 80s toys list!