Original Microman Series

1976 Robotman Mechadon

Robotman Series

Microman Series

1974

Microman Zone
First year of included the Founder Microman, Micro Kit Machines and Conning Tower.

1975

Project Victory
Second year saw more Microman and several new sub series such as the Acroyears, Titans and Victory series.

1976

Spy Magician

The line finally came into its own during the third year with new figures and the classic Microman Transfer Fortress.

1977

Command
A watershed year for Microman series, this year saw some of the best toys for the line. 

1978

Police Keeper

Takara tried new design and direction for the series with the released of Hoodman and Arden. 

1979

Rescue Team
Takara "rescue" attempt for the series with the Rescue Team Microman.  This year saw updated of old favorite like the New Tower Base.

1980

Punch & Blizzard Man
The last year of the original series saw the shift in the line to more robot like look and larger figures.

New Microman Series

1981

New Microman
Takara reset the line and relaunch the series under the New Microman banner.

1982

Micro Robot
Micro Robot series became the main focus of the new line.  Takara also tried to cash in on the "pla-mo" popularity with Real Type and Micro Borg.

1983

Micro Change
The "transformation" for Microman series began with the Micro Change series.

1984

Transformers

Takara continued with the successful Micro Change series but the changing of the guard was inevitable.

Robotman Mechadon was actually released as part of Takara's Kotetsu Geeg line.  Mechadon was comic relief character from Geeg TV show, probably along the same concept as Boss Barot from Mazinger Z series. Geeg was a TV show produced by Toei and was designed by Mr. Go Nagai, in which Takara happen to own the toys license. Since Takara loved to do co-branding with their properties, this explained why Geeg and Gakeen toys often showed up in Microman series and vice versa. Also when Mego licensed Microman from Takara they also took many Geeg toys and incorporated them into Micronauts series and further mixing the two lines together.

Takara Robotman Series

 Robotman series was originally plan as the third toy line in Takara Super Victory series.  The Victory series would included toys from both the Henshin Cyborg and Microman line with Robotman as the series that would bridged the two series together and form the big all encompassing toys series.  However, Henshin Cyborg line was canceled in 1976 and Robotman series was absorbed into Microman line-up and became a permanent part of Microman series. Takara released several variants of Robotman toys including this off beat Mechadon version.

Takara Robotman Checklist

Microman Series

Robotman (1975)

Dozer Set (1975)

Drill Tank Set (1975)

Robotman Gakeen (1976)

Robotman Mechadon (1976)

Robotman 2 (1978)

Robotman God Fighter (1980)

Micronauts Series

Micronauts Biotron (1977)

Micronauts Phobos (1978)

Interchangeable Cosmobot (1980)

Replica Series

Replica Robotman (2001)

Clear Mode Robotman (2001)

SAS Robotman (2001)

Robotman Mechadon was retooled Robotman toy with new limbs to make it look like Mechadon character from Geeg TV show. Mechadon Robotman came with new head, chest cover, legs and arms. The body was the same as Robotman but with the back parts and the chrome sections molded completely in red.  The head part connected to the chest section and can be position up or down.  Mechadon came with the "necklace" with small cup that hold the small human figure. The toy retained the battery power motor and required two C batteries to operate. Mechadon utilized Robotman's mechanical arm sockets and when the unit was turned on the two yellow tool-hands would swing up and down.

Mechadon Robotman came with sticker sheet to decorate him to look like Mechadon character from the TV show (see left for anime version of Mechadon).  Mechadon was a pretty good attempt by Takara to reuse the existing mold and turn it into another tie-in toy for both Geeg and Robotman series. Robotman Mechadon, like most Geeg and Robotman toys, were pretty uncommon and usually were hard to come by especially in mint condition.